The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY,, AND SATURDAY MORNING. Tuesday, October 18, 1887. INDIAN LOYALTY.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 55, 18 October 1887, Page 2

The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY, , AND SATURDAY MORNING.

Tuesday, October 18, 1887. INDIAN LOYALTY.

Be just and fear not; I ■'it all the ends thou aim’st at be thy country’s, Thy God’s, and truth’s.

The action of the Nizam of Hyderabad in offering a large annual subsidy towards the expense of maintaining the North-weit frontier defences is one which augurs well for the continuance of friendly relations between toe Indian Government and those great princes, who, like the Nizam, stand more in the nature of feudatory rather than actuq subjects of die Crown. It affords an excellent proof of the just and wise administiation of the Calcutta Executive when the Native princes testify in such an essentially practical manner their attachment to the Crown and their willingness to assist in the maintenance of the frontier safeguards against foreign invasion.

The expense of constructing the Pisheen Valley railroad and of fortifying the approaches to the Bolan and Kyber passes has been for the last five or six years a dreadful drain upon the somewhat narrowed revenue of the Indian Government, and the extra and enormous expense rendered necessary by the Afghan Frontier Commission, only a small portion of which was contributed from the Imperial exchequer, must have formed a rather ugly-looking item on the last balance sheet of the Calcutta Government. This being so the offer of so princely a sum as £200,000 has been gratefully received and speciallyacknowledged by Her Majesty through the Viceroy. The whole incident affords a striking contrast to the duplicity, treachery and open sedition of the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh, who after having enjoyed a right royal subsidy from British coffers for years and being treated with the utmost magnanimity and generosity, has openlyavowed his intention of intriguing and actually fighting if necessary to secure the overthrow of British rule in India. Whether it be true, as has been affirmed by St Petersburg telegrams that Dhuleep Singh has been openly welcomed at the Imperial receptions, and treated with maiked deference and cordiality is much to be questioned, but that he is able, from his earlier experience, to be a valuable aid ta Russia in her designs upon India is beyond all doubt. It has been said that Dhuleep is in constan communication with the Indian princes and that his efforts to promote sedition amongst them has met with success, but the action of the Nizam of Hyderabad affords ample testimony that what ever disaffection there may be, it is not widespread, and has certainly not yet affected the more important states.