India and the East.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2026, 2 July 1875, Page 2

India and the East.

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June 6th. Colonel Hamilton, while pursuing Daeoits near Pega, was shot through the heart. Davidson, district superintendent, and an orderly were wounded. By a collision on the Ganges State Eailway twelve lives were lost and ten persons severely injured. The Baroda affair has been peacefully settled by the selection of a young Ehandeish Prince. Affairs with Burrnah are still in an tinsettled state, but the king is quite 1 unprepared for war and cannot persist in his annoying attitude towards the British Government. The Bussians are busy projecting railway extension in Central Asia, and it is said will soon be in a position to threaten Afghanistan through Heratvif so inclined. Trade with Tartary and' China is on the decline. » A host of newspaper corespondents, including Dr Ilussell- and Archibald Forbes, are expected to accompany" the Prince of Wales. A great influx of visitors is also anticipated. A plagues rages in Persia. Native ladies are admitted as medical students at Calcutta. It is rumoured that the Australian colonists unitedly request that they may be favored ■wit!) a visit from the Prince of Wales and the flying squadron while in the East. If the visit were paid \la Singapore and Hong Kong, the heir apparent would carry'home a proper idea of British Eastern *and Australian' possessions. *...'..