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Taluqs had been ordered to collect the money from the people; employes in almost all the offices in the station had been made to part with a fourth part of their salaries; and all the Jaghirdars etc., in the District had to subscribe a fourth of their annual incomes; and so on, and so on. Is it then a wonder that Syed Ahmed got Rs. 24,000 within 24 hours of his arrival in Warangal and about Rs. 2,000 more from the same place afterwards ? My wonder is that only Rs. 26,000 were got and not more. I am informed that the sum actually raised was larger, but in passing through many 'busy' hands it dwindled down to 26 thousands. How far this is true it is difficult to say until and unless those honorable gentlemen engaged in raising subscriptions for the laudable purpose, publish a list of donors and subscribers pro bono publico. Similar measures were resorted to in some offices in Hyderabad also, notably in the Accountant- General's office, for the benefit of the Allyghur College. In the Accountant-General's office five per cent. was charged on the salaries of all employes, and when a poor devil of a clerk companied he was muleted in ten per cent. on his pay. This was, dear Mr. Editor, how the old man of Allyghor 'got on' so famously here. Those that live in the British Provinces cannot know how precarious a position an official occupies in the Nizam's service and that under the present regime and how easily one, how- ever high his rung in the official ladder, may be subjected to the greatest indignities, may be suspended or dismissed or otherwise disgraced. I told in these columns some weeks ago, how Mr. Mancherji, a District Engineer in the service, had been treated by his superiors-how, simply because a Divisional Engineer, who had had his way for a number of years in every thing had found him to be too honest and straight forward to sink down to the level of a second fiddle, Mr. Mancherji had been suspended and consured by the Superintending Engineer. Mr. Mancherji has since been re-instated though not a word has been put on resord to the discredit of Mr. Marret, the Divisional
