Weekly News. — 1890-02-13 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

INDIAN BORDER EXPEDITIONS. TERRIBLE RAVAGES OF FEVER.  Brigadier• General Symons has descended from Yokwa to Kar to meet and confer with Sir Charles Arbuthnot and General Gordon. They will not ascend the Chin hills. The difficulty of transport has caused Sir C. Arbuthnot to abandon his intention to visit the advanced posts. Some progreis has been made in the advance towards Halm, but the ;lid:, culty of the road continues to increase, and progre,s is likely to be slower than ever. Two hundred Hakas have come in and tendered their submission. Hants, the independent Chin village which bad harboured the Sliwaygyobyu prince, has been burned by a company of Bengal infantry commanded by Captain Hunter. . _  The health of the troops chews no material improvement. A correspondent of the P.1.1,900n Tiro, telegraphs from Ear that of the reinforcement oi 100 Borderers just sent from the headquarters of the regiment scarcely half will be able to reach the front, and adds : "The men are absolutely rotten with fever. It is certainly desirable that full inquiry should be made to ascertain whether the extraordinary outbreak of sick* nese among the European and native troop. forming the Chin field force is merely due to the malarious nature of the climate or to neglect of necessary precautions, or whether, on the other hand, it is not largely attributable to wholly different causes, resulting from recent changes in the laws regulating cantonments." A correspondent of the Rangoon Times with the Chin column loudly ! demands an inquiry into the treatment of the Punjab coolies attached to 13riesdier-Crenetal Symons's column. He states that before leaving Calcutta they were kept for two days without tents or covenng on exposed ground during pouring rain, and had to lie down in some inches of water. The result of this carelessness was that, out of 900 coolies despatched, AN men were either dead or in hospital before the Chin column had been hours in the hills.  The most important news from the Luahai force, telegraphs a 7'inaes Rangoon correspondent, is the surrender of Mongpunga, a powerful Howlong chief. He came, bringing a gyall and a pig, and requested Mr. Murray, the political otlicer,to sweat the oath of friendship according to the Lushai custom. Tlne and tine pig emonys. hs irnir been withillefdMurray full Th. Mongpunga sneered one another with the blood of the victims, and each ate • portion of the liver after it had been cooked. Mongpungs then stated that another chief. Lienioinga, who had heard that a u gy. d l l force was marching against him from Cached., was going to surrender to it, taking with him the caplanes raided from Britibh territory last year.  Ducal! have attacked is patrol party in the Mag district, killing the Itsimvi, magistrate accompanying it. Considerable want of discipline appears to prev•il in the Burmese police fens,. A pri,ate of the Shivebo police battalion has been arrested on a charge of murdering the anbinisr major. and a nonomuniussioned officer and three ether titivate., are charged with abetting the same err i At Henads two privates of the police opened a fusillade from the roof id the barrack on tie townspeople. and three Chinamen and three Rio-mans werekilled. One of the policenieu wag dmigeroaly wounded by the fire of the troops who were tUrllell out. The other committed subside on finding Hoag* Irapossible.  Dreadful suffering prevails in Mexico and in the 'wintry towns in consequence Of the intber as epidemic. The deaths in the capital on Saturday numbered 143. Advices from Brazil state that the Provisional (tor ernment intends to increase the strength of the army by 10,000 men before the general elections in Selo ember next. • A terrible tire has occurred at Stevenson, Alabama, by a hirli a (I welling•house was bill mid to the grcund, and the entire family of six prisons ttlo were in foe hottre al the time lost their lii or.  \