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Summary of Events 433
of colleges, continued to sit and submit proposals regarding the best
curriculum to be adopted in future.
The Sind Muhammadan Educational Conference met at Haidarabad on
January 4 and 5. A number of resolutions were passed, amongst which
were those relating to the organization of committees, the opening of rural
schools with religious instruction, the teaching of subjects of practical
utility, the provision of boarding-houses for the sons of Zemindars at ten of
the principal centres, also dealing with the education of those boys desirous
of entering Government service, and for the acquisition of suitable
text-books for the moral and religious instruction of Muhammadans,
etc., etc.
The Lieutenant-Governor of the Panjab on New Year’s Day unveiled a
statue of the late Queen-Empress which has been erected in Lahore as a
memorial of the Diamond Jubilee.
Colonel Sir T. J. Gallwey has been appointed principal medical officer
in India.
Professor J. H. Marshall, late of King’s College, Cambridge, has been
appointed to the newly-created post of Director-General of the Archaeo
logical Survey of India.
Mr. H. A. Kirk, Director of Traffic of the Indian Traffic Department,
has taken up his new appointment of Director-in-Chief of the Indo-European
line (Karachi-Teheran section).
The tariff between Great Britain and India and Burma has been
reduced from 4s. and 4s. 2d. per word respectively to 2s. 6d. from last
month.
The final revised census returns show that the population of India is
294,266,701.
The out-turn of the tea crop for the year 1901 was 165,263,453 pounds,
as against 177,677,257 in 1900.
Indian Railway earnings in the nine months ending December 31 last
were no less than one and three-quarter crores above the earnings in the
corresponding months of 1900.
The Victoria Memorial Fund now amounts to nearly 39 lacs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees .
Dr. Sven Hedin, the famous explorer, paid a visit last January to India,
at the Viceroy’s invitation. He came from Ladakh, and returned to Sweden
by Ladakh, Kashgar, and Russia.
His Highness the Maharaja of Darbhanga and Rai Bahadur Bipen
Krishna Bose have been appointed additional members of the Viceroy’s
Legislative Council.
Sir Harman Singh has given Rs. 50,000, to be managed by a
committee, for scholars and for poor Indian Christian students in the
Panjab.
Passengers proceeding to Australia from India are required by the
Australian Government to be certified as British subjects before being
allowed to land. Applications for certificates of identity should be
addressed to the local Governments of the Provinces to which intending
passengers belong, and not to the Government of India.
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