ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SUEZ.

Dunstan Times, Issue 507, 5 January 1872, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SUEZ.

, BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. (Peu Grevhae «fc Co.) —o—fWe published the f( Rowing Summa.y of Nnws brought by the Mail, as an “Extra,’ * on Saturday last.] Hokitika, Dec. 30, 1.25. The Rangitoto, Captain Mackay, arrive;! at G a.m. She left Hohson’sßay at 3p m. on the 2.3rd. and had li.htS. S. winds and fair weather throughout the passage. Bas-hles-ra. Drummond, J. J. Gassy, B. Bum y. Master Bunny, J. \V. Jolly, AnlrewKing, Master Kine, Frederick Wilkinson, Morris Moore, James Wilson, Lewis Thompson Moore, R. A. Billings, Mrs. Learmouth, Mrs. W. Fife Sind infant, Mrs. Jefferson, Miss, A Monte, She brings a general cargo of two hundred and sixty tons for all ports. The Alexandra, branch mail steamer, arrived at Ade'aide on the morning of the 2lst. 'J’he Nubia anchored at Queenscliff at midnight nii the 22nd. She left Galle on the 2Luh of November, and brings London dates to the 3rd, and telegraphic news to the 27th. Long list of passengers hut none for New Zealand. The Queen’s hj alth continues to improve The Prince of Wales is ill of typhus fever. Wool sales opened at an advance of one penny. Great deman I for Australian preserved meats, and the stock is nearly run out. Four shops have been established in Aberdeen for the sale of New Zealand preserved meat. The fourth series of wool sales closed on the ll hof October. 137,927 biles were sold, includin' 59,438 from New Zealand. The total sales for the year amounted to 052,200 bales. New Zealand ranged as I follows! Fleece, Is. sd. to2s. 4]d.; scoured, | Is. lOd. to 2s. Cd. ; greasy, lid. tods. Gd. ; ! lambs’, Is. Bd. to 2s. In flax a fair amount of business has been dn\ About 2,500 hales have been! sold, at full r del, aid an improvement in the mode of preparatn n is noticed. Hides. | The demand is not so active. 1 Arrivals with hides - England from Wclli’ gton, Roslyn Castle, Otago, Crusader, I LytdetoH, Wild Duck, Auckland, which, with Australian arrivals, brought 4475 saltel hides. Prices, New Zialanl. first heavy, ■sixpence to sixpence halfpenny. ) Second heavy, sixpence. Tallow commands a good market, at an advance. Two shillings for mutton, and one sidling for beef. Australian gmn 82 casks sold. Red Pros'ed 41, middling to good, 35 to 35 Stocks.—New Zeahin i sixes. 1831, 110 to 112, lives, 101 to 102, consolidate! 100] | to llll,]. Sixes, June and December, 111 to 113. The New, Zealand Loan Mercantile I Agency ] to J premium ; di.to Trust Loan ■ 12 to IJ premium. The Otago and Southland Investment two eighths to three eighths premium. T.is I Bank of New Zealand 18] to 10], The Bank of Otago 3] discount. Consols, 92jj to 93. Money still dear. On October the 2nd, the Bank of Englanl advance I the ra'e of discount to 5 par cent ; an I on November the 2nd, the Directors, after consultation declined to reduce. The Bank is still vary strong. Bullion and reserve of notes largely increased. Securities have fallen off. In open market matters quiet; transactions are reported at 3] to 4 per cent. The supply of money is excessive. The French Cf ivernuvTit has twenty four millions sterling ready for the fourth payment of the war indemnity. SaiL-d.—Caducous, for Auckland, reported off Brixhnm on the 25th of October. Loaded.—For Auckland, England, Wild Duck, and Naomi. Sailed. For Canterbury, Syren", October IS ; II rvest Homo, October 12. For Sydney ■Charlotte G’adstone and Crusader. For Nelson, Lucid and Tyrol. For Otago, W amor Bueen, 00l ober 20. The Enterprize and Jessie Redmond for Wellington. Loading.—Cocleno, for Wanganui. Sailed.—Malay and Char otto Gladstone These two cl ared out from London on November the 2nd, and the Cocleno on the Ist. GENERAL SUMMARY. The newsof the loss of the rangoon reached London 8 hours after the wreck. The inquiry ns tc the hj ss of the Undcrlcy resulted in the susp nsh n of the master’s certificate far th>ee months. A good deal of the cargo has been saved. The extra Mail Steamer Pekin ails for Shanghai, via Suez ('anal, November 22nd. Captain M‘Dnn >ll of the Queen of the Thames has published a pamphlet, advoca ting a 1 ape line of steamers to do voyage to Melbourne in 40 days. Stalls for the sale of Australian Meats have been opened at Manchester and are crowded with customers. The New Victorian Tariff is likely to seriously hamper export trade and emigration. The Liverpool emmigration report shows an increase. Fife n thousand people attended Mr. Gladstone’s meeting at Greenwich, who snoke two hours ; 187 (?) reporters were preurnt. The whole of tho speech was cabled to America the same night The criPif the press on tho speech is faw expedition is s arte! for the Holv , *b, th» notor has left for Angelica#

The Magistrates haye ifelused danciu licenses to Creihorne, Highbury Barn, Alhambra and surila- haunts. Mr. ’Bruce has declined to release the re maining Fenian pr s>mers, who are either perjured soldiers, nr the Manchester murdc rers. The agitation in the labor market for not more than nine hours’ work continues. The principle is advised generally. Later telegrams from London to Nov. 27, say that Mr. Bright has recovered, an! will return to public life. Disraeli has ' een elected rector of the Glasgow University, Sir Wil)i am Maxwell, rector of Edinhu gh University. The court martial o the loss of the -daegera exonerated the Captain and the officers. Two thousand app’ications made by officers to retire prior to the issuing of tho warrant, ec carry out the army Bill. The French Government have resolve! to submit to ihe National Assembly, a project for doubling the capital of the Hank ol France, and increasing the circulation ol notes to three mil ions, knd the rate of discount to be raised to six per cent. A larce fire lias occurrc 1 at Geneva. Cholera has reappeared at Constantinople. The Republicans have elected meat o their candidates in New York, also in Massachficlretts and Wisconsin. The famine in Persia is rapidly increasing. Disturbances have occurred among the Chinese at Singapore. The Prince of Wales suddenly indisposed. Official bulletin of Nov. 23, states that the Prince of Wales has typhus fever, but no unfavorable symptons appeared until the 27 th, when the fever was increasing. Prince Alexis, the Russian Naval Commander ii“ Chief, in replying to an address of welcome in New York, declared nothing could disturb the friendship existing between Russia and America. The German Reichstag has adopted s Bill for introducing gold coinage. Thiers received Chinese ambassador, who

apologised f..r the Tien Ts.u massacres. Bismark is unwell. At Madrid, a dissolution of the Cortes is con-idercd certain. Thu boiler of the steamer, Motion, hurst; no lives lost. Some of the Rangoon’s mail-bags hav* been recovered in good preservation, also, some of the passengers’ luggage. Mr. Butt at Glasgow advocated repeal of the Union, an! Irish self government. Piggot, proprietor of the Irishman, sentenced to four months imprisonment. Kel y has been acquitted of the murder of Constable Talbot. M. Thiers offers the Pope an asylum iu France, but his Holiness still remains at ths Vatican. Great Anti-Papal demonstrations have bet n held in Brussels. Wool sales opened one penny better, The Wool Importers’Association has been ] re-constructed. Adelaide wheat, Css. Quiet. Great demand for Australian meats, and stocks exhausted. Consols, 93 i. The first me sage was despatched from Galls to Argus (?), via Java, on cue eSth of I November. Tho Nubia met heavy weather after cross" ing the Line, and put into Frc-emantle for coal, thus accounting for the delay iu her arrival. LATEST SPECIAL. Wheat firm ; brandy,. 7d. higher; iron advancing. Victorian meats in great demand. Mutton, 4 ;lbs beef. Gibs., Gd. par lb. Wool sales largely attended by buyers, and tho bidding spirited. C 6,000 bale* were offered. The Queen returned to Windsor on the 25th. Her Majesty's health has much im p oved. Arrived.—Great Britain. Ur. Wynter (?) is dead. Italian Commission appointed to inquirs into pos al service by Brindisi. Bank rates reduced to 4.

“If brevity is the soul of wit, three speeches delivered at the Kyncton General >c! sions on Tuesday must he classed,” says the Kyne.ton Guardian, “as amongst the wittiest on record. The evidence having been concluded in tho prosecution of Henry Hines for larceny, the public were treated to the followin'! specimens of forensic eloquence : —Mr. O’Loghlon (Crownprosecutor) 1 shan’t address the jury.’ Mr, M. G. Byrne (counsel for tho prisoner),—‘ I don’t intend to make a speech.’ His Honor the Judge (summing up).—‘ Gentlemen the case is entirely in your hands.’ The jury emulated the promptness of counsel and judge, and acquitted tho prisoner without hesitation.” The rob! s eking expedition from Sydney to New Guinea have obtained permission to take arras and munitions of war at their own cost. The Government of New South Wales refused to grant a supply of muskets from the G vernmonc stores, but the wish was expressed by the Colonial Secretary, that the explorers or prospect irs “ might do all tl e g<od they could for themselves, and clo no harm t<> tho natives.”; Wan aits have been issued acainst Brigham Young, and also several Mormon officials, for wilful murder, one of the avenging angels or l-annites emp’oyed by them to assassinate Gentiles having turned informer. Holt-owav’s Ointment and Rr ls are the unanimously received healing and hcal'hgiving medicines of the nine een'h, century. The Ointment, when applied to the surface, penetrates to the radix, or root of the disease, curing every ulcerous or.other sore, o d wounds, or bad legs, years standing