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HYDERABAD, 20th December 1890.
Of all the letters, paragraphs and articles that have appeared recently in the local papers about the Hyderabad Letters in the "Hindu" there is one letter that deserves notice, and it is from the pen of Mr. P. St. L. Connor, who was "Agent, Manager and Editor of the "Hyderabad Record" since the death of the late lamented Mr. Job Solomon, and manager since the establish- ment of the "Record" press and paper." Mr. Connor has written to the papers to contradict a statement I made in my letter of the 29th ultimo about a threat having been held out to the "Record's" former proprietors to withhold all Government patronage in the shape of job-work, etc-in the interests of truth and justice forsooth. "Never was any such threat hold out" writes he "nor was even any kind of hint which the most extravagant imagination could have construed into a threat ever received." If so, Mr. Connor ought to be able to tell us how it was that most of the Government offices here stopped giving the "Record" Press any job-work just before Mr. Solomon's death-how it was that while the Government budget for 1299 F. was printed at the "Record" Press, that for 1300 F. was printed elsewhere. Is it not a fact that but for its having changed hands, the "Record" Press would still have been outside the pale of Government patronage?
The murder that I gave a short account of in my last letter is creating a good deal of sensation in some circles here. The Chadderghat Christians seem to be almost unanimous in think- ing that the deceased fell a prey to Moslem bigotry; while some people ascribe the murder to jealousy on the part of the dead woman's lovers. Be the motive for the crime what it may, the criminals need to be made examples of. The Rev. Mr. Gilder, of the Chaddarghat Methodist Episcopal Church, whose munshi the murdered woman's husband has been for some time, is moving Heaven and Earth to get the murderers tried by the Residency authorities. That Mr. Gilder's effort will bear no fruit, that the Residency people will refuse to have any thing to
