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Evening Star, Issue 3014, 16 October 1872, Page 2

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{From the New Zealand Press Association.)

Auckland, October 16. The Nevada left Honolulu on Sept. 20, and arrived off the Heads at seven o’clock this morning. Passenger List.—Messrs J. Swan, N. Thompson, F. Beamish, A. Beamish, J, E. Johnston, S. Gale, J. Simpson, and Mra C. Partridge. For Melbourne : Princes Philip and Augustus of Saxe Coburg and at tendants—Dr Warra, S. W. Selby, Motifore ; and twenty others. The Nevada brings 1,600 packages for Now Zealand, and 1,086 packages for Austra’ia. Her latest dates are to September 12. The Home News of the 22ud August says: A new undertaking, entitled the National Bank of New Zealand, has been brought forward under influential auspices. The proposed capital is L 2,000,000, ia two hundred thousand shares of LlO each ; the fust issue not to exceed 100,000 shares. One-third has been reserved for New Zealand. It is proposed to afford additional banking accommodation, which is required through the recent raj id increase of population, and the development of the resources. The amount of damages awarded to the United States by the Geneva Board of Arbitration will exceed three millins sterling only by a few thousand pounds. At a dinner to the Arbitrators on September S, Cantriest’g toast of ‘‘Health to all the Nations represented at Geneva,” was greeted with loud cheering, the baud playing the national airs of the different nations. The Doncaster September Meeting cp,nir menced on the 10th. The most prominent feature of the sports was the run for thp Great Yorkshire Handicap, which was won by Dalnacardoch, Neapolitan being second, aud Sylvester third. Twelve horses started, Mr Odger has agreed pot to contest the Parliamentary election for Preston if the Liberal candidate would pledge himself te advocate the abolition of the Game Laws. A heavy thunderstorm occurred at Bolton in Lancashire, by which several lives were lost and the crops much damaged. Many of the Jesuits expelled from Ger. many will go to Ireland, where they arc promised a hearty welcome.

mail steamship from the (Jape of has arrived at Southampton With to August 5. . has advanced in price. 20,000 tnid|Hid coal-miners are preparing to strike for Kgher wages. . , , f .Rinderpest Jis prevalent m the Provinces. Precautions have been taken to prevent its spread. , ~ , , The strike among the artisans wives against the high price of meat has led to an increased demand for Colonial meats. An application on behalf of the net\ National Bank of hew Zealand, for authoto trade in the Colony, is to be made next session of the Colonial Legislature. France. The last weekly edition of Thtjlhisfration was seized by the police because it contained insulting caricatures of the Prussians. Thiers prohibits public banquets and popular demonstrations of any kind. On the 21st and 22nd of September, reports of the assassination of French officials and citizens in Paraguay were confirmed. Orders have been issued stopping work on military defences near the Mont Cenis Department of Aude has been threatened with a declaration of being in a state of aeige cn account of tho attacks on the military by the inhabitants of Aboone. The Congress of tho International Society held its first public sitting at Hague on September 5. Ibe President of the Congress, in a violent speech, denounced General Trochu as a traitor to his country, and called Jules Favre a wretch. Several French members withdrew disgusted. Before the adjournment, the sossiou adopted a resolution, the object of which was to convert the International Society into a political organizaA large number of French Communists are at the Hague, aud it is stated that a large number of condemned criminals at at present there incognito, Spain. The Carlists are again becoming troublesome. Outbreaks have occurred on the frontier. Troops have been despatched to the menaced points, and precautions taken to prevent insurgents from crossing over from France, or ceutralising ip any considerable numbers. A baud of Carlists attacked the barracks in Salos de Los, in the Province of Burgos, where numbers of their friends were imprisoned. They succeeded in entering the building, aud after releasing the prisoners burned it to the ground^ The Captain- General of Catalonia has been summoned to Madrid, accused of socialist intrigues and of corresponding with the supporters of Don Carlos. An express train was thrown from the track on the Barcelona and Valencia Railway, caused by a landslip. The engine was turned over and demolished. The total number ot victims by the disaster is unknown. Seven dead bodies have been recovered, and twenty-two passengers were injured, some fatally. Germany. The Emperor of Russia and Grand Duke Vladimer arrived at Berlin on September 5. They were met by the Emperor and Prince Fredrick William, and a large number of other German princes and ministers, with the Chancellor Bismarck at the head, and the most famous generals of the army and the chief dignitaries of the Imperial Court were also present. The Czar on alighting was saluted and embraced by the Emperor in a most cordial manner. The two Emperors entered tho same carriage, and passed slowly through the streets amid the cheers of an immense multitude. Tho Imperial carriage stopped at the Russian Embassy, into which tho Emperor Alexander was conducted, when he was visited by tho Empress Augusta and the Princess Victoria, wife of the Crown Prince. Lrter in the day the Czar proceeded to the Imperial Court, where he was received and entertained by the Emperor William and Court. After making quite a long visit, tho Czar returned to tho r.mbassy. The Emperor of Austria met with a most enthusiastic reception, from the people in his progress through Germany, and in Berlin on the evening of September 6. Precisely the same ceremonies were accorded to him as tho Czar. As the two German Emperors rode side by side through the streets, the popular enthusiasm was even greater than on the day before. In the evening a Court dinner was given at the Imperial Palace The Emperor William gave ihe toast, Our Guests.” The Emperor of Austria proposed ‘’The health of the German Emperor and Tamily. The Czars toast was, “To the Valiant Germans. Ihe festivities tenniuated with a monster torchlioht procession and the playing of the Prussian tattoo by 1121 mus'ciaus. Ihe Czar made Prince Frederick Charles and Prince Frederick Henry Albert Field Marshalls of the Russian Army. Gortschakoff had a long conterencc with Bismarck. . . . , Serious riots have occurred in bheiush Prussia, owing to the attempt to enforce the pxpulsion of the Jesuits. The Go\eminent finally suppressed the disturbances. • ■ J 1U ‘ America. The Presideptal contest is really confined to Greely and Grant. The latter is sure to be re elected. At the late Lmmvdlc Democratic Convention, Charles O Connor, of New* York, was nominated by acclamation, but declined to stand. Colonel Scott, known as the Railroad King, visited the Pacific Coast, and made arrangements for the commencement of a new overland railroad. The colonial traveller of a not very distant future will have the choice of two railroads across the Condiapiopd fields or Arizona are attracting much attention, there is no doubt of the existence of rubies, garnets, and diamonds in that locality. The Pacific mail steamer Brenville, from New York to AspinwaT, was burned at sea. Thirty-four passengers and the crew are unaccounted for. The Pacilic mail steamer America Av r as burned in the harbor of xokohama, Japan,, Nineteen lives were lost. The loss is estimated at 1,000,000 dollars. The American steamer Metis was wrecked off Connecticut, and twenty-two lives lost.

COMMERCIAL. London, August 22. The produce market is lanquid. Wool steadily advanced towards the cud of the sale which dosed with an advance on the opening rates of 2d to 3d. Since the sale the market is firm, and prices well maintained, with a fair enquiry. New Zealand flax sales were flat, and the hulk was bought in. 700 bales were sold at a decline of 20s to 25s .a ton ; middling, L 32 10s ; oood, LUG; tine, L 39. Tallow sold freely, but at the dose of the sales the market was lees active. Casks (sheep), i-* od to L-l«o

9d ; beef, 22s to 41s 3d. Hides are in good demand at Is 8d advance ; 307 New Zealand s»ld at 6|d. l eather is in active demand at 13s 4d advance. Sales of best, 13d to 15d ; seconds and stained, l2d to 14d, Butter, fair, 50s. Beeswax, 'Bs to ss; dark, 7s to 10s. c , New York, Sept. 2. Kates of freight have advanced to iumedin 17 1 cents, a foot; to Wellington, 50 cents. Wool has undergone no change, nor has the tone of the maiket. There is little disposition to take large parcels. include 261 bales of Australian, at 5/c to 58c. Flax is very quiet, and the sympathy is with hemp. No sales arc reported, but prices are nominally 9c to 10c for good qualities. At auction, iSS bales of damaged New Zealand sold at 5d 3-sths to cash ; tow, 3|d. Kerosene is inactive, although prices have been advancing, and still have an upward tendency. The markets closed firm. Devoes. 32c. Oysters and lobsters are scarce and firm. Dried apples firm. At the Boston wool market, wool is in fair request; sales of New Zealand, 55c. to 59c. Wheat—New York, Idol. 20c. San Francisco, Sept. 11. The Olympia, with the Nebraska’s passengers, has not arrived. The Idaho is engaged by the agents of the lino to make up the lost time. Breadstuffs heavy ; transactions in wheat, Idol, 60c, ; flour, sdols. 50s. The latest Live pool quotation of wheat is dated September 9, 12s lOd per cental. Wool at San Francisco dull, 10c. to 18c. Freights scarce and high.

SHIPPING. Loading at New York—Chattaugooga, for Dunedin. Loading at Boston—Conquest, for Dunedin, 1 oading at Loudon—Chile, for Napier ; Nelson and Christian McAusland, for Dunedin; Jessie Roadman and Celamo, for Wellington, Loading at Glasgow, Helen Burns, for Dunedin.

The s.s. Hero arrived to-day from Sydney, with dates to the 9th October.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Sydney, October 9. The States Opera Troupe has been dissolved. The prima donna, Signora Orlandi, left in the Hero for Auckland en route for California. Melbourne. The report of the Civil Service Commissioners recommends the classification of the entire Service, the reduction of the maximum salaries of the higher classes, aud the initiation of a Civil Service Fund. The Melbourne Meat Preserving Company has declared a dividend of 10 per cent. The election of Alderman O’Grady as Mayor is coosidersd certain Sir James M'Culloch’s appointment to the office of Agent-General will be sent home by next mail. A meetting of the agents of Insurance Companies carrying on business in Melbourne is to be held to'consider the advisability of the introduction of an average clause into policies. One Charles Hubbard, who had been addicted to drinking, banged himself. Tho value of property is everywhere increasing. Tho Adelaide’s cargo of teas, consisting of 8, OIK) packages, was declared at satisfactory rates. Oats are quoted at 3s 4d, and flour at Ll3 10s to Lls. 448 hogsheads of Martcll’s pale brandy were quitted at 6s, aud fine old brandy at 6s to 7s 6d. Hcnnesay’s case brandy has been sold to arrive at 26s 6d, Sugars sustain late rates. Braby’s corrugated iron is at 48s. Adelaide. A telegram from Palmerston, Northern Territory, states that fifty miners are returning from the Roper diggings. Many of them have gold specimens got from the reefs. The diggers, however, are dissatisfied at no alluvial gold being found. A man named Charles Harvey, who had lately arrived from New Zealand, died from sunstroke at Palmerston. Wheat is at 5a Gd, aud flour at Ll2 10s to Ll3 10s. The market is quiet. Newcastle. Arrived. —Electra, and Camille, from Wellington ; Australind, from Lyttelton. Brisbane. A diver named Guscombe died in the water at Eockharapton, from apoplexy. The drought on the Isaac River stations is rendering it necessary for the sheep to be sent to the coast.

A union washerwoman in London has been committed for seven days for attempting to intimidate a sister of the tub who had not stood out for union terms. In a recent thunderstorm at Birmingham, large pieces of ice fell for a period of half an hour. They were greater than ever had fallen there before during human memory. In 45 minutes 2.49 inches of rain fell, being at the rate of 250 tons per acre, A case is reported in the Warwick Aryan, N. S W., of a singular nature. A man named Hawker brought a claim of L 5 against the Government for damage done to a crop of lucerne by the erection of a telegraph posh in a comer of his paddock, combined with the poisonous effect of the dow that fell from the telegraphic wire. The claim was referred to appraisers, who estimated the damage at L 25.

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