London vii Bombay, March 2.
Dispatches from Calcutta state that Sir Guy Fleetwood Wilson, K.C.B, K.0.0.G., Finance Member of the Council' of the Viceroy of India, in his financial statement announced that the opium receipts for 1910-11 were nearly £3,000,000 sterling over the original estimate. This increase was due to the unprecedented prices at the Calcutta sales. The revenue for 1911-12 was catimated at six crores and a half against eleven crores and a half in the current ear.
The Finance Member referred to the China trade in unrest Segotiations ith Peking. He aage in view of the pending
said that India was prepared to make real sacrifice to help the Chinese patriots who were striving to free their country from the evils of excessive use of opium, but could not consent that the country should suffer losses bringing no corresponding benefit to the cause of reform in—Reuter.
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