INDIA.

Grey River Argus, Volume VIII, Issue 554, 5 August 1869, Page 4

INDIA.

We tako the following from our files of the Calcutta Englishman, for the latter part of May and beginning of June : — ■ The return from the Central Provinces shows that although cholera and small-pox were decreasing in some districts, in others they still continued to an alarming extent. In Nagpore, Hurdah, Saugur, Dunioh, Seonee, Chindvrara, Nursingpore, Niinar, and Belaspore, the deaths from both diseases had been on an average nearly thirty per cent, of those attacked, whilst in some of them the per centage of deaths was fifty. In the other districts both diseases were said to be dying out, or were appearing in a modified form. The weather had been tmusually hot and sultry. The Englishman, of the 4th June, says : — We regret to say that fears are entertained that the Cheduba has met with the fate of the Thunder. The Cheduba was bound to Rangoon and carried the following passengei-s : Faunce, Lieutenant J. Ferguson, 21st Fusiliers ; Mrs Bainbridge, P. Dwyer, a Mahomedan lady, twenty natives and two children. Sho left the Sand Heads on the morning of Saturday, the 15th ultimo, for Rangoon. At midnight on Saturday, the cyclone, which passed over Jessore on the 16th, made itself felt at the Sand Heads. It appears to have arisen far to the south, and very probably the Chedubar felt its full force. The steamer has not since been heard of, and hence it is feared that she Buccumbed to the violence of the tempest. A shooting-party in Central India have bagged twelve tigers since the end of April. A railway employe, named Daley, having been committed to the Allahabad sessions on a charge of drunkenness while on duty, was confined in the Mirzapore gaol, while awaiting trial, for fifty days. The cell was six paces long by six wide. Sir Walter Morgan has drawn the attention of Government to the subject. The question of the destruction of fish in Indian waters is attracting considerable attention. The processes adopted by the natives for catching fish are fast exterminating a valuable source of food. We hear from Sarawak that the celebrated Lamm pirates have again made their appearance after a suspension of several years. They have already sue-, ceeded in capturing ten trading prahns, and killing eight men, besides wounding several others. The Assistant Resident at Bin tula had succeeded in capturing one of the pirate vessels, and had killed the whole of the crew with the exception of two boys. We hear from China of the commencement of operations by the Indo-Chinese Telegraph Company. This company intends to connect Hong Kong by way of Bankok and Saigon with British India, either by a line through Burmah to the Siamese frontier, or by a line to some selected point on the coast of Tenasserim. A Mahommedan laborer ran amoJc, the other day, in a narrow lane at Howrah — the Sonthwark of Calcutta — and, before he could be arrested, had cut down four men, three women, and two children. Two of the children died almost immediately. One was an infant of six months.