EAST INDIES.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 943, 13 March 1872, Page 3

EAST INDIES.

I The barrister at Madras who was lately converted to Mahometahism has returned to the faith of his fathers. Mrs Green, the wife of the Madras barrister who turned Mahometan, has filed a suit for divorce against her

I husband. • The seam of coal discovered in the Deccati extends over about ten square miles of country, with a thickness of from 12 to 70 feet. Bhattias, the highest Hindu caste in Bombay, have consented to agree to widow re-marriage amongst themselves. Gold is reported to have been discovered in Siam. The attempt to teach the native hakims vaccination, has failed in the North-west Provinces, "ihe Begum of Bhopal has published in essay on female education. The latest news from Persia represents the suffering of the people from famine as still increasing. The second battalion 2-lth Regiment Hs suffering from a bad type of typhoid fever at Haidarabad. The roof of the Soman Catholic Cathedral at Coconada fell in on the |-27th December. Fortunately no one | was injured. There are forty-nine native newspapers published in the Bombay Presidency. A tea plantation at Kumson has this season produced an average of 230 ibs of tea per acre. Nine of the Salengore pirates have been setenced to transportation for life. |jOn being sentenced they a'.l begged to 4be hanged. , J The earthquake felt in Calcutta on -fthe 12th December, was also felt the greater part of British ilßurmah on the same day. I Babu Harish Chandra of Benares Jfliab published a poem in Hindi, on the gniarriage of the Princess Louise and ?||tb.e Marquis of Lorrie.