INDIAN AFFAIRS.
CALCUTTA, January 5.
Sir George Sydenham Clarke, in open* ing the Legislative Council of Bombay, consisting of 46 members, 33 being nonofficial, denounced the recent outrages. He added that it was improbable that the Government would ever desire to force any measure which a large majority, of non-official members opposed, but the ultimate executive power would not and coiild not be abandoned.
"The Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1908," supplies the Bombay Presidency; with the right of shortening political trials and empowering the suppression oj unlawful associations.
The Times' correspondent (Bombayf states that the prisoners arrested at Nasil* include many students. LONDON, January 7. Anglo-Indians unanimously demand the suppression of the vernacular press, tc which they declare many of the recent outrages are to be traced.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2913, 12 January 1910, Page 19
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