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Thames Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 8757, 6 September 1897, Page 2

Following the murder of Mr Band at Poona, Magistrate Lamb, who is evidently a man of determination, addressed a specially convened public meeting in a manner which can best be described as " straight from the shoulder." He began by expressing regret that no expressions of abhorrence of the crime had emanated from Poona. It was now the duty of the citizens to co-operate with the police in their investigations. He contrasted the honest-minded loyalty of the masses with ihe cowardly disloyalty of a secret band of conspirator?. There was a tendency to misuse the liberiy allowed under British rule and to mislead the ycuig generation with crude, impracticable notions of political independence, based on complete misapprehension of the spirit of English party politics and misreading 1 of the history of tbe Marat.ha people. He warned his hearers that the Government had resources, and would use them. If the advice he had given remained unheeded, they would all find themselves undergoing an experience to which they had not been accustomed. He wished them good evening.