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the Hon. Mir. Khare. while Bengal had recommended Nawab Mahomed, who has expressed his unwillingness to stand. Subsequently they found 1t stated in the newspapers that Bengal recommended MT. Surendra Nath Banerjee. but no official intimation of this had been received by the recep- ton committee.
 The Bengali opposition to Sir Phero- xeshat Mehta and MT. Gokhale has beet attributed to popular prejudice, but 2 study of recent events in that pro- vince discloses a deeper reason. The Bengali leaders made no secret of their chargin at the resolute exclusion of the extremists from the Madras Con- gress. They have made it plain that it was not their intention to regard the matter as closed. At the Bengal Pro- vincial Conference. held at Hugtl, the leaders of both sections of politics took part. The conference was by no means "Bengaii." for reasons of it's own, pro- fesses to believe It prepared the ground for a united congress-" The election of Sir Pherozeshah Mehta or Mir. Gokhaie to the presidentship would be an inseperable obstaclet to the inclination to set at nought the rules of the Allahabad Convention. and. therefore. to the much-cherished idae of "a united congress" Hence rhe attempt to boycott these two The attempt has faned, but 1t does not follow that the Bengalis will not seek to admit the extrem- tsts.
 Madras Congress.
 The Madras Congress was held too soon after the Allahabad Convention to make concerted action against the newly-framed constitution easy The real trial will be at Lahore. and, AS things stand, 1t does not seem that the constitutional reformers will ind the opposition as plaint as 1t was in Madras. where the local feeling ran strongly in favor of the Moderates. The "Beharee,9 a well-conducted Con- gress Journal published at Rankipur. vigorously contests the "Bengali's" statement that the Hugli Conference has paved the way to a United Con gress On the contrary, according to the "Beharee." the proceedings at the conference only proved that the Mode rates has not the least influence with the extremists. Several of the native papers have warmly advocated the se- lection of Sir Pherozeshah and con- demned the irreconciiable attitude of Bengal.
 Frontier news state that there are rumors of fresh plotting in Afghanis- tan, the popular idea being that secret societies still exist which are hostile to the government After the severe punishment inflicted upon the men who were charged with conspiring to pois- on the Ameer some months ago, 1t Is considered scarcely probable that any renewal of reasonable practices can now take place. The population of Ka- bul are always given to exaggeration when political matters are in question and their imagination has probably been excited by the strict measures of in- quiry instituted to trace the ramifica- tions of the conspiracy which undoubt- ediy existed last spring.
 The Ameer is said to have summon ed the headmen of Khost and the adja- cent tracts to Kabul with view tc establishing a more settled state oi things on that part of the frontier. Il Is reported from Kabul that his Majesty has begun the issue of 1903 rifles to certain of his regular regiments of in- fantry. The Martinis. which the lat ter now have are to be made over to the Khasadars of Militia, many oi whom still have muzzie-ioaders. Ac- cording to a Peshawar correspondent renewed tension exists between the Gal and Samil factions in Tirah. It is fear. ed that . dispute may lead to fresh in. tertribal fighting. in which most of the Afridi and Orakzai clans may be in. volved.
 Discussion Interesting.
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