IN March next Lord Hardinge lays down his great charge and leaves the shores of Indian after an eventful and unique career. Never, since the days of the Marquis of Ripon, has any Viceroy rendered more enduring services to the Crown or shown greater regard for the feelings and susceptibilities of the people. Bombay has come forward with an idea which cannot fail to appeal to popular imagination. It is that the farewell must come off at Bombay, the Gate of India, through a deputation of all living Presidents of the Indian National Congress, All Indian Moselm League and that the Grand Old Man of India, Mr. Dadabhai Naoroji, may be asked to read the All India Address.
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