The Friend of India and Statesman Friday February 7th 1879

THE renewed assurance of the Home Government that the Import duties upon piece-goods are to be repealed is regarded as A deliberate sacrifice of the interests of India to the electioneering exigencies of the Ministry. [...] One of the great problems of our future finance is the readjustment of the burden of taxation between the several provinces and presidencies of the Empire. [...] What the Government of India ought to have done the moment the fall occurred through the unwise action of Germany was to counteract the mischief by buying up the silver with which it was flooding the London market and bringing it here to India where it would have proved the source of life to a people dying of hunger. [...] Going southwards from Kuldja Colonel Prejevalsky entered the region of the Tian-Shan or northern Altai mountains the first range of which known by the local name of Anrnat lies to the south of the valley of the Kungea river a district fruitful in wild apricots sod apples which cover the ground with heaps of fruit and afford shelter and pasture to plenty of wild boars and bears. [...] In other words we are to climb from the present frontier which runs Mon the base of the Suleitnans up to the topmost ridge of the Savfed Hob and run an imaginary line along the crest of the mountains reacing from Cashmere to the Bolan Pass at the permanent fixed boundary of the Empire.