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153 Referring to the paragraph about Sir Syed Ahmad Khan of Allyghur, in my last letter, a friend told me: This is not the first instance in which such means have been employed by the Nizam's officials. I know a Subadhar, still in the service, who indemnified himself for the money he had to give His Highness's Choukdars by way of baksheesh, by charging one per cent. and-a- half on the salaries of his subordinates. And this is on official record." People in Hyderabad are known to be men of large promises. But few know outside Hyderabad what miserable things these large promises dwindle into when it comes to keeping them, and how often they remain merely promises "for all time." Within the last few years we have heard of several funds started by titled "gents" for public purposes. But no one seems to know what efforts have been made to make these funds successes, and how far they have been successful. What has become of the Salar Jung Memorial Fund which many big men in the official and non official circles stood god-fathers to? What has become of the Fund started by no less a personage than the Nawab Imad-nl-Mulk Bahadur, in aid of Pundita Rambhai's Sarada Sadhan? What has become of Balakrishna Memorial Fund with which the names of such men as Messrs, Heenan aud Crolly were associated? And when are we to have our Chadarghaut Jubilee gardens? Who can answer these questions.