LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AMERICA.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 227, 11 July 1873, Page 7

LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AMERICA.

[T5y Electric Telegraph'] Blujff, July 5. The Alhambrci, Captain Underwood, sailed from Melbourne on the 28th at 3.30 p.m., and has the English mails on.Board Arrived ab the Bluff at 8 a.m. to-day. Experienced easterly gales throughout the passage. Passed the barque Woodville off the Solanders, bound to New Zealand. She bfings eight saloon and twenty-eight steerage passengers ; also 260 tons for all ports, and sails for Dunedin 4 p.m. .. ' UNPUBLISHED MESSAGE. London, June 27. The Shah of Persia is visiting Liverpool. A telegram received at St. Petersburg from Tashkend states that the Khan of Khiva has capitulated, and the Russians occupy Khiva. Spain. The Carlists are proceeding with undiminished activity, and claim to have routed 2,000 Government troops. VIA QUEENSCLIFFE A3n%NPUBLISHED. , June 28. The Shah of Persia has "expressed the profoundest astonishment at the docks and shipping'. After the State ball at Buckingham Palace, he proceeds to Paris on the third of July. . It is rumored that the Dutch are willing to settle the Acheen difficulty peaceably. London, June 27. The Australian exhibits are commented on by the Press as showing the rapid advancement of the Colonies. The wines, are declared by experts to be of a very high character. Dr Livingstone gets a pension of £3OO . per annum from the State. Sir Bar tie Frere has resumed his position as head of the Geographical Society. • The Shah of Persia made costly presents to members of the Royal family, and visited in state the" principal places of 'the metropolis. He instituted a new Order, and conferred it on the Queen and Prince of Wales. The Russians have had further success at Khiva. ARRIVAL OF THE CHINA WITH \ THE SUEZ MAIL. The cups won by the Dunedin Volunteer Artillery in its competition with the London Scottish have been consigned to the care of Mr. John E wen, of Sargood, Sou, and Co. Art Union Prizes were won by Mr. . Hamilton of Greymouth, of the value of seventy-five pounds; Mr. Moss of Grey- - mouth, twenty-five pounds; Mr. Nicoll of Greymouth, fifteen; and smaller prizes fell to Mr. Hurst, Christchurch; Mr. Montague, Invercargill; Mr. Kerr, Greymouth ; and Mr. Peacock, Christchurch. The text of Napoleon's will has been published. It commends his wife and gon to the tender consideration of France

He leaves £120,000, only the half of which will be released by his wife and son. Tom- Castro has arrived in England from South Afnerica as a witness in the Tichborne case. The Duke of Edinburgh gets £20,000 a year with his wife. He has declined to reside in [Russia. There are various rumors re the Pope < —one is that he is dead, and that the Cardinals are concealing it until the new Pope is elected. At a meeting of the shareholders of the Bank of Ofcago, it was stated that the profits had fallen to £II,OOO a year. It is expected that £9 per share will be re- i turned to the shareholders on the wind- i ing-up, which has been resolved upon. i •Thirty-two thousand bales of " New Zealand wool arrived in London between February 3 and March 20. The, market is well stocked, and trade is depressed. The ship Otago arrived at Gravesend on the 7th May.