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61. IOR Neg 4236/1/25

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR Neg 4236/1/25
Title:
Letter from Mayo to Argyll
Scope & Content:
Comments favourably on (Sir) W Markby (Puisne Judge of Calcutta High Court) as possible successor to Stephen; financial discussions just begun and proceeding on assumption of no borrowing and no addition to railway capital in 1872/73; serious disturbance [caused by Kukas] in small Muslim state of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jan 1872
Extent:
1 item

62. IOR Neg 4236/1/26

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR Neg 4236/1/26
Title:
Letter from Mayo to Argyll
Scope & Content:
Encloses papers regarding alleged native outcry against Income Tax.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Jan 1872
Extent:
1 item

63. IOR Neg 4236/1/27

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR Neg 4236/1/27
Title:
Letter from Mayo to Argyll
Scope & Content:
Persian Gulf now quiet; recent Turkish expedition caused him much anxiety but now seems clear that Turks are in difficulties and beginning to realise that invasion into interior of Nej is almost impossible; regarding recent attack on Gladstone about commercial member of Secretary of State's Counc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jan 1872
Extent:
1 item

64. IOR Neg 4236/1/28

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR Neg 4236/1/28
Title:
Letter from Mayo to Argyll
Scope & Content:
Refers to Argyll's letter of 15 December and explains action taken to ease restrictions on coolie emigration from Madras to Penang at request of Home Govt and Govt of Singapore.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Jan 1872
Extent:
1 item

65. IOR Neg 4236/1/29

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR Neg 4236/1/29
Title:
Letter from Mayo to Argyll
Scope & Content:
Describes suppression of Kuka uprising [cf Mayo's letter of 16 January], summary execution without trial by blowing from guns of 49 of them by John Lambert Cowan (Deputy Commissoner), and trial and hanging of 14 or 15 more next day by (Sir) T D Forsyth (Commissioner of Ambala); Mayo has suspended...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jan 1872
Extent:
1 item

66. IOR Neg 4236/1/30

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR Neg 4236/1/30
Title:
Letter from Mayo to Argyll
Scope & Content:
Is about to depart on two week visit to Burma; preliminary discussions on forthcoming budget indicate probable surplus of £300,000-£600,000; Executive Council with exception of Norman favour renewal of Income Tax, Legislative members with exception of Lt-Governor of Bengal oppose renewal by whose...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jan 1872
Extent:
1 item

67. IOR Neg 4236/1/31

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR Neg 4236/1/31
Title:
Letter from Mayo to Argyll
Scope & Content:
Encloses report of conversation between King of Burma and his minister to show what King is led to believe; blue book on military reductions received by newspapers but not by Govt of India; fears publication of minute by Napier (C-in-C) will do much mischief; Mayo unwilling to reply to it at the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jan 1872
Extent:
1 item

68. IOR Neg 4236/1/32

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR Neg 4236/1/32
Title:
Letter from Mayo to Argyll
Scope & Content:
Defends Punjab Canal Bill and begs Argyll not to veto it - believes its principle 'essential to our future financial security, i.e. that the Districts who receive the benefit and who are enriched are to pay for the cost if they can', otherwise he believes irrigation works cannot be continued 'wit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Feb 1872
Extent:
1 item

69. IOR Neg 4236/1/33

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR Neg 4236/1/33
Title:
Letter from John Strachey (Member, Governor-General's Council, Acting Viceroy 9-23 Feb 1872) to Argyll
Scope & Content:
Mayo's assassination; encomium on Mayo; assassination not thought to be connected with murder of Chief Justice Norman; mismanagement of Andamans' penal settlement; risk of procedural mistake aborting trial of assassin, but Stephen has suggested method of obviating difficulty; High Court Judges sh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Feb 1872
Extent:
1 item

70. IOR Neg 4236/2-4237/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR Neg 4236/2-4237/1
Title:
Scope & Content:
Letters from Mr Strachey following the assassination of Lord Mayo, containing official business unfinished by Lord Mayo, and notices of Lord Mayo's death
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb-May 1872
Extent:
Unspecified

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