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massive darkness, due in sooth to the extreme disfavour with which the people look upon the administration, that hung over the city. The most remarkable thing in connection with this forced demonstration of popular approval, was that Sir Asman- jah's palace did not show more than the usual number of lights. This is to be ascribed to oversight and not to want of feeling, to be sure !
There is a wide spread rumour that Abdul Hak who has been here for some time has "made up", has got round the officials, and consequently. The government will not press their claims against him. And the statement in the Government organ that the Government is likely to agree to a compromise, lends colour to it. This means, after spending a lot of money wrung from the poor ryots, overdrawing up the plaint and filing the suit, the Government means to abandon the case against Hak, because the "offender" has made himself agreeable to the powerfuls-that prosecutions are set on foot not so much in the interests of the State as to humble "Shareer Tok" or to satisfy the official whims. When are we to hear the last of this sad state of things?
When is the departmental case againt the Nawab Imad Nawaz Jung, Rajah Sreenevas Rao, Sriram Pundit and others to be decided? Is it not hard, not to say unjust, that while the Nawab and the Raja, the really responsible men, are in receipt of their salaries, poor subordinates like Sriram Pundit and others. should be under suspension and made to hang on 'starving' for an indefinite period?
