§ MR. O'GRADYI beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether he is aware that a force of punitive police are quartered upon the inhabitants of Coconada and that the town has to boar the cost; and whether, having regard to the fact that the recent disturbance arose through an assault committed by Surgeon Kemp on a young student for crying Bande Mataram, and that the case is now pending in the Law Courts against Surgeon Kemp for the said assault, he will cause inquiries to be made as to the present state of order, with a view to the removal of the Police.
§ MR. MORLEYThe recent disturbances at Coconada led the Government of Madras to consider additional police necessary. The law provides that the town should bear the cost. As at present advised, I do not conceive it to be a transaction in which it is my duty to intervene.
§ *MR. REES (Montgomery Boroughs)Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the action of the Madras Government in this behalf has given profound satisfaction to the loyal and law-abiding inhabitants of that Presidency.
§ [No Answer was returned.]