SECOND EDITION.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2723, 8 November 1871, Page 2

SECOND EDITION.

ing Star, 6.30 p.m.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. (from greville’s telegram company, neuter’s agency.) Auckland, November 5. Mr Mackay has received a telegram from Cambridge, to the effect that the King has consented to the construction of the telegraph to Ohinemuri. Mr Mackay and Dr Pollen proceed to Ohinemuri to conclude arrangements. The bottom level of the Caledonian has been touched, and the mine is improving. The opening of Cagli’s Opera Company was a great success. LISOO worth of season tickets have been sold. Christchurch, November 8, The Rev. Canon Wilson has been appointed to the newly-formed Archdeaconry of Christchurch. A. BRIYA L OF THE NEBRASKA. WITH THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL. Movember 8. The Nebraska left Honolulu on October 22nd, stopped half-an-hour at Suttonella, one of the Navigator group, reached Auckland at 9 a m. on November 7. The Moses Taylor left Francisco on October 11, and picked up a water-logged brig, the captain of which was the only one alive aboard. He had subsisted 105 days without food, except stray fish thrown aboard. He had no other, except his own wine. The Nebraska brings London telegraphies dates to October 10. Passenger List.—For Auckland : Saloon— Mr J. S. Graham and wife, Captain Montgomery, Messrs E. H. Maude, Mr and Mrs Bush, Miss Old ; eight in the steerage. For Lyttelton : Mr L. Cook. For Port Chalmers : Messrs Shorten, K. M‘Donald ; and nine passengers for Sydney and Melbourne. GENERAL SUMMARY. London, October 9. The health of the Queen is causing great anxiety. Mr Gladstone and the Prince of Wales have been summoned to Balmoral. There have been great gales, attended with many shipwrecks and much loss of life, on the coast of England, especially off Great Grimsby. The papers furnish harrowing details of shipwrecks in full sight of people on shore. The ship James Booth foundered in the Bay of Biscay, eighteen men being drowned. The ship Hesperos, with all bands, was lost at Spickerwog; and the ship Mount Sinai was burnt at sea, but there are no details. The strikes in favor of the nine hours’ movemeut continue. The masters at Newcastle hav compromised for nine and a-half hours till January ; after that nine hours to constitute a day’s work. Grett distress prevai s iu consequence of the strikes. The London Telegraph says there can be no doubt that the misfo tune of a deficient harvest will be added to the disaster of a cattle plague. The foot and mouth disease is spreading throughout the kingdom with deplorable rapidity. In the City of Preston in one week 470 cattle were attacked, and it is estimated there are 25,000 animals suffering in the United Kingdom. The pest involves sheep and swine. Besides this disease, pleuro-pneumonia is ravaging the herds of England and Scotland. The Times says a Bishop and Archbishop have appeared in the pulpit of a Scotch kirk, and conducted the Divine Service. Tbe announcement has given a severe shock to the thoroughly sensitive ecclesiastical and nervous in the Church of England; but all other classes welcome the advent of a system of reciprocity of pulpits. The reported marriage between Prince Alfred and Princess Thyra, of Denmark, is pronounced untrue. It is reported that Millia, in Morocco, is besieged by 12,000 Kabyles. Reinforcements have been promised to the garrison. A letter from Teheran says 80,000 persons perished in Mischad in July. The remaining 40,000 were captured by the Afghans, who enslaved many. Four successive tremendous explosions occurred at the establishment ot an oil merchant at Chelsea, thirteen persons being in* jured. Pari.*, October 9. The loan of the City of Paris has been taken. The sub criptions amounted to more than lourteen times the required sum. Several conflicts hare taken place between the Fr- nch citizens and the German garri cn at Dijon. There was intense excitement in consequence. Thiers receives complaints daily from the occupied provinces, declaring that the presence of the Ge man troops is iusuppi •it be. The German generals refused to evacuate the Department of the Eusc until they had

'been officially informed that the third instalment of the indemnity had been paid. They subsequently received orders and evacuat^d.Court rev j s i on to which Rossel appealed have judged him guilty ; and the penalty of death imposed on Kochfort has been commuted to banishment. The municipality of Paris voted two million francs to ’ repair the monuments and public buildings destroyed during the seige. The supporters of the Empire arc becoming bolder in their intrigues and are agitating openly for restoration. The republican journals demand of Thiers prompt action in suppressing Bonapartist conspiracies. Arombrowski, the leader of the mob who attacked a German residence at 1 yons, has been arrested and sentenced to two months imprisonment. A deputation waited on Thiers from Dijon and complained of the conduct of the Prussians in the occupation of that Citja The Prussians were charged by the deputation with wantonly imprisoning 125 citizens, who forgot to deliver up their arms. The disarmament of the National Guard is proceeding rapidly. The diplomatic arrangements between Prance and Germany have been completed. The continued agitation in the Algerian possessions causes uneasiness, lest the troubles will cause such an expense as will possibly lead to an abandonment of the C °^° Berlin, October 0. The Reichstag is convoked for the 16th inst. The budget to be submitted proposes to increase the appropiiation for the nary and coast defence by 5,000,000 thalers. The workmen of Ghent are out on strike They demand a reduction of hours and double pay for overtime. A Protestant league is in course of formation throughout Germany foruthe expulsion of Jesuits from the country. At a meeting at Darmstadt, resolutions were passed opposing the infallibility dogma as inimical to the sovereignty of the State, to the liberty of people, and to freedom of conscience. . . x The kingdom of Bavaria is to recall its foreign ambassadors, and in future he represented only as a portion of the German empire. Austria. A rumor] is current that the Emperor Francis Joseph is serionsly disposed to abdicate. The cause assigned is despondency, and conscious unfitness for the constitutional crisis which threatens a dissolution of the Austrian Empire. , , Rome, October Bth. The Italian Governtnens have demanded the oath of loyalty to the King from all professors of colleges in Rome. 20 professors re f used to take the necessary oath, and two convents have been occupied by Italian difference has arisen between France and Italy respecting the official debt. The Italian Government express their determination that no professor shall be permitted to exercise his functions without taking the oath. ° Spain. A serious Republican agitation has commenced. The Ministry resigned and the Cortes is adjourned without the election of a President. , A new Cabinet has been formed, who announce measures of economy by reducing the salaries of the Civil Service. Turkey, Late news states that the cholera is subsiding in Turkey, Russia, and Germany. The Moorish Kabylea at Segasta menace the Sultan’s authority. Turkish troops have been despatched there. The -panish Government remains passive unhss its flag is insuited. America. A fire occurred in San Francisco on Sept. 23, and destroyed the wholesale stores of Reddington, Hastlea and Co., and another in Harpendiary’s block. The total loss is nearly a million dollars. A fire in Chicago on October 7, burnt over seven blocks of buildings. The loss was 500,000 dols. On October 8, a second fire at Chicago destroyed 10,000 buildings ; the loss being 150,000,000 dols. All the business part of the city was destroyed ; 100,000 people being rendered homeless. Fires in the forest of North Michigan, Wisconsin, and lowa, destroyed a million dollars worth of property. Many lives were lost. At Pensakan, Winconsin, 30 lives were lost and the whole town burnt. London, October 1. At this season’s wool sales, 30,189 bales were sold to date. The market opened with Id to lid per pound in advance for all descriptions, This has since increased to fully 2d. ______________