Jose Colaco <[email protected]> wrote: > > Perhaps, I will be able to determine, albeit for my own sake, why suddenly in > 1890........news reports about Portuguese Goa started to emanate from British > India ..... > > Is it possible that "Dal mein Kuch Kala hai" ? >
The above speculation is without foundation. The reports about Portuguese Goa started to emanate from British India almost from the inception of The Bombay Times and Commerce Journal, the precursor of Times of India in 1838. The following is the first report: QUOTE We have received accounts from Goa which mention that Major Antonio Mariano de Azevedo, the Secretary to the Goa Government, was shot dead on the spot, while standing at a window with the sister of the late Barao de Sabrozo, at the house of Lieutenant Corte Real of the Portuguese Navy, where he had been invited to a party. The shot was fired from outside the house, and the assassin has not been discovered Senhor Duraens, a judge of the Supreme Court at Goa has been obliged to decamp from that city. The Archbishop who is the President of the Government, it is feared, will be obliged to resign the Presidentship as he cannot agree with the other Members in the measures they are pursuing at Goa. The Ex-Prefect Sr. Bernardo Peres da Silva is going to Lisbon in the Steamer Berenice to represent the inhabitants of Portuguese India in the Cortes at Portugal. UNQUOTE ......The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce (1839-1859); Dec 5, 1838 Cheers, Santosh
