§ MR. CAINEI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies if the Secretary of State has yet received from the Governor of Ceylon the Report on the consumption in the Colony of opium and bhang, promised in a letter from the Secretary of State written to the secretary to the Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade; if so, has any action been taken with regard to it; and will he lay the Report and all Correspondence relating to it upon the Table of the House?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (Mr. SYDNEY BUXTON, Tower Hamlets, Poplar)Reports have been received from the Governor of Ceylon regarding the consumption of opium and bhang in that Colony, but before deciding what action, if any, should be taken on those reports, the Secretary of State has been awaiting the issue of the reports of the Royal Commission on Opium and of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission. Those two reports having now been received, 83 the Secretary of State hopes to address the Governor of Ceylon very shortly on the subject, and the correspondence, as soon as it is complete, will be presented to Parliament.