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HYDERABAD, 21st October 1890.
The sensation caused by the Nawab Intesar Jung's applica-
tion for retirement is a matter of ancient history. Some gene-
rally well-informed men seem to know all about the secret-and
to have prognosticated the result of it. The Nawab has had
several hundreds added to his salary. Whether this is due to
his application or not-or whether this was one of the objects
of the application-I must leave it to those behind the scenes to
say. But this much I could say that inquiring about the ap-
plication the other day the Nawab was kind enough to inform
me that "nothing more" had "as yet" been made known to him
regarding it.
The inquiry that is being made into the defalcations in the Nizam's Accountant General's office, reveals how corruption flourishes here. A lowly paid mutsaddhi--clerk-obtaining the Assistant Accountant General's signature among others, by some. fraudulent means, gets a requisition passed and a cheque issued for a certain sum of money. The cheque is duly presented at the Treasury-and cashed. The clerk sees how easily His Highness's trusted and responsible servants could be hoodwink- ed and repeat his "trick" at intervals and in seven years or more makes away from the Treasury over Rs. 30,000. The authorities wake up at last-and how they seek to trace the culprit and his accomplies and make an example of them, it would be very amusing to know. Think of letting the man who as the head of the office ought to have taken cognisance of the evil and arrested it long before this, seotfree! Think of trying to punish the assistant who signed on the strength of other signa- tures in the requisitions while leaving the authors of the other signatures in peace! Think of admitting the man whose duty it was to scrutinise so to say every requisition, as a witness and thus placing him beyond the reach of any suspicion! And you have an idea of the influences at work for the elucidation of FACTS. I may have something very important-and startling too-to say about this affair soon. In the meanwhile, I may
