INDIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 146, 2 May 1864, Page 4

INDIA.

The fol'owrng India news, via Sydney, from the | Time a of Jnth'n, March 14th, is the latest from India revived in thus Colony. ]!is Kxeellencv the Yurroy and Governor-General of India is still j\» lis scat of Government. His Elceilenev is expected to leave Calcutta, with his K\ccutive Council, for the north-west, about the beginning of April. He will ieaugmate thp railway as far as oha'/ecabad. and attend a grand gath« ring at . D' lhi tarlv iu the same month- Is is Mated that j P»s Kxcelleney has done away with the division of j labour svstim ni the Council Chamber. lie sees e\er\thing with hi< own eyes, and disposes of everything with hi- own hands. The task is herculean, hut v 'i<' .John is said to go through it rij»h! manfully. JI is Kxee'lettey the Command'-r-in Chief in India is travelling a 5 .-ut in Cashmere. The future comu;an-ders-in-i bid's to have their 1m ad-»juarters at the Tre-ideni'v. This has be. n o)*(h red oMcr.sibly on aceout 1 of the faeiHtii-s whieh will hereafter be at-br-ded bv the raihvav for the loeonu»tion of army bcadouarters : hut it is believed that there are also other lva-ons Or the order. The Jirifbh < lovej'iunent has applied tothcTndinn f<»r ns mueh of it - garrison strength a- 4 can be spared, to the extent of six regiments. f l he Indian Ctoverm ment have determined that only two regiments chii be spared. It is finally decided that the Maharajah of Mysore is not to get the administration ol his country back a« r ain. r | he decifion has been communicated lo him. Men are being cnli-ted in Calcutta for the Anierii can navy. Humours are rife of an intended attack of the llin- 1 doostauoes in l-howauee. Khekhawattee territory. Bombay arv head-ijuarters will he removed to Mahablesbwar in a few days. The Chevab'i r h'omolo Uonhomme, Envoy of Ills Jfaiesty the King «>f 1 laly, with two other Italian gentlemen, ha- - arrived in Bombay, c.j rotif# to J>c»khara. to ePect the liberati«»n of three Italian subjects, iir.|)risonetl in that city by the Ameer. The I jeutenanl-Oovernor of the I'uujaub, with Colonal Maelogan and I'rofessor '"-di am, has gone to Pind Dadun Klian, to investigate the quality and quantity of the coal recently discovered in the Salt The Rajah of Muneepoor has signally punished the murderers of the French planter in the forests of Muneepoor. lie attacked their village, killed fifty men, and burned down the village. The C alcutta Chamber of Commerce has memorialised the Government, of India for the introduction of gold as an auxiliary currency in India. It lias been discovered that those who sent from Patna mer. and money to aid the frontier war were the sect of the Wahabees, wliom- chief seat is Patna, where tle-y have a large Katila. IC.ir. the (iuieowar, on his return from I>ornbay to Baroda, lost his wile and from 000 to 7UO of his followers by cholera. The Military Financo Department is to be remodelled and placed inner the Military Secretary to Government. The Taipoor, a new and large river steamer j launched on the Oth ulf., from II M.'s building yard, ! Iveamarce Sind, was totally wrecked on the «/(Jth idem. •She broke her back. Orain is so scarce in Central India, that the "Maharajah af Gwalior has prohibited its export from his states. General James Ahmutz, the oldest otlicer in the Indian army, died recently at Lahore, ile entered j the Ilengal artillery in 17 ( Jt>, when Tippoo Sultan was ; in the height of his power. He was at the siege of | Delhi in 1803. in the same month in which Sir Arthur j Welleslev fought the battle of Assaye. j The seascm continues highly favourable, and the j crops an: everywiu t* healthy and promising. [ (FKOM the <*.\ f.cI'TTA r.NG I.fs lIMAN", MAKCH i>.) j We hear from tlte nortli-west that the enormous i quantity of cotton passing from Agra and other disj tricts to Bombay lias seriously obstructed the roads. I The roads are cut up by the numerous carts passing I down in such a manner a& to show the necessity of | some immediate measures being taken with regard to j them.