BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2767, 30 December 1871, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

(from obeville’s telegram company,) reuteb’s agent?.) ARRIVAL OF THE RANGITOTO AT HOKITIKA WITH THE SUEZ MAIL. Hokitika, December 30. The s.s. Riuigltoto, Captain Mackie, arrived here at six. o’clock this morning. She left Hobson Bay on the 23rd inst,, at 3 p.m., and called at Milford Sound on the 28th ; experienced light S.S.E. winds and fair weather throughout the passage. Passenger List.—Messrs Drummond,

J. j. C4sey, B. Bunny, Master Bunny, J. W. I Jolly, Andrew King, Master King,- W. J. Moore, Frewin Thompson, Frederick Wilkinson, Maurice Moran, James Wilson, Lawes Thompson, Moore, R. A. Billing, Mrs Learmonth, Mrs W. Fyfe and infant, Mrs Jefferson, Miss A. Moore. Cargo.—262 tons for all ports. W. L. Mailler, purser, Melbourne, Dec. 23. The Alexandra branch mail steamer arrived at Adelaide on the morning of the Slat, and the Nubia with the English mails anchored at Qneenscliff at midnight on the 22nd, She left Galle on the 29th of November and brings dates from London of the 3rd and telegraphic news to the 27th, There is along list of passengers but none for New Zealand. London. The Queen’s health continues to improve. The Prince of Wales is ill of typhoid fever. The wool sales opened one penny higher. Australian meat was in good demand, stocks having run out. Four shops have been established at Aberdeen for the sale of New Zealand preserved meats. The fourth series of wool sales closed on October lltb, 137,997 bales were sold, in--39,438 from New Zealand. The total sales for the year were 652,399 bales of New Zealand. Prices ranged as follows Fleece, Is 5d to 2s 4d ; half-scoured, Is lOd to 2s6d; greasy, lid to Is ,6d ; lamb’s wool, Is 8d to 2s, In flax a fair amount of business has been done. About 2500 bales sold at full rates. An improvement in the mode of preparation is noticeable. Arrived, with hides—England, from Wellington ; Roslin Castle, from Otago; Crusader, from Lyttelton ; Wild Duck, from Auckland ; which, with Australian arrivals, bring up the quantity to 4475 bales of salted hides. Prices : New Zealand first, heavy at O^d; second, heavy at 6d. There is a good market for tallow, at an advance of 2s for mutton and Is for beef. Of Australian grown, 82 casks were sold : Red frosted, 41s ; middling to good, 35s to 365. Stocks.—New Zealand Sixes, 1891, LllO to LI 12 ; Fives, 101 to 102. Consolidated, 10'U to Sixes, June and December, 11l to 113. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, £to § premium. Do. Trust Loan lj} to 1| premium. Otago and Southland Investment Association, J to | premium. Bank of New Zealand, 184 to 194. Bank of Otago, 34 discount. Consols, 92 1 to 93. Money is still dear. On October 2nd, the Bank of England advanced the rate of discount to 5 per cent., and, on November 2nd, after consultation with the Directors, they declined to reduce it. Still the Bank holds largely of bullion, and the reserve of notes is largely increased. In the open market matters are quiet, and transactions are reported at 34 and 4 per cent. The supply of money is excessive. The French Government has L 24,000,000 ready for payment of the fourth instalment of the war indemnity. Arrived at Gravesend, October 26th, the Crusader, from Lyttelton : October 28, Wild Duck, from Auckland ; the Roslin Castle, from Otago, 28th. Sailed: For Auckland, the Cadnceus. She was off Brixham October 25th, Loading ; Naomi and Wild Duck. Sailed for Canterbury : Cyrene, October 18th ; Harvest Home, October 9th. Loading : Charlotte Gladstone, Crusader. Load'ng for Nelson: Tyrol. Sailed for Otago : Warrior Queen, October 29th. Loading : Jessie Readman, Enterprise. Loading for Wellington : Celaeno. Sailed for Wanganui: Malay, October, llth. The Charlotte Gladstone cleared from London on the 2nd of November, and the Celreno on the Ist. GENERAL SUMMARY. The news of the loss of the Rangoon reached London eight hours after the wreck. The inquiry into the loss of the Underly resulted in the suspension of the master’s certificate for three months, A good deal of the cargo has been saved. The extra mail steamer Pekin sails for Shanghai, via the Suez Canal, on November 22nd. Captain Macdonald, of the Queen of the Thames, has published a pamphlet advocating the Cape line of steamers to do thq voyage in forty days. A stall for the sale of Australian meats has been opened at Vanchester, and is crowded with customers. The new Victorian tariff is likely to hamper the export trade and emigration. The Liverpool October emigration report shews an increase. Fifteen thousand persons attended Mr Gladstone’s meeting at Greenwich, He spoke for two hours. One hundred and seven reporters were present. The whole speech was transmitted to America by cable that night. The criticism of the press on the speech is favorable. A new expedition has started for the Holy Land (?) Mr Sothern has left for America. The Magistrates have refused to grant music and dancing licenses to Cremomc, Highbury-barn, the Alhambra, and other similar haunt®. Mr Bruce has declined to release the re-? lease the remaining Fenian prisoners, who are either perjured soldiers or the Manchester murderers. The agitation in the labor market extend? ing the nine hours’ principle generally, has succeeded in getting it acceded. LATE TELEGRAMS, Mr John Bright has recovered, and will return to public life. Mr DTsraeli is elector Rector of the Glasgow University, and Sir William Maxwell Hector of the Edinburgh University. The court-martial on the loss of the Megiora exonerates Captain Thrupp and his officers. Two thousand applications were made by officers to retire, prior to the issue of the warrant to carry out the Army Act. The French Government have resolved to submit to the National Assembly a project for doubling the capital of the Bank of France, and increasing the circulation of notes to L3,0)0,000. The rate of discount has been raised to G per cent, by the Bank of France. There has been a large fire at Geneva The Cholera has re-appeared at Constantinople.

The Republicans elected most of their candidates in New York as well as in Massachusetts and Winconsin. The famine in Persia is rapidly increasing. There have been disturbances among ths Chinese at Singapore. The Prince of Wales has become suddenly indisposed. An office 1 ! bulletin, dated November 23, states that the Prince of Wales is suffering from typhoid fever, but no unfavorable symptoms had appeared. On the 27th the fever -was increasing. Prince Alexis, the Russian nav. l comman-der-in-chief, replying to an address of welcome in New York, declared nothing could disturb the friendship between Russia and America. The German Reichstag adopted a bill for introducing a gold coinage. M. Thiers received the Chinese Ambassador, who apologised for the Tien-Tsin massacres. Count Bismarck is unwell. Madrid. The dissolution of the Cortes is considered certain. LATE TELEGRAMS. The boiler of the steamer Moontin burst; but no lives were lost. Some of the Rangoon’s mail-bags have been discovered in a good state of preservation; also some of the passengers’ luggage. Mr Butt, Q.C., member for Cork, is in Glasgow, advocating repeal of the union and self-government for Ireland. Mr Pigott, propri-tor of the Irishman , has been sentenced to four months imprisonment. , , , Kelly was acquitted for the murder of Talbot, head constable of Dublin. Thiers offers the Pope an asylumn in France, but he remains at the Vatican. There have been great anti-papal demonstrations in Brussels. The wool sales opened Id. better. The London Wool Importers Association has been reconstituted. Adelaide wheat fetches Gss, but is quiet. There is a great demand for Australian meats, but stocks are exhausted. Consols 93i The first message was despatched from Galle to the Argus via Java on November The Nubia met with heavy weather after Crossing the line, and put into Freemantle for coal, thus accounting for the delay in her arrival. The Tararua arrived yesterday. It has been determined not to admit females to the University, although they may matriculate. The Rangitoto takes a large number of excursionists, including Messrs Billing and Casey, barristers ; Thompson, M.L.A. ; Moore, M.L.A, ; and Moran, mining speculator. , T1 , The Forster and Steward race resulted in a barney. Sydney, Mr Macleay’s motion, in favor of cheap railways, was carried. There have been fresh gold finds at Tambaroora. The mail news has imparted a firmer feeling and better demand for wool. Adelaide. Mr Westcott is forming a party on a mining exploring expedition. The locusts are still doing much mischief to grasses and gardens. The weather is intensely hot, the thermometer registering lIP in the shade. Tasmania. The Legislative Council rejected the ’Telegraph Messages Copyright Bill. A servant girl has been arrested on a charge of infanticide. Melbourne, December 23. The Ministerial banquet at Ballarat is generally admitted to have been a success. Mr Duffy made a long and able speech. Rosenwax was sentenced to three and ahalf years imprisonment, for fraudulent insolvency. Mr Rolfe’s funeral was a very large one.