Serial
From or to whom.
No.
Despatch No., &c.
Date.
Subject.
Page.
1907.
ix
Subject,
Pago.
50
Foreign Office
1907.
July 8
Calls attention to the very great differ- ence between the estimates of Sir G. Carter and Sir H. Bergne as to the cost of production of a ton of sugar and the profit thereon, and requests views of the Governor of Barbados on the matter.
60
Foreign Office
31
July 12
61
51
Invercargill Cham-
ber of Commerce. Zealand.
New
May 23 (Rec. July 8.)
Urges continuance of British Govern-
ment as parties to the Convention.
31
Sir E. Grey to Sir
F. Bertie (Paris).
(120, Com- Inercial.)
July 12
52
House of Commons
-
July 8
32
62
To the Acting
Governor.
Natal,
64.
July 12
53
ernor.
The Acting Gov- Barbados,
104.
June 24 (Rec. July 9.)
54
House of Commons
July 9
55
Foreign Office
July 9
56
West India Associa
July 9
tion of Glasgow.
Mr. Runciman, in reply to a question by Mr Seaverns, said that Sir E. Grey was not in a position to make any further statement regarding the pos- sible withdrawal of Great Britain from the Convention.
Forwards copy of a resolution passed by the Legislative Council expressing extreme disappointment and appre- hension at the decision of His Ma- jesty's Government to withdraw from the Convention, together with a report of the debate in the Council on the resolution.
Mr. Churchill, in reply to a question by Mr. Price, said that no bounties on any kind or quality of sugar are given in any of the Crown Colonies, and referred to papers laid before Parlia- ment in June, 1904, with regard to the bounties given by Colonies possessing responsible Government.
Forwards copy of a despatch from Count de Salis at Berlin reporting on an article in Deutsche Zucker Indus- trie," the principal organ of the German sugar industry, on the sub- ject of the proposal to exempt Great Britain from the penal clauses of the Convention.
Forwards copy of a letter addressed to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs protesting against the contem- plated denunciation of the Convention by Great Britain.
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32
Newcastle Chamber
of Commerce.
64
Το the Acting
Governor.
New South Wales.
Barbados, Confi- dential.
June 10 (Rec. July 15.)
July 15
65
The Governor
32
Jamaica, 389.
33
July 4 (Rec. July 16.)
00
66
Foreign Office
-
July 16
67
Ditto
July 18
34
July 22
68
Ditto
57
Foreign Office
July 10
58
Ditto
July 10
Transmite copy of note from the Bel- gian Ambassador stating that France and Luxemburg agree that the British proposals should be referred to the Permanent Commission for report.
Forwards copy of a letter from the India Office explaining the position and attitude of India.
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69
Mr. H. Stewart, M.P.
July 22
37
59
Ditto
E
July 12
Transmits copy of despatch from His Majesty's Minister at Brussels and of a note from the Belgian Minister reporting agreement of Switzerland to refer the British proposals to the Permanent Commission, the meeting of which has been postponed, at the request of Italy, to 25th July.
38
70
The Governor
28670
Leeward July 2 Islands, (Rec July 23.)
277.
Transmita copy of telegram from His Majesty's Ambassador at Paris report- ing that reliable information has reached the French Government that the German Government is being pressed to make concessions in order to prevent the denunciation of the Convention by Great Britain.
Reports conversation with M. Cambon on the subject of the French view of the policy adopted by His Majesty's Government."
Acknowledges receipt of No. 48 and states that a copy of the Resolution enclosed had already been received from the Agent-General of Natal, through whom it was acknowledged.
Urges the continuation of the Conven-
tion.
Transmits, for remarks, copy of No. 50, and requests that the views of Sir Daniel Morris on the matter may be obtained.
Submits argumenta in favour of con- tinued adherence to the Convention, and encloses resolutions of the Legis- lative Council and Public Bodies.
Forwards copy of a note from the Belgian Ambassador reporting agree. ment of Peru and Sweden in the consideration of the Convention by the Permanent Commission, and copy of a letter from the Committee of the Manufacturing Confectioners' Alliance, approving the action taken with regard to the Convention, and offering to depute a member to attend the Commission.
Forwards copies of despatches from Paris, the Hague, and Rome as to the attitude of the French, Dutch, and Italian Governments towards the policy of His Majesty's Government in connection with the Convention.
Transmits copy of instructions to the British Delegate to the forthcoming meeting of the Permanent Com- mission.
Forwards a petition from the Greenock Chamber of Commerce setting forth the grave disadvantages which may accrue to the sugar refining industry should His Majesty's Government persist in its declared policy.
Forwards copy of a despatch from the Administrator of St. Kitts-Nevis en- closing a resolution adopted by the Agricultural Society of Nevis depre- cating the denouncement of the Convention.
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41
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45
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48.
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