HOME AND FOREIGN.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1456, 16 October 1872, Page 3

HOME AND FOREIGN.

(From the European Mail, 9th August) The vacant Chancellorship of the Puchy of Lancaster baa wow been filled by the appointment of Mr Childera to the post. Mr Childers will, therefore, resign the Agent Generalship, for Victoria, and, we believe, his resignation goes out by this mail. Owing to the continued scarcity of meat there is an increased demaud for Australian sorts. Mr Tallerman has visited Gateshead and Newcastle, where there has been a strike among the artisans' wives against the high price of meat, and succeeded in laying the foundaiion of a good demand for Australian meat. A meeting has also been held at the Cannon-street Hotel on the subject. The Hon. Arthur Kinnaird occupied the chair, and several members of Parliament and City men were present. Mr Tallerman explained the nature of the trade, and one and all testified to the excellence of the meats of which they partook. Her Majesty the Queen has approved the appointment of Mr Robert Kiehard Torrens, M.P., to be a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, in recognition of his colonial services, and more especially in connection with the Registration of Titles to Land Act, first enacted in South Australia, and subsequently adop'ed by other Australian colonics. A lady named Miss Hunt has been killed in a tunnel on the Brighton Railway. At the inquest it came out that she had arrived in this country about two years since from Hew Zealand. How she came upon tho line is unknown. The Crown Agents for the Colonies notified the other day that they were prepared to exchange the scrip certificates of the New Zealand Government 5 per cent loan of £1,000,000 for definitive bonds. Some of the continental papers repot t that the captain of the German ship Nymph had on the 25th March last an audience of the King of the Fiji Islands. To the communication that the German Emperor intends eventually to establish a consulate at Fiji, the King replied, " I know that Germany has, through her union, become a great State, and I have during tho Jate war followed the feats of the great nation with the interest. It is my intention also to form a strong empire through the union of the differout race*., and through carefulness of the interests of the foreign colonists. It will be tho greatest honor for me if His Majesty the Emperor will grant nie his help and recognition by the nomination of a consul." The next German ship of war which is to visit Fiji is to carry to King Thakorabau a present of some cannons and breechloading guns. The A trato, the pioneer sieamer of the new line to Melbourne, is to leave London on September 7, and Plymouth on September 14, for Melbourne. Her passenger accommodation is all that can be desired, while for cargo and live stock she oiFeis exceptional advantages. It 13 expected she will make the run out in forty eight or fifty days. The Atrato made a most satisfactory trial trip. We learn that the Clairellan, from Otago, has put into Valparaiso leaky. We leain, via the Cape, undor date July 3, that the Tvy, from Swan River to London, put into Table Ray with loss of sails and bulwarks with a large portion of her cm-go badly damaged. The Colonial Wool'sales have closed at a considerable advance on tho opening prices, and quotations have again reached nearly the highest point of the year; other wools have also been in active demand, and aie proportionately in advance. Stocks of flannels are considerably reduce!, and though buyers act with caution, most manufacturers are fully engaged to order for some time to come. Flax is in fair demand. There is much dissatisfaction amongst tho mercantile community here, with regard to the mail service via San Francisco. The June mail was not delivered in London until August 7, whereas the letters by the Australian mail via Brindisi reached London and "were delivered on the morning of Aaguat 5,