INDIA AND THE EAST.
Galie, August 7. — Mr Jeune, jun., a counsel in the Tichborne case, is a passenger by this boat. He is commissioned to collect further evidence required for i the claimant. The Rangoon experienced storm}- weather on her passage to Galle. She ran 1200 miles in four days. — The Bangalore, a new steamer, takes the place of the Avoca next time, and there is a probability of the Geelong being exchanged also. — A French fortnightly mail to China is to begin in October. — The French steamer Pietro has been disabled by collision with a commercial boat off Aden —The census of Ceylon caused disappointment. The population is less by two and a half millions. — A Prussian Count (Waldslein) is travelling in India. — The Marquis and Marchioness of Drogheda, and Lord and Lady Ashburton, are expected on a visit tc the Viceroy shortly. — Lord Napier is about leaving Madras— There is hostility between the Mahorncdans and Hindoos at Lahore, leading to disturbances. — A campaign ogainst the wild Assam tribes is expected. — There has been a fracas at Bangalore owing to a quarrel between an officer and a private family. Two officers have been wounded. — Fifteen more destitute Europeans have been shipped from Madras to the colonies. — The breeding of horses at the Punjnub is attracting attention. — The Seweram, with 450 coolies for the West Indies, foundered off the Cape of Good Hope in May. All hands lost. — A wild elephant killed twenty-one persons in Central India, STRAITS SETTLEMENT. The King of Siam has ordered the abolition of slavery on the Ist January next.— H.M.S. Pluto had an engagement with pirates at Salengore. One officer and six men were wounded. — A
gold- mining company has been formed at Pcnang to work quartz reefs there. CHINA AND JAPAN. The American expedition has returned to Shanghai, after capturing Kanghoa fort, with a loss of three killed and six wounded— defeating 0000 Coreans. — The British Consul at Cheefoo lias secured the release of two British subjects from the Coreans. One German, still a prisoner, was refused to the Prussian Consul. — A typhoon and tidal wave at Japan have done great damage to property at Hiogo.
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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3299, 11 September 1871, Page 3
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INDIA AND THE EAST.
Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3299, 11 September 1871, Page 3
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