ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SUEZ.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 50, 6 January 1872, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SUEZ.

[FEE GEEVJLIiE’S tel. co , eetjter’s agents.] Hokitika, Saturday. The s.s. Rangitoto, Captain Mackie, arrived at 6 a.m. She left Hobson’s Bay 23rd at 3 p.m.; called at Milford Sound; light S.S.E., windy weather throughout the passage. Passengers : Messrs Drummond, J. J. Casey, B. Bunney, Master Bunney, J. W. Jolly, and the Rev Mr King, Master King, W. J. Moore, Frew, Thomson, F. Williamson, Maurice, Moran, James Wilson, Hawes, Thompson, Moore, R. A. Dilling, Mrs Learmouth, Mrs M. Fyffe, and infant, Mrs Jefferson, Miss A. Moore. Cargo for all ports, 262 tons, W. L. Mailler, purser. The Alexandra branch mail steamer arrived at Adelaide at 8 a.m.*; on the morning of the 21st; Nubia, anchored at Queenscliff at midnight 22nd ; left Galle 29th November. Dates from London to the 3rd; telegraphic news 27th. Long list of Passengers ; none for New Zealand. London - . The Queen’s health continues to improve. The Prince of Wales is ill with typhoid fever. The wool sales opened at Id higher. Great demand for Australian preserved meat; stocks run out. Four shops have been established in Aberdeen for the sale of New Zealand preserved meats. COMMERCIAL. The fourth series of wool sales closed on October 11th. 137,997 bales were sold, including 39,438 from New Zealand. Total sales for the year, 652,299 bales. New Zealand ranged as follows: —Fleece, fine, 2s 2d to 2s 4|d; scoured, Is lOd to 2s 6d; greasy, 1 Id to Is Gd; lambs, Is 8d to 2s. In flax there is a fair amount of business. About 2500 bales sold at full rates. The improvement in the mode of preparation isvery noticeable. Hides are not so active. Arrivals with hides —England, from Wellington ; Roslyn Castle, from Otago ; Crusader, from Lyttelton : Wild Duck, from Auckland ; which, with Australian arrivals, brought 4475 salted hides. New Zealand first heavy, 6-ld ; second heavy, 6d. Tallow finds a very good market, with an advance of 2s for mutton, and Is for beef. In Australian gum 82 casks were sold. Red and frosted, 41s; middling to good, 365. New Zealand sixes, 1891,110 to 112; fives, 101 to 102 ; consolidated 100-*- to 101|; sixes, June and December, 111 to 113. New Zealand Loan Mercantile agency f- to % premium ; ditto Trust loan, If to If premium ; Otago and Southland Investment f to f premium ; Bank of New Zealand 18| to 191-; Bank of Otago discount. Consols 92f to 93. Money still dear. October 2nd, Bank of England advanced discount to 5 per cent, and on November 2nd, after consultation, the directors declined to reduce it ; still bank very strong, bullion and reserve of notes largely increased, other securities fallen off. In open market matter quiet; transactions reported as of to 4 per cent; supply of money excessive. The French Government has £24,000,000 sterling ready for payment as fourth instalment of the war indemnity. SHIPPING. Arrived —At Gravesend, October 26, Crusader, from Lyttelten ; October 28, Wild Duck, at Gravesend, from Auckland ; October 27, Roslyn Castle, from Otago. Sailed —Caducous, for Auckland, off Brixham 25th October ; Harvest Home, for Canterbury, October 9th ; Gyrene, for Canterbury, October 18th ; Warrior Queen, for Otago, October 29th ; Malay, for Wanganui, October lltli. Loading—For Auckland, England, Naomi, and Wild Duck ; for Canterbury, Charlotte Gladstone and Crusader;

for Nelson, Tyrol; for Otago, Enterprise and Jessie Readman ; for Wellington, Celoeno. The Charlotte Gladstone cleared from London on November 2nd, and the Celceno on the Ist. GENERAL SUMMARY. The news of the loss of the Rangoon reached London eight hours after the wreck. An inquiry into the loss of the Underley resulted in the suspension of the master’s certificate for three months. A good deal of cargo was saved. The extra mail steamer Pellini sails for Shanghai via Suez Canal on November 22nd. Capt. M'-Donald, of the Queen of the Thames, has published a pamphlet advocating the Cape line of steamers to do the voyage to Melbourne in 48 days. A stall for sale of Australian meats, opened at Manchester, was crowded with customers. The new Victorian tariff is likely to hamper export trade and emigration. Liverpool October emigration report shews an increase. 150,000 attended Gladstone’s meeting at Greenwich. He spoke two hours. One hundred and seven reporters were present. The whole speech cabled to America the same night. Criticism, of Press on the speech favorable. A new expedition has started for the Holy Land. Sothern, the actor, has left for America. The magistrates refused music in dancing licenses to Cremorne, Highbury Barn, Alhambra, and similar haunts. Mr Bruce, the Home Secretary, declined to release the remaining Fenian prisoners, who are either perjured soldiers or the Manchester murderers. The agitation in the labor market is extending; the nine hours’ principle is conceded generally. LATE TELEGRAMS. London, November 27th. John Bright has recovered, and will return to public life. Mr Disraeli has been elected Rector of the Glasgow University, and Sir William Maxwell Rector of the Edinburgh University. A court-martial on the loss of the Magsera exonerated the captain officers. Two thonsand applications were made by officers to retire prior to the issue of tiie warrant to carry out the Army Act. I he French Government has resolved to submit to the National Assembly a project for doubling the capital of the Bank of France, and increasing the circulation of notes to three millions. The rate of discount is raised to six per cent by the Bank of France. A large fire has occurred in Geneva. Cholera has re-appeared in Constantinople. The Republicans have elected most of their candidates in New York, also in Massachusetts, and Wisconsin. The famine in Persia is rapidly increasing. Disturbances have taken place amongst the Chinese at Singapore. The Prince of Wales has become suddenly indisposed. An Official bulletin of November 23, states he has the typhoid fever but no unfavorable symptoms had appeared. On the 27th the fever was increasing. AMERICA. Prince Alexis, Russian naval com-mander-in-chief, replying to an address of welcome in New York, declared that nothing could disturb the friendship between Russia and America. GERMANY. German Reichstadt has adopted a bill for the introduction of gold coingae. Bismarck is unwell. FRANCE. Thiers has received a Chinese ambassador, who apologised for Tien-Tsin massacres. SPAIN. Madrid : The dissolution of the Cortes is considered certain. GENERAL SUMMARY. The boiler of the steamer Mooltan burst, but no lives were lost. Some of the Rangoon’s mail bags have been recovered, and are in good

preservation ; also some of the passengers’ luggage. Butt is in Glasgow advocating repeal of union and Irish self-government. Pigott, proprietor of The Irishman newspaper, has been sentenced to four months’ imprisonment. Kelly has been acquitted of the murder of Constable Talbot. Thiers has offered the Pope an asylum in France, but he remains at the Vatican. There has been a great anti-Papal demonstration at Brussels. A meeting of wool importers has been held, and the London Association reconstituted. Adelaide wheat is quoted at Gss. There is quite a great demand for Australian meats, the stocks being exhausted. Consol 93U The first message was despatched from Galle to the Argus, Melbourne, via Java, on November 28. The Nubia met with very heavy weather after crossing the line, and had to put into Freemantle for coal, thus accounting for delay in arrival Wheat, firm; brandy, 7d higher; iron, advancing; Victorian meats, great demand ; mutton, 4d. ‘ lb,, beef sd, per lb. The Queen returned to Windsor on the 25th, with her health much improved. Arrived, Great Britain. Doctor Wynton is dead An Italian commission has been appointed to enquire into the postal servied via Brindisi Bank rates have been reduced to four per cent.