INDIA.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 4, 28 January 1867, Page 24

INDIA.

From- Bombay, ,we (Sydney Morning Herald)' have papers to November T3tb, 'and to th.e 7th. from Calcutta. sir.'..- :• ... We from the'European. Times of that, date, as follows :-t=- , r r threat; ireegularity still prevails : in! the working 'of' thelndo»Eurbpean telegraph —interruptions of,two or. three days’ duration being of frequeht'occurrence. . , . ; 'Bartie' of Pombay, held andubar: ;at, Pqona on the, 29fh.of October v for the reception of - the Deccan aiid Southern Bda'kr&tta country j for thefrecognition of the Eajahs, Kolapore and, Jowar; and for the investiture of the* recently' appointed Companions of •the Star of ludia. . t -.;. \.. ' ,i . .. ~ , (On the following day, ,the Sjrdars presented his Excellency * with' a'life:sij!eportraite of 'himseif, which is to’ be placed in •. JEt. id. steamer Berenice has* been totally' destroyed^/-fire' in 'the Per&Utn Q-ulf. The officers andcre-w were saved.- i The small war yessel belonging- to the Chief i df I B'ahreih > ''heizea : 'ih'hfatc/h' , laßt by our politifial.resident fa the jPersianCulf, and which,sank, on being towed 'towards Bitshire; Was hnoytdhp by the Berenice gome little time before her

own destruction. It is probable the Go vemment of India will restore it to the ,ohie£ "

Sir Joseph, Arnould, in a most elaborate judgment in ; tho Aga Khan- case in the High Court J of. Bombay, has' decided! in favor of Aga Khan being recognised at the head of the Kojah community. Mr Jpstice Arnound, of the Bombay High GburC has! sanctioned an arrangement. by whioh MrPremchund Roychund is allowed to, resume business as ,a broker, on the condition-that one half of his' earnduring one year should be handed over to his trustees....

The state of the publio health in Bombay continues. Highly satisfactory. Railway communition has been comple-. ted between Bombay and Nagpore. . An; effort' is being made to re-establish Volunteer “corps in Bombay. The ship Windsor Castle, with troops on board, has arrived at Kurrachee. Ten fatal eases of cholera oscurred during the voyage. The frontier at Aden is again in .a disturbed state.. Some of the tribes are committing depredations, and it has been found necessary to add a body of mounted men to the garrison. Official reports, state that the corps in Central India are very promising, and that the cattle disease is graduaUy disappearing.

The Central India Industrial Fxhibtion is to be, opened at Jubbulpore on the 26th of December.

, In consequence of the extreme scarcity of grain in Hyderabad, the Nizam has forbidden its exportation from that terriTory. . Mr Robfertson, the acting Commissioner of Sind, has held a dubar at Kiirrachee for the investiture of Shefe Nao Mull with the Companionship of the Star of India, as a recognition of his services to the British Government. - By the completion of the bridge over the Jumna, the East India Bailway has been 'completed between Calcutta and Delhi.: The famine in Cuttack and M auhhoom continues without abatement. In the former place 30,000 destitute people, and in the latter 15,000 are fed daily. In Cuttack paupers are dying at the rate of 2000 a week. A portion of the Hindoo community of Calcutta have addressed a letter of condo-, lence.to Mrs Cotton, the widow of the late lamented bishop. -A committee: to revise the Customs tariff of, India Has commenced its sittings at Calcutta. . i.A proposition :has : been made in Calcuttoerect a’.memorial to the .lateßishop Cotton. It is proposed that the.-memorial shall take the shape :of schools. ; The Chief Commissioner of British Bu!rmah, accompanied; by; Colonel Phayre and a military escort, has gone oh a special mission to the King of Burmah. Intelligence from Cabul states that the Sirdar Mahomed ~Raffeek Khan has been strangled by order of the rulers of that place. The D'ebßajahof Bhootan has succeeded in pacifying his turbulent .subjects, and the country is now reported to be in a state of quietude.