NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

Kumara Times, Issue 1049, 10 February 1880, Page 2

NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

Westgarth’s Circular reports that the last New Zealand loan promises to be the leading stock in its own class of securities. The liabilities of Goddefroy and Son are estimated at 10,000,000 marks. Hamburg papers assert that there is a prospect of the possessions of the firm in the South Seas fulling into English hands, a result which would he a matter of regret. Some papers fool-

ishly charge the British Govern'men't with causing the failure of the firm in order to secure ‘Sa'Bjoa. Yice-Ad'ATrkl Sir Frederick Beauchamp Seymour, formerly Cofcnmodore commanding H.M.S. Perlorua Ah. the Australian station, succeeds Admiral Hornby in the command of the Mediterranean Seel. Private enterprise establishes a depot at the Crozet Islands, and the Coraus lands stores there. .A Portuguese narfted Puliluo oh. tax Aed judgment in Jamaica for £ 14,f>00 damages against Sir Anthony, MusgrAVe Govendb, fob the detention of a Vessel) named the Flobbnbe. The Govenor pleaded an Act of the State. I'hd Privy Council upheld the decision'dSftheinierittr Court. Sir A. Musgrave was lately Govenor of South Australia. A blist b£ the late Bishop Sehvyn has been presenteed to Mrs Selwyn by the clerical dignitaries of the Lichfield Dlocfese. Sir J. "Vogel pUhlicly assents that the prospects of the New Zealand Agricultural Company are very encouraging. A number of watchmakers purporb settling in Australia and New Zealand, considering that there is a hopeful future in the Antipodes for the watch trade. The Royal Humane Society’s medal was awarded to William Jenkins and his boat’s creWj for saving Upwards of 100 women and children from the wrecks of the City of Auckland and Felix Stowe, off the coast of New Zealand. The Raleigh will be fitted up at Portsmouth to take out new brews fob the Ships on the Australian station.