British Rule in India.
No truer test of the benefits of British rule in India can be found than in a consideration of the development of bhe natural resources of bhe country. Take the coal industry for instance. According to the returns made up to March last, the output in the whole of India was 2,750,000 tons, against 1,250,000 in 1886, or more than double. Bengal is the chief producing district, and contains the deepest mine, 450 ft., which, although bub shallow as coal mining goes, is yet deep enough to indicate the amount of energy being put into the work. Finally, it is satisfactory to learn thab nob more that seventeen fatal accidents occurred last year, and that mosb of the collieries pay an annual dividend of 10 per cent. Then to turn to anobher Western innovation. The Indian railways comprise 17.C00 miles of line, and employ over 250,000 persons, the majority, of course, being natives. Again, as to the cotton industry, the first Bombay mill, we learn, was started in 1851. Ib was not till 1870 that the idea seemed to take root, but in 1889 there were eighty-two. Even in cotton, coal, and corn only, India has a great future.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 247, 17 October 1891, Page 3 (Supplement)
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