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seemed to threaten to sweep him off the service at one time, has evidently blown over. He has had an increase of Rs. 300 to his salary recently. And the fact of his building a house for himself shows that he, at least, does not apprehend any "disaster" in the near future.
I hear that the appointment of Mr. Gallagher of the "Deccan Standard" as the Superintendent of the Nizam's Government Central Press, has been approved by the Government of India.
A gentleman connected with the Simla Metereological Observatory was recently here to open some observatories in the Districts. He was to have gone to Mysore from here, for the same purpose; but being informed that the Mysore Government proposed to send the Principal of the Bangalore Central College to Calcutta or Simla to learn taking metereological observations that he might, on his return, start and work observatories in Mysore, he had to give up going there. This proposal on the part of the Mysore Government speaks volumes for it, and shows the difference between a really beneficient Government and such as does duty in Hyderabad, A lot of money is no doubt spent year after year over young men sent all the way to England for receiving some sort of educational training. But to what purpose? Most of them cannot be of use to the State. And even if any of them can be absorbed into the service advantageously, and are taken into the service, they are generally made to put their hands to something that they are not trained for, and can do but indifferently; and instances might be mentioned in illustration of this. One of the two gentlemen who received a training in the Royal School of Mines, at the expense of the Nizam's Government is our Census Commissioner now. And the other, Mr. Syed Ali Belgrami, after being Director of Public Instruction and Home Secretary successively is now InspectorGeneral of Mines only because he has not influence enough to be any thing better in the service.
