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BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH

From the New Zealand Press Association.)

ENGLISH NEWS. The Alabama claims are settled. England pays 15,500,000d015. (13,150,000). Bishop Selwyn’s son succeeds to the Bishopric of Melanesia, rendered vacant by the murder of Bishop Patteson. Eight detachments of laborers for Mr Brogden’s railways, left for New Zealand, in the Chile. Tenders are invited for a Californian mail service. Several important trade strikes are feared. The wheat harvest in England is deficient in quantity and inferior in quality. In Scotland, according to the /Scotsman, the harvest this year will be the most disastrous one known since 1816. The steamer Atrato, for Melbourne, put back for repairs, having lost her propeller. Messrs John Fox and Co., in the Australian and American trade, have failed. The St. Leger was won by Wenlock; Prince Charlie being second, and Vanderdecken third.

REUTER’S TELEGRAMS, [By Java Cable.) London, October 21. 4,25 p.m. Tho Church Congress at Leeds closed its sittings after a highly successful meeting. The Bishop of Salisbury advocated a comprehensive system of indulgence towards Church differences, and demonstrated the impolicy of ecclesiastical litigation. The Lord Chancellor, Lord Hatherley, has resigned, and has been succeeded by Sir Roundoff Palmar, who has been created Baron Selhourne. Mr Justice Willes, of the Court of Common Pleas, committed suicide. The act is attributed to an attack of gout on the brain. The Hon. Mr Denman, Q.C., has succeeded him. Field Marshal Sir George Pollock, Constable of the Tower, died, and was interred in Westminster Abbey. Sir William Gowan succeeds him as Constable of the Tower. Alderman Sir Sydney Waterlow is to be the new Lord Mayor, M. Thiers ordered Prince Napoleon to leave France. He refused to do so, and was thereupon escorted to the Swiss border by the police. The American Consul at Zanzibar has received a letter from Dr Livingstone. It is dated Unyanycrabe, July 2nd, and extols Mr Stanley for his energy and kindness. Au important Conference of Nonconformists has been bed A at Birmingham in favor of the disestablishment of the Church of England. Sir John Wauchop, Sir William Stirling Maxwell, Sir Alexander Grant, Dean Ramsay, and Principal Tulloch, have been gazetted as the Board of Education for Scotland. The outbreak of rinderpes. in Yorkshire is contradicted. Mr Graham, one of the Directors of the National Bank of New Zealand, has sailed for the Colony to establish branches there, Mrßurnes, the Manager, follows him with a staff, MrWaterson is appointed Manager in Australia. A German squadron is being fitted out for a voyage round the world. The foot-and-mouth disease is rapidly spreading in Yorkshire and Warwickshire. Obituary.—Prince Albrecht, Countess of Shaftesbury, Mr Albany Fonblauque, Bishop of Capetown, Sir Isaac Coffin, Mr Seward, the American statesman. October 22, 1.30 p.m. The new Treaty between Great Britain and France will abolish the French differential dues on British shipping, and annul the obligation laid on England to tax wine according to its strength.. Sir Thomas Cochrane, Admiral of the Fleet, is dead. 5 p.m. Tho Government are about to send Sir Bartlc Frere (formerly Governor of Bombay), to Zanzibar, to arrange for the annihilation of the East African slave trade, and to open up communication with Dr Livingstone, who is now exploring Lake Victoria. LATEST UNPUBLISHED TELEGRAMS. The following telegrams were received by cable in Melbourne, this day (24th October), at 2 o’clock : London, October 23, 12.45 p m. Dr Livingstone expects to reach Ujiji in eight months. The Royal Geographical Society have given a banquet to Mr Stanley. A rise in the rate of discount is expected. Consols are at 92. COMMERCIAL. New Zealand Consolidated Fives are at 103, and do. Sixes, at 112. Adelaide wheat is at 65s to 68s per quarter. Consols are at 92 j. Sperm oil is at LBS.

The wool sales were spirited. An advance oi 2d to 3d per lb. took place on combing sorts, the average advance being 14d per lb. The exports to New Zealand show a decrease of L 115,000, Twelve hundred bales of New Zealand hemp were sold at a decline of 21s per ton. The consumption, however, is in excess of the supply, and the hemp is growing in favor with ropemakers, October 21. New Zealand Fives are at 102, and Sixes at 112. .' cw Zealand hemp has advanced 20s to 80s. High prices were obtained for wool at the the beginning of the sales, but wore not maintained, though they were partially recovered at the close. Sperm oil is at LS6. SHIPPING. Arrived. Celamo, from Wellington ; Caducous, from Auckland; Charlotte Gladstone, Zealandia, Crusader, and Harvest Home, from Lyttelton ; Margaret Galbraith, from Port Chalmers; Sailed.—Genlora (?), for Wellington ; Helen Burns and Palmerston, for Port Chalmers j Norham Castle, for Auckland. Three vessels are loading. The Glenmark, which sailed from Lyttelton for London on the Ist February last, is not yet heard of.

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Evening Star, Issue 3025, 30 October 1872, Page 2

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BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH Evening Star, Issue 3025, 30 October 1872, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH Evening Star, Issue 3025, 30 October 1872, Page 2

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