SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1071, 3 January 1872, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

.INDIA AND THE EAST. ! Gallb, Nov. 29. : . The Eclipse Observation Party, under Mr Lockyer, arrived by an extra steamer, the Mizraporei The meriibers are being divided so as to form two parties, one fpr North Ceylon and the other for SouthIndia. Mr Jansen is observing in Western India.- • .- : • The result of the official enquiry into the loss oj the Rangoon throws the responsibility entirely on the pilot. = The captain and the officers aye ; acquitted, as it is thought that beaching her might" have cost lives. : Captain Skottowe is going home, and a Board of Trade enquiry will probably take/place. ; The company ? s /signals are strongly condemned. The, home papers are puzzled to account for the accident, and Galle Harbor is blamed. , The steamer Rangoon stood at ; L7B,OOO on the company's booksi Since the 18thirist. the .recovery of a portion of the mails, slightly damaged, has been effected £ twenty-seven bags, two boxes, and one box of- baggage have been; got up. ;It is nowhhoped that all may be recovered, as the weather is fine, and the strong current has abated. An engineer has estimated the cost of docks and a breakwater at Galle at a third of a million sterling, and at Colombo they would cost double. The deepening and improvement of the Paumben Channel would cost a million and a half. , „ \ It is rumored that Sir Heroules Robinson, who is appointed Governor of New South Wales, and Mr Gregory, M.P., appointed Governor of Ceylon, will exchange governments. The first message by the new cable between Java and Port Darwin left Galle last evening for the Argus, Melbourne, addressed to the care of .the telegraph master, Java, to forward thence.