THE INDIAN AGITATION.
Press Association —Copyright. _ CATiOUTTA, October 8. In connection with the recent riots, 85 alleged offenders are now in gaol in-i Calcutta, 30 ate charged with looting, the remainder with rioting. A commission has been appointed to consider tho whole question of factory labour in India. London, October 8. Reports from India show that after a dry hot September the situation is fair or good in Burma, Eastean Bengal, Assam, a portion of Bombay, and Madras, but in West Bengal the crops are suffering. While the harvest on the North-West frontier and in the united provinces is a failure. Distress is lekely to be Widespread, necessitating extensive relief measures. Indications point that only a quarter of the crops will be gathered in Central India.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 8944, 9 October 1907, Page 2
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126THE INDIAN AGITATION. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 8944, 9 October 1907, Page 2
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