SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 215, 28 August 1875, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

The Goiconda arrived at Glenelg, and re- j ports that the Ceylon arrived at the Sound ' on the 22nd July. After repairing machinery she left again on the 21th. The sixth company of Royal Engineers embarked on the Whampoa tor Fiji. An animated controversy is proceeding respecting the credibility of Lawson's discoveries in new Guinea being generally re- I garded as a new invention. The Australian United Gold-mining Company is to be voluntarily wound up. Travelling under the title of the Countess Van Burren, the Queen ot tbe Netherlands is visiting England, and has been entertained by the Queen and the Empress Kugenie She has also exchanged visits with the Prince and Princess of Wales, aod has been visiting StrathSeldsaye, the scat of the Duke of Wellington. The Duke and Duche?sof Edinburgh proceeded to Copenhagen, en ronte for Russia. Ihe Court is in mourning for the death of the ex-Emperor of Ferdinand, of Austria Ihe present Lord Mayor nobly maintains the hospitalities ofthe Mansion House. At Dublin, the Lord Mayor ol London was splendidly entertained. The Sultan ot Zanzibar has bepn the Inn of the month, and is an indefatigable Hghtsser, and has been entertained by all' ! ea diL personages from the Queen downwards. He speaks in terms of supreme delight ol the places he has vi«ited. Sir Dnugla-j Forsytes mission to Burtnnh h« faded. The King refused the pa asß ™oi Br.tth troopr through his territory. Sir Douglas to Simla A Shanghai telegram announces that Chtng-Kang fa now The Chinese authorities have narHailv O f T^ rty J h0u * BaQd P ou "dß have been received M,trl v t am T ? ouse on account of tne Metropolitan Hospital Sunday fund fa£ 1 2?KiS , SSs ™ di3po " Bed of in The celebrated collection known as Marlborough gems, w ere sold in one lo to Mr Agnew for thirty-five thousand guineas thJkT/T™ 006 ° f aQ Averse decinou in nm^ni o£ , Ex( * e <l«er the Brighton AquarS? unablP The Government session Th R Hn eal « WHh the ueßtion thi ° l-T f™ Home Secretary finds himself empowered by law to remit the penalties T hJn ?7* f HoUBe of Convocation have meanwhile a memoriel, signed by 140 000 persons has been presented to the Crown protesting against the eastward position Tnd

Owing to the suspension of the Rev. Mr. Mackonochie the Holy Communion will no longer be ee'ebrated at Bt. Albans. After a sermon by the curate, the congregation forms « procession and proceeds to ths Ritualistic Church in Cheapside, where virtual mass is said. A lay Catholic testimonial of £6.00 has been p esented to Car Inal Manning. The Duke of Norfolk subscribed £1000 The Echo has been purchased hy Albert Grant, wbo will convert it into a Conservative rooming organ. Arthur Arnold retires from the Editorship. It is rumored that Mr Sampson sucee U him Counsel's opinion on the question of the legality of the Church of EngUnd cergymen preaching in Noncootormists' pulpits i. decidedly averse to those desirous of fraternisation. Sir Charles R*_id ia prom ting a movement for systematically teichmg swimming in pubic schools. The Lyceum season has closed. Mr Irving has intimated that in September Ma<. beth will be produced, and Tennyson's Queen Mary Marshal'M-Mahon, as arbitrator in the protracted dispute between England and Portugal respecting De'.ogoa Bay, decided in favor of Portugal. A thousand Mormoi proselytes, iv charge of Bngham Young's son, have sailed from Liverpool. Five hundred consist of Germans, and the rest are English, Scotch, and Welsh. A Home Rule conference of Irishmen resident in England was held with closed doors. Dr. Kenealy narrowly escaped severe handling by a body of indignant mechanics at Crewe. Three Bedford gentlemen, one a clergyman, have been committed for. trialon a charge of manslaughter iv connection with the aus** picious death of a young naval lieutenant, while travelling by night ia a Pulmsn palace car.' - * * Brutal outrages are reported in Lancashire. Two men kicked their wives to death. There hare been some formidable strikes abroad. In Belgium three thousand colliers refused l to enter the mines; At Brunn, in Moravia, eight thousand woollen weavers struck for au advance of wages. Serious di putes are impending in the iron trade. A rupture is anticipated. The annual picoic of the Northumberland Miners' Union at Morpeth was attended by two thousand persons, and resolutions were adopted affirming the principle of manhood suffrage legislation, and county and borough franchise. Mr Merry's Doneaster Teruna, which won the Gold Cup at Ascot, after having been sold to his trainer for ten thousand pounds, was resold to the Duke of Westminster for thirteen thousand pounds. Mr Merry intends to sell all his horses now in training. Fifty Middlepark yearlings were soldfu* eleven thousand five hundred guineus. Maccaroni has btea purchased for seven thousand one hundred guineas. The Jockey Club have resolved that any toutor detected watching a trial, or person proved to have obtained information surreptitiously, shall be warned off the Newmarket Heath and all racecourses. In the threa days' cricket match, Gentlemen v. Players, the former won by 262 runs. The scores were 536 against 334. Floods and destructive inundations have occurred iv various parts of the Continent. Hungiry is stiff-ring dreadfully from the watery scourge. At Pesth *ixty dead bodies have been recovered. In South France the floods were disastrous and appalling. The water at Stagpreu was ten feet in the streets. At Toulouse alone two thousand persons were drowned, three thousand houses destroyed, and 20,000 persons rendered homeless. The calamity has excited the greatest sympathy, and large sums have been subscribed for the relie£ Tha damages are estimated at from nine to twelve millions ►terling at Touloue alone. The American papers describe a terrible earthquake at Cuchit, a valley in the Republic of New Granada, which has been entirely destroyed, only a few families having been saved. Full sixty thousand persons have perished. Obituary.— Viscount Molesworth; Captain Kennedy, famous chess player: ex-Emperor Ferdinand of Austria; Michael Henry, elitor ofthe Jewish Chronicle; Morgan O'Connell, nephew ofthe Liberator; J. B. Baines, ofthe Leeds Mercury; and John Robertson, journalist Sir W. Lawson's Permissive Bill was lost by 371 to 86. Shipping.— Sailej: July lst—Border Chief for Wellington. June 17— City of Auckland for Auckland. Jone 20— Elizabeth Graham for Otago. June 25— Helen Denny for Napier. July I— lnvercareill for Port Chalmers. July s— Renfrew C*»stle for Wellington. July l— Merope for Canterbury. Ju'y 3— Taunton fnr Otago. June 18— Waimea for Otago. June 25— Waikato, for Canterbury. Loading: For Auckland — White f-ai-tle, British Empire, Star of Germany, Ocean Mail, and Waitara. For Canterbury —Himalaya, Duka of Edinburgh, Queen Bee, aod Waitangi. For Nap er— lnverness and Queen Bee. Fcr Ota?o— Jessie Readman, Milandia Carmarthenshire, Calypso, May Queen. Otago, Manuira, and Celestial Queen. For Wellington— Ho wrah and St. Leonards For Bluff- Adamant.