BURMAH.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 100, 28 April 1888, Page 5

BURMAH.

.mttCTIVS FIRS, 15,000 BOWBUSBS. o"ffiuagoon to March 22nd, of living Van, an iwportrt£S n & Bunnah, had 11111 Moved by 6ra 15,000 were renother property lost. British Burmah Company, murf/Zv also attempted to destroy Rations in wjngaby.^ fl-nds of persons were reported dying Son mV inundated districts of

% Tillages were overwhelmed, and ■wSave lost everything they possessed. rei* Minister Pullkamer had gone districts Eight villages at b«#of fye Vfofoila wave submerged, THE INDIAN BUDGET-. tta Indian buderet estimates for 1837-S JftfS £2,448,000 without tsh'MW B-P^ nb ? or fip9Clf>l defonC6S ideficibiscau'serl mainly by the oonverMistook, fall in the rate of exchange tjniiitary expenses in Bnrmah. UHIAN WAS AGAINST ABYSSINIA, idiipatch from Massowah received in you Match 27th, Says: "The Abys(iu forces advanced upon Saati. The -rpinight ths Italian trqopfj formed in ■ %of 'battle, but the expected attack is cot aide. Th.c Abyss jnians are fcljsurrouniiinp the Italian forces. It isject^fhey will poncenferato at Don- ! There are 15,000 troops at Naples iajjies to embark for Massowah. tatch from Rome, April 4, says.the 1 Jains are in full, retreat. Many p flock to the Italian line? in a Id condition. ffllNS DISASTERS IN CHINA. IVsfc advjpesj from China, Mjirch 2S, lirisis in Honan is passed, but the i H tho people is appal lings 2,000,000 hteinuutterly destitute. The nearest

Ilfebeing invaded by hordes of naked raping refugees from the flooded m, wKb, like swarms of locusts, are feig everything before, them. [m psesokts kilied by 4N [ ', 'EARTHQUAKE. JiOijenfyl n^ail,-at London, April 1, EBgtt news of terrible earthquakes in H 15,000 persons are said to.have perH Huge chasms opened with the shocks liafplfad masses of the unfortunate ■;•. '0t Water off, blood-red colour issued I A BLOODTHIRSTY FIEND. |i| nwderro who had been released on ■•Weave' Rear Tempes'var, Hujigavy, H*Biptilsthto the house of the judge ■*m condemned him and killed his ■*. He then-went-W the house of the ■ftfffld Wled the latter* deputy. From ■^Mranthome aud split the skulls ot WWSPd, children, after which he fled; pjatasnot been captured. 9 JWGIO INCIDENT IN BOKHARA. fljfe'W £°kllar<i. April sth, say ■!iW T^er of that place had been If 1™ ty a native. The Ameer ordered HLw and h!s accottipttce to be ■E» Md, tlMiy were- throw" from a Wra ™ feet high', M ** Annexation, ia the PaciSc; Hi;l,*i h. Gov ernra?nt has annexed the ■k?v T" 8^8' Fannine, arid Penryn, Erl Paqifi(vt0 bn uWI as co^ M/t) n?,\ 3 telegraph centres when a HWv '^J^een. New Zealand and ■fed.' ■ is considered a set-off to