ARRIVAL OF THE SUEZ MAIL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 190, 13 August 1870, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SUEZ MAIL.

0 The Tararua with the English mail on board, arrived at Hokitika at an early hour yesterday morning. We take the following telegrams from the Examiner of this morning. London, June 18. A change in the colonial policy is anticipated. The Premier has intimated to the House of Commons that he would not tolerate auy mutilation by the Lords of the Irish Land Bill. The exports continued low. The monthly aggregate was £890,000. The third series of wool sales commenced on the llth. Biddings were good, aud prices equal to the closing rates of former series. Iu Frauce the plebiscitum has practically restored persoual Government, and Ollivier's position is precarious. There is great distress iu the building trades, 200,000 workmen are idle in Paris. In Portugal, quietness has been restored. Garibaldi's sons are implicated in recent disturbances iu Italy. Telegrams from Pekin report an outbreak of a mob who massacred the French Secretary, the Consul, Priests, Sisters of Mercy, and three Russian subjects. A cathedral was burned to the gtound. The Education Bill is causing great dissatisfaction. Watkins William's motion for the Disestablishment of the Church iu Wales was forced on without the concurrence of the Liberal party, and was defeated by a heavy majority. When the discussion on the ''Conta-

gious Diseases Act" arose, Mr. Crawford insisted on the exclusion of strangers. The reporters' fragmentary reports were afterwards published, The reporters were cheered by the House on returning. The University Tests Bill was passed by a majority of 125. The female persouators were arraigned for felony and misdemeanor, and the evidence disclosed gross immorality throughout extensive circles. JBlackwood has savagely reviewed " Lothair," and attacks Disraeli for intending to make a breach in the Conservative party. July 10. The Ascot Cup was won by Sabrinus. The Great Eastern has returned, and is moored in Sheerness in excellent condition. The suddenness of Dickens' death caused a profound sensation and general grief. He was interred at Westminster Abbey on the 7th of July. In tbe debate on the Colonial policy, in the Lords, Earl Russell's resolution was withdrawn ; hischief attack was ou the Canadian policy. Earl Granville and Lord Northbrook defended the new policy of colonia! self-protection. Emigration to Canada continues. The New Zealand Loan Guarantee Bill has been read a first time. The Cerberus has been floated out of dock. The wool sales of October and November will be held in one sale in November. This has strengthened the market, which has a tendency upwards. Harvest prospects have improved. Wheat is lower. Obituary. — Earl of Clarendon, Sir James Claike, Lord Arthur Clinton, Professor Syme, Jerome BoDapaote. Mr. Childers' health is causing anxiety. Earl Granville is appointed Foreign Minister. Lord Kimberley is Minister for the Colonies. Lord Halifax has the Privy • Seal. These changes ave consequent on Earl Clarendon's death. The Somersetshire arrived on the Oth July. The nomination of Prince Leopold Hohenzollern [to the throne of Spain ?] has caused great excitement in French rentes and on the London Stock Exchange. A better feeling exists to-day. France is calming down. Consols, 92h. July 12. Mr. Childers is better. The May mail, via Brindisi, was delivered yesterday. The Irish Land Bill has passed through committee ot the Lords. A collisiou has taken place on the Great Northern Railway. Sixteen passengers were killed and many wounded. Four more brigands have been hanged in Greece. Vice-Chancellor James has been appointed Chief Justice. Queen Isabella has signed her abdication in favor of Prince of Asturias. The infallibility dogma has beeu carried in the Oecumenical Council. War was considered imminent. There has beeu a panic on the Exchange and Bourse. France waited a reply from Prussia before declaring war. Prince Hohenzollern renounced his candidature [for the throne of Spain ? ] aud the peace is now considered secure. The following additional Euglish items and Provincial telegrams are from an Extra published by the Colonist : — The mail from England by the French mail steamer Volgar passed through the Suez Canal, from Marseilles to Galle, in twenty days. The French Government are organising a transport service, via the Canal, from Toulon to Saigoni. The Roman papers affirm the Pope's infallibility, and say that all who deny it will be anathematised. Nine hundred dead bodies were found after the fire at Constantinople. The Greek brigaud chief escaped to Turkey. Fiske, the American Consul at Leith, is implicated in the female impersonators' misdeeds. The Spectator thinks the New Zealand loan guarantee is to be regarded as indicating a chauge of Colonial policy. The Ministry saw their line of policy was opposed to the feelings of the nation, and receded in time. A banquet has beeu given to the Chairman of the British Indian Telegraph Company, at which messages were sent and replies received betwen the Viceroy of Egypt, the Viceroy of India, and

others. President Grant also exchanged messages with the Lord Mayor. NEW ZEALAND FLAX. Messrs. Devitt and Hett's report of flax is, that the best dressed sorts are in good demand, at £20 to £32 per ton; inferior descriptions scarcely saleable at £15 to £18 per ton. Out of receut arrivals the following sales have been made : — Ex Helen, from Lyttelton, Selwyn manilla, £20 to £21; ten G.8.M., £20; Flaxborne Mills, about £23. Some, ex Electra, from Wellington, sold at £23 ss. A small parcel sent home per Helen, as a specimen of cleaning by anew process was a decided failure. The ship England arrived from Canterbury, with running rigging entirely composed of New Zealand rope made in the ColoDy. The trial was highly satisfactory and encouraging. i Christchurch, August 12. Mr. Moorhouse has been returned for the City of Christchurch to-day, without opposition. His speech contained nothing of importance. Blenheim, August 10. Hathaway's flax mill, Gouiand's Ferry, was burnt on Tuesday night last. Fifteen tons of flax were consumed, ancl the . machinery. Cause not trauspired here at preseut. A later telegram says that all the machinery is destroyed, that the property was uninsured, aud that the fire is supposed to be the work of au incendiary.