§ MR. O'DOHERTYTo ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, whether he will state the cost per mile up to the present of the Uganda Railway; whether this sum was paid in cash, in debentures, or in ordinary stock of the railway; the cost per mile, excluding re-gauging, of the Beira Railway; whether this sum was paid in cash, in debentures, or stock; and, if in either of the two latter, what was the issue price ot the stock.
(Answered by Lord Cranborne.) The cost per mile of the Uganda Railway upto the 1st September, the latest date for which audited accounts have been received, was £8,447. If the hon Member will refer to the Uganda Railway Act,1896, he will see that the money was issued from the Consolidated Fund. The Beira Railway is the property of a private company, and not under the Foreign Office. I am unable, therefore, to give the information asked for.