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HIS HIGHNESS THE NIZAM'S TREASURY FRAUDS. HYDERABAD, November 7.

As promised in my last, I shall make a beginning to-day in the matter of saying what I have to say-or rather what one unwarped by party influences and acquainted with the facts o the case, has to say-on the subject of the frauds which has been stirring the public mind for some time past. The inquiry set on foot into the frauds reveals a new phase of activity in the history of factions here. Hitherto men in power were content with sweeping off into the obscurity of nominal positions all their antagonists. But now, nothing short of the utter disgrace and ruin of all in their path of self-aggrandisement, seems to satisfy them. We have known for a long, long time that the administration of justice in the Hyderabad Courts is a farce- and the Nawab Imad Nawaz Jung has had the courage to fling this truth in the teeth of the Minister in his application (published in the Deccan Times); but we never knew before this that a Judge of the High Court was capable of misinterpreting evidence and indulging in gratuitous reflections with respect to witnesses. But we live and learn, you know.

In connection with the Treasury frauds, I have to notice two cases. One was disposed of some time ago by Mr. Afsul Husain the Senior puisne Judgo of the Hylorabad Adawlat-aitaliya-it cannot be called the High Court in this particular instance- and the second case is at present pending before the same learned Judge. The first case attracted little or no attention, probably because Jaya Rao, the chief of the accused therein, was compa- ratively an insignificant man in Hyderabad polities. While the second case in which such well-known names as the Nawab Hussan Bin Abdulla, Imad Nawaz Jang Bahadur and the Rajah Srinivas Rao figure among the accused, is creating a great deal of sensation in all circles here. The proceedings, so far as they