BRITISH INDIA.
A great conflagration has taken place, at Poonah. All the important buildings are destroyed. The famine continues in Cashmere. AH the supply arrangements have broken down. Many towns and villagos are depopulated. A despatch to the Times from Calcutta, says a report i 3 current that 20,000 persons died from cholera while returning from religious fairs. It is reported that a series of strikes is threatened at Calcutta. Gangs of malcontents at Poonah have written to the Bombay Government threate> ing to raise another mutiny and put a price upon the Governor unless the distress is relieved. The steamer Eva sank in a collision with another vessel near Calcutta. Sixty of the crew and four passengers were drowned. The ringleaders of the disturbances in Burmah have been arrested. Certain females of the royal family in Burmab, for whose safety the British Government stipulated, have been placed in irons, and will probably be starved.
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Evening Post, Volume XVIII, Issue 3, 3 July 1879, Page 2
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