Show I IN HOUSE OF COMMONS jli jl S i Government Shipping Interests i i S ests to Be Discussed i I j 1 DEAL WITH MARINE COMPANY I 1i j 1 j Sum to Bo Contributed by tho Transvaal J Trans-vaal and Orange River Colonies I I Toward Expenses of South African War Has Not Been FIxed by British Brit-ish Government rorclgn Secretary Has Little to Add to Pacts Already Known About British Reverse in I Somallland i t t I I London Oct 20 Gerald Balfour I prcEldcnt of the Poard of Trade announced an-nounced in the House of Commons today to-day that an evening would be given for i the discussion of the Governments 1 shipping agreements The arrangement I arrange-ment with the International Mercantile Marino company he added did not involve in-volve any additional burden on the exchequer ex-chequer Mr Ilnnbury president of tho Board of Agriculture made a statement to the pffcct that the negotiations on tho subject sub-ject of Argentine cattle were not concluded con-cluded but the Importation of live cattle cat-tle from that republic would be permitted per-mitted just ae noon as the regulations of Argentine afford security agaInst tho landing of dlsrased animate Colonial Secretary Clmmhcrlain replying re-plying to a question said the Government Govern-ment hud not yet fixed the sum to be contributed by the Transvaal and Orange River colonies toward the expenses ex-penses of the South African war When questioned on the British reserve re-serve In Somallland the Foreign Under Un-der Secretary Lord Cranborno had little lit-tle to add to the facts already known TT > raid Hon Mriniilncr arrived at Aden yesterday and that tho Government placed at his disposal a battalion of Indian troops to aid the protectorates forces If these troops were not sufficient suffi-cient others would be forthcoming Lord Cranborne said that Col Swaynes retreat would probably necessitate much more prolonged operations and a larger force than anticipated That the recent reports of Russias desfrc lo establish direct relations between 1 be-tween St Petersburg and Cnbul Afghanistan Af-ghanistan were wellfounded was admitted ad-mitted by the Under Foreign Secretary Replying to a question Lord Cran borne said the Brlthih Government re cefved a communication from the Russian Rus-sian Government proposing that direct relations he established between Russia Rus-sia and Afghanistan In regard to frontier i fron-tier matters Russia set forth that the I relations would not have a Place here I ns the Russian Government lntalne ItG former engagements and continued to consider Afghanistan outside of the sphere of Russian Influence The British Government replied that it was Impossible to consider any change In the existing arrangements without more precise Information regarding I re-garding the proposed relations the limitations I I lim-itations to be placed on them and the means for ensuring the observation of f such limitations Lord Cranborne 1 added that no aiiMwcr hud yet been received r re-ceived to Great Britains reply |