INDIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8320, 28 December 1906, Page 5

INDIA.

NATIONAL CONGRESS

Received December 27, 10.10 p.m CALCUTTA, December 27.

There were 10,000 present at the Indian National Congress. The keynote of Mr Dadabhai Naoroji's address was Sir Henry CampbellBannerman's. remark at Stirling, on November 23rd, 1905, "that good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves." Mr Naoroji asked how much less could an economically evil and unconstituitonal government. He instanced the Boers securing selfgovernment and the Russian peasants the Duma. He next quoted from the speeech of Sir H. Campbell-Ban-nerman, in which he said, ''Long live the Duma." Surely Sir H. CampbellBannerman's free-born Indian fellowwere more entitled to selfgovernment. The latter should gradually become autonomic.' He urged a petition for their rights to King Edward and to Parliament and an active agitation in India and Britain. Incidentally he declared that the partition of Bengal was a bad blunder and he hoped it would yet be rectified. He recommended the unity of all Indians in order to achieye selfgovernment whereby millions now perishing from poverty, famine and plague would be saved. India would then re-occupy her former position among the greatest civilized nations.