BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3712, 15 January 1875, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

ARRIVAL OF THE ALBION WITH THE ENGLISH MAIL, B&npr, January 15. The Albion, with the Suez mail, left Melbourne at 9 p. m. on the 10th, and arrived at the Bluff at daylight on the 15th, after a splendid run of four days seven hours. She brings forty-four saloon and thirty-five steerage passengers, and VSO tons of cargo for all ports. She sails for Dunedin at 4 p.m. ' London, January 6, Another colliery explosion has occurred at Rotherham, with the loss of seven lives, Paris, January 6. The Grand Opera House at Paris was opened yesterday. The Lord Mayor of (.ondon, with the Sheriffs, in an English state carriage, and wearing their robes of office, wcrs received with greatest honors by President MacMahon, at the Palace Elya4e. January 7. In a message President Macmahon asked the Assembly to vote the first and second Chamber Bill. The Assembly, after discussion, rejected the proposal by a majority of 420 against 250. The Ministry will resign.

Passenger List.—Miss Wt:ham, Miss Smith, Miss Sutherland, Mrs Douglass, Mrs Mallard, Mrs Lloyd and three children, Mrs Fulton, Messrs Lloyd, Kerr, Dunk, Barnfield, Hagger, Wilding, Hutchings, Cumberland, Dr Fulton, and twenty in the steerage. LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Melbourne, January 10. Sir William Stawell, Governor Cairns, of Queensland, and Governor Weld, of Tasmania, are here, all being passengers by the mail steamer. ‘ Governor Robinson was landed at Western Australia. The yield of gold is falling off considerably from previous years. The revenue returns show a decrease on the quarter of L 15.575, but an increase on the year of LX51.839, the total revenue Ire ng L4,05J,06i Two keepers of a betting shop were fined LSO each. A large number of men is wanted for railway works, at 7s a day of eight hours. Stdnet. The Hon. Hely Hutchinson has been appointed Governor’s Private Secretary, vice Captain De Kobeck resigned. The Corporation have dismissed one-half of their employes, owing to want of funds. The Mikado left California on Wednesday, January 6. A motion to expunge the Governor’s minute regarding Gardiner’s release is sure to be carried against the Government. Adelaide. i he quarter s revenue amounted to L 238.000. making L 1,003,000 for the year, Wellington* January 14. Government have not yet received any communication from the Agent-General with refeience to the loss of the Cospatrick. t Christchurch, January 14. ."■t a meeting of the Astronomical Society, this afternoon, it was resolved that the Secretary be requested to < confer with Major Palmer, it.hi., as to the advisability of purchasing the transit instruments and sidereal clock, with a view of taking time here for regulating the tnne-ba'l apparatus purchased by the Provincial Government; and that the Council be authorised to incur an expenditure for that purpose not exceeding L2OO,

{From our own Con'espondent.) m., -r, . . , Addklakd, January 14. . V lO authorities made an example to-day of the Rev, Dr Wallis, Presbyterian a j d C^ lef anti-education tax agitator, t he defendant positively refused to pay the rhrUfi^. lng, - h • ; beh ® vin S in the Bibleand as a Christian minister, he could not contribute towards the support of secular schools. Ha hj .d. however, sufficient furniture and books vt tho Government liked to seize them* but ha would certainly not pay the tax., iSe Magistrate said he must order that the law be earned self’ h °b P - d tha W w °uld savTwm. self from being put to inconvenience. JudoSy" forthe amount ° laii »ed; iof,

tinguishing fires in the holds of ships by carbonic acid, says common chalk or bicarbonate of soda, acted on by any cheap acid, would produce the requisite quantity of gas, which could be pumped easily into the hold of a ship and extinguish any fire. Another writer surmises that the fire on the Cospatrick may have arisen in the same way as a fire broke out on a voyage he took, when, owing to bad storage of luggage, the friction of the boxes during a gale caused the wood to ignite. Mr Hastings, the American Good Templar delegate, has been enthusiastically fited at the Thames, He chartered a steamer and proceeded to Ohinemuri, and goes thence via the lakes overland to the South. The Presbyterians have commenced the erection of a new church at Remuera, Hastings. Sunday picnics along the railway line are increasing. The proprietor of Ellerslie Gardena advertises tea and coffee and hot water supplied on Sunday afternoons for picnics at low prices. The report read at the Chamber of Commerce’s annual meeting showed that little had been done during the year, and that most of the recommendations by the Chamber to the Government had been misregarded. The Chamber begins the new year with better prospects.