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information, copy of a despatch from the Government of India recommending
that, on your way back to India from your present short leave, you should be
permitted to visit some of the Hungarian Studs with a view to purchasing a
few stallions for the Government of India if they appear suitable.
This you are authorised to do, and the Foreign Office has been requested
to afford you the necessary facilities.
While on this duty you will be allowed your travelling expenses with
subsistence allowance at £1-1 a day from the date of leaving London to that
of embarking for India.
An advance of £60 will be issued to you by the Accountant-General of
this office to be accounted for by you to the authorities in India on your return
to that country.
The average price paid by you for such stallions as you may purchase
should not exceed 2,000 florins.
(2 firsts and seconds.)
For any sums so expended you may draw bills on the Secretary of State
for India in Council, forms of which are herewith enclosed.
I am to request that you will report any arrangements you may make for
the shipment of these stallions, which should not reach India before the cold
weather. Possibly the Hungarian authorities will be able and willing to under-
take their despatch from Trieste to Bombay, all expenses being adjusted by
you in communication with the Consul-General at Bombay.
No. 80, dated Simla, the 7th June 1892.
From—The Government of India,
To—The Secretary of State for India.
In continuation of our telegram of 27th May last, we have the honor to
forward a copy of the correspondence detailed in the accompanying list regard-
ing the proposed purchase of stallions for horse-breeding purposes from the
Hungarian Government.
2. As we believe there may be some difficulty in obtaining in England the
whole of our requirements in stallions during the current year (vide our
Military despatch No. 74, dated 31st May last), we have thought it advisable,
subject to your Lordship's approval, that Mr. J. H. B. Hallen, Inspector-
General, Civil Veterinary Department in India, who is now en route to Eng-
land on short leave, should be permitted on his return journey to visit some of
the Hungarian Studs with a view to inspecting and, if he thinks fit, purchasing
some of their stallions if they appear suitable and comparatively cheap. If,
as we trust, your Lordship approves of our action in this matter, we would
ask that Mr. Hallen may be instructed accordingly and afforded every assist-
ance in carrying out this duty, both as regards introduction to the Hungarian
authorities concerned, and the provision of necessary funds for travelling
expenses and possible purchases.
No. 145-15, dated Calcutta, the 30th January 1892.
Memo. from—J. W. P. MUIR-MACKENZIE, Esq., Under-Secretary to the Government
of India, Revenue and Agricultural Department,
To—The Secretary to the Government of India, Military Department.
Demi-official No. 2375, dated 28th October 1891,
to Herr F. Stockinger, Austro-Hungarian Consul-
General at Bombay.
Letter, dated 25th November 1891, from Herr
F. Stockinger.
Demi-official No. 93, dated 19th January 1892, to
Herr F. Stockinger.
And connected notes.
The undersigned is directed to forward, for information and record, a copy
of the marginally noted correspondence
relative to the supply of Hungarian horse
stallions.
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