INDIAN INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 913, 13 January 1872, Page 2

INDIAN INTELLIGENCE.

An order has be'en issued by the Viceroy that beer is not to be issued to the British soldiers when on the march, as it is generally thick and unpalatable under such circumstances. During the first half of the current year, 1258 wild beasts were destroyed in the Central Provinces at a cost to Government of 9210 rupees. There were 183 tigers and cubs, 393 panthers and leopards, 203 bears, 282 wolves, and 188 hyenas. Two hundred and eleven deaths were registered in Calcutta last week, twentv-one of which were from cholera.

During the last week in October 296 deaths and six births were registered in Bombay. Another mutiny is expected to take place at Goa, and the Governor is taking precautious to defeat any attempt by the rebels. / There are again reports of disturbances in the Persian Gulf, and H.M. Nimble, has been telegraphed for from Aden.

Twelve soldiers of the 41st regiment have been committed to the High Court at Lahore for robbing the treasury of their detachment at Dalhousie. The money was all recovered. The late census returns show 14,416j British born subjects, including sol. diers, are living in the North-western Provinces.

One of the large twelve-ton guns lately sent out for the defenders of Bombay, has been lost in the harbour, through the tackle breaking whilst slinging it on to a lighter. The Hyderabad Government have converted the State Railway into a Joint Stock Company of 100,000 shares of 100 rupees each, which have been nearly all taken up by the Native soucars. A scheme has been matured by Mil Sanderson for drawing trains up hill by means of a water wheel, at the rata of five miles an hour. \ The official reports of the crops from the greater part of India are general™ favourable, but in parts of Bombajj the drought has lasted so long thai the people are suffering from wanu and relief works will have to ha established. ! Worse accounts of the famine ii| Persia continue to be daily received aj Bombay. The Parsis appear to b| emigrating bodily. Another native, Babu Radhica Praj sad Ghose, is about to proceed fej England to compete for the Ciril Service. It is reported that the Amir of Kabul first ordered Aslam Khan and Hassaul Khan to be imprisoned in a deep well then ordered them to be poisoned, am; when that did not take effect, orderei their brothers to strangle them in prison. A disease in the leaves of the coffei plant is reported to be destroyinf whole plantations in Ceylon. A serious affray has taken plaoi between some soldiers of the Bth regit ment and the natives at Neemucli Two of the soldiers were nearly killed Jaunpua, after suffering: severe)! from the floods, is now suffering from an outbreak of cholera. Several more courts-martial hail lately been held on European soldieii for insubordination. The King of Burmah has establisba depots for trades of all sorts in differeil parts of Mandalay, and is underselling all the other traders, many of wbonS are giving up business. A native paper reports that of seventy-nine lives were lost by tk| falling of houses in Lucknow during! the late heavy rains. Captain W. S. Lillingston, lltg Hussars, late Private Secretary to tt-Lieutenaut-Governor of the Nortk : west Provinces, has been killed fel falling down a precipice with Ml horse. Another European female has t* : come a convert to Islamism at Mysorel and married a Muhammadan. There have been disturbance | amongst the tribes in the dominions «| Khan of Khelat, and the 2nd Sinfcl horse have been sent to patrol tin | frontiers to prevent incursions Mli our territory. More destitute Parsis continue It \ arrive weekly at Bombay from Persia \ and the distress is again on the ifr| crease. Three companies of the 27th Madrt I Infantry are to be sent as a garriaot | to Akyab during the Lushai expel 1 tion. The senior officer present is to co» J mand the Eastern Frontier district j during the absence of General Bout' J chier with the Lushai expedition. It has been finally decided to abat\ A don J hansi as a station for European J troops, and probably Morar also. A first dividend is being paid If X the liquidator to the creditors of tit 1 Oudh and United Service Bank. The Government of India have, suiv \ ject to the approval of the Secretary fl State taken.over tho capital of the CinH Service Annuity Funds. The Supreme Government still refl fuRO to believe in the oppression ofl the collection of the income-tax in tbß North - Woslern Provinces, and hail published a, severe minute on the coa-B duct of iSir W. Muir and nil tha H officials. ji General Bourchier in. the command 9

of the Lushai Expedition has left Shillong for Cachar. A steamer has taken round forty elephants to Chittagong, aD(I returned for the remainder; all coolies for the expedition have started. The 44th Regiment marched from Shillong on the 27th October. A ship from Moulmein, the Edwin I Louis, has been wrecked near the Sandheads. Twenty-three of the crew were picked up by the GHenartney in a starving condition, having been ten days in the boat, but another boat with the Captain and the rest of the crew has not been heard of. A steamer has been despatched to visit the refuge houses and sea face of the Soonderbuus.

The latest reports of the crops in the Central Provinces are favourable. The people, however, were suffering severely from fever. There has been an outbreak amongst the prisoners in the Dacca gaol, and 200 of them have been sent to Alipur gaol. There was very heavy weather on the Madras coast last week. The Belviderawas wrecked at Pondichcrry, the Apelles nearly ran ashore at Madras, and most of the other ships put to sea. General Bourchier and staff with the troops and coloies are gradually getting nearer the starting point for tl'o Lushai Expedition.

The steamer European offers to take passengers from Bombay to to Liverpool for Rs. 150. Oil hearing the news two lads at Benares stole Bs. 360 from their father and proceeded to Bombay, where they were arrested by the police. The results of employing European soldiers in the hills this season have been most satisfactory both to the and the government. Attempts are to be made to improve the cultivation of tobacco in Burmah. The Directors of the Bank of Bengal have raised their rates of interest and discount one per cent, all round. Nearly 100 men of the 105 th Regiment out of a total strength of 700 tare at present in hospital at Meerut. Colonel Pelly reports on the 21st October from Bushire that distress is increasing and numbers are dying daily of starvation in the streets. Prince Aga Khan, of Bombay, has given Rs. 60,000 for the relief of his •distressed countrymen, and has fed and clothed 200 of them for some months at Bombay. During the week ended the 4th November, there were 283 deaths in Calcutta of which twenty-six were from cholera.