The Journal of the National Indian Association in Aid of Social Progress and Female Education in India November 1882

One of the local newspapers questions the expediency of the arrangement under which the Sadr court is to combine within itself the double functions of a High Court and of a Judicial Committee and some regret is expressed that when borrowing a Code of Criminal Procedure the Travancore Government did not take the Code of 1882 instead of the now repealed Act of 1872. [...] The rise progress and history of the Vernacular Press ii: India is a subject of varied interest and increasing importance The Vernacular Press in the Bombay Presidency has been the means of exercising a very beneficial influence over the mindk of the people and particularly of those who are ignorant anel illiterate. [...] Furdoonji Murzban the father of the present proprietors of the Duftar Ashara Press was the founder of the Guzerati types. [...] The Bast C. of tar is considered the leader of the weekly papers just as the Bombay Samachar is of the dailies in the Bombay Presidency. [...] The Noon' Elum the Sties Bodh the Soohlt-Dookh-na-Sathi the Dugan Yardha7c the Budhi Prakash the Balodaya the Farsood the Gool-Apsan and the Vidya Mitra are respectable pamphlets of cultivated taste and are no mean pioneers in the spread of education among thousands of uneducated and ignorant natives.