Burmese Sketches - Khamkoo

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BURMESE 8KETCHE8.
blown aside, it may be found that, from this period of stress
and labour, has emerged an India better equipped to face the
many problems, which confront her, stronger and better guarded
on her frontiers, with her agriculture, her industries, her
commerce, her education, her irrigation, her railways, her army
and her police brought up to a higher state of efficiency ;
with
every section of her administrative machinery in better repair,
with her credit re-established, her currency restored, the
material prosperity of her people enhanced, and their loyalty
strengthened."
. Lord Curzon intends to leave India in May (1904) for his
well-earned holiday. He will stay the whole of the summer in
England, returning to India about October. Lord Ampthill,
Governor of Madras, officiates for him during his absence. We
earnestly hope that, as already arranged, Lord Curzon will return
to India and stay out a fresh term of two years and that
the impending General Election at home will not deprive us of
a Viceroy who has put new life and vigour into the great
machinery of government and, more than any of his predecessors,
has shown himself anxious to consult the people about
impending changes, to reason w^ith them and to convince
them by facts and arguments.
Mr. TODD-NAYLOR, I.C.S.
On ihe 6th August 1910, Burma lost an able, talented, and
sympathetic officer by the premature and unexpected death
of the Hon'ble Mr. Henry Paul Todd-Naylor, CLE., C.S.I.,
M.A. (Oxon) I.C.S., Commissioner of Mandalay Division, and
Member of the Lieutenant-Governor's Legislative Council. He
was educated at Shrewsbury and University College, Oxford,
and was appointed to the Indian Civil Service after the examination
of 1880. He arrived in India on the 14th December
1882, and served in Bengal as an Assistant Magistrate and
Collector. The incorporation of Upper Burma into the British
Empire necessitated the transfer of a number of officers from
India, and Mr.'J odd-Naylor was transferred to Burma as Assistant
Commissioner in March 1886. He served at Thayetmyo,
Tharrawaddy, and Paungde ; and his propensities for hunting
dacoits were not brought into requisition till he was transferred
in June 1887, to Pyuntaza, which then formed a Subdivision of
Shwegyin district. Pyuntaza was an Alsatia, a sanctuary for
debtors and criminals. It was the meeting-point of the three