§ MR. H. J. WILSON (York, W.R., Holmfirth)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for India when the authorities in Burma set aside the regulation dated from Mandalay, 19th March, 1886, stating that "no shops whatever will be licensed for the sale of opium?"
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir J. FERGUSSON,) Manchester, N.E.I have been requested by my right hon. Friend the Under Secretary for India to answer this question. The Order quoted in the question from the Commissioners' Instruction in March, 1886, was modified 1531 in 1888 for reasons, and under restrictions, described in the Parliamentary Return No. 338 of the 9th August, 1888.