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Secretary remain unanswered. The difficulties my ryots are put to on account of the tyrannical conduct of Bansi Raja and his naib are very great. When the samasthan was under the management of your Highness's Government, pervious to 1297 Fasli a picket of Police peons had been stationed at Anagondi. On the restoration of the samasthan the Police arrangements were organized by me; and I requested the withdrawal of the Government picket. Although there has been a lot of correspondence, the Police picket remains stationary. The samasthan is forced to pay them, and their idle presence is productive of great mischeif. The last blow has been struck by ordering the withdrawal of my powers. The Minister, advised by Intesar Jung, has all along been trying to annihilate this ancient Hindu samasthan which owes its existence to your Highness. I seek your Highness's protection for the restoratian of my rights and, privileges."
The Deccan Punch, a local Urdu weekly, had in a recent issue of his a leader which tries to show what a greedy, money-loving, unconscionable lot we have in power here. In this article the Editor takes His Highness the Nizam severely to task for purchasing some diamonds direct from the merchants and not through his Government. It is remarkable that the directness, so to say, of the purchase should be taken objection to by this wise and honest Editor and not the wasting of money over such purchases. The Punch is, I am credibly informed, a Government organ edited by an official in receipt of a monthly salary of about Rs. 700, who gets Rs. 8 for each issue of the peper.
Man, it is said, is a helpless being. Even Sir Asmanjah with all his tried and trusted advisers about him, does not seem to be an exception to this rule. He seems to be liable to what are termed 'sharp practices' as much as any other mortal. I am told that the Minister was until recently in blissful ignorance of the history of Mahomed Ali alias Zafer Yabkhan and when my paragraph about this individual in one of my previous letters told him the truth, he was in a tearing rage and did not scruple
