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Lady Salar Jung II, and Mrs. Barrillan, governess to the daughter of the late Nawab Muneerul Mulk, for doing what she thought was her duty. The one is dismissed from the service; and the other is forbidden to enter the Salar Jung palace, or hold any sort of communication with the members of the family for six months. Verily troubles are the portion of the "dutiful.”
The original of the report of the Salar Jung Debt Commission which was said to be missing when Mukund Rao as well as Jaya Rao applied for a copy of it-seems to have since been found, I am told that Mr. Gaya Prasad has been furnished with a copy of the report by the Home Secretary. If this is true, what objection could there be to furnishing Messrs. Jaya Rao and Mukund Rao with copies of the same.
About six months ago a lady named Mrs. Giaccino appealed to Sir Asmanjah for permission to float a lottery. In reply she was informed by His Excelleuy's Private Secretary Mr. Furdon- ji, that no permission was necessary for the purpose. As there was nothing in this to prevent her from carrying out her wishes, Mrs. Giaccino set the lottery afloat and has since sold, I am informed, about 1,500 tickets. In doing this, Mrs. Giaccino does not seem to have done anything wrong. But our Home Secretary, the Nawab Fatch Nawaz Juug, is not of the same opinion. He has issued an order to the lady to stop the lottery. The reasons, of course, are not forthcoming. The suddenness of this order is most astonishing. If Mr. Furdonji was wrong in saying that no permission was necessary, the Nawab Mehdi Hussain could have written to say so and stopped the lottery long before this, and thus provided against the loss Mrs. Giaccino would sustain now. Surely the fact of the lottery having been floated was not kept a secret. It was advertised for a month nearly in the columns of the "Deccan Standard," the Government organ; and, if I am rightly informed Mrs. Medhi Hussain was among the first to buy some tickets. Why this sleeping over the fact for about six months and waking to it
