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It is always painful to have to write an obituary-and much more so when it relates to one who has done some service in his time. Yet it is desirable that it ought to be "writ"-for it often points a moral. The "Hyderabad Record" after struggling for life for a little over five years, breathed its last on Friday last. Its was a chequered existence—and its reverses, successes and the unhappy circumstances which led to its sudden demise are full of valuable counsel to all those who are already engaged in journalistic work or who may be engaged in it, hereafter here.
Under the late Mr. Job Solomon it was a power in the land—how before it was many months old it came to be stopped by British officials, how persistently and courageously Mr. Solomon fought against tremendous odds and secured the right to publish the paper again, how the "Record", until the moment of his death, was a terror to corrupt officials, how they winced under its attacks and kept their hands off partiality or injustice to a certain extent at least in sheer fright of its criticism, all Hyderabad knows. Mr. Solomon died, and with him died the independence and courage of the "Record." Under a good guide it might have had a long and very useful career.
The management of the "Deccan Times" has again changed hands. Mr. Gribble's connection with the paper as Managing Proprietor ceased this morning. Under Mr. Gribble the "Deccan Times" improved considerably in matter as well as manner, and its tone was uniformly courteous, and generally impartial and independent—though not much to the benefit, it must be confessed, of Hyderabadees. But what it may be under his successor or successors the future alone can reveal to us.
