NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 870, 9 April 1877, Page 3

NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

[by telegraph.] Bluff, April 8. The s.s. Ringarooma arrived at 3.30 p.m., and sailed for Port Chalmers at 5.15. Melbourne, April 3. The Bangalore remains in quarantine till April 7th. London, February 16. The Queen, on opening Parliament, proceeded in state in a coach drawn by eight cream-colored horses, the first time such have been used for a number of years. The weather was magnificent, and there was an immense throng. The Earl of Beaconsficld was received with repeated cheers. He was introduced to the House of Lords by Earls Derby and Shrewsbury. The address in the Lords, was moved by Lord Grey de Wilton, seconded by the Earl of Haddington. In the Commons Lord Galway and Mr Farr performed the same office. In reply to Lord Granville, Lord Derby explained the reason why blue books did not contain Lord Salisbury’s account of his interviews with M‘Mahon and Decazes and Bismarck, whilst that relative to his conversations with the Austrian and Italian Ministers wore given. The reason was that the former were of a far more confidential character, and that the publication of the particulars would produce an unpleasant feeling abroad. The second reading of the Public House Closing Bill was carried by a large majority. At Newcastle Mr Joseph Cowen addressed his constituents on the Eastern Question, condemning Beaconsfield’s speech at the outset of the agitation. He commended Lord Derby’s subsequent action. He had faith in Midhat Pasha, and thought the Turkish Constitution should have a fair trial. The Queen is at Osborne, in excellent health. The Chinese Envoys were presented to her by Sir Thomas Wade. The Duke of Connaught met with a slight accident while out hunting, but the injury is not serious. Mr May, Attorney-General for Ireland, has been appointed Lord Chief Justice. Mr Gibson, Q.C., M.P. for Dublin University, succeeds him, and has been re-elected without opposition. Mr Plunkett, M.P., has retired from the Irish Solicitor-Generalship, which has been accepted by Mr Fitz Gibbon, Q.C. The Rev E. Bickerstcth is likely to be the new Bishop of Rochester, consequent upon Dr Chuighton’s transfer to the See of St. Alban’s. Renewed outbreaks of smallpox at Blackbum continue. At St. Peters, in the Isle of Thanct, the disease has committed great ravages. The village is tabooed, all communication with it being stopped. In London the deaths arc not now so numerous. The Prince and Princess of Wales, with their household, both in town and at Sandringham, have been re-vaccinated. Cleopatra’s needle is to be brought to London and placed on the Thames embankment at the sole expense of Dr. Erasmus Wilson. Fronde has accepted the candidature and rectorsliip of Glasgow University. General Tchernayeflf has been t aken up hi* quarters, with his family, at Yentnor, Isle of Wight. Leon, a Mexican, rode 505 miles at the Agricultural Hall in fifty-two minutes (P). Ho was to have ridden 600 miles but his horses could not keep it up. A poor woman in Liverpool without expectations came into £70,000 through the death of a relative whom she never knew. A man named Dance, who deserted his wife and three children, and joined the Shakers in the New Forest, has been sentenced to three months for desertion. Disclosures were made that the Shaker men and women were in the habit of dancing together in perfect nudity. In consequence of the appearance of cattle plague in the metropolis, an Order in Council has been issued prohibiting the movement from London of cattle, sheep, or goats. Similar orders have been issued in Germany and Belgium. Fresh outbreaks of rinderpest have also appeared. The miners in the Forest of Doan have consented to accept 10 per cent, reduction on the understanding that when coal has advanced a shilling a ton the old rate will be paid. A number of convicts at the naval works at Haidbowline, near Queenstown, attacked the warders with picks and shovels. The military were called out, and charged the prisoners with fixed bayonets. Treadway has been found guilty of the murder of Collins, at Pimlico. The plea of insanity failed. A frightful tragedy has taken place at St. Briou, in Brittany. A journalist named Le Foil sent for a captain in the 71st Regiment, whom he suspected of being intimate with his wife, and stabbed him on his arrival. He then went and stabbed his wife to the heart and finally, in company with a young woman, committed suicide. A Woman named Elizabeth Kirkbridgc has been committed for trial at Pentrith, charged with murdering and concealing the bodies of six infant children she has had during several years. There was great sensation in Court during the hearing of the case. She accused a man whom she had been living with as the instigator of the crimes. He had left her and married. Cnnsdcrablo excitement was manifested some days ago on the discovery of a number of bodies on an undertaker’s premises near the Regent’s Park. An investigation showed that they were the bodies of stillborn children, for the burial of which the man said ho had the fees, but had never removed them to the cemetery. Commodore Hoskyns has been appointed aide-de-camp to the Queen. Fearful gales on sea and land prevailed during the mouth of January. Between thirty and forty North Sea fishing smacks are missing, with about 200 men on board. The steamer George 'Washington has been wrecked off Cape Race. All on board, twent yfour in number, perished. M. Thiers has had a very severe attack of illness. Count dc Chambord is said to be staying at Versailles. Many hundred papers in France have been fined in various sums for slanderous articles against the mother of the Empress Eugene. A special service, held for the sick fund, was held in connection with the consecration of the Rev J. R. Sclwyn in New Zealand as Bishop of Melanesia. The Argus correspondent telegraphs that a small local loan for New Zealand has been successfully negotiated during the past month. The City of Christchurch instructed the Bank of New Zealand to invite tenders for the half i of a loan of £200,000, the money to be employed in carrying out an efficient scheme of drainage for that city and district. In the

announcement the Times warned the colony of the danger involved in making these frequent appeals to the British purse. “ The rapidity,” says the City Editor, “with which the Government and municipalities of New Zealand bring out new loans, is not a good sign, and it is to be regretted that works so indirectly beneficial as drains could not have been made with money raised in the town itself, secured though it be on the rateable property of the town, said to be of an annual value of £301,301. This lean can hardly form an enticing subject of investment here.” The public for once, however, did not heed these solemn dissuasions. The terms —6 per cent debentures at a minimum of 98 —-were too attractive to be resisted, while there is such a surplusage of money in the market earning next to nothing. Application has been made to the Stock Exchange committee for a special settling day in respect of this loan, and an official quotation in the daily list. The position of New Zealand securities in our market has undoubtedly been strengthened by the public announcement recently made by the Agent-General that the Government will not bring forward any further loans in London during the present year. SHIPPING. Sailed—Ben Voidic, for Wellington, January 29th; Iloogley, for Otago, January 13th; Lombardian, for Auckland, January 26th; Otago, for Port Chalmers, February Ist; Piako, for Canterbury, February sth; Alastor, for Auckland, February Ist; Hermione, for Otago, February 12th. Loading at London—For Auckland ; Spirit of the Dawn, Dilpussund, Yosemite, Hudson. For Canterbury : Primere, Merope, Wanganui, William Davie, Waikato. For Otago : Hokewood, Isle of Anglesea, Zcalandia, Waitangi, Forfarshire. For Wellington : Wennington, Queen of the West, Warlock, G. Broughton, Halcione. Loading at Glasgow —For Lyttelton : Lurline. For Port Chalmers : Dumelogc.