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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 257, 25 October 1873, Page 2

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... London, October 15. . The Hon. Saul Samuel, havi_g concluded arrangements in London in connection with the Pacific mail service, shortly leaves for the United tf'f States. If he completes his 'business there in time, it. .is his .intention .to return to New South . Wales in the steamer McGregor, which, leaves , San Francisco in, January. .-'•! .--/j- --,• •} New interest has been added to; fchie trial/of the , *Clahnant by John Tjne, the, steward <of the Osi prey, deponing with great circunistantjlality to the picking, up of the boat containing, the Claimant i ..off the Brazilian .coast in.the Spring of 1854. He , I -further .deposed, that the Osprey J».ok the Claun~at»t to Melbourne. His. evidence. i^as caused a .strong sensation. ..•■-", . , •i Mr Henry James^ whose seatiin the, House of 'Commons became vacant on his .accepting the office of Solicitor General, has been re-elected for Taunton. * ..-._.'-- One .of., the indictments . against .Marshal Basaine, .whose trial was, postponed until after the evacuation of the French territory by the German troops, is that he tampered with the positive orders of the r Emperor Napoleon not to - jeopardise the army. . ! t, •*: ': )The rigorous enforcement of the Jaw: • 'against tbe Roman Catholics in Germany has caused the Pope to write to the Emperor William urging a iela__*tion : ol ■ Bucb ■ severity. CI TO -this letter the Emperor replied that tbe Roman Catholics in his empire are an organised political party, sowing rfebgisus discord, and that the attitude of the 'Roman Catholic clergy amounts to open revolt. „. .. . "PER ALBION. . . ; The iNew Zealand r Loan ''" -Mercantile Agency r.telejjraphs to under, date- London, Oct. 18V that the wool sales are -progressing firmly. Cross-bred greasy, and clothing washed and scoured' have advanced Id -ince the close of the . last sales. Up to 6>.6 r . 75,000 bales had been ,s sold, '•• '■'■' "■• -■'■■■-' ■ — There ia leas trade demand for tallow. Mutton, 43*; beef, 40s ; best sides of leather, ls l.d. Adelaide wheat ia worth 65s per 4961,8. New • ; Zealand hemp: stocks accumuSiting. Kauri gum: market __rm.Y* ?V Arrived: Baroda, with September mailß. At the Vienna show for New Zealand exhibits, a medal for merit was awarded to the Government of NewjZealand^ofr»gPological and mineralogical models^' also for 'agriculture, horticulture, and forestry. A medal for merit to J. C. Bluett, Dumaquc and Place, Waikuku, and C. Goulter for New Zeslahd'flaX;' New Zealand wood collecr tion. — Honorable Mention: G. A. Ansley, T Bangiora; P. Cunningham and Co. for. grain;; J. '■ "an*T. Meek, New Zealand Agricultural Society, for grain; J. H. Rogers, J. N. Fosswell, and W. D. Wood. For chemical industry : honorable mention : .Brown apd Campbell. Combes and Daldy, Henderson and M'Farlane, Luke Nattrass, Owen and Giahara, and R. Walker and Co. For substances of food and products of industry., medal for progress to. P. Cunningham and Co.; medal for merit to the Canterbury Meat Pre^ serving Company, W. T. Cawkwell and Co , G. Fauneil, Reeves, and Co. Honorable mention ; A.- Dornwell, : 31 Gilmour. Texiie industry and clothing : medal . for progress to Cornelius Thome. Medal for merit, Agent--3 Hfieneral ian "Fngland; and-. A.. J, Burns and Co. Honorable mention: Webley Brothers, Nelson. Leather and Indiarubbrr industry: honorable mentio^ f Jeather). Wood industry: medal for merit to 'George Fraser; honorable mention, Bobert Graham. For Maori carvhag, Suffert^ Auckland; Tarahora (mats). Education, teaching, ahd instruetion: honorable mention, Walter. Laurie BulIer; Dr William . -Landor. and Lindsay. 'Je__JeJ*}d_stry and clothing: medal .for mp.it, W«b!ey Brothers;-honora-ble, mention — Auckland Patent' Steam Rope ..,, jCompaay' ~ Beatham & Sons; James Brogden; .Canterbury, JSh% Association, ;i>rahora. Tallerman's "Meat Company, at the half-yearlv meeting declared a net proflt of £1400. It was y ' State- "it" t-^meeti-rg-thst there^were fifty-three establish-daents' in' Australia and '"New Zealand, and that 326-000 cases were received last year, equal to 17,500 tons. The total import of New Zealand wcol tbis year was 174,584 bales, of whieh 91,575 were . sold; handy New Zealand wools gave way in the * course of the last sales, and are "now only ld _ .higher than in May. Superior fleece, washed "' ahd combing, command extreme rates. ; ■ Some of the best Lincolnshire rams were bought recently by Mr Russell, of Auckland, Mr ■ 0 Parson, of Canterbury, »nd Mr Smith, of Napier; Mr Sharpe, of New Zealand, was also a purchaser. " The National Bank of New Zealand has api '' pointed Mr Steele, the Secretary Of the New ~'; Zealand Loan, and Mercantile Agency in London, Manager, vice Mr Grace, who has retired from ill health. New Zealand flax, £42 to £44. p General Stains, a Tradeß Unionist candidate, - y -will be put up at the next general election. ' -. . ', . - The Miners- Association contribute £3000 for „ the election expenses of tbeir candidate. ~_ -. Mr John Bright has satisfactorily replied to a -letter from the Staleybridge Kepublican Club, . urging economy in the adniinistration of finance :/ii The bank forgers were betrayed by the woman 'who lived with them. Besides penal servitude, tbe prisoners are to pay one-fourth of the expenses of the prosecution. \

; A large meeting of Imperialists was held at Chiselhurst on August 15, and received by, the Empress Eugenie to the number of 1 40b,,including a Quaternion of the. Old Guard of , the first Nagpleon.' The young ; Prince during thelproceasion to. Church- was cheered by cries of Vive Napoleon Quatre!- * Ail the Wappiog .**it-esses for the Tichborne defence have declared that they had known Orton well, but found no," trace of. '-him in-the-claimant* Several ..Hampshire witnesses positively' as&bri that the claimant is Roger. ! ' ''"- The Duke 'of Brunswick leaves fourteen million principally to the City of Geneva. — Shipping.— Arrivals ": from- Otago,Y::Margatet; Galbraith, City of Bombay, Lutterworth; from Lyttelton, Warwick; from Invercargill, Palmerston; from Canterbury. Crusader, Beautiful Star, Brecblin Castle; from Auckland, Chaudiere,Moss Glen; Departures : for Otago^May -Queen, Christian M'Ausland, Jessie R-*adra„n; for Wellington, Heleh Denny; for. Canterbury, Cardigan Castle, Souther ; for Auckland, Commissary, Haworth. [cablegrams.] London, October 18. . The r German Emperor's letter to the Pope in reference-to the Jesuits is war'ijaly^approved of in En-land. >; * ; The announcement of Arthur Or ton's arrival in England is a hoax.. The ship Norfolk 'has arriVed" with Harrispn's frozen meat. j SPAIN. j Thej Admiral of the ' R-ipubliean fleet is dismissed for declining a second engagement with the Insurgent ship before Cartbagena.