Supplement to the Pioneer, Allahabad, Friday, February 27, 1880, Speech in the Legislative Council of H E The Governor-General of India, by the Hon'ble Sir John Strachey on February 24th, 1880, regarding the Financial Statement for 1880-81
Newspaper cuttings on a variety of issues, including the cotton duties in India, the Indian opium trade, a new route to India and the abolition of the House of Lords
Scope & Content:
Includes cuttings from The Times, the Manchester Guardian, The Pioneer Mail, St James's Gazette, and the Surrey Advertiser
Facsimile of the Treaty of Lahore (Tripartite Treaty) between the British Government, Maharaja Ranjit Singh and Shah Shuja of Afghanistan, concluded at Lahore on 26 June 1838
Scope & Content:
Includes a facsimile of a treaty ratified by Lord Minto on 17 June 1809
Letter (Statistics & Commerce No.35) from Hartington, India Office, to His Excellency The Right Honourable The Governor in Council, Bombay, regarding examples of India art in the Indian Museum at South Kensington being secured for the Bombay School of Art, and enclosing a memorandum by Dr G C M Birdwood
Sir E Clive Bayley, Remarks on certain dates occurring on the coins of the Hindu Kings of Kabul, expressed in the Gupta Era and in Arabic (or quasi-Arabic) numerals (London: 1882), reprinted from the Numismatic Chronicle, Vol II, Third Series, pages 128-165