INDIA.
CONVICTION OF RIOTERS. Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright CALCUTTA, May' 2-7. Sixty-nine convictions were recorded in connection •with the Eastern Bengal disturbances, and 150 persons are still under trial.
UNDESIRABLE LEGISLATION.
Received 11.20..p.m. May 23th.
CALCUTTA", May 28. Lord Minto withheld his assent to Punjaub's Colonisation Bill, which was designed, to regularise the tenure of Government colonists.. The recent rioting was largely attributable ,to the natives misunder sanding this BiU.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13298, 29 May 1907, Page 5
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69INDIA. Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13298, 29 May 1907, Page 5
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