§ MR. JUSTIN M'CARTHYasked the Under Secretary of State for India, Whether the Madras Officials have up to date only paid the Mysore State £5,000 for the block of twenty square miles of gold mining land conceded them; and, whether certain speculators were prepared at the same time to pay one million sterling for the rights conceded to these officials; and, if so, whether pecuniary compensation will be made to the Rajah of Mysore, who was at the moment a minor and ward of the British Government?
§ MR. J. K. CROSSThe Papers presented last year contain all the information we have respecting the amount paid to the Mysore State by the Kolar concessionaires. As is clearly shown on page 4 of those Papers, and as I explained to the hon. Gentleman on the 9th of April last year, the sum of 5,500 rupees was paid for one square mile 1330 only—not 20 square miles, as stated in his Question. I am entirely ignorant of the amount which certain speculators may have been prepared to pay.