INDIAN NEWS.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 10, 23 June 1864, Page 3

INDIAN NEWS.

Tlie following paragraphs are from tho Friend of India:- — The King of Burmah is determined to force 'us into measures which.. must prove .disastrous to himself. He lately interdicted Dr. Williams, the British Agent, from, accompanying Bishop Bigandet; into Bhamau, and he has now positively put a,,Bt6pto a Government party that was engaged in tho exploration of the Sal ween River. The party has been, so to speak, arrested', kept within, a stockade for twenty-two days while a reference was being made as to. its disposal to the King at Mandaly (which by tho way might might have been done by express in four days), and finally had the option given it by the royal mandate, of cither returning home the way they came, or proceeding to the capital. Tlie excus'o • for this outrageous proceeding wus, that " great battles " were about being fought with the insurgent Shans on the proposed route of the eipedition, The Rangoon Gazette brands this statement; as jua " outrageous falsehood," and in a spirited articio calls for action from the Supreme Government.' It is clear that something must bo done, ita : the King appears to have no definite idea whatever of the binding nature of a treaty obligation. „ ' __ - Coorg, as^a coft*eo?growing country, seems to possess special capabilities. Tho liancjlore Herald ; tem us, that .although there had been 'no rain from tlie first" wwk in December up to tho middle of last mont^i, the crop had suffered no appreciable injury. This was looked on as a crucial test of the excellency of the soil.