ADMINISTRATION AT PORBANDAR purpose. In A.D. 1906 Lord Lamington again visited Kathiawad and completed the tour which had been so unfortunately interrupted the previous year. Mr. P. S. V. FitzGerald, C.S.I., followed Colonel Kennedy as Agent to the Governor this year, which was marked by the death of H.H. Jaswatsinhji, the youthful Jam of Nawanagar. He left no heir, and his cousin, Ranjitsinhji, who had before the birth of Jam Jaswatsinhji been adopted with the idea of succeeding to the gadi, was selected to be Jam, being installed by the Agent to the Governor on March 7, A.D. 1907. Six months afterwards he started on a pro- longed visit to England, returning to India in January A.D. 1909. A personal salute of fifteen guns was accorded to H.H. Rasul Khanji of Junagadh in A.D. 1907, and in the following year Mr. C. H. A. Hill, C.S.I., C.I.E., became Agent to the Governor in Kathiawad. Towards the end of A.D. 1908 Rana Bhavsinhji of Porbandar died, and his heir, Natwarsinhji, being a minor, a joint administra- tion was appointed to guard his interests in Porbandar until he could succeed. The first Administrators appointed were Wala Vajsur Valera, a Kathi shareholder of Bagasra, and Rao Bahadur A. S. Tambe, who afterwards gave place to Mr. Kalianrai Jetha Bakshi. In November A.D. 1908 his Excellency Lord Kitchener, Commander-in- Chief of the Indian Forces, visited Verawal and Junagadh. H.H. Raj Saheb Ajitsinhji of Dhrangadhra was honoured by being made a K.C.S.L in A.D. 1909, when H.H. Sir Rasul Khanji of Junagadh was advanced in the same order of knighthood. The title of " Maharaja " was also granted to H.H. Sir Bhavsinhji of Bhavnagar as a personal distinction. Captain H. C. Kay, 8th Cavalry, succeeded Captain F. Adams as Inspecting Officer of the Imperial Service Troops in A.D. 1910, after the latter had held the appoint- ment for four years, and the same year Sir George Clarke, 261