INDIA.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 146, 19 December 1908, Page 5

INDIA.

■•• • > .--■■■ ..-•■• •■ '•-' » , ■ ■ -;_ ; -"X^ilNl^TElilAL STATEMENT." ■ * Press Assn— By telegraph— Copyright. ■-■:i this day, 8.15 a.m.) ;v „, •T.ONDON, yesterday. „t;!&'a statement regarding India, Mr *T?rR7 Buchanan explained it was not intended to establish advisory councils; -Imperial of provincial. Their • functions had better be discharged by ' ifcbev.' Enlarged Legislative Councils. The 'enlargement of such Councils, laMtt the -'extension of their functions i^the discussion of administrative VnSest&ns, were deep-reaching features." No sc&eme was intended to S^btiW ia'rg.e representation of the faMHOwriing class and Mahomedans. '3?k« 'Viceroy's Council would be m- ! .cMi^Bd to 62 members. Resolutions tn&tA by unofficial members: of tho •C©un<Jil on general questions of adiministiration could be submitted to ' thtt'J^vernment, and would form rectittwendations. The Government , desired to vivify local and. district "boards., thereby, training the people • io'iniaiiage their local affairs. ; Tlie Times welcomes the general : »chatabter of the proposed reform. l?he Standard .says, it is a spiritedattempt to solve a tremendous problemt. .••■•• . .. . The press comment is generally rav--brable.