BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 2972, 28 August 1872, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

(FROM GREVILLE’S TELEGRAM COMPANY.)

Auckland, August 28, 9.37 a.m.

The Nevada arrived at the Heads at 8 a m. Captain Blethon reports that there is no sickness on board. The Board of Health i 8 now meeting. The vessel will not be admitted to pratique for two hours. The Nevada was sixteen days ton hours on her vogage from Honolulu. She brines 30 pas* sengers and a large cargo. Dr. Phiison considers sixteen days not sufficient time to develop the disease, if there is any existing, and wishes to get the opinion of the Board of Health as to admitting the Nevada to pratique. The ship encountered very bad weather on the downward passage, which occupied sixteen days. She was nine days repairing her paddles at Honolulu.

The Board decided that the quarantine of the Nevada should be three days, the mails to be landed.

ENGLISH SUMMARY. Tbe latest dates by the Nevada are London, July 15. The English representatives arrived at Geneva to-day, (the loth). Proceedings arc to be conducted in secret.

London.

Lord Chief Justice Cockhurn will be created an Earl tor his services in connection with the Alabama arbitration. There have been fearful storms throughout Englaud, the most destructive being in the Midland and Southern countries. Several people w-ere killed by lightning. The race between Mr J. Gordon Bennett’s Sappho and Mr Asbury’s Livonia was won by the former by 90 minutes. The City of Southampton is about to give a grand banquet to Admiral Aldren and the officers of the American licet. The Archbishop of Madrid is dead. Cabecilla’s band of insurgents w'as defeated, many being wounded and captured. The Epoc.a energetically scouts the idea of Spain parting with any of her colonies. The Hon, Edward Stanley died of paralysis in San Francisco on July 10. Shipping.— Arrived : Rapido, from Napier. Sailed : Ballarat, for Napier, on June 13th ; St. Leonards, for Canterbury, on June 20th ; Hydaspes. for Otago, on June 21st; and Eobert Henderson, for Auckland, on June 23.

Commercial, The latest wool public sales leave the market with considerable animation. Greasy wools, |dto id cheaper ; large supplies are offering. Jaeomb and Co. have sold 4400 bales, 2208 bales of which were from New South Wales and Queensland. Tallow and cotton dull. Wheat inactive—Australian, G*2e. to One, per quarter. In the iron trade, the last high prices continue, with little change in foreign demand. Large Russian orders are being secured. At the kauri gum sales, ordinary, 265; fine baled clean, 02s 6d ; low middling, 33s ; good, 43s ; clean pale, 65. Hides are in good demand, and Australian fetch extreme prices. New York, Shipping; Sailed—Mercury, fojr Dpedia

and Wellington on June 10 ; Polar Star, for Auckland on the 10th. Loading Dacotab, for Melbourne ; and at Boston, Velocipede, for New Zealand. The wool sales included .30,000 lbs of New Zealand, sold at 374 cents ; 30,000 lbs of Au>trali;m, at 00 to Go cents ; and 95,000 lbs on private terms. The Boston market is firmer in consequence of the favorable telegrams concerning the London wool sales. vSan Francisco, July 17. New Zealand flax, 124 cents ; retail lots, 134 cents. In Stokes's trial for the murder of Fisk, the jury were unable to agree, and were discharged. Stokes returned to prison. Three thousand Alsatians and natives of Lorraine, headed by the band of Lafayette, marched to the office of the French consul at New A'ork, and signed papers of allegiance to France. Grant’s return as President is counted certain. Forty persons were killed from sunstroke in one day ; u New York. London. The ship Omar Pasha has been wrecked in the Hoogley river. The ship Lapwing, from Liverpool to Rotterdam, collided with an unknown vessel in the English channel and 120 lives were lost. The International Prison Reform Congress has commenced its sittings. Representative are present from every civilised country in the world. The Earl |of 4 Carnavon presides. A night express train at Belleville, Canada, jumped off the track, carrying death and fearful torture to scores of pas engers 25 were killed, G5 injured, and very few of the injured are expected to recover. A Spanish war steamer lias been instructed to seize and sink the American steam is Virginians and Edgar. Passengers by the Nevada, for Auckland— Captain Brindall, Messrs Biffie, A. Saunders, Blackie, Kneebond, K. Peumann. For Wellington—C. B. Thocker, Rev. W. Booth, W. Strange and wife. For Dunedin— Messrs W. Inglis, T. M'Kellar, and N. Kelly, Auckland, August 28. A man named Leonard attempted suicide this morning at the Shakespeare Hotel. He hung himself by a comforter to the banisters, and was nearly dead when rescued and taken to the hospital. The tchoouer i’rima Donna has returned from Norfolk Island with the Rev. Mr Dudley, who reports the safety of the mission schooner Southern Cross. During the voj • age to the islands the natives were friendly everywhere. At Florida the chief gave a warm reception to the Rev. Mr Brooker. No suspicious circumstances were observed. The Caledonian annual meeting was held to-day at two o’clock. The report and balance sheet was submitted aud approved of. The directors congratulate the shareholders on the result of another year’s operations. The quantity of quartz crushed during the year was 15,777 tons, which yielded 73,732 ounces of gold, or at the rate of nearly live ounces to the ton. The amount paid in dividends was L 154,440, or at the rate of L 64 per share, thus completing the payment to shareholders of LI9S 10a per Ll2 share. The total distributed in dividends during the last two years was 1569,710. The directors reoommend that a sum of LSOO should be awarded for directors’ honorarium. The mine manager reports the mine to be in a very satisfactory state, ai d good yields are anticipated for mouths to come. i Arrived : Keera, from Wellington,

Hokitika, August 28. The Rangitoto arrived fiom Melbourne to-day. She sailed for Greymouth without being tendered. Three mobs of cattle were sold at tie yards to-day, at L2 per lOOlbe, prime quality ; and 35s per KJOlbs, medium quality. One mob averaged LI 7 per head.