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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 12, 14 January 1874, Page 2

Hokitika, January 14. The Tararua, Captain Clarke, arrived From Melbourne at 8 p.m. yesterday, and • "was tendered at nine o'clock this morning. . She left on the Bth, and brings 29 saloon ... and 41 steerage passengers, and 233 tons of cargo for ail ports. She sailed North at 9 o'clock this morning. ENGLISH. (!.■• [OABLEGBAMS.] '' \7 Madrid, January 3. In a message lo the Cortes, Castellar < d'dclareß the abolition of slavery to be • .Urgent. ,-, General Moriones is marching on Bilbao. • Twenty thousand Carlißts are concentrated - in its vicinity. The Cortes has twice outvoted Castellar, and General Havila, the acting military authority, then dissolved the Cortes, and summoned the leaders of the parties, excepting , the Carlists, to form a new .Ministry. London, January 3. The Kaffir troubles in Natal continue.] January 4. Cape Coast advices to tbe 16th Decem- - ber, state that Captain Giover had abandoned the Volta river expedition and . joined General Wolsely. It. was determined to land a reinforcement aad commence the march on Commassie on the ".,. 3rd January. ' The Hon. Captain A. Chatteris of tho Coldstream Guards, aide-de-camp to General Wolseley, is dead. January 5. A reduction in discount iB expected. Madrid, January 4. . Marshal Serrano is appointed Chief of r 4lie Spanish Executive. -•-A /new Ministry has been formed composed equally of Radicals and .Conaerva-

tives. The change was accomplished without disturbance. Junuary 5 Serrano has suspended all constitutional guarantees and disarmed the Republican volunteers. There has b< en serious fighting between the Carlists and Republicans at f-aragossa. General Moriones, being unable to advance hi 3 army in tbe direction of Bilboa, re-embnrked at St. Petersburg, Jauuary 4. The Duke of Edinburgh has arrived. London, January 6, Grain stocks at the British ports are scanty.