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Hohenzollerin has caused great excitement in Franco. Rentes and London StocK Exchange were affected, but there is a better feeling to-day, and France is calming down. Consols, 9% Mr Guilders is better. The May mails, via Brindisi, were delivered yesterday. ] OBITUARY. Eavl Clarendon, Sir James Clarke, Lord Arthur Clinton, Professor Lyme, Jerome Bonaparte. ± LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. ARRIVAL OF THE S.S. TARARUA. [By Electric Telegraph.] (from our own correspondent.) Hokitika, Aug. 12. Melbourne, Aug. 6. The Governor intends visiting Sydney during the Exhibition season. The new Governor of New Caledonia and family arrived per Avoca. The National Insurance, Australian Insurance, and Commercial Bank meetings have been held, but none have declared dividends. The National's losses are trifling, but the Australian's heavy, and a motion to wind-up was negatived" by a small majority. Thfi Commercial's losses are sixty thousand. Shares, six pounds, paid up, are only selling- at three pounds thirteen. Shareholders, however, are hopefal since the new manager was appointed. Frederick Cope, Clerk of the Petty Sessions at Heathcote, and brother oi Judge Cope, ' has been remanded on a charge of embezzling Government money. Nothing serious is expected. A similai suspension has happened to Sydney Moriarty, Under-secretary of Lands, bui no defalcation was discovered, only ar irregularity, and it is expected thai Moriarty will be reinstated. The Managing Clerk of a large mercantile house, has eloped with a young woman. His accounts, however, were proved correct. He left a wife and child. Steps are being taken to form a new Colony at ; Fiji — onVanaLevu Island. Ii is intended to call the town Childers, and the Colony, Wilberforce. The Alhambra will sail full ; the Fiji trade is increasing both here and at Sydney, where six vessels are laid on. - The Australian Diamond Mining Company collapsed after losing thirty-ont thousand pounds. Vare is consigned for execution on the 15th inst. Patrick Smith, the Hotham murderer was executed on Thursday. A vessel has been cruising off the Heads, dismasted, for four days: A steam-tug was despatched to her assistance. The Land Mortgage Bank dividend^ 10 per cent. ; and the Hobson's Bay Railway dividend 11 per cent. ' Over 600 Victorian exhibits go to the Sydney Exhibition. The Malmsbury reservoir official reporl has not been received, but it is expected to take thirty thousand pounds for repairs. Sir James Palmer has retired, from political life. The Town Hall is finished, the hoarding removed,, and the festivities next week are expected to be on a princely scale: News from- Zanzibar, • via the -Cape of Good Hope, lead to the belief that Di Livingstone is still alive. No news yet of the missing vessel Harlich Castle. Arrived —Swordfish, Magnet, Black Hawk, and Northern Light. Sailed-i-Waterman and Ceres, for Greymouth. Commercial. — The weather has been during the? week,, wet; : the breadstuffe market ljas been firm ; flour • reached L12103 : .t0 Ll3; wheat, 5s td ; feeding grains remain quiet. Fat cattle sold during the week at Ll2 to Ll3. The^ Tasmanian Government has made arrangements with Caph Audley Coote to construct a main line of railway for; L 650,000, the Government guaranteeing! interest at 5 per cent. The contractors ji^e pushing on the overlandjtetegraph to Port Darwin. The Omeo will likely take thither many cabin passengers. '■' ' Devitt and Hett's report of fhx is that best dressed sorts are in good demand at £30 to £32 per ton ; inferior descriptions scarcely saleable at £15 to i>tß a ton. Out of recent arrivals the following sales were made :— Ex Helen, from Lyttelton, Selwyn Manilla, £20 to £21 10a ; G. 8., M. £20 ;, Flaxbourne Mils, about £23, Ex Electra, frbtn Wellington, several parcels . per Helen, sent as a specimen of cleaning by anew process, is a decided failure. The England arrived from Canterbury, with her. running rigging entirely composed of New Zealand rope, made in the Colony. The trial is highly satisfactory and encouraging.

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