The past week hax been one of excellent veneral monsoon rainfall, resulting in a vast of deficiency due to the late arrival and weakness of the monsoon, of course, river w great plain, and the Noeti-west Frontier Province. The plague returns are much more satisfuctory, showing at last n marked decrease "in South India have entirely free from and after sion, are removed from the plague infected arcas of the Madras Presidency. Unrest" is showing symptoms of dying out,—Boycott Day, the second anniversary of the: Swadeshi boycott, a form of reprisal invented in Bengal as a revenge for!
"passed off in Calentla without any disturbance or demonstra tion of any magnitude, The Maharaja, of Bengal have locoed am appeal 10 Rajas, chief noblemen, and landowners
their fellow-countrymen, admirable li tone and sentiment. They condemn the license of certain agitators and editors in strong terms, and declare that this is the worst possible time to encourage unworthy sentiments of rancour and ill-feeling."
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