ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL, VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

Dunstan Times, Issue 541, 30 August 1872, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL, VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

[BY - ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH,] o Auckland, August 28, 11 a.m. The Nevada has arrived, after a passage of sixteen days and ten hours from port of Honolulu. The Captain reports that there has been no sickness on board during the voyage. The Board of Health <s now sitting, and vessel will not be admitted for two hours. The Nevada brings thirty passengers and a large general cargo. Dr. Philson considers sixteen days not a sufficient time to develop disease, if any existed, and wishes to obtain the opinion of the Board as to admitting the vessel to pratique. She encountered very bad weather. She occupied sixteen days on her downward passage and nine days were spent in repairing her paddles «t Honolulu. GENERAL SUMMARY. The latest dates from London are to the 15th oLJuly. The English Representative had arrived in Geneva. The proceedings were to be conducted in secret. Chief-Justice Cockburn will be created an Earl, in consideration of his services in the Alabama arbitration. Fearful storms throughout England. Most destructive in the midland and southern counties. Several people were killed by the lightning. The race between the Sappho and Levonis was won by the former. Ninety minutes. The city of Southampton is about to give a grand banquet to Admiral Aldren and the officers of the American iteet. The Archbishop of Madrid is dead. A great many of Cabecillas band of insurgents have been wounded and taken prisoners. The Epocn energetically scouts the idea of Spain parting with any of her colonies. The Hon. Edward Stanley died of paralysis, at San Francisco, on the 10th of July. English Shipping.—Arrived.—Rapido, from Napier. Sailed.—Ballarat, for Napier, Juno 23; St. Leonard, for Canterbury, June 20 ; for Otago, June 21; Robert Henderson, for Auckland, June 23. Considerable andimation prevailed at the late wool sales. Greasy, £d. to Id. per lb. cheaper. There w;ts a large supply offering. Jacob and Co. have sold 4,400 b les, 2,238 bales from New South Wales and Queensland. Tallow and cotton dull. Australian wheat, 02s. to 655. per quarter.. In the iron trade the late high prices continue, and there is little change in foreign demand, Russian orders being secured. Kauri gum sales : Ordinary, 265. ; clean, 32s 6d. ; low middling, 335. ; good, 43a. ; dean pale, 60s. Hides are in good demand ; Australian at extreme prices. Sailed from New York. —The Mercury, for Dunedin, and the Pole Star, for Auckland. Loading.—Dacotah, for Melbourne Vilocidadc, for New Zealand The wool sales include 30,000 lbs. from New Zealand, at 374 cents. ; 30,000 lbs. at 60 to 65 cents., and9s,ooolbs. at private terms. The Boston Market is firmer, in consequence of the favorable telegrams of the London wool sales. San Francisco, July"l - New Zealand flax 124 cents, retail lots, 134. New York. In the trial of Stokes for the murder of Fisk, the jury being unable to agree were discharged, and Stokes returned to prison. 3,000 natives of Alsace and Loraine, headed by a band of Lafayette, marched to the office of the French Consul and signed an allegiance to France? Grant's return as President is counted on as 1 icing certain. Forty persons were killed from sunstroke in one day in London The ship Omar Pacha was wrecked on ihe Hoogley river. The ship Lapwing, from Li verpool to lloterdam, collide! with an unknown vessel in the English channel, 120 lives lost. The international Prison Reform Congress has commenced. Representatives were present from every civilised country in the world. The Earl of Carnarvon presided. At Belleville, Canada,the tngine of the night express train jumped off the track, carrying death an I fearful torture to scores of the passengers, twenfy five being killed, and sixty five injured, very few escaped injury. The Spanish war vest's have been instructed to seize and sink the American steamers Virginians and Edgar. The passengers by the Nevada to Auckland were Captain Brindall. Biffie, A. Saunders, Black, E. Knuborne .- for Wellington, C. B Thocker, Rev. W Booth, W. Strange and Wife ; for Dunedin, W. Inglii, T. M'Kcllar, and N. Kelly. 11.55 A. jr. The Board of Health has decided to quarantine the Nevada three 'ays, but the mails are to be landed.