India.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 2 April 1891, Page 2

India.

« KISING IN MUNIPUB. The cablegrams from Calcutta make sensational reading. A massacre of 470 Ghoorkaa and 8 British officers is stated to have been perpertrated in a neighbouring state. Calcutta is a long way from the supposed scene of slaughter and particulars are likely to be amended. The news is as follows ; — Four hundred and seventy Ghoorkas and eight British officers, commanded by a Commissioner from Assam were destroyed while attempting to quell the rising against the Rajah of Maniput. The Commissioner was summoned to Durban to secure the arrest of the rebel chiefs, and the following night, the camp was attacked. The camp was successfully defended for two days when the supply of cartridges became exhausted. The force then became scattered. A few of the fugitives have reached Assam, but it is feared the remainder have been massacred. A fresh expedition from Assam has been despatched against the rebels." Assam, one of the British possessions in India, has since 1874, been administered as a seperate province, and Mr James Quinton is the present Commissioner. Adjoining Assam are Burmah and many of the small Native States and many of them are of very little importance. The cablegrams make the scene Maniput but the name has evidently got damaged in transmission as the maps show it to be Munipur. The tronble has arisen internally, and the aid of the Commissioner has been sought by the ruler. The Ghoorkas are the famous fighting natives of the hill tribes of India. The general directions, to trace the scene on the map, are to find the mouths of the Ganges, follow that river up to Dacca, and thence follow the Brahmaputra river. The watershed of the river roughly represents Assam. The Pakoi Mountains on the east is the western boundary of Munipur.