BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3042, 18 November 1872, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

EUROPEAN CABLE TELEGRAMS. {Healer's Special Telegrams (o the Australian Associated Press,) London, November 9. Sir George Bowen is appointed Governor of Victoria, and Sir James Fergusson Governor of New Zealand. 300 Warwickshire laborers have sailed for Queensland. Money is stringent. Queensland Sixes, January and July, 113 ; Tasmanian, 1094ftank of Australasia shares, : Union Bank, 46 i j Loudon and Chartered Bank, 25J ; National Bank of Australasia, Copper steady, at L 92; Australian tin ore, LBS to L 95 ; inferior, L 44, Tallow, steady. Petroleum, N.Z. hemp, L.T2 to L3B. London, November 9. Money js tightening. Discount, 7 per cent. Secretary Fish has tendered hi* resignation, and will relinquisn his post in March next. The Gazette publishes the terms of the French Treaty in regard to the following important duties, which will come into operation on the Ist of December :—Wo d (greasy), 3 francs 7 centimes ; washed wool, 6 francs 14 centimes ; bar copper, 70 francs 12 centimes; tin, 15 francs each per 100 kilogrammes. A Commission has been appointed to meet at Paris to discuss certain unsettled questions respecting the duties. The Commissioners are afterwards to make inquiry into the fishery laws. It is believed Holland contemplates the establishment of a gold currency. Exports for October, L 22,657,736. Legatle has been elected President of the Mcxipaa Republic.

At the banquet at Guildhall, Earl Granville did not touch on Home affairs. He re* ferred at length to the American claims, and said the verdict of the Geneva Tribunal affected the jurse and not the honor of the country. He advised England to pay without grumbling. He should be ready to give a full explanation on the opening of Parliament. He strongly attacked the slave trade, and remarked that the Government resolved to maintain the honor and interest of England, and were desirous to promote peace everywhere Archbishop Folding and his clergy transmitted to the Pope a telegram, to which the following reply, dated .November Bth, has been received : “ The mpreme Pontiff receives with great pleasure the congratulations of the Archbishop with the assembled clergy, and most willingly transmits through the swift electric current the benediction asked for.” Another telegram (not Reuter’s) received here yesterday, says : —“ Boston, Sunday, A most disastrous fire broke out this morning. The whole buildings from Commercial to Centre streets were destroyed. Other buildings were blown up to stay the progress of the flames. The damage already done is to the extent of two hundred millions of do'lars (L 40,000,000). The fire is still progressing.” Auckland, November 18. Tho Hero arrived here this morning, with a full complement of passengers, including the Opera Troupe. Her dates are to the 12th instant. Sydney, November 11. The Champion Intercolonial Gig Race was rowed at Balmain on Saturday. Sydney again defeated Victoria, the latter crew bbing a bad third. A boy named Sheridan and two men have been committed for trial for murdering Asken, near Grenfell. The Ministerial banquet to members of Parliament was a great success. The seamen implicated in. the Carl masmassacres have been arrested at New Caledonia, at the instance of the British Consul there. Bank of New Zealand shares have been offered here at LlB 10s. Twenty-five Polynesians died during the last voyage of the Queensland labor vessel Jason. The enquiry resulted iu the acquittal of the captain of criminal neglect The Rev George Sutherland, late of Dunedin, has been elected Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in connection with the Synod for Eastern Australia. Jyrqlpntyn’s crushing at Tamboroora averaged TO <2S to the ton, and Byers and Hallerman’s 65 ozs. The Hillcnd mines are increasing in rich ness. ‘ Breadstuff's, firmer ; wheat, 7s Gd. Newcastle. Arrived: Ben Nevis, from Lyttelton, Sailed : Electra, for Wellington, with 875 tons of coal; Gazelle, with 312 tons, and Fawn, with 345 tons for Lyttelton. Melbourne. Two persons committed suicide at Ballarat. One was a Chinese tailor, the an exconstable, Mr Worthington, barrister at law, succeeds Mr Carter as Commissioner of Titles. A man named Samuel Webster committed suicide by drowning at St. Kilda. The mayoral banquet was attended by the Governor and a large number of the leading citizens. The Rev. Mr Corbett, in the Catholic chprch at St Hilda, denounced in strong terms the Education Bil l , The appointment of the new Governor is generally discussed. Commercial. Business is dull. Nine thousand bags of maize changed hands for speculation at 3a. A mixed parcel of Adelaide wheat sold at 7s 6d. Flour quiet. Adelaide, November 12, Wheat, 6s 6d. Wellington, November 18. An inquiry into the cause of the wreck of the City of Newcastle takes place to-mor-row. The following additional particulars have been received Hammill, the mate, while hanging on a cliff, had his front teeth pulled out, in holding on to a rope to save Mr Abbott. The men saved from the wreck owe their lives to him. The ship’s boats were very bad, and no hope is entertained for ths safety of the missing women. The general opinion is that the boat must have soon swamped. The seas washed over her stern with every lurch, she being so shallow. The captain only went in the boat after much persuasion from the mate, who told him that befog a ipan with a large family he should go. The vessel had nearly gone to pieces before the last pf the crew got' safely' on to th£ pliff. Another account says : Np sign of the missing boat has been discovered. Smith, Broher, and Palmer are supposed to have lauded near the north entrance. Four out of the six men w'ho were left on the wreck were lauded safely. Mr Abbott, a passenger, aud the ship’s cook were drowned in trying to reach land. The wreck is supposed to have been caused by the captain mistaking the Wellington head light for the Mana Island light.