The failure of the N.E. monsoon has induced s com between the present tiful season of J The weather conditions of Northern India during the past winter are reported as similar it only remains for the S. W. mensem to burst in 8. India at the usual date and resemblance. ing to the very plentiful fail to reach Upper India to complete the
harvests of last year, distress is not very evident as yet, but, as is usual in unseasonable weather or times of scarcity, sickness inds la on the increase. There has been a terrible outburst of small-pox in Bombay, and indeed it is heard of all over the country, while in the whole of India there was a rise of over 11,00) in the number of plague deaths Inst week, being 12,028 in excess of the plague deaths of the corresponding week of last year.
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