ADMINISTRATION OF INDIA

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10518, 28 July 1910, Page 4

ADMINISTRATION OF INDIA

[By Electric Telegraph—CoPYßc.7iiT.'| (Per Press Association.) Received July 27', at 10.20 p.m. London, July.27. In the House of Commons, Mr E. S. Montagu made the Indian Budget statement. He declared that new taxation was necessary, the first. since 1895, owing to a deficit of £750,000 due to the non-expansion of several services of revenues. There had been :.,i increased expenditure on education. The Government proposed to augment the Customs duties on liquors and increase the duties on silver, petroleum, tobacco and stamps. Referring to the unrest, he said it was caused by a small minority in India. Mr Montagu claimed that there had been a considerable revulsion of feeling in oi.tr favor, due largely to the horror of assassinations. The Indian Government was determined to assist the Viceroy in making an unflinching war against sedition and calumny. Mr AVedge wood's amendment disavowing' sympathy with crime, but deploring the recent restrictive legislation in India, was negatived by 229 to 48.