INDIA is still rejoicing over the extension granted by His Majesty's Government to the most popular Viceroy since Lord Ripon. But the residents of Simla realise that they have to part company with His Excellency at the close of the autumn session of the Council. "Parting hath a pang," says the poet, and the pang is intense where Lord Hardinge is concerned. With Raja Sir Harnam Singh, K.C.I.E., the residents of Simla have, therefore, organised a representative committee to give a farewell entertainment to His Excellency and to present a valedictory address also on the eve of his departure from Simla. The committee, it will be noticed, have very properly left the question of a fitting memorial to His Excellency to the Princes of India and to the past and present additional members of the Imperial Council, as was felicitously stated by Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Khan.
