INDIA AND THE EAST.
Galle, May 11, evening. Admiral Camming, naval commander-in-ohief of India, has received orders to make his head-quarters for the future at Bombay. A fearful cyclone occurred at Madras on the lat May. Nine European and 11 native vessels were were wrecked, and 13 Europeans and six natives drowned. Only four ships were left in the Madras road* stead. The pier and a great deal of property was damaged. A public subscription has been set on foot for the relief of the sufferers. a Five days afterwards a fearful inundation took place at Jellore, in the Madras presidency. Forty tanks burst. One thousand lives were lost. Three thousand people are rendered destitute, and 13,009 homeless. Relief was sent at once by the Government. Memorials to the late Lord Mayo are being established in the principal Indian towns. AtDeesa, two officers have been shot by an insane soldier. •The Peninsular and Oriental steamer Peshawur was saved by good seamanship from the cyclone between Madras and Galle. The Mongolia had her boats carried away.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1211, 15 June 1872, Page 3
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