§ SIR W. WEDDERBURNI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for India whether the work of the Marine Postal Service, in sorting letters on board the mail steamers between Aden and Bombay, has been doubled within the last three years, while the salaries have been reduced; whether the men, in order to deal with some 700 mail bags, had to work from 14 to 16 hours a day, however hot or rough the weather might be; whether the profit to Government this year has been one lakh in excess of the profit for last year; and whether the Secretary of State will consider the propriety of directing the hours of labour to be reduced and the salaries to be increased?
* MR. GEORGE RUSSELLThe last Report of the Director General of the Post Office of India, that for 1892–93, which has just been received from India, does not contain any information on these points; but the Secretary of State will inquire into them.