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 when they become full-blown graduates? The Resident's allusion to the men from the North-West is not quite intelligible, if he referred to the grumble heard all over the Dominion against the monopolising of all important offices by the Hindustanees, if he meant that all the Hindustanees in service are educationally superior men to the Hyderabadees clamouring for positions, I must say that he blundered unwittingly or that he but echoed the opinions of interested parties constantly dinned into his cars. For, with the exception of the Belgramis and one or two others, the Hindustanees are ignorant of English and cannot claim to be educationally superior to their co-religionists here.

Since writing last about the Diamond case' I have heard that His Highness is determined to get back the whole of his 23 lakhs, and that he has engaged the services of Mr. Jardine, of the Bombay Bar, for the purpose.