MR. GRANT DUFFasked the Under Secretary of State for India, Whether the Secretary of State in Council has sent any reply to the Despatch from the Government of India relative to the affairs of Khelat, dated 23rd March 1877; if so, whether there is any objection to laying it upon the Table; and, further, when the Papers relating to the new frontier administration will be in the hands of Members?
§ LORD GEORGE HAMILTONThe Secretary of State has not yet sent any reply to the despatch referred to. The Frontier Re-organization Papers are in the printer's hands in an advanced state, and may be expected to be in the hands of Members at an early date.