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HYDERABAD, 23rd October, 1891.
All India must have by this time heard of His Highness the Nizam's having presented a house to the Nawab Vicar-ul-Mulk Bahadur. It is not easy to understand what actuated the Nizam in favouring the Nawab thus, what it was meant that the recognition should signify to the public. Is Vicar-ul-mulk the lowest paid of the Secretaries? No. If he is the "hardest- worked" it is his own fault, he has to thank himself, his mastery over Sir Asman Jah for it. Who is to blame, I ask if the Nawab meddles in the affairs of Departments other than his own, if he acts the Minister's confidant and sets himself up as his philosopher and guide-and thus increases his work? It is indicative of the influences at work in the political world here that a local scribe should think it but right that the Nawab should be paid for his all-round interference which comes often in the way of justice and equity. Has Vicar-ul-Mulk rendered any remarkably good services to the State? None that I know of. Or is the Nawab a popular official? Again I must say, 'No'. A more unpopular official Hyderabad has yet to know. In the light of these considerations it is incomprehensible what led to the present above alluded to.
Mukauda Rao, one of those condemned by His Excellency the Minister in his resolution on the report of the Salar Jung Debt Commission-applied for a copy of the report recently. And he has been informed by the authorities concerned, I am told, that the only 'fair copy' of the original, bearing the signatures, of the Commisioners was missing, that the original itself did not bear the signatures, and that consequently no copy of the report could be supplied to him. What do you think of this Mr. Editor? To condemn a man, and to tell him when he applies for copies of paper connected with his case that the set of papers containing the signatures of the authorities was missing and so on, and so no copies could be furnished him-is possible only in Hyderabad and that under the Mushtak Hussain regime.
