The Friend of India and Statesman Tuesday June 10th 1879

501 things of the recent Resolution is that the definition of natives of India " includes all those people who have hitherto occupied the bulk of our middling public appointments to the exclusion of the Hindoo and the Mahomodan natives of the country. [...] After all the really important part of the work —all that relates to field duty to the measuring up the poppy-crop to the maintenance of the records which are the basis of estimate and outturn and to the patrolling and repair of the customs boundary—is done and always has been done by natives of India. [...] The opportunity was therefore very judiciously taken on the accession of the present Nixon to abolish the inconvenient and unbecoming observances of a bygone age and to instal the youthful Prince on a raised moaned chairs being placed for the English officers present as well as for the dignitaries of the State. [...] 503 2. Its reply lain directed to acquaint you that the B'au'ble the Governor-General of India in Couneil entirely approves the partial change of ceremony adopted by you on the occasion but he is of opinion that it would not he expedient to to the custom of eluting on the ground in the Residency after the establishment of the English fashion of using chairs. [...] Although the time which hits elapsed diem the Alfghttu war appears to no to he lung on ulemeit of the suecessiou of Cu seniorBerland of Bolls and the importance of the events that have Inn Tinica anticipating the terms of the Treaty of Olindintervened there me many personas iivieg in Alighanistim who were Auck wrote a month ago that there was no doubt the peace eugaged in that war and