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writer names as the "Deccan Standard" has done. But in the interests of fair journalism I would ask the writer or rather challenge him to point out to me one instance in which I have shown myself untruthful or malicious.
The judgement passed by Mr. Ahmed Raza Khan in the City Murder case was, according to the procedure in vogue, sent up to a divisional bench of the High Court composed of the Nawab Imad Jung, and Mr. Ali Raza Khan, M. A., for confirmation. And they have enhanced the sentence with reference to Abool Husain in the first instance to imprisonment for life.
The Fancy Bazaar organized by Mrs. Tytler came off in the Chadarghat Public Gardens on Thursday last. In spite of the charins that presided over the several stalls, I am told the bazaar has been financially a failure. The Iydrabadce bigwigs were conspicuous by their absence-they evilently love wasting their money over mautches, sycophants and tale-bearers better than spending any portion of it towards accomplishing the very nuble object with which the bazaar was held. Among the very kind ladies that helped Mrs. Tytler in forming the bazaar, those that did the best business, as far as I could see, were the two Misses Grittin who waylaid people most gracefully aud button- holed them in spite of themselves at a rupee a head. I hear these young ladies realized something like Rs. 100. If others had been equally successful in the way of disposing of their "saleables" the bazaar would not have turned out a failure financially to be sure.
The Hindus of Secunderabad would seem to have taken a leaf from the book of their brethren here. The "Albert Reading Room" people convened one or two meetings to discuss the advisability of having a Hindu Judge in place of Mr. Ekbal Ali retired, and have finally resolved to memorialize the Government praying that it may take advantage of the vacancy created on the High Court Bench and appoint a competent Hiudu Judge to interpret law in the light of the customs and manners of a vast
