ENGLISH TELEGRAMS

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 13, Issue 662, 8 March 1869, Page 3

ENGLISH TELEGRAMS

VIA SUEZ.

By the arrival of the s.s. ‘ Ahuriri,’ from Auckland, yesterday morning, we were placed in possession of telegrams of news by the English Mail via Suez, which reached Auckland by the « s. ‘Hero,’ on the 24th Eeb. The barque ‘ Prince Alfred,’ with the mail itself, arrived at Auckland on Friday morning last, from Sydney. She brought a large general cargo and 20 passengers for the Thames. Below we give such items as have not already been published in Napier.

GENERAL SUMMARY. London, Jan. 1.

A submarine telegraph cable to connect England, India, China, and Australia, is being manufactured for a company.

Claremont is being got ready for her Majesty where she will reside occasionally.

A Melbourne letter in the Times gives occasion for a leader on the encouragement of emigration to Australia in preference to supporting the pauper population at home.

The remarks of the Times’ Mel bourne Correspondent on the gold mining enterprise in the colony elicited a reply from Mr Carpenter, who not only contraverts the correspondent's statement but shows how great a field Australia is for the employment of British capital.

The new monitor for Melbourne is nearly completed. The first meeting of the Colonial Society took place on December 16th. A grand inaugurate gathering will be held shortly. A dinner of preserved meats was given in London on Tuesday last by Australians and others.

The Buenos Ayres Government offers SBOOO for the invention of the best meat preserving system.

Emigration to New Zealand is about to recommence.

The Duke of Argyll, in replying to a deputation, said he agreed with Lord Dalhousie that the expenses of the irrigation works in India should not be charged on the current revenue, but should be obtained by loans,

A special committee has been appointed in the field artillery equipments of India.

Official liquidators are appointed to wind up the United Service Company. One hundred and fifty thousand of the Baltimore and Lancashire cotton spinners have been reduced to half time.

There is a renewed eruptionof iEtna, an earthquake at Gibraltar. Violent storms occurred over the Continent, and a succession of gales off the English coast. Numerous shipping disasters occurred. The Rochdale school-room was blown down, burying 400 persons, but no one was killed.