§ MR. WEIRI beg to ask the Secretary of State for India, in view of the fact that in the year 1882 the income of the Indian people was officially estimated to be 1½d. per head per day, will he state from what source the statistics on which this information was based were obtained.
§ LORD G. HAMILTONThe estimate in question was hypothetical, and based on a confidential enquiry made by Sir David Barbour some twenty to thirty years back.