INDIA AND THE EAST.

Southland Times, Issue 1594, 21 June 1872, Page 3

INDIA AND THE EAST.

Admiral Cumming* the naval Com-mander-in-Chief, has received orders to make Bombay his head -quarters in future. A fearful cyclone occurred «t Madras on the Ist May. Nine European and eleven native vessels were wrecked, and thirteen Europeans and six natives drowned. Only four ships were left in roadstead. The pier and. a great deal ef property has been damaged. A •übscription has been set on foot for the relief of the sufferers. > _ Jivif days afterwaide a fearful inunda- j

tion occurred at Jellore, in the Madras Presidency. Forty tanks burst. One thousand lives were lost ; three thousand people rendered destitute, and thirteen 1 thousand homeless. Eelief was sent at once by the Government. Memorials to the late Lord Mayo are i established in the Indian towns. ■ At Beesa two officers were shot by an ■ insane soldier. The P. and O. steamer Pesbawur was • saved by good seamanship in a cyclone 1 between Madras and Galle. The MonI golia had her boats carried away. i Sir Hercules Robinson conveys the prize certificates obtained by Sydney cxl hibitors at the International Exhibition. The canal steamers are increasing in number. Several of the French company's steam--1 ers met with accidents lately. The Hooghley disabled her crew while on her way from Singapore to Galle, and the Provence, in a collision near Aden with tbe Neva, went ashore, bnt was got off. A state ball and dinner were given by the new Viceroy, who unveiled the Queen's statue and laid the foundation stone of the High School. He arrived i and was sworn in at Calcutta on May 3rd. Sir Philip Wodehouse, the new Governor of Bombay, arrived there on the Ist. A Flying Squadron, consisting of six i fine frigates, under Rear- Admiral Seymour, arrived at Bombay on the 22nd April. The oflicers and men have been feted. 1500 tars were received ashore. The squadron was ordered home, and left via Mauritius and the Cape on the 6th. The Cadmus alone stays to join the China fleet.