MR. HERBERT ROBERTSI beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether he has received any official information as to the extent of the destruction by the recent earthquake in Assam of the property of the Welsh Presbyterian Foreign Missionary Society, which has stations in the Khasia and Jaintia Hills and in Sylhet; and whether he has any information as to the position of the missionaries of that society in their present calamitous circumstances?
§ *LORD GEORGE HAMILTONNo, Sir; I have no information concerning the injury done to the property in question. All telegrams received by me regarding the results of the earthquake have been published; tidings by mail have not yet arrived from Assam. The Viceroy's telegram of June 22 said:
Reassuring news from Sylhet district, where damage and distress caused by earthquake are less than was supposed.