INDIA.
The Gorernment cuntemplaiea sending eight thousand soldiers to Abyssinia for the release of the captives, and a subscription is oommenoed headed by one firm with 200,000 rupees. The * Tirzah,' from Newcastle, Mew South Wales, with coals, was wrecked near Alibiangh, on the 18th June ; seven of the crew were drowned ; the lifeboat was stub to their assistance which was oapsized, and ten were drowned. The Finance Minister has completed a scheme for a gold currency for India. The opium revenue this year exceeds his estimate by £438,600. The accounts from Orissa and the famine districts are encouraging. The cultivation of potatoes in India is largely increasing, and an experimental cultivation of Carolina rice was moat successful. Feeights.— Bombay to London ; Gotton, £2 7s. 6d. ; seeds, £1. Liverpool : Cotton, £2 2s. 6d. j seeds, 12s. 6d. Calcutta to London : Seeds, £3 lOi. ; rice, £2 2s. 6d. ; cotton, £8. To Liverpool j Rice, £1 15s. ; seeds, £2 17s. 6d, ; jute, £2 125. ; ootton, £3. Exchange, Is. 11 2«16d. sight.
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Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 3178, 24 September 1867, Page 4
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168INDIA. Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 3178, 24 September 1867, Page 4
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