LATE ENGLISH AND AMERCIAN NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 3443, 5 March 1874, Page 2

LATE ENGLISH AND AMERCIAN NEWS.

{Per Referring to the hew Australian -line of steamers, the** Alta California’ says:--** The pioneei* vedgef of the line ofsteamera armed! Mr •Hv Ha'l land from the E&8t ; and expresses the itidosi confidence in the success of the -enterprise, and says that the tesources of tbe r companv are ampie. He declares that if the public are not satisfied, and the line should not sue ceed, the fault must be his. cHe BasiUgeSS busy while hcrein.the interest of .the tfohiW. } B . confident that Bis negotiations with the railway company will lead to/a fafifi train between San Francisco and carrying; Australian, passengers and mails.Ue has succeeded in getting specie overthfs hue, and hopes ‘to.be able to add a good deal raster freight! drains when the negotiations are completed. Mr Hall says -|;liat the first new Clyde-built iron steamship for this line will be launched in' Ahgu'feft, and will arrive hero about January; 1875. fie is already negotiating for a fortnightly to be conducted by four American and tour English ships. The. company is twe/thirdS American—chat proportion ..of stock being owned by American TBpy wiH be 3,020 tons eacn, apd built yevy muclt pn the plan of the ships of the White The machinery is to be of the latest and moat unproved pattern. They will be supplied with three compound engines each— two ef low und one qf high pressure, with separate condensers, so that, case of ah Occident ti one, two still remain in Wonting oVdeh yha ships are guaranteed fourteen knots an hour sea speed when loaded, while* the contract calls only for twelve knots.’ TBe'Maogregor was fitte ( d up and repaired while here at a cost of 7,000 dole. ” • A complimentary dinner was given at Delmomco’a, at *ive# Yhrk 'by'Mb ftM ijCam§r°d, the elnmtnt

the Hon. Sap] v ;and Mr H. H. Hall . Thechairman remarkedihat Mr Satnuol was dbe only j-epreseutative whohad evervisited ; New,- York, .in a p,ubha,:capacity.'i‘ I’e' said "“«>,JYebb Knefiaff failed simply,through 'Want of support from tbe American Governnaent. Be complimented the Governments , .and New South Wales on ( jthem liberality, and.-predicted the happiest T? 8 ”x It j c. i l t hQ , ch , ailiman ■regretted that the United States had not taken the initiative in the matter, but it would now receive every pcouragement from that country. The health of the Hon. Mr Samuel and Mr Hall feunk. Mr Parker Goodwin; replying to The Press,” spoke very favorably of the Press of New Zealand. , ]■?. York lO.OOOdols. were paid for holding , a post mortem examination on the Siamese Twins. - J • The death of Dr Livingstone is doubted. ,dotation waited oh .Mr Halfi at Kan- - davit, urging the desirability of constituting • Levuka the port of call’of the new service, and offering to guarantee Mr Hall trade ” amounting to L2o,oooayear Mr J. L. .Wright, of Birmingham, has' received'a letter’from the Minister of Immigration for New Zealand, offering to grant passages to a selected number of agricultural laborers, and inviting Mr Arch to visit New Zealand. , . , , , ; > Commodore Stirling, of the Clio, hasarfived at Spith&ch i • ! -t The Mpperorjof,Austria has conferred on Dr Feakht fston The Commander’s Cross of of Francis Josephs ’ During January ten ships left witlliiimmu grants for. New Zealand. Eleven were to . in Eebrunry, About >2,61)0’ aoute are -SW^hedperjnonth. ~ r, : 7u The Hekt . Agricultural Laborers’: Union sent 200 adnlts, ptr Yilliam Davie;-. for Otago ; in the Wemington for Wellington. ’ Previous to their departure a grand entertainment was given, at which' I,6oopersons were,, present.