The Late Mr. G Subramania Iyer.

IT is with profound grief that we have to record the death of the veteran Indian Journalist, Mr. G. Subramania Iyer of Madras. He stared life, we believe, as a humble schoolmaster. But soon (about the year 1878 or so) when a band of selfless patriots started a press called the "National Press" by public subscription and issued a weekly journal called the Hindu, Mr. G. Subramania Iyer was drawn to its with his friend the late Mr. Viraraghava Chariar. The two young men were conducting the journal with such marked ability that the proper and the press soon became their private property, and the two went on working together as partners, one as editor and the other as manager. How the tiny weekly sheet grew into a powerful daily, and how subsequently it passed on into the hands of the present proprietors, we need not details here. Suffice it to say that the history of the growth of the Hindu is the history of the growth of public opinion in the Presidency.  It is true he as editor had behind him the influence, the knowledge and the experience of a succession of distinguished writers. 

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