INDIA.

North Otago Times, Volume 1, Issue 13, 19 May 1864, Page 6

INDIA.

The " Friend of India," of March 14th, has the following items of news :— - There is nothing of a political nature to cause any anxiety in India. The season continues highly favorable, and the crops are everywhere healthy and promising. His Excellency the Viceroy and GovernorGeneral with the Executive Council will proceed to the North-West early in April. Captain Burton has succeeded in apprehending, at Bareilly, Azeem Khan Hukeem, the murderer of his father at Kotah. The prisoner has been sent to Kotah for trial. Men are being enlisted in Calcutta for the for the American Navy.

The Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjaub, with Colonel Maglogan and Professor Oldham, has gone to Pind Dadun Khan, to investigate the quality and quantity of the coal recently discovered in the Salt Range. It is finally decided that the Maharajah of Mysore is not to get the administration of his country back again. The decision has been communicated to him. Disturbances are reported in the Nizam's territories. Rumors are rife of an intended attack of the Hindoostanees in Bhowanee, Shekhawattee territory. A public meeting of the inhabitants of Bombay, convened by the sheriff, and held in the Town Hall, on the 9th instant, voted a statue to the Honorable Juggonath Sunkersett. It has been determined to appoint a committee to report on the proposed line of railway through Central India and Raipootana. The Nawab of Rampoor has resigned his seat in the Imperial Council, on the plea of illhealth. The Chevalier Romolo Bonhomme, envoy of His Majesty the King of Italy, with two Italian gentlemen, have arrived in Bombay, en route to Bokhara, to effect the liberation of three Italian subjects imprisoned hi that city by the Ameer. The Rajah of Munepoor has signally punished the murderers of the French planter in the forests of Munepoor. He attacked their village, killed fifty men, and burned down the village. The Calcutta Chamber of Commerce has memorialised the Government of India for the introduction of gold as an auxiliary currency in India. It has been discovered that those who sent from Patna meu and money to aid the frontier war were the sect of the Wahabees, whoso chief seat is Patna, where they have a large Kafila. H.H. the Guicowar, on his return from Bombay to Baroda, lost his wife and from six to seven hundred of his followers by choleia. The Military Finance Department is to be remodelled and placed under the Military Secretary to Government. f he cotton merchants of Mooltan refuse to send their cotton to the Government screws, and are in great excitement on account of the Act passed by the Bombay Government for punishing the adulteration of cotton. A band of Bhomeas have attacked and plundered some villages in Jeypor, killing a number of people. Grain is so scarce in Central India, that the Maharajah of Gwalior has prohibited its export from his States. General James Ahmutz, the oldest officer in the Indian Army, died recently at Lahore, lie emeietl the Dcn S al ArHlu.jr ;.» irao, when Tippoo Sultan was in the height of his power He was at the siege of Delhi, in 1803, in the same month in which Sir Arthur Wellesly fought the battle of Assaye. The "Bengal Hurkaru :" — The military necessities of England in Europe are, it would appear, alw ays to weaken her garrison in India. The British Government, which is probably at this moment involved inagreit Euiopean war, has applied to the Indian Government for a transfer of as much of its garrison strength as can be spared, to the extent, we believe, of six regiments. Looking, however, at the abstraction of troops for the New Zealand war, and the present strength of fhe European force in India, the Indian Government has, we believe, determined that two regiments only can be spared ; and it 13 not improbable that H.M.'s 52nd and 18th Regiments, at Fort William and Dum-Dum, the first for Europe, and the nearest to their port of their embarkation, may leave at a short warning. The " Pokna Observer " says :— An extraordinary occurrence took place lately at Seroor. The Poona Horse were out on parade, when a native duffedar left the ranks, and made a fuiious attack on the adjutant, who parried his sword thrusts for some time, the duel continuing while the native officer followed the English one over the field, endeavouring to take his life. Being baffled in this design the duffedar made at M jor Westrop the Commandant, whom he attacked in a similar manner, the major defending himself with his sword. After a short time, several troopers left the ranks, and at Major Westrop's order, cut down the duffedar, who fell mortally wounded to the ground, and shortly afterwards expired.

A home without a girl in it is only half blest ; it ib an orchard without blossoms, and a spring without a Bong. A house full of sons is like Lebanon with its cebars ; but daughters by the fireside are like the roses in Sharon. The extent of the publishing business in the I United States is revealed by the fact that about sis thousand new books were issued within the past thirty-three months, by three hundred and eighty-five publishing houses. A young lady, walking with a gentleman, stumbled, and when her companion, to prevent her fall, grasped her hand somewhat tightly, 6ho simpered, " Oh, sir, if it comes to that, you must ask my papa." Dressing the Window. — Pam (the veteran shopwalker)— " Now, then, Mr Eussell, what have we to put in the window ?" Mr Russell-— " Well, Sir, there's 6ome Reform checks, American neutral tints, Foreign ties, Berlin worsted, Eider quiltmgs, Russian towelling, French designs, Lots of remnrtntB, and any quantity of red tape. — Punch. # "Nonchalant" means that peculiar indifferent look which is put on by men " who nerer pay ■vrhen dunned for money." It »honM be written non thiR out