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Times of India 20 Dec. 2/7: Poona has a far better chance [...] of becoming the seat of the Supreme Government. It must be borne in mind that this question will have to be settled at home, where Ditch interest goes a very little way. Times of India 1 Nov. 2/5: This circumstance has floated up from the depths of memory from a piece of gup industriously set afloat to the effect that our generous Bombay chemists sell their medicines under cost price. Times of India 25 May 2/6: [T]hat healthy circulation between town and country, which is the only means of conveying European civilisation to the mofussil. Times of India 25 May 2/7: The number of houses in the town is estimated at 510, of which 283 are regular pucka buildings. Times of India 16 July 2/3: The Queen's birthday went off here, as such affairs usually do, in Line parade, &c. The only thing I noticed about the tamasha was that there was no cheer on the occasion from the 3rd Dragoons. Times of India 27 Oct. 2/7: CALCUTTA 17th October. The Doorgah Poojah holidays have commenced and Calcutta is empty. [...] I shall not bother you with a detail of the various places the done-up Ditchers have flitted to. They will be back [...] and then we shall have dust and worry, and litigation again. Times of India 24 Oct. 3/3: The ‘public!’ The Calcutta howlers, the second rate merchants, the gambling speculators, and semi-insolvent trading community of that filthy ditch. Times of India 27 Oct. 2/7: CALCUTTA 17th October. The Doorgah Poojah holidays have commenced and Calcutta is empty. [...] I shall not bother you with a detail of the various places the done-up Ditchers have flitted to. They will be back [...] and then we shall have dust and worry, and litigation again. Times of India 24 Oct. 3/3: The ‘public!’ The Calcutta howlers, the second rate merchants, the gambling speculators, and semi-insolvent trading community of that filthy ditch. Times of India 18 Apr. 2/3: The arrangement, too, manifests a taste it may be doubted if any pukka ‘merchant’ in India would be found to posess. Times of India 27 May 3/4: Singhur was probably always the stronghold of some ‘hill loocha,’ as somebody described an ancient Highland chieftain. Times of India 8 Mar. 4/1: Never was a civilized community more given up to be plundered by the natural enemies and leeches of society than that of Calcutta [...] life in the Ditch is becoming more and more impossible. Times of India 10 Jan. 2/2: Mr. Ellis’s [...] reliance on his own practical acquaintance with the work of mofussil administration. Times of India 25 May 2/6: Now that his appointment is pucka, the Chief Commissioner will no doubt resume work with fresh vigour. Times of India 28 Oct. 1/4: [small ads] BURKA KHUBBER. DAVE CARSON SAHIB KA PUCKA TUMASHA ANNAI CHATA HI. Times of India 19 July 2/5: [T]his is the season of the year in which least hindrance to public business is caused by the absence of a pukka Commissioner. Times of India 1 Feb. 3/3: [What] may, with the fullest share of reason, be called ‘gup’ [is] floating shout, and which is either tasteless and uninteresting, or too highly spiced for general circulation. Times of India 12 June 2/3: Those who come to India in these latter days do not shake the pagoda tree to any great extent. Times of India 2 Oct. 2/: What an oolta-poolta kaleidoscope affair is this St. Leger! Times of India 31 May 2/2: There is only one pucka built bungalow now on the hill ; formerly there were more. Times of India 28 Mar. 2/7: After the return of Sir Salar from England there will be a grand ‘tamasha’ [...] he will promenade through Golconda in state, a little matter which will cost. him a lakh or two of rupees. Times of India 3 Jan. 2/3: For the examination of 1878 [...] 845 [candidates] came up from the various schools of the mofussil—the whole length and breadth of Western India being represented. Times of India 20 Dec. 2/4: The Duke of Buckingham having seen his successor installed as Governor of the senior — we may not now say benighted — Presidency, leaves India to-day. Times of India 3 Nov. 3/3: As [Missy Baba] is carried up the hill in her dandy, her own particular batman is lost in the crowd [...] but other soldier servants will win the honeyed nothings of her speech. Times of India 15 June 2/3: This is the origin of the present ‘bobbery’. Times of India 6 July 2/4: [H]e made the natives carry him in a dandy, and completed the journey to the borders of Chinese Thibet, and thence along the whole line of the Western Himalayas. Times of India 9 July 2/7: He scanned the face of the cliff for a moment, then bursting into a grin of Asiatic width exclaimed Marker! marker! marker hai, sahib! Dekko. Times of India 25 Mar. 2/5: Since my last we have been having pucka monsoon weather, apparently too quite the correct thing for Afghanistan. Times of India 28 Feb. 2/7: Mr. Pearson draws from four to five hundred thousand francs a year, Lord William more than a million, every Collector a hundred thousand and ‘perquisites;’ [...] They all shake the Pagoda tree to some purpose. Times of India 5 June 5/2: The London correspondent of a north country paper is responsible for the following piece of improbable gup.