1 THE JUBILEE OF HER MAJESTY. 609
2 zeninds for Her Imperial Majesty. A public meeting of the chiefs,
3 tomdndars and citizens was held at Dera Ghazi Khan, at which a large sum
4 was subscribed for the erection of a free serai to be called the Shahi Serat.
5 At Ludhidénd a Jubilee commemorative hospital for women was established.
6 At Kangra there were national mountain dances by torch-light. Thanks-
7 giving services were held in cathedrals and churches throughout India. At
8 Jalandar the Commissioner unveiled a bust of His Royal Highness the
9 Prince of Wales, presented by Bikrdman Singh and Suchet Singh, the
10 Ahluwélié Sardars, At Wazirdébdd the Mahomedans illuminated their
11 mosques and offered special prayers for the Empress. The women of Gujrdn-
12 wald inaugurated a memorial of the Jubilee by raising a subscription for a
13 Jubilee female school, the expenses of which were to be defrayed entirely
14 by their subcriptions. The ruling chiefs of the Panjdb vied with each other
15 in their exhibition of loyalty to the Queen-Empress. The Nawdb of
16 Bahawalpur held a State reception in his Palace of Nur Mahal, which was
17 tastefully decorated. In Né&han water-works were instituted in honour of the
18 Jubilee, to be named the Kaisar-i-Hind Water-Works, at a cost estimated at
19 a lakh of rupees, The Rdjd of Nabhd remitted 10,000 rupees to the .
20 Imperial Institute in London. At Kapurthél4 the R4jé held a Darbar
21 with the object of laying the foundation-stone of an hospital, to be called the
22 Victoria Hospital, for women and children. The Maharaja of Patidld, at a
23 public darbdér held by him, announced donations aggregating Rs. 54,000
24 in commemoration of the Jubilee year. A gold medal was founded, to be
25 given annually to the best student in the Female Medical School at Lahore,
26 A large guest-house was to be founded at Patidlé in commemoration of the
27 event, while the course of instruction in the Mahandar College was raised to
28 the B. A. standard. This was all proof of the deep attachment of the people
29 to the British rule and to the throne of the Queen-Empress, of which wisdom,
30 justice, piety and duty have been the guardians and which have been the
31 companions of her daily life. With each returning year, the foundations of
32 her mighty realm have become more firmly established, while the loyalty and
33 devotion, of her subjects have grown more tender and more intense.
34 At a meeting held at Léhore to commemorate the Queen-Empress’
35 Jubilee, it was resolved to establish a “Technical Institute” in that city. The
36 Institute is to be establi$8hed in connection with the School of Arts, itself a
37 technical educational institution of great utility. The Government has
38 granted a central site, close to the Panjab Public Library and the School of
39 Arts for the Institute, which will contain spacious’halls for the exhibition of
40 art, industrial and economic specimens, as well as antiquities and ethno-
41 graphic models, Accommodation will also be provided for chemical labora-
42 tories and for class or lecture rooms, for a library and for an engine room,
43 where steam-power can be provided when wanted. A work of a very practical
44 nature is going on at the Railway Workshops, where apprentices can learn
45 the use of tools, machinery and the properties of metals and materials. In
46 the new institute, practical demonstrations of chemistry, of dyeing and
47 cotton-printing, food stuffs, leather tanning and many other trades will be
48 given. The amount available for expenditure on the Victoria Jubilee
49 Institute is about Rs. 93,000, collected from subscriptions, and a further sum
50 ‘of Rs. 20,000 will be received from Government, in part representing the
51 price of the old Museum building.
52 Sir Charles Aitchison was succeeded in the office of Lieutenant-Governor
53 by Sir James Broadwood Lyall of the Civil Service, on the 2nd April, 1887.
54 For the special encouragement of Mahomedans, the Government sanctioned
55 a certain number of Jubilee Scholarships, tenable in High Schools and
56 Loyal demonstrations
57 by the ruling chiefs of
58 the Panjab.
59 The Nawab of Baha-
60 Walpur,
61 The R4ja of N4han,
62 The Raja of Nabha.
63 The Raja of Kapur-
64 ala,
65 The Maharaja of
66 Patiala.
67 Victoria Jubilee
68 Technical Institute,
69 Sir James Broadwood °
70 Lyall sueceeds as
71 Lieutenant-Governor,
72 2nd April, 1887.
73 Establishment of
74 Jubilee Scholarships,
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