Scotch in India.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 130, 26 February 1887, Page 2

Scotch in India.

AnoUT JS36, at a meeting held in Bombay to commemorate the anniversary of St. Andrew's Day, Dr. Buist showed how much India vas indebted to Scotchmen ; stating that the " Bombay Quarterly Review ' was chiefly written bv Scotchmen, printed by <v Scotchman, and published by a Scotchman. The "Bombay Gazette" was conducted by a Scotchman ; the " Telegraph and Courier ' has, with one exception, always been conducted by Scotchmen. Ra who did the " Times " was a Scotchman : th>« " Bombay Guardian " and "Oriental Christian Spectator" were founded or conducted by Scotchmen. The Aniatic and Medical Societies were both presided ever by Scotchmen. The principals o? the?o colleges are Scotch, and some of the profer-Bors were Scotch ; and thore who hnd not been so favoured in their birth had widely endetvoured to romedy the deficiency by marrying Scotch women The director of public instruction was a Scotchman, and the senior inspector of RchooK The governor was a Scotchman, and three of his personal staff were Scotch. Of the last ten governor!?, five had been Scotch, and for thirty out of fifty years Bombay had had a Scotch administration. We had a Scotchman at the head of the commissariat, and another for his deputy. The quartermaster and aurgeon-general, the garrison engineer, civil architect, the dockyard engineer, and physician-general wore all Scotch. It was quite clear that our noble army could neither be fed, physicked, or clothed, taken to the field, or made comfortable in cantonments, except for Scotchmen.