§ Mr. COWANasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether His Majesty's Consular Agent at Tripoli is a Spaniard named Alvarez; and whether, more especially in view of the present and probable future importance of this post, he will consider the desirability of appointing thereto a British-born member of our Consular service with experience gained by actual service in some similar position in the near East?
§ Mr. ACLANDMr. Alvarez is His Majesty's Consul-General at Tripoli. He is a natural-born British subject, and joined His Majesty's Consular Service in 1877. Since then he has served at various posts in the Near East and Mediterranean.