Sir Donald Robertson is about to retire and ix being given a most hearty farewell. The Dussera festival at Mysore is always a time ivity, but this year, Mysore has sur-pessed itself for the Foung Maharajah has spared neither pains nor expense to do honour to the man who piloted his State through the last few years of his minority with such marked success and tact, finally seating the young ruler on his throne and helping Tim to get is sea logs at governing himself.
Consequent on Sir Andrew Fraser havi extended his leave by three months.
Burdillon will not be able to relieve Donald and the Senior Assistant Resident will hold charge temporarily.
An. interesting letter appears in the September, number of the Indian Magazine" by Mrs. Ah N. Tyabji, the wife of one of the Court "Judges in Bombay. The subject is " The Social Inter course Question." Mrs.
Tyabji is evidently a very woman and her letter reads very well. She enlightened and well-educated
gives the "purdah" as the fundamental obstacle to social intercourse not only tween Europeans and natives but sis between the members of the same community. For instance amongst Mahomedans the men of family are precluded from seeing their own cousins and sisters-inlawa A close friend of the master of the house can never know his friend's wife and dauedters and so on. Mrs. Tyabji presses the importance of a discussion on the subject being started and conducted in a friendly and conciliatory manner and concludes by promising in some future article to point out "The ways and meinns by which we can remove the difficulties, while not in any way giving our national characteristics, which I thin every self-respect ug citizen must always endeavour to maintain and some of which in my opinion are very admirable customs."
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