The Home Government has sent out memorial recently addressed to them by the Anti-Opium Association. The Government of India will have to consider and report thereon as it did with the representations regarding the Excise system.
Simls, 10th October.
Mr. R. D, Oldham, Geological Survey of India, is to be attached to the Zhob Expedition. His principal duty will be to enquire into the reported oil fields in the Shirani country. The last specimen examined by an expert has been declared of most excellent quality, and the Russian oil trade is said to be doomed if the Shirani oil exists in any quantity.—Indian papers.
London, 22nd October.
Mr. Gladstone yesterday addressed a meeting of five thousand people at Midlothan, when he condemned the Government in Ireland in a most scathing manner, and taxed them with shadowing and jury packing. He described the Liberal' Unionists ultra-Conservatives, and urged his hearers to rally for an attack on the last fortress of bigotry and prejudice.
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