NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1856, 4 February 1880, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

IBr Tklegbaph.] (Via Bluff.) Wflßtgarth's circular reports that the last New Zealand loan promised to be a leading stock in its own class of securities. The liabilities of G.iddefroy and Son are estimated at 10,000,000 markß. The Ham hurg papers assert that there is a prospect of the possessions of the firm in the South Seat* falling into English hands, a result which would be a matter of regret, if not for a stronger feeling, on the part of Germany. Soma pupers foolishly charge the British Government with causing tho failure of the firm in o>dar to Becuro Samoa. Vice Admiral Sir Fred. Boauchamp Seymour, f"rmorly commodore commanding H M.S. Pylorus on the Australian station, sucoeeds Ad.-nir.il Hornby in command of the Mediterranean fleet. Private enterprise w'll establish a depot at Crczet Islands. The Oomus will land stores there. A Pjrtugueso named Puliluo obtained judgment in Jamaica for £I4OOO damages against Sir Anthony Muegravo, the Governor, for detention of a vessel named Florence. Sir A. Musgrave pleaded that it was an if State. The Privy Council upheld the of the inferior Court. Sir A Musgrave was lately Governor of South Australia. A bust of the late Bishop Selwyn was presented to M-e Selwyn by the clerical dignitaries of Lie 1 field diocese. Sir J. Vogel publicly asserts that the projects of the New Zealand Agricultural Company are Tery encouraging.

A number of watchmakers purpose settling in Australia and New Zealand, considering that there is a hopeful fmture at the antipodes for the watch trade. The Royal Humane Society's medal was awarded to William Jenkins and his boat's crew for saving upwards of one hundred women and children at the wrecks of the City of Auckland and Felix Btowe off the coast of New Zealand. The Raleigh will be fitted at Portsmouth to take out the new crews for ships on the Australian station.