§ DR. CAMERON (Glasgow, College)asked the Under Secretary of State for India, Whether his attention has been called to a telegram from Rangoon, published in The Times of the 11th instant, in which it is alleged that the freehold of two lots of Government land, embracing eight and a-half acres in the town of Mandalay, had, in defiance of a Government Rule requiring such lands to be publicly auctioned, been privately sold for £2 10s. per acre 253 to Mr. Bridges, Deputy Commissioner at Mandalay, and Mr. Fforde, Superintendent of Police; and that it was believed that other public officials had, in defiance of the Rule, privately purchased public lands in the same town; and, whether it is true that the Government of India has directed an inquiry into the subject; and, if so, whether Papers relating to the inquiry will be laid before Parliament?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Sir JOHN GORST) (Chatham), in reply, said, his attention had been called by the hon. Member's Question to the telegram in The Times. The Secretary of State had received no official information from India on the subject; but he had called for an inquiry to be addressed to the Government of India.