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tell you that Jaya Rao, a quondam Accountant General's office
man for a long time out of service, was taken into custody some
days back and bad to bail himself out. And yesterday,
Mr. Gya Persad, M. A., was cited as a witness for him.
Men in high places are never idle here. They have the pluck to fight their adversaries, if not in open daylight at least in the gloaming. And when they have not work in the enemy's camp they find work in their own. And thus we are destined ever to be "tickled" by the effects of "powder and shot"- covert and overt. In a case-to come-which promises to bo not a hit less sensational than the sensational "cases" all the world has heard of, Sir Kurshedjah and Sir Asmanjah figure as complainant and defendant respectively. With advancing age the craving for notoriety, or the desire to do things which one would not do in youth or manhood seems to grow more and more morbid. Years ago, I remember full well, the almost universal impression here was that Sir Kurshedjah was abore the position of Prime Minister to the Nizam in every way and he could never bring himself to think of coming down to it. But now it is an open secret in all circles that he is moving heaven and earth to become Minister. And a person in a position to know much about Sir Kursliedjah said in the course of a talk, the other day: "He seems to be madly in earnest about becoming minister. One day I told him, 'Nawab Sab, I hear you are to be appointed minister.' 'Am I really going to become minister'? said he, with a longing expression on his face. I am afraid I am destined only to hear of my becoming minister.' Whether Sir Kursh- edjah's inimical attitude towards Sir Asmanjal has anything to do with this desire to rule Hyderabad or not-the fact remains he will soon file certain claims against Sir Asmanjah and has engaged the services of Messrs. Inverarity and Rudra, But Sir Asmanjah seems determined not to be behindhand. We have it on the authority of the Deccan Standard, that Sir Asmanjah means to press his claims, before His Highness the
