§ MR. SLAGG (Burnley)asked the Under Secretary of State for India, If he will supply the House with details of the cost, up to date, of the railway from Sukkur to Sibi; and, also, of the railways known respectively as the Scinde-Pishin line and the line through the Bolan Pass; also, the estimated cost of the extension, by means of tunnelling, to Chaman?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Sir JOHN GORST) (Chatham)The cost of the line from Sukkur to Sibi was Rs. x. 1,293,710, exclusive of Rs. x. 294,941, the cost of the Sukkur Bridge. The cost of the Scinde-Pishin line was Rs. x. 4,085,603; of Bolan Pass line, Rs. x. 875,711; of Killa Abdullah Branch, Rs. x. 48,351; of extension, with tunnelling, to Chaman, Rs. x. 1,408,697. The total cost of all lines and branches was Rs. x. 8,007,013.
§ SIR GEORGE CAMPBELL (Kirkcaldy, &c.)Is it intended to carry out the tunnelling?
§ SIR JOHN GORSTThe work is in course of construction.