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Rh 1898.

His Excellency Sir Arthur Havelock at the request of the Rajah, came to Bobbili on the 21st February to open the Victoria Town Hall, and was accommodated at the Raj Mahal.

At the entertainment in the evening His Excellency proposed the Rajah's health in return thus:—

"I thank you, Rajah, for the kind and too flattering terms in which you have proposed the toast of my health. I thank you, Gentlemen, also for having so cordially responded to it. It is true, as the Rajah remarked, that the determining cause of my visit to the Circars was his invitation to take part in the ceremony of opening the Hall, the ceremony which I look forward to performing to-morrow. I had the intention of coming to this part of the country during this season if it had been possible. But for my promise to take part in this ceremony, I think, I should have