1 The loyalty and
2 gratitude of the
3 people the main
4 stiength of the British
5 Empire in India,
6 The Panjab Chiefs’
7 College established,
8 1886,
9 The Mayo School of
10 Arts, Lahore, 1882,
11 The Veterinary
12 School, Lahore, 1882,
13 Results gained from
14 the Institution,
15 Mule breeding.
16 ‘The cattle farm at
17 sar.
18 The Panjib Public
19 Library, established,
20 1885,
21 The Public Service
22 Commission, 1886,
23 Witnesses examined
24 by the Commision.
25 Recommendations of
26 the Government of .
27 India on the report of
28 the Commissioners,
29 Sri Satguru J agjit Singh Ji eLibrary
30 606 HISTORY OF THE PANJAB.
31 loyalty and gratitude of all the races of India. The representatives of Russia,
32 also made a tour of the North-West Frontier, accompanied by a British
33 officer; and doubtless saw enough to convince them that all necessary
34 measures had been taken to make that frontier secure.
35 The Panj&b Chiefs’ College, a sort of Panjdb Eton, was established at
36 Ldhore for the education of the sons of ruling chiefs, of titular and other
37 prominent native gentlemen, and of minors under the Court of Wards, and
38 in the new institution the Wards’ School, of Ambdald, was incorporated.
39 The Mayo School of Art at Ld&hore has done excellent service in the
40 cause of technical education in the Province. The building, which was
41 finished in the Spring of 1882, was constructed from funds raised by a
42 subscription for founding a memorial to the late Lord Mayo; and the object
43 of the school is to convey instruction in drawing and designing.
44 A Veterinary School was established at Lahore, in May, 1882, for
45 the improvement of horse-breeding and instruction in that subject. The
46 course of study prescribed for the school is practical, embracing veterinary
47 medicine, surgery, anatomy, physiology and chemistry, bovine pathology,
48 clinical lectures on the diseases of cattle and horses, and shoeing. The
49 students are made to work in the forage, and handle lame and diseased animals,
50 The large numbers of horses and cattle which have been placed in the
51 hospital attached to the school, furnish proof of the popularity and success
52 of this important institution. Mule-breeding also has been attended with
53 much success in the Panjdb; the Government Catile Farm at Hissar has
54 supplied excellent bulls to most of the districts, and the breeding of rams
55 at Hissar has been attended with useful results.
56 The Panjab Public Library was opened by Sir Charles Aitchison, its
57 founder, on the 31st of December, 1885. The want of a large central house
58 of literature which should be available to any student, had-been long felt
59 in the Panjéb, and to supply the want this useful institution was established.
60 Its object is “to aid the intellectual progress of the people of all classes by
61 placing within their reach all that is best in the literature of the west and
62 of the east.” The extensive library bequeathed to the Local Government
63 by the late Mr. T. W. H. Tolbort, os., and the Library of the Director
64 of Public Instruction, have been incorporated in the new Library, which gives
65 promise of material help to the researches of the learned and the moral and
66 intellectual development of the people. ;
67 Towards the middle of December, 1886, the Public Service Commission
68 met at Lahore, under the presidency of Sir Charles Aitchison, to enquire
69 into the question of the conditions under which the natives of India should
70 be employed in posts ordinarily reserved for the Covenanted Civil Service, and
71 the questions relating to the admission of natives of India and Europeans,
72 respectively, to those branches of the Uncovenanted Service which are directly
73 engaged in the executive and judicial administration of the country. The -
74 witnesses examined by the Commission represented various views and interests.
75 No person desirous of giving evidence on any point falling within the scope
76 of the enquiries was excluded. Twenty members of the Civil Service, includ-
77 ing five Statutory Civilians, twenty members of the Uncovenanted Service,
78 and forty members of the general public, including Societies and Editors of
79 newspapers, were examined. After making the most searching inquiry into
80 the conditions of the Service in the different public departments, the
81 Commission submitted their report to the Government of India; and it is
82 hoped that the recommendations of the Governor-General on the report ”
83 made to the Secretary of State will, if carried out, have, in the words of
84 Lord Dufferin, “the effect of throwing open to the natives of each province
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