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Page 43 paragraphs Mr. Gallagher has put in the "Standard." Not a whit daunted by this Mr. G. repeats that the statement, the contradiction to which made Mr. R so irate, "is perfectly untrue" -and says that Mr. R libels him in the letter as much as he (Mr. G) might be considered to have libelled Mr. Rudra in his paragraphs.

People at a distance can little understand how very indifferent the Government is as to show and where the money got out of the rayyat goes. A gentleman, a John Bull mind, came here about two years ago, armed with introductions no doubt, to raise subscriptions in aid of a school he meant to start somewhere in Switzerland for the benefit of the uncared-for Indian youths. He went about duly hat in hand. The Nizam's Government with its usual liberality and magnanimity paid him out of the Treasury 2,000 Halli Sicca Rupees to enable him to accomplish his object, and some noblemen helped him, I am told, to some extent. The projector" was not satisfied with the money he got from the Government, so he applied for more, and got "in reply," I am informed, two first class railway fares to Bombay. That was no doubt a polite way of asking him to take himself off. But he took no notice of it, went about casting for an employment, and getting it, has been here since. What has become of the two thousand rupees paid out of the treasury, there is none so poor as to ask. It does not matter how the subscriptions, if any, got from the nobility have been spent, for it is a well-known fact that the Hyderabad noblemen have more money than they know what to do with, and they might as well pay towards meeting the daily necessaries of a Sahib.

The "Hyderabad Record" is bothered about knowing "what the local correspondent to the Hindu gains by spreading such rumours which (sic) are not only false but pure inventions aud positively mischievous." The "Record's" solicitude in behalf of the present Government is increasing in volume day by day most amazingly. Under the circumstances it is not difficult to