INDIA AND THE EAST.

Southland Times, Issue 1543, 27 February 1872, Page 3

INDIA AND THE EAST.

(From the Melbourne Argtu.) Galle, Jan. 24. The Behar has been replaced by the Baroda on the Australian line. Henceforward the steamers will turn round after eight days' stay at Sydney. On discharging cargo, the mails for Gallo will leave for Bombay, calling at Colombo if inducement offers. Bombay will be the great terminus for the P. and O. steamers in future. Tbere is a quantity of cargo aud baggage from the Kangoon in the Baroda, bat the difficulties and expense of the operation are likely to interfere with any further recovery. A small steamer, the Xanthe, left Galle yesterday, via Singapore, for the Western Australian pearl-shell fisheries. She came out by the Canal. Sir Hercules Bobinson has left for England. He is expected to start for Sydney, and to take the overland route in May. The Hellers, after a successful lour in India, leave by this mail for China. The King of Siam arrived at Calcutta on the 13th. It i<j said he will pass on through Europe. He will visit the camp at Delhi, where a large military force will mauoßuvre before Lord Napier. The expedition against the Losshai hill tribes has been successful so far. Archdeacon Pratt, of Calcutta, is dead. The ship Percy Douglas was lost at Rangoon, the City of Venice at Mauritius, and the Defiance at Natal. Lord Napier leaves Madras in March. No successor has been appointed yet. Sir Phillip Woodhouse succeeds him at Bombay. The Portuguese Infanta is visiting Goa. Bombay, Jan. 15. Exchange.— Bank bills, 2*. 20,000 tons freights in steamers are engaged. Business is improving.