HC Deb 06 July 1876 vol 230 cc1049-50
GENERAL SIR GEORGE BALFOUR

asked for an assurance from Government that money advanced by authority of Parliament should not be spent until the people of Ceylon had made their proportionate contribution.

MR. W. H. SMITH

said, a promise had been given on a former occasion that no money voted by Parliament should be spent in Ceylon until Ceylon had spent a certain amount of her own money on the breakwater at Trincomalee. Instructions to that effect had been given to the Public Works Loan Commissioners, and he had every reason to believe that those instructions had been faithfully carried out. He would, however, make inquiries on the subject.