The following items are extracted from our one and, _—- only one chief engineer rma re d cut sil caer Indian exchanges for each and also " naval The Rangoon Times hears from a Mandalay each vessel. But the inadequate manning correspondent, that the murderer of Mr. of these harbour defenders, like most other Cooper, the Assistant Political Agent deficiencies, resolves itself into a ques Bhamo, was confined by the Burmese authori-of money. The whole subject has ties in a tigers? cage at that towa.—The sane fully considered, and my Lords of the Ad-paper says an Arakanese who has recently arrived in Rangoon reports a wonderful story ely i ally anc jesinia, anc from the Kyonk-phyoo district. He says that at his village, Anginkyoung, a bill rose from They offer to man both vevscls ao es to make take them under their i
the earth in the centre of " paddy field to the them ready to moot an enemy at all times height of upwards of 200 fect. As volcanic eruptions are common in islands near Barmab, aunam w yuited. It is, per but for thie ootSt " ann of three lakhs pot this may be one.—These are indeed times of surprising that the Simla eutuoritiee signs and wonders, It has been related here roosting in, peace far out of the reach of hhoatile cruisers, consider this too much to phenomenon lately made ite appearance at by some people from Palai that a strange abend in order to have both the monitors 4 place called Parangenam, cast of Pala A hillock like what is set up'by pismires was fully manned stall times ofthe tides of peace and war. Perhaps the estimate may be noticed one day in the midst of a paddy cultiva-odorate as ity notions go; and we tion near the hills. This rose higher and told it would take £29,000 per annum to higher day after day, and after one or two twoeuch turret ships at home in full weeks bogan to produce a noise which is now working and fighting order. Altogether it audible at a distance of about five miles. The seems likely that Captain James will have to owners of the cultivation are afraid to. a continue to stride from the Magdala to the proach even the neighbourhood. It has been Al supposed, from the accounts received, that a volzauo must be coming into existence, in-chief have to watch over wall at be can, and the Engineer and direct the internal movements of be machinery vessels as heretofore.—Englishman, amount of damage to trees and herbs, but it Locusts have been credited with doing any appears that they can do more than this—they with " panther, is taken from the Bo The following graphic narrative of " fight can stop a railway train, The Madras Me Geasette:=-Three otus (Majors Barras and Sand tells us that on the 13th ultimo a very with and Lieutenant J, C. Francis, of the 15th number of locusts settled on a portion of the NI) started from Abmednugger after the Madras line of railway, covering the metals Queen's Birthday Parado for Ghat Sims, a tome thousands of them, and the glutinous for some distance. A perning train rushed On Sunday night " panther walked off with a Village about twenty-five miles from Nuyger. substances from their bodies rendered the rails goat not fifty yards from our texts, It was slippery that the wheels refused to take the metals, and the engine had to be brought to a paged op to a big ravine about three mil our camp. We beat for it, but it broke standstill, and the wheels and metals cleaned 'a long distance from us; the jungle on the before the train could proceed. The train ill aide wae oe very thick that it was which followed was also detained by the same sible to tell where it would break. It then cause. wont to the bottom of the ravine and rounded.
The Friend of India says the dull season another hill, and must have gone nearly one Calcutta) is now at its dullest, the heat at its and a half miles, We followed, but the length hottest, the thermometer bordering on 100 of the chase and the extreme heat induced us degrees in the shade. Trade is stagnant; to sit under the shade of an enormous satur ships crowd the port, eager for cargo at almost bush for the purpose of taking refreshment, any freights, only a fortunate one here and One of the natives with us went round to the there getting a load. Indian politics have other side of thebusb, and the pantherauddenly gone to sleep, The universal dullness is tempered only by Reuter's telegrams.
Sprangout on him and bit him through the arm. jo, heating the noire, seized our rifles, but the 'A. Mysore correspondent writes to the other was round the bush and had bitten Friend, as follows:—'* Amongst Brahmins and jor Barras through the arm before anything high caste Hindoos, according to the Shashcould be done. Major Sandwith promptly tras, the children, until they are seven years gave it a twelve bore shell through the ribs, re not allowed to take their food with whereupon it left Major Barras and bounded.
parents, At that age a rito is performed, back into the bush as quickly as it had come, which admits the child into Brahmin com: Tcould not fire, as MajorSandwith was between munion; and at this time he takes upon me and the panther, Having tied up the himself the vows of sanctity and self-denial, wounds, we proceeded to throw aware into the The ceremony which the Maharajah went bush tomake the beast bolt, but somehow it through this morning (Saturday), and which to keep the bush betwoon us and it took up the whole forenoon, released him from until it had sneaked off 100 yards. We then his vows, After the couclasion of this cere-saw it, and it certainly looked quite done, 1 many, his Highness departed on a pilgrimage.
Hie waa dressed in the garb of a pilgrim, and fired at it and knocked it over with a bullet through the hind leg. It got off into another tad several attendants with hip, bab oe his way ho was st yy the adopted parents clamp of bushes, and we being certain that could hardly move approached too near, (for the future Maharaneo is an orphan, and Major Sandwith threw a stone, and it om belongs to a comparatively poor family} and others of her relatives, who informed him that in their house was a sweet, maiden as fit for marriage as the ripe corn is fit for the sickle; and begged him first to wed her, and then with her continue his which he gladly consente his quarters in the palace." out as if it never had been touched: At ten yards distance, Major Sandwith gave it a Trelve bore aboli in the chest, and. hit it almost on the same spot with a bullet from a
was the brate worrying and ra major gam, andthe next thing Sendwith, who" was down on the ground by my side, Major Barraa'came quickly
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