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derabad would long since have gone out of the hands of the Nizam, is as far away as ever from getting the Khilet of the office of Peishkar. We are every now and then told in "high falutin" that the Peishkarship has long been a sinecure. If Peish- karship has been a sinecure, so have many offices in the State been. But there is a good reason keeping it up while the keep- ing up of other offices has or can have no justification. And that is, that the claimant to it is the lineal descendant of one- the late Raja Chandu Lal-to whom the Nizam ought to feel ever thankful. Those that are bent upon or are responsible for "reducing" the Peishkar family may be said to have plied the pruning shears desirably by a handful of interested men. But they will ever be looked upon by a vast majority of the popula- tion of these Dominions as the aliens who ruined the ancient families of the land with a view to enrich themselves, to fatten their own "calves."
Sometime ago a notice was published in the Jareeda-the Government Gazette-that such of the Government officials as were desirous of going to England for purposes of education would be paid by the Government an amount enough to cover their expenses in England. Securing the stipend promised in this notice Mr. Syed Mahmud, a Deputy Inam Commissioner, proceeded to England some months ago. The next applicant for the privilege was a Hindu servant of the Government; but the powers-that-be have written to him to say that the Government had made up its mind to send no more officials to England for purposes of education. The reply is characteristic and proclaims the impartiality of the present Government, to be sure.
We are once more threatened with a "deluge" of libel suits. Judgment having been delivered in Gribble vs. Galla- gher, on Wednesday last, Mr. Gallagher's counter-charge against Mr. Gribble comes on for hearing about the middle of January next. After that perhaps, Mr. Rudra will carry out his threat to take up Mr. Gallagher for "libel." Mr. Rudra threatens in a recent letter to the "Pioneer" "to have him" for all the caustic
