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32 .LIFE OF MB. MAKOMOHUK GHOSH. On receipt of this most discourteous letter from the Ranaghat Deputy-Magistrate, forwarded through the District Magistrate of Krishnaghur, we com- municated the news to Mr. Riach and Babu Kristo Das Pal. The late lamented Kristo Das, on receipt of our letter, addressed us as follows : — Calcutta 14-4-1880. My Dear Sir, I have received your letter and have shown it to Mr. Ghose. He will write to you on the subject. Pleaae act upon his advice. Yours sincerely, KRISTO DAS PAL. Mr. -Riach favoured us with the following letter:— Calcutta, „Hth April, 1880. My Dear Sir, Mr. Ghose says, you should decline, on principle, to answer the ■question, though he says, he can see nothing libellous in your letters to the Statesman. Yours very truly, (Sd.) WILLIAM RIACH. Give no reply of any kind till you hear again from me, or from Mr. Ghoae. The final letter at last came. It runs as follows:— Calcutta, 14th April, 1880. My Dear Sir, Mr. Ghose and I think that you should reply to Mr. W. V. G. Taylor as follows :— * P. S. Please make no statement at present verbally to any one at Krishnaghur about the letters. (Sd.) W. RIACH.