SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 106, 7 May 1877, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

; .';' [Per Rinoahooma.] ... v Captain Thomson, of 'the Challenger^ has teenl apjpointeato th«-co2»°iand-of th?;^oya} yach|; Victoria and Albeit,

\ Sir J. Paget succeeds ajs'SiaVgeoii-ifajqg to the Queek. ; :-;i \ » [-. ; \ I Several nkvial disasters I'afo chronicled. Tl c SiJrfas and Thetigjhave ljoiti beau d:s--abl^d;'atid6i?9 Lyns, TTith ifcre-ftri of over vber. > V v v \ The report of the Admiralty Committee i^eows that although lime-juice wa« recommended to sledging parties, Sir G«o. Narea . dec'ded to omit it, as men had been pro* vntfi lim^-Juice. V [^ijffiew lroacladi wti!\b» added 4o the service ~- this Vyear, VIK. r /r~the Drefedntftight, Nelson, Temeraire, Shannon, and Northampton. A new description of vessel— & torpedo ram,~;carrying no- guas—ta-to be- oon~ structed. Sir Harding Gifford, the Solicitor-Genera 1 , has been elected for Launceston; md Mr Sydney. .Herbert, brother _ of __tue_j|iri of PembrbK; has been fStuftfed rWWitt«fh In the obituary list are the names of Field-Marshall Fitzgerald and Admiral SirE. Belcher. Eleven steamers are advertised to sail for Melbourne viaftiier r C&pe. ?■■■ > There is an immense deniaid foe American.meat, and shops fotilts sale have bjten of ened--! ' 'in the suburbs gf London. "" '- ; f Qa.ptain Haveloc& the late Colgfclat Becra- : .;taVjM>f Fiji, bj£ been appolnted-Preddenfc .opiijjje Island of Ne*is ; in the Wait Infliw. " »&f£at distress prevails amongatr&he work- <■ idgfißen of Gecmady, $nd (ft largsplmmigra,?; t'ptr aas taken placg into ftelglun>. '-'. ' -'^Efae famine ia Southern) India" .coatlnuafr vejsrse«ere. aujl ifris flared tha^' ttm- July/; afid Auguirc drops* wit be a j-owiag accounts ots given offjphe {famine •: • inrNprtnenr China/where no aid^jta available 7 f<sr.theiin^|rtdn'atejrseOD!«.; g- J : Hf#e vTi^es notices ifo'Sl the '^at* Lord/ • flfeyor Cottjbn tfas f epekedjf rom fche j tffefotl ' of Dunedugthtfsura.oOifcO, coatribsit*d itt 'Qtagb toeards^he^elief^S the jjpff^rergin:- 1 Bulgaria; luTd^marksNthtt itjwaK the oply public subgl-ripiioii/for the purg^se ia the- " AusStelkn-eoleiiie^ o£• &'" f-The Bisgpp ttf Helton hasc>rc^ed forth? Arc^bisho^ o£ C^aterburf Imitation to attend the^pjoacbint Ean-Ang (fcan Sjfflod/ that he is^avente'dbj pressing i^orfc ifluhfi 'diocese, bij& 4fe strongly Sjaapprott^ToiT resolutions-J9*r,sied3it «oy sacti meetlajpt;l)eing elevattiS fo \se (ink M *«thotlts6fv£' decisions. So thinks that the independence of the Ecclesiastical Province will be endangered by such a conference, and that it will lead to centralization.