Hazara.

Manawatu Herald, 23 June 1892, Page 2

Hazara.

The cable news about the Hazara rising was dated from Constantinople, which at first led one to look up the Hasa district of Turkey in Asia. The Hazara district of India is a portion of the north-west provinces, and is situated in the northeastern Peshawar division. The chief town is Abbottabad, and the area of the district is some 800 square miles. The Punjaub district contains an area of 111,000 miles and a population of 20,803,000, and it occupies the north-western angle of the great northern plain of India, and receives its name from the "Five Rivers " which descending from the Himalayas, cross the plain and unite in the Indus. Besides the territory under British administration, which is about as large as the Kingdom of Italy, there is an area of one third of that size belonging to thirty- four Feudatory Native States, and there are the frontier tribes split up into numerous clans with divergent interests, whose fighting strength is estimated at 130,000 men. Touching these provinces are Afghanistan, Cashmere, and the Chinese Empire. These north-western provinces have always been in a state of semirevolt, and in 1888 many Native chiefs offered the Imperial Government assistance in the defence of the North-west Frontier. The offers of money were declined, but the offers of troops for Imperial service were accepted, and progress has been made in organizing a sys f em by which these States will be able to render efficient aid to the Supreme Government in times of emergency. Eussia disclaiming any connection with the matter is rather an example of those who excuse, accuse, themselves.