RAJKUMAR COLLEGE, MADRAS

MADRAS, JUNE 23

Lord Willingdon held a meeting of subscribers to the Rajkumar College Fund. In opening the proceedings His Excellency desired the zemindars to understand that the college was not to be regarded as an ordinary Government institution, but as one the management of which should be their own duty. He pointed out that the Government were ready to show their interest and sympathy by lending land and houses and undertaking the cost of such further building as might become necessary, and he said the provision of the remaining funds must be regarded by the zemindars as devolving upon themselves. The Rajkumar College shall be established in Madras for the education of Court of Wards boys, and generally of the sons and other near male relatives of Rajas, Zemindars and large landed proprietors in Madras Presidency, Coorg and adjoining Native States, and in special cases of boys of other respectable families.

EUROPEAN CHEATS MADRAS FIRM

Rao Sahib S.N.V. Rajachariar yesterday afternoon disposed of a case in which a European named B.L. Nash, alias Watts, was charged with cheating Messrs. Briggs and Co., tailors and outfitters, in January last in respect of clothes and other articles to the value of Rs 160. Mr. Briggs, proprietor of the firm, deposed that accused on the 27th January last, representing himself to be proprietor of a military troupe which was about to give a performance in Madras, ordered, a suit of clothes and purchased shirts and sundry articles to the value of Rs 100 and bolted without paying. His Worship sentenced the accused to nine months’ rigorous imprisonment. The accused, it was stated, was undergoing three months’ rigorous imprisonment at Patna, which term had not yet expired.

TRADING WITH THE ENEMY

A general licence has been issued by the Treasury under the Acts and proclamation relating to trading with the enemy, for the transmission to persons and firms resident in enemy territory of statements of their accounts. The Treasury has also issued a general licence authorising all persons, firms or companies resident, carrying on business, or being in the United Kingdom to engage in any transaction which by the terms of the proclamation of January 7, 1915, is considered a transaction with the enemy, provided that nothing therein shall be taken to authorise any transaction or business with or on behalf of a branch of any enemy firm or bank for the account of the head office or other office of a firm or bank in enemy territory, unless it is situated in territory the resumption of trade with which is authorised