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"Abid, who is a trusted servant of His Highness's, went to Persia, you know. And it might have been thought by the Government of India, that he went there to confer with the Russians in behalf of His Highness, and the 40 lakhs, the price of the Diamond, was only an instalment of the sum promised them."
This conversation tells the absurd story that is to vindicate the action of men in authority and keep them secure from harm. And it needs no comment at my hands.
I am told that His Excellency Sir Asmanjal wrote to Sir Dennis Fitzpatrick, on the eve of his departure, begging him to recommend Viearul-mulk and Imadal-mulk to the Government of India so that their titles might be recognised by it, and that Sir Dennis replied that it was "too late" for him to think of doing anything for them. A high Residency official writing on this matter, to the Nizam's Minister is said to have remarked- and in the remarks one hears the cutting tone of the blunt, independent First Assistant that the fact of Mehdi Ali's title being recognized by the British Government was no reason why the titles of the Assistant to the Minister and the Director of Public Instruction should also be recognized. Quite so.
The Hyderabad Races which attract here sporting characters from all parts of India once a year, commenced on Tuesday the 17th instant, and come to a close on Tuesday, the 24th. I shall not trouble you with the event of the race days that have already come and gone for they will have for they will have appeared in the "telegram" columns of the Presidency English papers some days before this communication is in print and, besides, I am not sure that the majority of your readers who are Indians have developed their love for 'sports' to such an extent as to feel interested in them. But I must refer to the exhibition of feeling, because of a remark in one of my letters, by one of the nobleman whom I had before my mind's eye when I wrote the paragraph about the Nizam's birth-day-on the second of the race days, Thursday last, at the
