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doubly sure, I wrote to the Nawab Mushtak Hussain for infor- mation about it; and he has written to me to say: "There is no truth whatever in the statement made by "a Correspondent," about "a curious order"-alluded to by you. It may be classed with the false "facts" which mischievous people manufacture to poison the minds of the public against the present administration."
The rumour that has been going the rounds in Hyderabad for sometime past, that the Nawab Intesar Jung has resigned his appointment or is about to resign it is not without foundation, I say so on the authority of the Nawab himself. The Nawab, it would seem, bound himself to serve the Nizam's Government for a period of 30 years when he took service under it during the days of the first Salar Jung. His term of office expires on the 22nd instant and he has put in an application to the Govern- ment for permission to retire on pension on that date. "This need be no matter for surprise" writes the Nawab. "I told the late Sir Salar Jung I, when I entered the service that I had no intention of staying here after the completion of my term; and I have all along been telling my friends of my intention to resign my appointment at the close of the term."
Mr. Seymore Keay's visit is looked forward to anxiously by many in Hyderabad. What might come out of his visit, no body could say, or rather I, who do not happen to be in the confidence of the busy bodies who lay much store by it, could not say. But this may be said, that Mr. Keay, such as he has proved himself to be, now that he can be meddlesome with impunity is not likely to keep his hands clean of Hyderabad affairs. I mean to interview him here on his way to Hyderabad, and I may be able to acquaint myself at least with the ostensible object of this, his second visit to the capital of the Nizam after his entrance into the House of Commons.
