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he turned to the Nawab Mushtak Hussain Viear-nl-Mutk who was by his side and told him with a significant look: Look, he is a Hydrabadees.” The sunb conveyed by the Nawab Vizar- nlr-Umra’s remark can be appreciated only by those who have any knowledge of the Minister de facto’s stock-in trade—* There is no good in Hydrabadees,’’—-and who know how aliens from the North have been pitchforked by him into some of the highest positions in the land.
A local journalist has been going about, I am credibly informed, notifying “to all whom it may concern’ that the Hyderabad letters in the (fade will in future be shut out of his columns. Failing to perceive any additional importance that their reproduction in his columns has invested my letters with, I cannot thank the journalist for haying hitherto republished the Hyderabad letters ; nor awn I inclined to regret the notification.
The results of the Matriculation examination of the University of Madras held in December last, received here at the close of last week, show how intelligent girls are as a rule. Ont of the six or seven girls that appeared for the examination from the St. George’s Grammar school, three are declared to have passed in the first. class and one in the second ; while out of 100 or more boys only 23 have come out successful—all except two being placed in the second class. In congratulating the father of one of these three young ladies, Captain ‘Tom Bayley of His Highness the Nizam’s Artillery, the Government organ suggests: " Three Nizam’s scholarships have already been established, but this generosity in the cause of education, “may well be augmented by appointing an additional one exclusively for girls.’ While welcoming the suggestion and glad too to be told, that the “Deccan Standard” is “satisfied that "Miss Bayley’s case will receive kindly consideration,” I may be permitted to mention the ease of a young lady who has as good claims en the Nizam’s Government as Miss Bayley and as such deserved “ kindly consideration” but failed to get it. The
