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Rh occasion, was opened on the 8th March by R. H. Campbell, Esq., Collector and Agent, Vizagapatam, On behalf of His Excellency Lord Ampthill.

Mr. Campbell read a telegram from the Governor before formally opening the Hall. Afterwards the people of Vizagapatam presented an address of thanks to the Maharajah.

The Maharajah went to Madras in April and August in connection with the Venkatagiri partition suit. In spite of the family settlement in April 1889 and of several compromises that followed, Raja Muddu Krishna filed a suit in the District Court, Nellore, for partition of the Venkatagiri Zemindari. Before it came up for the first hearing, the Maharajah and Rajah Venugopal Bahadur tried their best twice, in April and August, to effect a compromise between the two brothers, Plaintiff and Defendant, but without success. On the 9th of August the suit was dismissed ex parte with