§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKEasked the Under Secretary of State for India, Whether it is true that the Indian Go- 275 vernment have granted concessions which will enable a Railway to be made from Bellary to Marmagoa in Portuguese territory, in preference to the proposed State Railway of 1872 from Bellary to Karwar in British territory; to whom the concession has been made; and, whether the Correspondence which has passed on this subject between the Home and the Indian Governments will be laid upon the Table?
§ MR. E. STANHOPEThe promise of a conditional concession has been made by the Secretary of State in Council to Mr. Frederick Campbell for the construction of a railway from Bellary to Marmagoa, but not necessarily in substitution for that from Bellary to Karwar. Some particulars will be found in the Evidence taken last year by the Select Committee on Public Works in India. I will put the Correspondence in the Library; and if, after examining it, the hon. Baronet still thinks it of sufficient public interest and will move for it, he can have it as an unopposed Return.