The Friend of India and Statesman Tuesday June 3rd 1879

The first intimation that his Excellency or any member of his Method that the Viceroy's name had been used on the medal was the notice which appeared in the Steadman two days after the presentation ; and later the medal was seen and the inscription (which we correctly given in the Statesman) was verified by a member of the Viceroy's Staff. [...] The two former were acts of the Government during the last sessiondiastily undertaken to meet the exigencies of the war and to provide for the future protection of the colony by its own strength without being obliged topiave recourse to the mother country ;—objects most commendable in theme.elres-41-they could be carried out prudently and with SUCCORS. [...] Arid. this distinctly than I the inadnesii_ of the smallest unnecessary suspicion was only allaye5eTla minute of the Viceroy dated interference with the social haBior religious opinions of the the /2th of March following in which he assured the public country. [...] For it is The Ghilzais the Khoianis the Mirjan Khile and the people reported that a rival of some consideration is actually now in of the other tribes who were hostile to the English should be the field iu northern AlIghatlistau. [...] Now the fact is that it was become of the Khivan oasis the sole habitable spot in the only after Lord Lytton had been a year in the country that desert of Kara-Kum 1 Of course 'Chive depends entirely upon the Government of India for the first time for twenty years the Oxus ; and it is not possible to forecast a new Maya on became dependent on " gossip " of this kind for its knowledge the banks