ENGLAND STILL NEUTRAL.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 753, 15 November 1870, Page 4

ENGLAND STILL NEUTRAL.

FRENCH VICTORIES. GARIBALDI IN PRANCE. [By Electric Telegraph.] [from our own correspondent.] Nelson, via Auckland, Nov. 11. The s.s. Wonga Wonga arrived to-day at 2 p.m. She arrived at Honolulu at 2.30 p.m. on the 23rd October. Experienced a heavy gale on the 9th October from the north-west, which, lasted until the 11th. Left Honolulu on the 23rd, and had fine weather during the passage. On Sunday last she broke her cylinder, or she would have been twenty-six hours sooner. Passenger List — For Auckland, from Liverpool : Saloon — Mr and Mrs C . Hood, Mr and Mrs W. M. Neilson, Captain j Gordon, Messrs W. A Bern, D. Murphy, j C. Melbourne, W. Gendenhire, M. A. j Stevenson (mail agent). In the steei'age, 11. j For Sydney and Melbourne : Mr and Mrs W. J. Magerety, Mrs F. G. Grennan, Mr and Mrs J. B. Home, Messrs A. T. Magerety, H. J. G. Gail, J. Tonny. Second Cabin — Mr R. Dowell, and nine in the steerage. Cargo List. — 250 kegs sugar, 8 bags papers, for Sydney ; 316 barrels salmon, 100 bales pulu, 275 half-barrels salmon, 20 bags rice, 40 kegs sugar The steamer Moses Taylor sailed from San Francisco on 12th October, with 52 passengers, and 250 mail bags for New Zealand. The North Pacific Transportation Company amalgamated with Mr Webb to run his steamers right through. They will get the American subsidy. Important proposals come to the Colonial Government on this matter. A convention at Chicago took action respecting: the Australian through traffic. Reduced rates were adopted, and passengers are to be allowed 2501ba bagpage free. From New York to San Francisco is to be done in five days. The Cunard and Inman lines of steamers are to have their boats waiting to take the Transportation Company's passengers at low rates, and hope to make satisfactory arrangements with Colonial interests, and if not will cease connection J ■with the present line at Honolulu. An important postal treaty between America and New Zealand has been ratified. It confers special privileges on New Zealand, and America undertakes not to transmit the correspondence of the other colonies across the Continent unless New Zealand consents, and fixes new postal rate. Commercial. — Wool quiet, the consumption being interfered with by the war. Colonial securities quiet but firm. Bank of England rate of discount 2£ per cent.