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The Friend of India and Statesman Friday February 21st 1879

1879

The demand for the giving up of Umbelini and the sous and brothers of Sways will probably raise a storm of opposition and Cetywayo be thus driven by the turbulence of his chieftains to refuse to comply with the conditions of the message. [...] The mail just to band brings no a report of the speech delivered on the 26th of lest mouth at Stroud by Sir M. Bicks-Beach the Secretary of State for the Colonies and the reference it contains to South Africa shows how unsuspected was the blow which has fallen upon our army and suggests a suspicion that the home Government had been encouraging the Colonial authorities to push forward the Impe [...] The present proposal is to make Turkish the organ of communication between the local Government and the Porte while the official language of the interior is to be Turkish Greek or Bulgarian according to the majority of the population of each district. [...] Partial failure of harvests the want of salt and the hardships of the war are said to have been the causes of the epidemic. [...] "The subordinates of the Public Works Department are mainly recruited from the rank and file of the army and it is everywhere well known that they are the bone and sinew of the lower branches of the service.
government politics public policy
Pages
28
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120041
Segment Pages Author Actions
The Friend of India and Statesman
155-176 unknown view
English Supplement to the Friend of India and Statesman
1-4 unknown view
Backmatter
i-ii unknown view