DR. CAMERONasked the Under Secretary of State for India, Whether proposals have been received from the Dutch Government regarding the reopening of Coolie Emigration from Calcutta to the Dutch Colony of Surinam; and, whether there is any prospect of the embargo at present laid upon that Emigration being removed?
§ LORD GEORGE HAMILTONSir, proposals for the emigration of 300 coolies from Calcutta to the Dutch colony of Surinam, as a temporary measure, have reached the Secretary of State in Council; and the Government of India have been requested by telegraph to allow the emigration to this extent. With regard to the removal of the prohibition ordered by the Indian Government of coolie emigration generally to Surinam, this matter has been and is still the subject of correspondence with the Netherlands Government, and the conditions on which the Government of India would allow the regular renewal of the emigration have been submitted to the Government of Holland.