§ MR. CAINEI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for India if he will grant a Return for the last 10 years showing the gallonage of country spirits issued from sudder and outstills in the various provinces of British India, with the revenue resulting therefrom, the quantities of spirits and malt liquor imported into India, and the quantities of malt liquor brewed in British India, for each year respectively?
SIR J. GORSTThe Secretary of State could not assent to such a Return without previous communication with the Government of India, as the information would have to be collected in India, and he believes that the information as to the outstills could not be given even then.