ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL AT THE BLUFF.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1470, 2 November 1872, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL AT THE BLUFF.

BLUFF. 29th October, 5.50 p.m. The Albion has arrived from Melbourne. She left that port on the 24thr October. + SPECIAL ENGLISH SUMMARY.. MELBOURNE. October 24* The Baroda arrived at the Heads ona the 18th. Her dates are— September 26; Galle, 28. Wools, 2d to 3d higher; The Geneva Aibitrators uondenm* England to pay £3,250,000. The steamer Atrato, for Melbourne,, narrowly escaped shipwreck in the Channel. She pal back to- Plymouth., Eight detachments of railway laborerswere despatched to Napier per Chile,, for Brogden's railway.

Tenders are invited for a mail service. England agrees to main-

tain a mail service from London to Galle, and to contribute .£4ojooo- from Galle to Australia.

Bishop Selwyn's son succeeds Bishop Patteson as Bishop of Polynesia. Wheat harvest in England deficient in quantity and. quality.. Iron lower.

A decrease in New Zealand shipments for the month £116,000. Cleaiv ances—ships, three. ILmp £1 to £2 lo.ver. Market, steady; supply Preserved meats brisk. New Zealand flax, £c6 to £4O; tow scarce, .£lB to ,£lB &s; tallow flat and lower; Adelaide wheat,. £65 to. £6B. The shares in the National Bank of New Zealand have been allotted?.

Consols, 9% Arrivals —Harvest Home, Celseuo, Margaret Galbraith, Zealandia, Charlotte Gladstone, Crusader.. Sailed for Otago, Helen Burns, and Chrisliau MAusland; for Auckland,, Northern Castle and Agnes Muir..

AKGLO-AUSTKALIAN PEE3S TELEGKAPH AGEJSCY. (by cable.) London, 22ud Oct. Denman elected to the puisne Judgeship of Common Pleas, through, the suicide of Judge Willis. The British National Debt reduced by four millions.. Exports to the colonies eight millions; for the quarter. Coal lowtr at Glasgow. The quarter's revenue of Great Bri* tain ending 10th September, iis- 16; millions.

Sir■ Roundel 1 Palmer, as Lord Slier* burne, becomes Lord High Chancellor.. The vacant seat for Richmond is. contested by Lord Mayor Sir Sydney Waterlow. Obituary— Sir Charles Mill, Seward; (late American Secretary), Admiral Cochrane.

Graham, Manager National Bank of New Zealand, has sailed ; Wateison takes charge of the Australian branch; Burns preparing to leave. France has abolished differential duties on British vessels. England makes concessions on French wines. Letters direct from Livingstone. The Government s-end a special Commission to open communication with him. The fault in the Java cable was in 1,000 fathoms water. The New Atlantic cable is being laid.

Money inactive; meat, brisk; wool,, a shade, lower. New Zealand Fives,. 102; Sixes, 112.