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Rh The Rajah Sahib has married one of the daughters of the Rajah of Mylavaram, in the Krishna District and the result of the union is four sons and one daughter, of whom only two are now alive. The elder Sri Rajah Narayya Appa Rao Bahadur has married the second daughter of the Kumara Rajah of Pittapur, and the younger Rajah Venkatramayya Appa Rao Bahadur is a student.

The Rajah Sahib has established a hospital at Buragammala Padu, his present head quarters, and has secured the services of a competent medical officer, and has also employed a vaccinator. The instruments are kept in very good order, and there is an ample supply of good medicines. He has established a Telugu and English school with a good staff of teachers.

The police department is every thing that could be desired under the able supervision of a Munthazam, who is a retired officer of much experience having been in the British police for a long time.

The Rajah Sahib has secured the services of an armourer, who was once in the British service and has since retired, and whose work is to keep in good order the muskets belonging to the police, and those of the Rajah, Sahib, and also to manufacture such as will be necessary for both.

He has sunk wells for the use of his ryots and has also made new roads. He lately introduced a sugarcane plantation in the Palavancha estate. He has also repaired a number of tanks and wells.