Blandford Weekly News. — 1889-01-12 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

DISTURBANCES IN BURMAH.  Intelligence from Rangoon states that Mr. Perreau, district-superintendent of police in the Thayetmyo district has been shot while resting after dinner in the ;house of a Burman official at Myotheit, near Minhla, his death being instantaneous. Mr. Baynes, assistant superintendent, who accompanied Mr. Perreau, was severely wounded. Only one shot was fired, from a gun loaded with slugs. Messrs. Perreau and Baynes had been pursuing a gang of dacoits. The murderers are unknown, but suspicion rests on an ex-sergeant of the military police, who was recently dismissed. Mr. Perreau had served 15 years in Burma. The Yen country continues to be seriously disturbed. The dacoits and insurgents have now held a considerable district for nearly three weeks. Reports received from the disturbed district announce that our troops have had a number of unsatisfactory encounters with the insurgents, who are very numerous. The reinforcements sent to the district include a detachment of the 44th Goorkhas from Munipore, under Colonel Macgregor. The Chief Comminioner, who has left for Upper Burmah, will remain for some time at Pakoku,the 'station on the Irawaddy nearest to the disturbed district. The whole of the Chin field force, under Sir George White, has been placed on active service. It is into-tided specially to punish the Sayens and Taahous, two of the most powerful tribes. The force sent against Sawlapaw is now beyond reach of telegraphic communication. The military police behaved very unsatisfactorily at Kyoukrnyat when it was recently attacked by Sawlapaw's men. Forty of the police remained shut up in the barrack for two days, while the village was systematically looted, 40 large boat-loads of plunder being carried away. Numerous successful encounters with dacoit gangs are reported from Upper Burnish. In one of these fights, near Nyingyan, 14 dacoits were killed by the police. A large dacoit _gang has appeared in South Arrakan and looted Kyebin, a police station near Sandoway, carrying off some guns and ammunition. They attacked a second station, but were repulsed by the Goorkha police.  The Hanley magistrates have sentenced John Ashworth, potter, of that town, to three months' imprisonment with hard labour for neglecting to provide food and clothing for his three young children. Although the prisoner and his wife could earn £2 a week, their children, owing to their drunken habits, were left almost naked and without food or fire. Clouds House, East Knoyle, Wiltshire, the reeldence of the Hon. Percy Wyndham, bee been , burnt to the ground. The fire broke out in the ! morning in the nursery, and though engines arrived from phaftesbury Mere and Wilton, no portion of the mansion, which took five years to build, and which cost £lOO,OOO, was saved. Mr. Wyndham was at home at the time, and many visitors were in the house. The origin of the ere is unknown this unuerstooo at Llaleutta that the negotiations now proceeding between England and China, through the intermediary of the Chinese Resident at Lhassa, will result in an agreement for the exclusive control of the Indian Government over Sikkim. It is believed that such an arrangement would afford facilities of trade between India and Thi bet.  The body of a man unknown has been found in the Serpentine. It appears to have been a determined suicide. The man took off his boots, hat, collar, and tie, then walked out on the ice, threw himself down and broke it. The body—apparently that or a working man 40 years of age—was warm when found, but all efforts to restore animation were in vain.