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The well-know Kulsambi case which proved the ruin of the "Telegraph" revealed a desperate attempt to bring him to disgrace.
The Nawab Mushtak Hussain Vicar-ul-mulk is after all, not the mighty man I took him to he. He is not above the fate of meaner mortals-for he, too has his disappointments. The other day he wished to become a member of the Hyderabad Club—and soon found out that wishing was not having even with him in every case. His name was put up for election. Some of the highest European officials in the State went about canvassing votes for him. And all his friends, admirers and proteges especially of the Golconda Brigade mastered strong on the election day. Yet as the Fates would have it the ballot box was found to contain nine black balls. A wonder of wonders, That the most powerful official should thus be declared unworthy of a membership of the Club, that the most successful political should thus be black-balled! The very evening that the result was known the Nawab had a relapse, I hear, into a serious illness. If the black balling had anything to do with the illness, the cynicisın he wears is really a mask and he must have a soft spot hidden away somewhere. And one of the European officials would seem to have gone into hysteries over the affair and suggested among other things the breaking up of the Club.
Two of the local papers are evidently vieing with each other to attain the excellence (!) of the prints immortalished by Dickens in his Pickwick papers. One cannot be mentioned by them but one must be abused in the vilest terms or praised in the most Indicrously flattering language. In noticing the effusious of the local representative of the Indian Daily News," one of these unenviably brilliant writers remarks that Indian Daily News' own correspondent "unlike the Hindu correspondent, seems to be a lover of truth and free from malice." The injustice and spite of the remark are so apprent to every impartial newspaper reader in Hyderabad, that I need not quote chapter and verse to refute it or work myself into a rage and call het
