INDIA AND THE EAST.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 276, 21 November 1874, Page 2

INDIA AND THE EAST.

CotOifßO, Oct. 24, Governor Gregory opened the Legislative Council at Ceylon on October 14 The revenue for the past yeir was the largest ;pet known, amountiog to £1,300,000. Coffee don tin oes t^ ruteat n veryTifgh price. Mr Hayne. at ex-Indian official, U the new Governor of Mauritius He is very highly spoken of. There is a rnmor that Lord: Wharncliffe succeeds Lord Northbrook a* Viceroy next year, but it is cot believe i in India. The Viceroy has recovered from an attack of fever. The prospects of the crops are now very goodj the famine being at aa end, and re i.f operations close at the end of October. Floods h ye occurred in the same districts. On'y i 9 deaths altogether are attributed to farai< c in Bombay. The Hydraba- State Bailway h-s beea opened with grand fcstivi'ies. A rocket mortar lately burst, when three native* were killed, and five severely woun cd. Several amputations were necessary. One native had his head blown clean off. THE STRAITS AND CHINA. : Mr Clark's Government is bent upon the development of the great resources of the Malayan Peninsula. 350 j disciplined China troops, under Gent rai Tong.have arrive i in eight steamers at Formosa, and 3000 more are to f dlow. A great typhoon at Hong Kong and Macao caused great loss of property* and life. A ;Be-ere earthquake has occurred at Japan. After a duration of six wceka, the dispute between Lord Penrhyn and 3000 quarry mtn issettkd. ' • • r • Thy Clackmannan lock-out still continues. The men are suffering g.-eit privations and would .übmit to 15 [itr pent reductions if the new bye-la wa were withdrawn. If the resistance is prolonged ejection 'rom their homes is expfc cd. JJa'vest being*over, come farmers are locking ojt the laborers belonging to the DnioLs, while otherj are reducing wages to the old staniJiird on tbe plea of cheap bread. Em ■* ration is ttill active, and many person), chiefly agricultural laborers aod their fam lus, bave eailed for Queensland. Three hundici souls, chiefly, Irom Watwickthire and Oxfordshire .ailed in the Crusader for Zealand accompanied by the Arlington Uoioa delegates and three butchers. . O^er a thousand persons, principally from the eastern counties, have left for Canada nnd«>r the Union auspices. 'ihe Town Council of Glasgow, by an aluioft unanimous vote, has decided to ask the Government to extend to Scotland the power to puaish robberies witii violence, wife beating, &c, by the lash. The saf.ty of ali the members of the AustrLn Arctic Expedition, with one exception only, has occasioned great joy. Preparations sre alrej»dy commenc-i to send a fresh ex;.t dition next summer to ascertain whether thu ir. wly-ducovered land i* a continent or an isl.n :. Captain Wiggins, who started ia Jnne last in the ateamer Diana to teirch for the laat Austrian expedition, has just, returned to Dundee. The petroleum springs in Austrian too fire, doing immense damage*

The cattle plague has broken out in Russia fnd Poiland ; 9.000 cattle perished in two days. Prusm h*s interacted importation. Russia ia augmenting her standing army by lft ,ooo men for service iv Asia In order to rend r conscriptions less, distasteful Jb certain Russians, concessions hare been made regarding the hair and beard. The Tartars are rapidly emigrating from the Crimea, to escape military service. An insurrection has broken out inßhokand. Russia declines to interfere. The position of the Khan U considered desperate. Fever is ragimr in Damascus, 14,000 persons being attacke ». Bomhat, Oct. 22. The ship Udstonc, from Melbourne to Calcutta, irith 1 50 horse*, went ashore, and all the horses in the hold were suffocated, through the hatches being battened down.