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Department, goes every year to Malagam fair with a view to buy horses for His Highness's stables. As usual he wanted Rs. 15,000 for the purpose this year. The Nawab Vicar-ul- mulk, the Revenue Secretary-who evidently holds a carte blanche from H. E. the Minister to arrogate to himself the functions of any office in the State-issued, in defiance of all rules and regulations, instruction to the Taluqdhar of the District in which Malagam lies to supply Mr. Ali Abdullah with funds to the extent of Rs. 15,000 and forwarded a copy of the same to the Accountant General to apprise him of it. The Accountant General, the clever official and loyal henchman that he is, cared not to read through the copy and understand it, but issued two cheques to the value of Rs. 15,000 to the Revenue Secretariat. This gives you, Mr. Editor, an idea of the quality of the work turned out by many if not most highly paid servants of His Highness.'
Subscriptions in aid of the movement to spread Mahomedanism in England are coming in apace. The Nawab Vicar-ul- Umrah has given Rs. 5,000, the Nawab Vicar-ul-Mulk Rs. 1,000 and the amount already collected is likely to amount to a big sum very soon, A portion of the sum raised will be spent, I am informed, in sending some Mahomedans to England to preach the Koran-and Moulvic Hassin Ali of whom you have all heard so much will not be the least of thom. An attempt to convert the followers of the meek Christ to the 'Religion of the sword' at the fag end of the Nineteenth Century savours rather of the ridiculous.
We shall soon have a Unani Dispensary under the management of Hakeem Syed Ahmed who "chopped logic" not long since with Dr. Laurie on the subject of Chloroform. The Nizam's Government has, it is stated, sanctioned a monthly grant of Rs. 2,000 for the establishment in connection with it.
