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Nurse, General Hospital, Madras. She has been for the last three years a professional nurse under the Rajah Sahib, and mainly in charge of the prince. The arrangement of the furniture in the drawing room at Rambha Palace together with all its decorations has been due to her skill and taste.

The following is a copy of the sunnud conferring the personal distinction of Rajah on Sri Hari Hara Marda Baja Deo Garu by His Excellency Lord Elgin :—

"To

Sahib Mehrban-i-dostan Sri Hari Hara Marda Raja Deo Garu, Zemindar of Kallikote and Atagada in the District of Ganjam in the Madras Presidency.

I hereby confer upon you the title of Raja as a personal distinction.

(Signed) ELGIN, Simla, Viceroy d Governor-General The list May, 1898. of India. ' '

The Rajah Sahib is the only prince in the whole of the Ganjam District who is quite in touch with the spirit of the times. His mansions, one at Kallikote and the other at Rambha—the most remarkable edifices in the whole of Northern Circars—are completely fitted up with modern appliances. Every possible means has been, adopted to establish a veritable air of palatial magnificence. Elaborately carved and brilliantly polished tables, chairs, sofas and various other kinds of furniture supported on guilded frames of exquisite workmanship are placed in the halls and in the rooms. The sleeping apartments are furnished with a degree of splendour and elegance corresponding 'to the magnificence of the sitting rooms. Standing on the upper storey of the mansion at Rambha,