Lieutenant Governor’s Durbar at Kangra.

His Honour the Lieutenant Governor held a Durbar at Kangra on the 26th which was attended by the Rajas and landed gentry of the district. His Honour delivered an important speech, which will be memorable in several respects. In the first place His Honour finally set at rest a controversy which had been going on for some years regarding proprietorship of trees regarded as dakhil bachh in Sir James Lyall’s Settlement. The matter was also the subject of interpellation in the Provincial Legislative Council by the Hon’ble Rai Bahadur Bakhshi Sohan Lal. The popular contention was that since the trees were held to be dakhil bachh and Government had been levying land revenue for those areas, it was not open to it now to claim the proprietorship of those trees.