A. graceful landing was effected at Bombay by the four Southamption flying-boats of the Royal Air Force now on a flight to the Far East. Circling above the city, they alighted in the harbour at' their moorings just opposite the Govern ment dockyards. After a stay of fa few dave in Bombay, the flying-boats will proceed to Colombo, which they will leave for visits Australia, and Hong-
Mr. James McNeill, who succeeds Mr, Timothy Healy' 2s Governor-General of the Irish: Free State, is retired member of the Indian Civil Service, His career in some re spects is a curious one, inasmuch ax, had it not been for his connection ith Irish politics, he probably rever would have come into the public limelight, for his work in India, though of great value, was entirely on routine lines. He entered the Indian Civil Service as far back as 1890, serving in Bom. Vay as assistant collector and magistrate. He was appointed Settlement Commissioner and Direc-for of Land Records in 1911 and, two years later, visited the British West Indian Colonies in connection with an inquiry into Indian immigration. Appointed Political Agent, Surgana, in the first year of the War, he later became censor of ermmarcial telegrams, a post he occupied for only two months, after Which he was appointed Oficiating Commissioner of the Central sion, retiring from the Service in 1915, How he subsequently took part in the drafting of the Con stitution of the Irish Free State in 2023, and later was appointed High Commissioner in London, are matters of common knowledge.
Indian States Inquiry Sir Harecurt Butler, the retiring Governor of Burma, generally is, dered one of the ablest administrators in India. It is not surprising to learn, therefore, that he has been appointed chairman of the committee to inquire into the relationship of the Government of India to the Indisn States. This Mrreugut. Field, N-Y., Jan. 28:—In the teeth of a high wind, a group of observation planes to-day carried out manceuvres, acting on instructions from the ground and carrying oat drill orders spoken into a microphone. Clouds at times conpletely obscured the planes from view.—Reuter.
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