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what Manu's or any other obsolete lawgiver's Code may say to the contrary. It is a consummation devoutly to be wished for, let, then, the Hindus cast off prejudice and think anew for themselves.
(Madras Standard, 7th August 1865).
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Nellore, 20th December 1870, Sir, No one told me of your insolvency and I should have cared nothing about it if they had. I made Sudarsana Rao write to you (- ) but you failed to take the hint intended to be thus conveyed. I learned from Cotaiah Chetty only yesterday that you had actually quit the Raja and were employed in the school at Vencutughirry and that your services can be spared from the education department. Under these circumstances I have much pleasure in appointing you to the translator's post. I will put your name in tomorrow's Extra Gazette and you should join directly after the holidays. I doubt whether you will like the offer or the work but if you take it, you must make up your mind to regular attendance and some drudgery. I am leaving to Madras and shall not return till after the holidays.
Yours faithfully
Sd/ Grant (......)
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To D. Narasaiah Esq.
A Native on Nuisances—Letter addressed to the Madras Mail by D. Narasaya, around 1875
To The Madras Mail, Madras, Sir,
I beg the favour of your inserting the following letter in the Mail. It will speak for itself. I sent it to a native friend who occupies the position of a Magistrate near where I live. Though a native myself, I have very little faith in native magistrates in the mofussil. Their notions of public duty very frequently get confused with their ideas of private interest, and they would much rather, when not interested in a case, shelve it altogether than study the law and pronounce a just decision. The native Magistrate in the present instance was roused to action only some weeks after this
