PER, S.S. TARARUA, AT THE BLUFF.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1699, 29 July 1875, Page 4

PER, S.S. TARARUA, AT THE BLUFF.

THE ORTON ASSOCIATION TO BE PROSECUTED.

THE STOPPAGE Ob 1 FREE IMMIGRA-

TION.

THE PRINCE OF WALES' INDIAN

TRIP,

MOODY AKD SASKEY.

[press auency.]

ELUFF,

Wednesday.

The s.s. Tararua left Melbourne at 215 p.m. on the 23rd with the Suez English mail.

SUEZ MAIL KEWS SUMMARY,

The French Government have promised to take active measures to prevent the use of the French Hag by vessels engaged in the kidnapping Irade in the South Seas. The law officers of the Crown have advised a prosecution involving the Orton Association.

The Dover Castle sailed for Auckland •with 350 immigrants. The majority were sent free.

The Blair Gowrie sails for Canterbury, •with 447 passengers, in a few days, and will be the last vessel under the free system which will sail for New Zealand. Mr Vogel's action in stopping immigration has excited great turpiise and dissatisfaction. The Prince of Wales will proceed to India aboard the troopsbip Seraphic. The squadron will join the Prince at Aden, thus avoiding the expense of the Suez Canal. Admiral Lambert commands the squadron. The Prince will land at Bombay first, and be accompanied by at least one of his brothers. The natives of the north-west provinces propose to raise £20,000 to get up a provincial testimonial to the Prince of Wales. The Millbank Penitentiary is confessed to be a failure, and will be pulled down as soon as the new prison at Wormwood Scrubs is ready. The recent judgment, in regard to the liability of the Brighton a cquarinm Company, has alarmed many peopl« accustomed to minister to 8 and ay recreation. A deputation has been informed that the Act did not apply to horticultural, geological, or botanic gardens. A cremation company is projected at Durive, and a furnace and motuary chapel are to be built on the foreign csmt-tery. On Whit Monday the Metropolitan Railway carried 250.000 persons. Signor Salvini is making a great impression in his Italian version of " Hamlet."

The Board of Trade enquiry respecting the wreck of the Schiller, still proceeds. Eoberts won the billiard championship and cup against Cook. Cricketing is now in full swing. Southerton, Lillywhite, and the Brothers Grace, are carrying all before them. The Theatre B.oy»l, Leeds, has been totally destroyed. The Collier's Coffee Roasting Mills, Whitechapel, were burned, and 500 hands thrown out of employment; also, Oastler and Palmer's timber and tan yards, Bermondsey, damage, £30,000. The obituary list includes : Lydia Franklin, widow of the late Sir John Franklin. Shipping: Sailed, on June S, Columbus, for Auckland ; 13th, Carisbrook Castle, for Auckland ; May 28, Dover Castle, from Belfast, for Auckland. Loading, for Auckland, City of Auckland and White Eagle. An appalling accident has occurred at TTdenburgh, Syria. A religious procession on the way to church had to cross a river, and overcrowding the ferry, in drifting with the current, was capsized. About 76 are missing. A terrible disaster has occurred on the Tagus to a party of 200 holiday-makers, who were proceeding down the river in a large lighter, to be present at the procession of Corpus Christi. The boat was upset by a squall, and 60 perished. The Premier carried a resolution that strangers should not be compelled to retire without the concurrence of the House.