The latest number of the "Pioneer Mail" which has been received in Shanghai calls attention tot! circumstance that Mr. E. F.
Wood, 3 who is to succeed Lord Reading as Viceroy of India, can claim an hereditary connexion with the country. He is a grandson of Sir Charles Wood, the frst Lord Halifax, who was President of the Board of Control in 1852 and 1853 and Secretary of State for India from 1859 to 1866. With reference to the political situation which the new Viceroy will be face, the "Pioneer Mail" says:— the cause of events in tndina Bat the a always diicalt to prognostiate ing came to this country. The policy Sie than they were when Lord Read-hele prevent Viceroy ae pareaed Tine borne good frail, an ow Universally "recognized that if. Lord ere for the better under His! Rdmainist and, 1 there a section of ly recon:
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