The Friend of India and Statesman Friday October 4th 1878

Let a represent the food stocks of a district 6 the population f (a) the power of trade to add to the food etocke and so ou ; required to find the value of x where x represents the number of field labourers urban poor and infirm dependents who will be on the bands of the State when one-third onehalf or three-fourths of the crops come to nothing. [...] Still less is it possible even to make a respectable guess at the answer to the problem propounded es parting shot in this quarter of the field :—Supposing canals tanks wells and jheels to he utilized to the utmost extent and kept in the highest possible order what extent of the country would be protected from drought when there was a failure of the rainy The wording of this teed& note of int [...] We will suppose that the Judge has succeeded in eliciting the real feats of the case and is quite certain which party is to blame ; there remains the question of the identification of the accused. [...] Now that the Mali has returned however it appears that the entrpriw I. to be a conjoint one as regards the line from Tillie to Teheran while the further extension of the railway through Khorasan to Meshed the Sacred is to be exclusively the wink of the Persian Government. [...] Morley "many a time in onr lives a diatribe against the imputed perversities of the people of Ireland wound up by the wish that the island and its inhabitant could be sunk to the bottom of the sea The solution is pions but crude.