Complaints are appearing in the papers of the way in
which officers invested with the Star of India receive their decorations. They are sent in a brown paper parcel from the Heralds' Office, and no Knight has in England been ceremonially invested. This neglect increases the unpopularity of the Order, which it is felt debars Anglo-Indians from the Bath—an Imperial and not local decora- tion—which is bestowed with very little discrimination, and which is distributed wholesale to chiefs whose very names the Heralds' Office could not spell without aid from the India House. The local character of the Order cannot of course be avoided, but it would be possible to convince those who receive it that some one outside the India House had at all events heard their names, to add to the reward the pleasure of knowing that it came not only from Sir John Lawrence, but from the Throne.
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