§ MR. CAINE (Barrow)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for India if it is true that, in the official Gazette of 13th June last, the Bombay Government published a Resolution prohibiting the removal, without permit, of more than one gallon of the fresh juice of the cocoa-nut and other palms (called toddy) from place to place in any part of the Presidency; and, if it is the intention of the Bombay Government to place similar restrictions on the removal from place to place of mowra and other native spirits, the large quantities of strong malt liquors brewed within the Presidency, and the various cheap alcoholic liquors which are being imported into Bombay in steadily-increasing quantities?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Sir J. GORST,) ChathamYes; save that the regulation applies to fermented toddy and not to fresh juice. The Bombay Government have not communicated any such intention as to mowra and other liquors.