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London, Sept. 4. — The Queen's health is causing anxiety. Mr. Gladstone, at Whitby, io replying to the working men's address, vindicated the late Ministerial policy. There is fine harvest weather, but the wheat crop is deficient. Money is abundant. The rate of discount is unaltered. Walter Montgomery, the actor, has committed suicide. The Brindisi and the Nevada's mails were ; delivered together, and the August telegrams from A ustralia are now coming through. INDIA AND CHINA. Mr. Shafto Robertson, the, actor, when! a passenger from Australia^ to jGralle. on board the Ayoca, fell . backwards the engine-room skylight • on ." tfee , top, .of the cylinder,. ; and ; was ipicked up insensible. He died after lingering for a week and was buried at sea. M. Farrow is appointed GovernorGeneral; of Pondicherry,, A mutiny broke out among the Pondicherry sepoys during the absence of the commandant, but it was at once suppressed. The King of Burmah is increasing his navy. War is threatened among the Abyssinian tribes. Further news is received about Dr. Livingstone,, and . supplies . of A provisions have been sent. ! The natives of Madras are subscribing for a statue .to the retiring Governor, Lord Napier. < Great floods have occurred in the north and north-east of India. The railway linei are injured.
Severe illness is reported amongst the crews of men-of-war in the Persian Gulf. The ravages of cholera and famine in Persia are mitigated. The tea exported to Australia this season yamounts to 6,450,0001b5. against 3,sQO#OOibs. in the same time last year. A typhoon in Formosa Channej, resulted in many wrecks and much loss of life.' The Peninsular and Oriental steamer' Malacca has been chartered to leave Singapore on the 14th August for .St. Paul's, to relieve the Megsera's crew. The British* Telegraph Company's offi? cers are preparing to lay the Australian cable in November. English and German schools are opened in Japan.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 239, 9 October 1871, Page 4
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