§ Mr. REESasked the Under-Secretary for India whether, following upon the speech of the Viceroy at Oodeypore, on the 10th November, the Government of India proposes to issue instructions to political agents, and more particularly to those under the orders of provincial governments, to cease from pressing the durbars of native states to which they are accredited to adopt methods of administration in force in British India?
The MASTER of ELIBANKThe Secretary of State is not aware of any necessity for the issue of instructions of the kind referred to. The matter is one that he would leave to the discretion of the Government of India.