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document was, according to the instructions of a Judge who happened to be there, entrusted to the Registrar of the Court, and he had it safely locked up in a room. The night passed; but the next morning the Judges were informed that the docu- ment had been stolen away the previous night. The Nawab Akbar Jung, the city kotwal, was ordered to inquire into the abstraction. The Nawah inquired and submitted a report to Government but to find that his inquiry had been all a wild goose chase. The report never saw the light of day. This is instance No. 1. About two weeks ago a set of double cheques or fictitious cheques to the value of about Rs. 11,000 was discover- ed to have been issued by the Pre-audit Department of the Ac- countant General's office. But no notice has as yet been taken of this. The Pre-audit as well as the Military Branches being officered by the lucky favourites nothing will probably come out of the discovery. And this is instance No. 2.
Now about how the Nawab Mushtak Husaiu's resignation came to be not accepted by His Highness the Nizam: Mushtak Husain, as every well-informed person here is aware, put in his resignation expecting to be asked by His Highness to withdraw it because of the Ministers's influence with him. And when it transpired that His Highness was willing to accept his resigna- tion, he felt like one caught in the meshes of his own net and summoned two of his henchmen to help him out of the ditti- culty. He and two other high officials in the State met in a solemn conclave and deliberated and deliberated until at last they hit upon the most effective remedy-that of raising a cry of public calamity. Then the partisans went about one by one at regular intervals making Mushtak Hussain's resignation out to be a "public calamity." And this cry of "public calamity" saved Mushtak Husain.
We have a fair, every year, held on the occasion of a festi- val in Sri Ramaswami's Temple at Jeedkal-in the Eastern Division-the part of His Highness's Dominions said to have most benefitted by the Nawab Intesar Jung's sympathy towards
