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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 28, 1 February 1873, Page 4

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SUEZ MAIL SUMMARY. Mr Michie has returned to Melbourne. Eliot Yorke is engaged to tbe daughter of Sir Anthony Rothschild. The Duke of Edinburgh ia in Germany, it is said with matrimonial intentions towards the daughter of the ex-King of Hanover. The Australian colonists in London have subscribed towards the purchase of a piece of plate for the producer of the best ram in the colonies. The Stock Exchange Committee have ordered the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency's new shares to be officially quoted. .A site at Greenwich Hospital has been granted by the Lords of the Admiralty for a monument to the naval officers who fell in the New Zealand war of 1863-64. An advertisement in the Oxford papers calls for 500 farm laborers accustomed to rough out of door work, to proceed to New Zealand as navvies. The Humane Society have given a silver medal to Christian, the grandson of the Bounty Christian for saving the life of a girl named Browne at Omaha. Great complaints are made of tbe various modes of packing New Zealand hemp. The Otago and Southland Investment Company have declared an interim dividend of 10 per cent per annum. Mr Grace bas been appointed the London manager of tbe Bank of New Zealand. Only 137 of wool were offered for sale at the November sales. In December there were 2600 bales. New Zealand wheat was selling on November 29, at 63s to 66s per four 961bs. New Zealand skin wool brought 20^d, greasy 12^d, scoured 23§d. Mr Lee, F.R.G.S., gave a lecture to the people of London on the resources of New Zealand, and made many converts to that colony as a fine field for emigration. Several letters have been received by the friends of emigrants, speaking highly of the colony. An omnibus lately passed through London laden with navvies carrying a flag bearing the inscription "Off to New Zealand." They were loudly cheered by the passers by. The papers give many anecdotes of Anthony Trollope's Bojouru in New Zealand. The New Zealand October mail was delivered on November 27. Sailed : Charlotte Gladstone for Otago, Nov. 22; Himalaya for Canterbury, Nov. 21; Warwick for Otago, October 31; Forfarshire for Wellington, Nov. 15. They all take a large number of emigrants. The new; Anglo-French treaty provides a duty of 15 cents per 100 kilogrammes on flax and hemp in stalks, raw, green, dry, or steeped. Tow two irancs; hackled hemp two francs fifcy cents; hackled flax three francs; phormium tenax, raw, fifty cents per 100 kilogrammes; hackled, 2.50; combed or twisted, 4 cents. November sdes of Hew Zealand hemp £30 to £43 105." New Zealand Shipping : Auived, Tyrol from Auckland, Wild Deer from Dunedin; at New York, East Lothian and Thames from Auckland, Sailed : For Auckland, Durham, Edinburgh Castle. Warwick, Zanga; for Canterbury, Cissy, Himalaya. John Bull; for Nelson, Echo, Joyce Phillips; for Otagb, City of Bombay, Charlotte Gladstone, Euterpe, Sutterworth, Naomi, Sat tara; for Wellington, Agra, Chattanooga, Forfarshire, St. Andrew's Castle. Freight from liverpooi to Auckland is 35s to 40s. It is rumored that tbe Duke of Edinburgh will hare command of H.M. ironclad Sultan. Sergeant Bates mafched^.for a wager from Gretna to London er..*ying the American flag unmolested. New Zealand Bank sheres will shortly be -Offered for subscription in the colonies. Rochefort recently lei- bis prison to marry a beantiful woman, and then partsd for ever, he returning to prison. The London papers make the telegraphic banquet the occasion for numerous articles on the integrity of the Empire. The British Telegraph Company propose to make a reduction in the tariff. [Per Ja.ta Cable.] London, January 23.— Dr Featherston has been placed by Earl Kimberley in official relations with the American legation re the San Francisco subsidy. * Dr Featherston has shipped a large quantity of salmon ova per Oberon for Otago. The Liverpool wool sales show a slight advance. Money is easier on the Continent. Si* Lord Ly tton, the novelist, is dead. Justice Byles has resigned. 1 Sargood, the soft goods warehouseman, is dead. Spain is reinforcing her Cuban troops, The Bonapartists , are, intriguing actively in ; Freace for. lmperial restoration.. In France affairs are quiet. , The new cli^ to hand is of inferior quality. . The Austfalir i December mail was delivered on the 20th inst.7 _,",." _„ • , : Sir James Fergussori was to have an interview -with Earl Kimberley ; on the following day. Theßussian.Couvjifl in mourning for Napoleon. .■- ; -. .- '7 ;'•■• 7. •'•■- Supplies have reached Dr Livingstone, who has started to explore the interior of the country. ',. , Thereis a deficiency of i<s4 i, million francs , in the Frehchmdirect revenue; ; X' The Australian colonies are to be raised to an . Admiral V command. ..The ■*■ corvette Pearl, 17 ' :'guns,w^.beTthe'*aag-i^bip. 1 \- 7X.X;7: -•■: TheWeUh.cb&ery strikesTcontinue, and notwithstanding ii#^^ maintained by the Unions. '/;x' .* :

Baron SchuvslofF bas been unsuccessful iv his Russian-Asiatic mission and has departed. i

The Queen's Government has notified to the Cabinet of St Petersburg that an attack by Bussian arms upon Afghanistan . would be regarded as a declaration , of war- against Great Britain. An uneasy feeling prevails. There is a fall in Wallaroo copper. Pig iron firm at £129. Block tin active at £146.

Mutton tallow; best 43s 6d to 445. The New Zealand Trust and Loan Company has declared a dividend of 10 per cent.

New Zealand hemp commands full rates. Sperm oil, £95. Wheat dull. Money abundant. The Emperor of Germany visits the Czar of Russia in April. |The meeting is said to have no political significance. The German Cou-t is in mourning for Napoleon. The ship Northfleeet, bound forHobartoh with 412" passengers.came into collision in the Channel with a steamer and went down. 300 lives were lost. A Texas Pressure Meat Preserving Company has been launched with a capital of .£150,000. The Bangalore has arrived at Galle. The churches in Paris were crowded on the occasion of mass being sung for the soul of tbe late Emperor. Discount four per cent. Consols,92s LATEST UNPUBLISED. London, January 24. — England's declaration to Russia is not l'^ely to result iv poM tical complications. There is a Bonapartist reaction in France; An outward-bound Australian steamer ran into, and sunk, the immigrant ship N&rtbfleet, for New Zealand (sic) off Dover. _ Three hundred persons are reported to have perished. Late advices say that 252 is the number, including the captain. They were principally navvies. Pig iron, £132 to £133. Copper, £95. The Russian official press writes in a guarded tone on the political situation.