§ MR. ARTHUR O'CONNORasked the Under Secretary of State for India, If he will furnish a Return showing the loss in working Railways paid from Indian taxation to the several Guaranteed Railway Companies to 1884 beyond the amount of net revenue?
§ MR. J. K. CROSSThe inquiry of the hon. Member for Queen's County refers, I apprehend, not to the loss on working the guaranteed railways, but to the loss sustained by the Government of India up to 1884 through the payment of guarantees. The hon. Member will find a detailed statement of this 1402 matter at [pages 705–6 of the Appendix to the Report of the Select Committee on East Indian Railway Communications presented last year, from which it appears that the charge on the Revenues of India up to March 31, 1885, reached 35 crores of rupees.