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SHANKERPALIE, 4th September.
According to a recent order of the Government, the Nawab Vicar-ul-Mulk Bahadur, better-known as Intesar Jang, will hereafter carry on the duties of personal Assistant to His Excellency the Minister in addition to those of Revenue Secretary.
Ekbal Ali vacates his place on the High Court Bench and acts as Joint Revenue Secretary "until further orders."
The criminal suit against Jai Rao, Mukund Rao and some others in connection with the second Treasury Frands case, has been withdrawn by the Government. But the departmental inquiry into the charges brought against the Nawab Imad Nawaz Jung Bahadur. and Raja Srinivas Rao, stands.
I have received a copy of the Resolution on the Report of the Salar Jung Dent Commission from the Home Secretary's Office. When it has been said that it is as loud in praise of "the labour, ability, intelligence and impartiality" of the Nawab Vicar-ul-Umra Bahadur, Mr. A. J. Dunlop, the Nawab Fateh Nawaz Jung Bahadur and Monlvi Ali Raza Khan-President and members of the Commission as it is bitter in running down the Nawab Mokarrub Jung, Baba Gaya Persad, Jai Rao and Mukbund Rao, all that it is possible to say about the salient features of the Resolution, has been said.
The case in which His Highness the Nizam claims 23 laklıs of Rupees from Mr. Jacob, the Simla Jeweller, comes on for hearing in the Calcutta High Court in September; and that in' which the Government claims 60 lakhs from the "well-known' Hak will be heard by the Bombay High Court in November next.
