ENGLISH NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 156, 5 November 1872, Page 7

ENGLISH NEWS.

,n S The greater part of ihe following telethe graphic news to Melbourne is dated London, el Oct. 21, virile some of it is dated as late as iin- 12.45 p.m. on Oct. 23. The latter news was hj. received in Melbourne on Oct. 24, at 2 p.m., e 5 and in Dunedin on the 29th, being rather less * n , than a week in transmission from London to JyJ Dunedin. The Daily Times explains that , this is owing to the fact that the submarine 1 cable between Port Darwin and Java is once w ' more in operation, and that the overland telenok graph across Australia u now complete. The ™. lews is forty-two days later than that brought ling by the last San Francisco mail a fortnight the ago, and fourteen days later than that which hen will be brought by the next Oalifornian boat, m which was due at Auckland yesterday : ;ing The Alabama claims are settled. England pays 15,500,000 dollars (£3,150,000). Bishop Selwyn's son succeeds to the Bishoptie of Melanesia, rendered vacant by the , murder of Bishop Patteson. Eight detachments of labourers for Mr m ' Brogden's railways left for New Zealand in mm the Chile. Ed: The wheat harvest in England is deficient igo n<y" iitity and inferior in quality. In Scotyt ajffif, according to the Scotsman, the harvest < w year will be the most disastrous one j| Mown since 181 G. m The Lord Chancellor, Lord Hatherley, has joa wigned, and has been succeeded by Sir loundell Palmer, who has been created °* laron Selbourne. Mr Justice Willes, of the Court of Common »rt 'leas, committed suicide. The act is attributed to an attack of gout on the brain. and M. Thiers ordered Prince Napoleon to Intel e «'e France. He refused to do so, and was Fri- hereupon escorted to the Swiss border by he police. The American Consul at Zanzibar has reI:ived a letter from Dr Livingstone. It is ated Unyanyembe, July 2, and extols Mr tanley for his energy and kindness. An important Conference of Noncomforkn.) fI s nas bee n held at Birmingham in favour "he disestablishment of the Church of Enem\, hj wf 1 Mr Graham, one of the directors of the I° n ew National Bank of New Zealand, has oby ailed for the Colony to establish branches ated here. Mr Adam Burnes, the Manager, (who tin, ito receive a salary of £3OOO a year,) follows byit m with a staff. pre- A German squadron is being fitted out for voyage round the world. The Tichborne claimant's popularity is on m d «increase. » Order reigns at Belfast after a week's ruth- ™ ■ warfare. itwn Johnson, the champion swimmer of Great Warn, faded in an attempt to swim across pear « Channel. He was obliged to desist after »d.- Riming seven miles. ■vis: The English Cricket Eleven were everyacres J» successful in Canada. Tean lhe King of Sweden is dead. The Prince "gent has been proclaimed King as Oscar • T award of the Geneva Arbitrators coninns England for allowing the Shenandoah ev»- Je refitted at Melbourne! * Seward, the American statesman, is phev ad. » M> The loss in gold by the imperfect methods ,< Id Su mat^° n that are in use ™ th c various T re, iV\ VlCtoria is estimate,! by a practical dig» ; 2K" dent J« mining, who writes in the loma " ! vain, • ffm^A ' to b e not less than £IOO,OOO ran* afc-iUl* gating that for every ounce obtained 12 r» are never recovered.