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Rh He was thus enabled to travel throughout India, escorted by a Public Officer of rank, under the orders of the Madras Government. He was one of the few who were invited to attend the assemblage from Southern India.

In the course of his travels to and from Delhi and other parts of India on the same occasion, under the special orders of the Government of Madras, he was escorted by a Public Officer of rank.

When famine raged most furiously in 1877-78 the Zemindar established feeding houses and thousands of people were fed gratis. He further extended his right hand of sympathy to his ryots by advancing them large sums of money. The following that appeared then in the proceedings of the Court of Wards will not be out of place here:—

"The interest displayed by the minor Zemindar in the management of the charities is highly creditable to him.

2. The Collector will intimate to the minor Zemindar their high appreciation of his conduct on this occasion."

We give the following remarks made by the Judge of the Subordinate Court of Tinnevelly in the decision given in favor of the Zemindar in the suit brought by his paternal uncle:—

"Here the plaintiff described the Etaiyapuram Estate as a simple Zemindari created at some time prior to 1783, (i. e., during the Mahomedan period) and denied at the first hearing that it was an ancient Polliam. Consequently I cast upon 1st defendant the burden of