§ MR. J. E. ELLISI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for India whether he can give the figures of opium exported from India to China during each of the months of June, July, August, September, and October, 1893, and the figures for the same months in 1892?
MR. GEORGE RUSSELLThe exports of opium from India to China were:—June, 1892, 4,364 chests; 1893, 3,263 chests. July, 1892, 6,216 chests; 1893, 3,382 chests. August, 1892, 6,367 chests; 1893, 4,453 chests. September, 1892, 6,982 chests; 1893, 4,321 chests. October, 1892, 5,619 chests. The Returns for October, 1893, have not yet reached the India Office.