NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 666, 22 January 1875, Page 3

NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

— o — the Dunedin Dailies.) London, Nov. 27. ■ An old English sailor has published a ciromnstancial statement, that after rescuing Roger Tichborne from a boat drifting in the Pacific, they were landed on Sydney Island, where he nursed him eighteen days, till he died, and then buried him. Before his death he wrote a statement with the blood of a bird, now faded. The British Consulate at Honolulu is investigating the affair.

The sensational accounts of the discovery of a vast conspiracy in Russia, implicating ladies and persons of high station in charges of threatening the life of the Czar, have been declared an entire fabrication. Nothing is known of it at St Petersburg, and no arrests have been made. The students of the Medical Academy and Technological Institution have been very turbulent, and a commission of inquiry has been appointed. The protracted disa bilitiea of the Russian nonconforming sects have been removed by a decree. These sects number fully 10,000,000.

The following dividends have been declared The Trust and Agency Company of Australasia, 10 percent.; Scottish Australian Mining, 15 per cent ; Otago and Southland Investment, 10 per cent. ; Australasion Mines Investment, Is per share ; the P. and O. 7 per cent.

The Pope, on receiving Archbishop Manning, said that he rejoiced greatly at the progress being made by the Roman Catholic religion in England. A letter published from tho Comte de Chambord recommends his adherents to do nothing which may tend to delay the restoration.

Advices from Paris state that Marshal M‘Mahon’s message has been generally approved. The insnrrection in Buenos Ayres has ended, General Mitro, the commander of tho insurgents, having surrendered with his entire army.

Mr Disraeli, who has been suffering from gout, is improving. He has gone to Bournemouth for a change. Russia has invited the Great Powers to send delegates te St Petersburgh in continuation of the Brussels Conference. The Board of Trade gives the November exports at eighteen and three-quarters millions, and the imports at twenty-eight and three eighths millions General Loma, with 80,OQQ troops, attacked the Carlist position towards Tolosa. After two days obstinate fighting ho.:was repulsed with heavy Joss, and forced to.retreat on San Sebastian.

Lord Napier of Magdala retains the command of tho In (bon army for another year, at the request of the Indian Office. ' * .i,, The steamer Lombardy has returned to Southampton greatly damaged,

A succession of heavy gales on the English coast has caused many disastrous shipwrecks, Paris, Dec. 17. The Assembly has adopted a bill subjecting all foreigners who are bom in France to military service in the French army. Calcutta, Nov. 10. Information has just been received that Yahook Khan reached Labulon on the 2nd inst., with a small following of Khans and a hundred sowars. Ho was well received. Upwards of 7,000 deaths from an earthquake are already reported. Several districts have still to furnish statistics.

Deo. 10. The transit of Venus was successfully oh served here.