Haliyal Town

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This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Haliyal Town

Head-quarters of the taluka of the same name in North Kanara District, Bombay, situated in 15° 20 N. and 74° 46" E., 9 miles from the Alnavar station on the Southern Mahratta Railway. Population (1901), 4,992, including suburbs. Colonel Wellesley, afterwards the Duke of Wellington, visited Haliyal, and speaks highly in his Dispatches of its importance as a frontier post. The Haliyal timber depot supplied the best bamboo, teak, and black-wood of the North Kanara jungles before the opening of the new depot at Tavar- gatti. The municipality, which dates from 1865, had an average income during the decade eilding 1901 of Rs. 8,400. In 1903-4 the income was Rs. 8,700. The town contains a dispensary and four schools.