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and the desirability of passing an Act similar to the British Religious Property Act by which Missionary Societies can hold property in these Dominions. He winds up with the following lines which I make no apology for quoting:—
"We think some adjustments should be made which would definitely recognize the loyalty of the European, whoever he be; and that he should on his part, in perfect good faith, recognize the justice of the Government, as wo do with alacrity all its openings for employment and emolument. As long as Euro- peaus continue to repudiate the application of the Nizam's laws to themselves, this want of confidence will be construed into an affront, (we think justly) by the Nizam's Government. We are inclined to think the frankest recognition of the Nizam's legal Institutions and laws on the part of all Europeans in the Dominions, will be reciprocated by the extension of all the advantages the Government can extend to anybody, to all Europeans also severally and collectively.
We are suffering from the "Jap re-action" at the present time. It remains for Europeans to cordially show their faith and friendship, and find in the Nizam of Hyderabad, the “faithful Ally" of all civilized nations.
A case, remiuding one of the "famous" Sowar case, has been for some weeks past before Major-General Campbell, Judge of the Suburban Court here. It cropped up, according to the complainants, thus: On the 20th of May last Lieutenants Sexton and Brewster, who had gone into the districts for Shikareeying were encamped at Palikonda in the Indore District. At near dusk, two Arabs in the service of the Nawab Torwar Jung Ashrafud-Dowla Bahadur—one of whom is an aged man proved to be of very good character and to have acted as Tahsildar for near 30 years—went to the officers, seated a few yards from their tents, and asked them if they wanted bulls (for the purpose of carrying their luggage evidently). The Lieutenants said Yse' and asked them to fetch the bulls immediately, on which the
