INDIAN INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 860, 12 September 1871, Page 3

INDIAN INTELLIGENCE.

The Agri-horicultural society have reported that the Neilghorry nettle furnishes a valuahle fibre, equal if not superior to the] rhea grass, but presenting the same difficulties in ingThe Jamadar of tho 4th N. I. who was tried for cowardice before the enemy in the late Lushai raid, has been cashiered.

A fire at Peshawar has destroyed 200 shops and 825 houses in the native part of the city. Nearly all the boxes and stalls.have been taken for the Calcutta Opera for next season.

It is proposed to form a company to utilize the hill of Parisnath, as a sanitarium for Calcutta, and to work its forests and mineral resources.

Mr Green, a barrister practising at Madras, has turned Muhamadan, and , taken the name of Abdulah. A traveller from Bushire to Shiraz reports that seven-eighths of the population have died from famine and cholera, and that the remainder are rapidly dying out. Cholera and small-pox have appeared in several districts in the Punjab. The lake at Naini Tal has emitted a strong sulphureous smell since the earthquake on the 23rd May. The Asiatic Society in Calcutta have elected Mr Charles Darwin an honorary member. Cholera is still very bad in Mysore, and has led to some fighting between the Hindus and Mussulmans who were going in procession through the streets to avert the pestilence. The Hong-Kong,. Singapore, and Madras telegraph cable was opened for business on the 10th instant. The line from Hong-Kong to Shanghai is interrupted. A native Burman is building a war vessel for the King of Burmah, 130 feet long and 30 feet beam, at Mandalay. A Hindu lately married a widow at Pubna. He was first excommunicated from his caste, and subsequently two houses in which he lived were burned down.

The Panthays have again defeated twe Chinese in Tunan, and driven them some distance from Momein. Some Europeans are said to be going to the assistance of the Chinese. The thermometer in the new twostoried barracks at Allahabad rises to over lOOdegs. in the officers' quarters. A daring robbery was committed a few days ago near Benares, the robbers attacking a zemindar's house, and carrying off property valued at 4000 rupees, and wounding some of the inmates. The robbers went openly to the house along the high road tvith music playing, as if in a marriage procession.

A young French lady has turned Muhamadan at Nellore, and been married, according to the Muhamadan rites, to Mr Green, the barrister who was converted lately. The outbreak of cholera amongst the 18th Hussars at iSocundorabad lias ceased. About forty deaths havo occurred.

Up to the 17th June the fall of raiu in Calcutta since, the Ist January had amounted to 31.89 inches, tho average of the seventeen previous years being 12.80 inches. The Akarzais havo made another raid on tho north-west frontier, and burnt three villages in British territory. The 3rd Punjaub Infantry and some cavalry have been sont to the spot. A highly successful trial has been made with the Chanda coal on the Great Indian Peninsula Eailway. The American expedition to the Corea has bombarded the fort on the Island of Jangwha. Germans have been again allowed to settle in the French colony at Saigon. The inhabitants of Baroda are emigrating in considerable numbers to Bsitish territory, owing to the exactions of the revenue farmers.

H.M.S. Magpie has returned to' Muscat with fifty-seven Blaves rescued from three Arab dhows. The slaves have been sent to Bombay. In consequence of the numerous courts-martial held during the year on members of the Subordinate Medical Service for drunkenness on duty, it has been decided that all those found guilty of this charge in future shall be dismissed'.

The Gaekwar of Baroda has deducted 150,000 rupees out of the £250,000 promised by him for the erection of a sailors' home in Bombay, as payment for three Armstrong guns imported by his predecessor from England, and stopped by the Government at Bombay. The Turkish Government is about to construct a railway from Jedda to Mecca.

Colonel Mowbray Thompson, one of the survivors of Cawnpore, has been ordered to send in his papors, and has been granted a special pension of £2OO a year, in consideration of his wounds.

Attempts are to be made, at the instance of the Bajah of Travancore, to encourage the growth of the tapioca plant in Madras. Many deaths have occurred at Lahore from heat apoplexy, owing to the great heat of the weather.

The Commissioner of Oudh has offered a prize of 40 gold rupees for the best essay, giving practical hints for economy in and improvement of cultivation.

A military officer in civil employ overstaying his priviloge leave, is to forfeit all his military and civil pay during such overstay. During Maf last, cotton to the valuo of 20,618,5-15 rupscs was exported from Bombay.