CEYLON.
Owing to the scarcity of rice, food riots have taken, place and the military been called out, in Columbo and Galle. Active measures have been adopted to supply the pressing daily wants. Large imports are arriving by steamers and sailing veßsels. Prices at some of the stations reached 34s per bushel. The high price of food seriously affects the planters. The Ceylon railway has been opened to Polgahivelles, forty-five miles and a half from Colombo. Commercial business is dull ; exports weak ; prices unchanged ; tonnage in excess of requirements. Coffee* casks £2 2s 6d; bags, 30s. Exchange, bank bills, 2£ per cent. Australian sovereigns, 1£ prem. ; British 2£ do. Trybrand, the telegraph clerk, who absconded with a large sum of money, was captured at St. Helena, and brought back to Ceylon. »
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Southland Times, Issue 610, 26 December 1866, Page 2
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131CEYLON. Southland Times, Issue 610, 26 December 1866, Page 2
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