HC Deb 03 April 1871 vol 205 cc1048-9
MR. HAVILAND-BURKE

asked the Under Secretary of State for India, Whether, on or about the 17th day of February, the Secretary of State for India, or any officer of his department, received one or more Telegrams, and the date thereof, from or by instruction of the Governor General of India, respecting the whereabouts of the Memo- rial, of the 28th July 1869, from the Nawab Nazim of Bengal to the Secretary of State for India; and, whether the reply to such one or more Telegrams was by Telegram or by Letter, and the dates thereof?

MR. GRANT DUFF

Yes, Sir. Not on the 17th, but on the 8th of February, 1870, the Secretary of State for India did receive a telegram to say that the Memorial alluded to had not arrived in India, and the Secretary of State on the same day telegraphed in return that it had been sent out.