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majority of His Highness's subjects. The resolution though destined to fall flat on the powers-that-be, is to be welcomed as indicative of the growth of public opinion which will have one day attained such strength as to force justice even from worse rulers than those in the ascendant to-day.
We are soon to have a fifth school inspectorato. 'Why?' it may well be asked seeing that we have already four Inspectors having, as compared with the work of the same officers in the British Provinces, little or no work to do. Why? Can there be better reason than that the Home Secretary does not think it safe to have Mr. Sturge, M. A, any longer in the Mining Department? It may not be out of place here to notice how His Highness's educational executive came to be officered by four men of such different qualifications as Messss. Croley, Venugopal Pillai, Schaffter and Lakshman. All the executive work was done by four Mohtameens with salaries ranging from 125 to 175 H. S. Rupees until Mr. Croley sought, by force of fate, an entrance into the portals of the Nizam's service. No sooner Mr. Croley was sent out of the Chadarghat St. George's Gram- mar School than his worth become perceptible to the educational authorities, and a necessity for such a man as Inspector flashed across their minds-and he was appointed Inspector-General. He had been in the service for a short while when he discovered that the educational work of four divisions was more than he could do. So Mr. Venugopal, who had done some work in the cause of education in Secunderabad, was appointed an Inspector in charge of two divisions. Time jogged on thus until Mr. Schaffter being sent adrift by the Nawab Mehdi Ali had to be provided for. The third Inspectorship came thus into existence. Some time afterwards the senior Inspector found himself over- worked and got the fourth Inspector appointed in the person of Mr. Lakshman, B. A. The history of these appointments is rather interesting-is it not Mr. Editor ?
