By Electric Telegraph
(From our own Correspondent.) AERIVAL of the ENGLISH MAIL VIA SAN FRANCISCO.
Dunedin, Thursday. The Nebraska arrived at Auckland yesterday, with the last two months Home mails via San Erancisco, amounting to 426 bags. London, April 2Gth. In Parliament Mr. Gladstone and Lord Granville have stated that it is compatible with the public interests to declare the intention of the Government regarding further proceedings of the Geneva Board of Arbitration.
The British counter case was presented on the 15th. The British Groverninent refuses to discuss American imputations, hostile motives, and insincere neutrality. No reference has been made to plain indirect damages. The' Daily News' says that the dissolution of the Gladstone Cabinet and the succession of a Conservative Ministry probable before the close of the week, and thinks the Grovernment would be defeated on the University Tests Bill. This has been made a Cabinet question. The Queen will shortly visit Napoleon at Chiselhurst.
The Archbishop of Paris and other clergy have issued decrees promulgating the doctrine of infallibility. A fresh crater opened in Vesuvius. Streams of lava threaten the villages on the mountain's side. The inhabitants are removing in thousands, and camping in the fields. • The Bay of Naples is covered with boats filled with spectators. The scene is indiscribably grand. Terrible flames shoot to a great height, and masses of rock are ejected with lava.
Earthqakes have been distinctly felt in Naples. Six tourists are reported as being killed.
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 168, 24 May 1872, Page 5
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