By Electric Telegraph

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 187, 4 October 1872, Page 5

By Electric Telegraph

ARRIVAL or the Ei\ T GLISH MAIL VIA SUEZ. Hokitika, Oct. .1. The Albion arrived from Melbourne last night late, bringing the English news via Suez. The news generally is not exciting. The wool sales concluded on the 30th July, at a considerable advance on the opening rates, The latest quotations for most kinds reached the highest point for the year. LATEST TELEGRAMS. The Geneva-award-states that England must pay between three and four millions. Tranquility has been restored at Drogheda, but it is rumored that a massacre of Protestants at Belfast, on the anniversary of St. Bartholomew's Day, is intended. Extraordinary precautions -have been taken. Wool is in good demand, at full prices. The Tichborne demonstrations continue. In Belfast, the houses were sacked, and the Constabulary fired on by the rioters. The troops were called out, and some lives lost. The Hev. Mr. M'Lessney has been shot in Canton. Professor Anderson, the Wizard of the North, recognises the Tichborne claimant as De Castro. , Mr. Stanley, the ' New York Herald's correspondent has been feted at Paris. The Germans evacuate France by the end of September. Martial law has been proclaimed in Belfast. The riots lasted four days, and there was much bloodshed. The latest cable telegrams from America state there is greater probability of Greeley's election as President. The National Bank of New Zealand, with a capital of two millions, is announced. It will absorb the Bank of jOtago.

. Tlt* Tendon bakers announce a strike. it is -i& ed thai a, survivor or the Bella, the vessvl iu wliick Sir IlogerTickborne sailed from llio Janiero aad foundered has been discovered. During April, May, and June, twelve skips conveyed two thousand five kundred and ninety-eigkt emigrants? to New Zealand. An influential meeting of Soman Catholics' was held in Willis's Rooms,, to-' protest against the suppression of the religious orders o? Some, and the- expulsion, of the Jesuits from Germany. INTERCOLONIAL. Melbourne, Sept. 15'. The exodusHo the Northern Goldfields continues. Adelaide. News has been received of several quartz claims having been taken up at Port Darwin. Sydney. The Charters Towers rush is condemned. The reports have been considerably exaggerated. LATEST UNPUBLISHED. Melbourne. Hundreds hare left kere for Charters Towers. The latest accounts from there say that theV whole affair ■ has been, fearful ly exaggerated. There has been great disappointment, and disastrous results are hinted at. The capabilities of the Darwin diggings are limited. Tke rainy season soon sets in tkere. Adelaide. .Reports from Port Darwin are satisfactory. A trial crushing from one of the quartz reefs gave six dwts. from ten ounces of quartz. Nothing san be done without machinery. Mr. H. D. Melville has been appointed Warden of the Northern Territory. INTEEPKOVINCIAK . ■ , Dunedin. Duncan s oatmeal mill, and Wilson and Maddox's brewery, at the Water of Leith, were destroyed by fire on Tuesday last. Auckland. When the Hercules left Newcastle, large numbers of diggers were leaving there for tke new rusk. Tke steamer Qrneo left 200 behind at Newcastle.