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Rh conducting the journal very ably by publishing ancient literature that had not been printed and also by supplying various kinds of useful information.

He paid a donation of Rupees 1,000, last year, to the "Widows' Home" started by Rai Bahadur Veerasalingam Puntulu Garu, at Madras. He has established a hospital at Polavaram, and this is very useful to all the neighbouring villages. There is a choultry at Kottapalli, near Cocanada, established by his mother, which he maintains. Every educational movement in the District finds in him a patron.

It was at his instance that a grand industrial exhibition was held last year at Cocanada, the first of its kind in the annals of the District. He helped a great deal towards the success of the District Conference and the Provincial Conference.

He is always busy with his books and journals, and suffers not a day to pass without adding something or other to his store of knowledge. He is very well informed on almost all the topics of the day. Affable and courtly in his manners he has all the accomplishments of a perfect gentleman. He is one of the best products of half a century of Western education, and the most sanguine expectations of his preceptors have been amply realised. His life has thus far justified the high promise of his early youth.