The Friend of India and Statesman Tuesday August 26th 1879

The disturbances in the Deccan seem well nigh over although the information as to the motives of the rioters and their plans of operation obtained since the arrest of the arcdacoit Wassudew Bulwant Phadke have led the authorities to imagine that there was more than a mere desire for plunder at the bottom of the movement and there seems some strong ground for entertaining the opinion that an [...] As at the Delhi tamaska where poor Shore All was rhetorically given to the fowls of the air and the beasts of the field so in the present case also the Amir of Afghanistan serves as a buffer and awful example to the Czar of Russia. [...] The Government steadily declined to give any information as to the nature of the relations of the Roman Catholic hierarchy to the governing body of the new Unversity. [...] O'Keefe says and rightly says that " the manufacturing expenses are very nearly identical whether the mill is working full or short time." The directors of the Ilowralt Mills say that the change has resulted beneficially in the working of the mill and if they cau effect a reduction in the rates of wages it is possible that the cost of production may not be increased; but the directors of the [...] A great part of his speech was devoted to complaints of the excessive coat of the Covenanted.Civil Service and it was not a little amusing to watch the countenances of the Indian Civilians in the room as one after another the defects of the heaven-born" were set before the audience.