INDIA, CHINA, AND CEYLON.
A proposal for the opening of a channel between India and Ceylon is referred to a committee of the Imperial Parliament.
The Ceylon Government are considering a proposal for the construction of docks, and a harbour at Colombo.
Ching How, a Chinese plenipotentiary, going to Europe, passed with his suite on the 23rd instant. Numbers of Chinese and Japanese are going to Europe for education. Tho Germans are expelled from Sargong, they expressed a hope that the Colony will be transferred at the conclusion of peace. Serious disturbances have taken place in Java.
Calcutta, Dec. 19. Tho Countess of Mayo has arrived. Gaicowar chief of Baroda is dead. Eice and grain crops are good. Thirty-four persons were killed by tigers during last year.
Considerable disturbances amongst native chiefs in Aracia.
The telegraph to Burmah will be laid soon. That to Bombay and Madras is nearly completed, and opens in February.
Tho French Minister lias accepted the indemnity for the massacre at Tientsin. Mr. Seward was properly received at Pekin.
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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 330, 30 January 1871, Page 2
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173INDIA, CHINA, AND CEYLON. Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 330, 30 January 1871, Page 2
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