§ MR. CAINEI beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether he can say when the Conference on Agricultural Banks, promised by Sir Edward Law, will meet in Calcutta; whether independent Indian gentlemen will be invited to join the conference; and whether the views in favour of an experimental bank set forth in the Government of India despatch of May, 1884, will be taken into careful consideration.
§ LORD G. HAMILTONI cannot state the time when the Committee which the Government of India have appointed to consider the question of agricultural banks will meet; but I know that the Government are most desirous to bring the question to a practical issue; and I am satisfied that, in the matter of selecting members and advisers of the Committee, and in the matter of furnishing the Committee with all available information, the Government will take all; possible means to secure the end in view.