INDIA AND CHINA.
[From the Hobart Town Courier, Feb. 22. ]
By the arrival of the Auriga, we have news from Singapore to the 31st December. We have only room for a general summary : — Mr. Fast, a Swedish missionary, had been murdered at the River Nim.
Cholera was raging at Hanain. A force of 10,000 robbers had also congregated in the neighbourhood. u hj e P **• iVj. vj. v>apiaiu rveiien, one oi the discovery ships was at Hong Kong on the 19th December.
Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy has bestowed a pension of £2O per annum on the widow of Lieutenant Waghorn. Lieut.-Col. Curtis, C. 8., of the 37th N.I. has been bought out for the sum of 30,000 rupees. Major Bartieman had been cashiered for attempting to seduce a brother officer’s wife.
Sir James Brooke bad been unsuccessful in his mission to Siam.
A Mr. Knight was making trips in a balloon, but was not supported very liberally. The Bombay Times notices the arrival in Bombay, of a native, who, forty-five years ago, was moonshee to Sir Arthur Wellesley, now tbe Duke.
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 596, 19 April 1851, Page 3
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