SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 207, 1 September 1874, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

The following items of English news are to hand by the Albion, which arrived last night with the Suez mails— As a remarkable illustration of the large trade between this country and Australia, it is mentioned that 17 vessels arrived at Graveseod from the antipodes 'on June 25.~ Eight were from New Zealand^ fonr from Adelaide, two from Melbourne, two from Sydney, and one from Brisbane. The Liberal party, sobered by Iheir lale defeat, are adopting measures for organising and consolidating their strength. Besides the City Club, which has already enrolled 800 members, a new West- end Liberal Club is projected, under the most powerful auspices, to promote more intimate intercourse. - ...*"-. ,- ; „/■'-.. A band of 50 lady instrumentalists from Vienna, are giving concerts in Hanover-square Rooms. Seven thousand miners in South Staffordshire have accepted the terms arranged between their delegates and their masters. In North Staffordshire the colliers bave resolved to protract tbeir resistance. In the Barnsby district the miners submit to 10 per cent reduction, but will turn out if a further threatened reduction is made. Negotiations in the Bristol district failed, the men remaining out. Two thousand five hundred men have been discharged from the Llanberris slate quarries for joiniog the union. In South Wales the iron and coal trades are in a critical position. The . employers contemplate a further reduction of from 10 to 30 per cent.> wbich creates intense excitement. The Plymouth shipwrights and Leicester elastic web manufacturers are on strike. The Huddersfield cloth pressors are agitating for an increase of wages. Nearly 400,000 operatives at Belfast have struck against 10 per cent, reduction. Additional police are in the town prepared for an emergency. The Otago, Cathcart, Oxford, aod Tweed have sailed for New Zealand with about 400 emigrants each. The summer manoeuvres at Aldershot have elicited warm commendations from military judges. Some of the militia regiments present almost equalled the regular troopj in tbe precision of their evolutions. A sham fight took place in the presence of the Queen. Cootratulatory telegrams were exchanged between the Queen and. the Emperor of Brazil, on the completion i of telegraphic connexion between Europe and Brazil. Silver medals have been awarded to Dr Livingstone's faithful followers. The Government pays £1000 for arrears of wages. .. A Frenchman named Degoof succeeded in descending safely from a balloon by means of a flying-machine. He went up from Cremorne-gardens, passed over the- city aod descended near! Brandon,: JSssex, In the, second ascent last night Degoof was killed, owing to tbe failure of his plaos. At the . inter vUnivefsity Cricket Match Oxford was victorious. In two innings Cambridge obtained only 173 runs, while Oxford in one innings scored 265. The latest, news from the Indian famine districts is cheering. Plentiful . rains have fallen, the laborers on the relief works are decreasing daily, seed corn is abundant, and the Government grain reserves will suffice until December. The Mansion-house Relief Fund exceeds £122,000. During the past fortnight there has been a march of agricultural laborers through the Eastern and Midland counties, beginning-, at Cambridge, The men wore blue ribbons, and some carried flags. 'Speeches were made in every town, and collections made;' Much publio .syrripathy was evinced, and generous hospitality was given io tbe shape of substantial meals, beds, &o. Mr Henry Taylor, secretary to the union, acts as leader. .A monster meeting of the Manchester Trades Unionists was held in favor of the laborers. There were 25,000 ih procession, with 40 bands of music, and altogether 50,000 were present. Mr Arch was the principal spokesman. A collection was made of £197. Several, cases of intimidation and assault have been charged against the Unionists. Seven women were fined 10s each for assaulting non-union laborers near Bury. At Haverhal.l, 11 laborers have been committed for trial for conspiring to intimidate. At a farmers' meeting at Newmarket, it was announced that 5000 men were anxious to return from Canada, and one farmer undertook to raise sufficient money to bring over sufficient men to supply the needs of the district, The fonr escaped Communists are at present in London. On landing at Queenstown M. Rochefort was mobbed and hooted. He prudently affects j seclusion, and refuses to lecture or attend any^ public demonstration^ ; iOu the 2.9 th June an entertainment was given by the Communist sympathisers in Fijzrqy-square. M.M.'(^roos9etand Jourde were present aqd spoke, but M.M, Rochefort and OliverJ^ain absented themselves. 130 Frenchmen listened to the story of their rsufferi_gs, '. an d ,' oreated a terrible tumult. intends publishing a narrative. It: la. uncertain where he. will aetUe^himSeif. " Rotterdam, Brussels, and "' ) are spoken, of. /the , J^ma* "has , pal?-' lished a long statement fi^oi. two ofl

Rochefort'a companions charging the French Government in New Caledonia with cruel severity. T^e Times, in a leader chows no sympathy, but excuses th^oyernment, on the "ground of its having so much on its haads, - for having taken proper precautions for receiving Communists in New Caledonia. On asking for a vole of £35,000 to supplement the Gold Coast revenues for the purpose of carrying out the/ new administration of the West African settlements, our policy and duties again came under discussion. It is generally admitted that we cannot retire from the Coast, but there is a strong feeling that we should not continue to recognise slavery in any form. Ministers contended that abolition should bo gradual and cautious, not sudden and violent. Captain Strahan, &N., is appointed Governor, with a j salary of £3,500. The head-quarters have been removed- to Elraioa, with a lieutenant-governor at Lagos. The administrative staff is to consist of an auditor, a chief justice, a Queen's advocate, a police commandant, a - colonial engineer, surgeons, and a military force of 1,000 "Houssaa. A sanatorium : - is to be established .in the hills. Meanwhile the treaty is ignored by King Coffee, slavery is active, and human sacrifices have been resumed. {For remainder of News see fourth page.)

-The following brief biographical V iketc-' 3df 11B& -Marquis of Normanby, who has been appointed successor to x Sir Jamea Fergusson, appears in " Men YYdif iti^KiW^S^ Moft^66W Geof jA_ Augustus Constantino Pnipps, only sop," YA. of the first Marquis, borV _3!rd Jdly, j 1819, entered .A^^otsJ'psilier Guards in 1838, and was' Controller and subse"7 quently Treasurer of . Queen'e. he was appointed droveinor 0^ Nova : Scotia. Aa Lord Mulgrave, he was member for Scarborough in the Liberal interest from 1847 till -B_iy ! Bd from 1852, till 1857. He wag Bworn a Privy Connerltef-in -1851j-and [succeeded to " his father^iiitii-atli July; 1863, when 7 he : resigned hia foreign appointment and returned to England. He was sppoitttetf : Captiin ' of the Corps of Gent«S^eifiiiP»ni_ k tTth December, 1869, and held that office till Bth April, 1871, when he was nominated Governor of Queensland; ss -."- A German family living at Otahua, Otago, h^ve, r been burned. The husband^ Wife, and a child, were Hving ( in,a. ; The woman took a - billy pr.|iot..asbe4, into the tent before going* to bed. The wind scattered &e"m^pndr : then (ent caught fire. AU the inmates w£re injured, and they were removed to the Dunedin Hospital. '___'- s Gre>iHonth Star says:-- We hear t_e most encouraging accounts as , to the rapid prosecution of the worltiP at Webtpoft in 2 connection with the Mount Roch fort Railway. The oontraotor fonithetjobi. previous to leaving - Greymouth, offered to bet anything V from a ten^ponnd '^note to a new hat that be^ would land a truck of coal in Weatpori J l>y rail' before one could be brought into Greymouth by the Brunner lioe^^Dar ! sporting men knowingly shook?' their'^ headß and declined Mr. M'Left-'s' bete; and 5 judging by tbe way the lines are being constructed,, we think, Wiestport contractor might, bave t o^[ere4.odds> Judging from pre- : sent appearances, it will be 1876. hefore •. this l^tOjßrunnertqn is open for coal carry in^ipjarposes, and by that , time Westport will have established a. rival trade t the material -to be. exported,, that most proye J( .Beriouß!y injurious to this port. The race between the Albion (from Hokitikfi^afid: the Tararua (from the Bluff), the last t meotioaed with the July Sue^rn^l -rid the former with a supplementary mail, was a remarkably . close affair, but erlded in favor of the Albionj' whicliKßailed from '■ Hokitika on ? the at half-past three o'cloc^Pfm^ or haliP : an-hour before the Tararua left "the Bluff, and passed S through. Port Phillip Heada on the 9th, exactly half^an-hopr before the Tararua, both vessels making the rtin in four days seventeen- hours. They were in V company off Wilson's Promontory, from : whence, thfr/race yas very close, neither vessel being 4ble 6> gain _n the other. -:: .- The dietaDee from Hokitika, however, is seventy-five "miles" farther than from the Bluff, so tbat the honors rest with the Albion.— -Times. ■ ; V, AU who are acqauinted with New Zealand's political history (says a Northern, ,qoe temporary), are aware that Aacklaiad,^some years ago, parted : with .frshia^'itif'the land fond, for a lamp j|^of f liJgood : many thousands in hard cash, and the forgiveness of a variety of debts, which it was inconvenient at thevtinre to pay. Thebar- % Bain8 am fs^sfA h 9?g h '« a-cgPOd one at the time, but it was policy, : ; and amounted lo Auckland: selling her birthright for a mess of pottage. The f"»fcof this great political mistake she is now reaping, and it must be bitter ' ' indeed, . . _M^ '^SE- i 8 8°« 0 _ toe rounds at L the expense of Otago. The Premier, it is well known, has all along been ! oppoae^lbPr^Dcial bor rowing— -even i last year only Provincial pressure induced him to assent to and battle for tbe C *&¥£.-i ■?? ■s** -'"™w«nre. ■A y*Jf WKP^ B^ h Mf a million, |7 which joiicoorsewaa not to be got It^ ; is said "that! after mnch chat and [j: cogitatioft l ;t r he^ . Premier, : asked Mr Macandr,w; nlfl -I^ve yoo anything to ■ eU ?w a nlmmvm v; replied Qtago's ; I Saperinten4e.n^i : '«lTfee Bloff and Wihton Railway." "Will yon. sell it at B v » la . ftt l9R)?jimtinpes Yogel . « « Yes,". |^replies the other* 0 A. bargain, is struck; d *<t*)oy»©: difficulty is got over, and I^Btago _ wants are provided for (t»irfe Statement). HH^ good " bag^ was made hy five ■HUlemen of New Soutli Wales, who ■UK* ont shooting 00 ,tbe Bundaburra |HHp 1d to* Forbes district of New Wales. lis'-' contents embraced BlHnty-two wild Wsesj ibirtyJt_ r 'ee |Bri ]d . P't? 8 * fi^een kangaroos, fifteen companions, six swans, eighteen ■JT docks, fonr tnrkeys, and one white W pelican. ,_ V: : ,