REBELS ACTIVE IN GOA.
By Telegraph.—Prefs Association.r-Copyright. Received December 18, .6.40 p.ra. .Boiin A.T, December 17. Tlio rebels in Goa, a city of Portuguese dominion, 250 uiilos south of here, have sicked And bOrned the Treasury, The troops wore called odt and dispersed the rioters.
. Captured by Albuquerque in 1510, ** Golden Goa ” reached by trio end of the centiiry d high pitch of military and ecclesiastical aplhudour dud commercial prosperity’. Tbo decline of the Portuguese power , 4 quickly followed the appearance pf the Dutch, and in 1759 Old Qoa,” desorbed Vjy all put its ecclesiastical inhabitants, fell into decay | its popalatioji falling t,6| t . Its arsenal, palace’?, quays . apd churches ape in ruips ; their sites .covered with .coooanut plantations, and ..the streets overrun, with grass. j The now capital is Nova,. Goa, pr oh The new liarho.ur railway works wbre inaugurated in 1682. Population - , 8440. _
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New Zealand Times, Volume LVIX, Issue 3007, 19 December 1896, Page 2
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