INDIAN INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 888, 16 November 1871, Page 3

INDIAN INTELLIGENCE.

Cholera has broken out afc Callian. Of 131 cases 76 have proved fatal. The native Judge of the Small Cause Court at Lahore has been murdered by a native against whom he had given an unfavourable decision. The murderer has since been sentenced to death.

Mr Bull, a European employed by the Municipality at Lahore, was on the following day knocked down by a Sikh Fakir, who said that " his countrymen's reign was over." Upwards of three inches of rain fell in a few hours in Calcutta a few weeks ago, and nearly the whole of the streets of the town were under water for some hours. Much damage was done to the native town.

A thunderbolt which lately fell in Sind is reported to have caused a great chasm in the earth, which swallowed up several huts and some fifty or sixty persons.

The sepoys at Pondicherry are reported to have mutinied, and to have attacked the orderly room and destroyed the punishment rolls. The Commissioner at Lahore has ordered that all natives are to be forbidden to carry any offensive weapons or arms, and ammunition has been issued to the volunteers in case of any disturbance. The feeling of the Sikhs is causing great anxiety.

News from Bokhara states that though the King is hostile to the Bussians, the people generally are well pleased with their rule. The Hugli has burst its banks near Berhampore and inundated a large tract of country and several villages. Lieutenant Teed, 18th Native Infantry, has been drowned by the upsetting of a boat on the Domurgurh. It is calculated that one million sterling will be required to repair the damagps to the Punjab and Delhi Railway.

A coal fields of considerable extent is reported to been discovered in the Nizam's territories

The Barracks at Nynee Tal have been condemned by the Chief Engineer, as unfit for the soldiers to live in.

A second class carriage with a closed compartment for native ladies has been constructed by the East Indian Bailway. The native papers are again suggesting that one of the Royal Princes should be appointed Govern or-General, if not King of this country. During July last the death rate in the North-Western Provinces was 1-23 per thousand. 642 deaths were attributed to snake bites and wild animals.

The crops in Mysore are suffering from want of rain, and in parts of Bombay there is already some distress, and more is anticipated from the drought. Cattle-plague has broken out in the Meerut, Agra, and Ghazipur divisions of the north-west provinces.

The Bev. Mr Bruce has written to Colonel Haig, the Chairman of the Persian Famine Fund in Calcutta, giving details of the frightful sufferings of the people from famine, and stating that suffering had already begun again, and was likely to increase as the winter comes on. Immediate assistance was necessary. The new two-storied barracks at Saugor have been finally pronounced unsafe, and all the troops ordered to move out of them. The troops at Peshawur have also requested to be allowed to occupy the old barracks instead of the new ones.

The noted dacoit, Kasi Bam, who has for years been the terror of travellers between Agra and Bombay, has been arrested by the Minister of the Dholepur State.

The Collector of Tinnevelly has come to the conclusion, after an inspection of the Pearl Fisheries that the oysters migrate every year when young.