INDIA.
: Calcutta, Nov. 15. A steamer is advertised to carry passengers via the Canal from Bombay. to England for LI 5. :. It is expected that the postage of letters between Europe and India will be further increased. There are serious indications of approaching - famine in India, from the scarcity of rainfall. A fresh mutiny has broken out among the Portuguese troops at Goa. The murderer of Chief Justice Norman has been hung and his body burned. The Hon. R. Bourke, M.P.. brother of the Viceroy, is visiting the Maharajah of Cashmere, and had a grand reception. The native rajahs are holding industrial exhibitions; in India. i . Twenty-six European vagrants have been shipped from Boriabay to Mauritius en . route: to. the diamond fields at the Cape. . .,.. , .-:■ 4, The ship Edwin Lewis has been wrecked off Calcutta; parf of the crew arermissing. ' The 1 ship Belvidora has been wrecked at Madras.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1071, 3 January 1872, Page 2
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149INDIA. Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1071, 3 January 1872, Page 2
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