ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4314, 18 January 1875, Page 2

ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA.

THE WONG A AT AUCKLAND. _ [Press Telegram Aoencv.] Auckland, Saturday. The Wonga Worga has arrived. She left Sydney ou the 9th, a day before tbe Albion left Melbourne. '■ She brings the following intelligence and Suez telegrams, but not°the mail ; London, November 23. New Zealand immigration continues at the rate of 400 monthly. , Mr. Holloway, agricultural delegate, has reported very favorably of New Zealand. Lieut. Dawson has been ordered to make an Admiralty survey of Fiji. An old English sailor has published a circumstantial statement that after rescuing' Roger Tichborne from a boat drifting in the Pacific, they were lauded on Sydney Island, where he nursed him eighteen days till he died, and • then buried him. Tichborne wrote a statement with the blood of a bird, which is now faded. The British Consul at Honolulu will investigate the affair. Orton s sisters presented an address to the Queen for the Claimant’s release, on the plea that he is not their brother. The Home Secretary refused. Mina Jury is pursuing a* career in hotel and lodging-house larcenies. She lately escaped from Macclesfield goal, Inxt was x-e----captured at Deal, and received a sentence of six months. A crowded meeting at Peterbox-ougix resolved to present a petition to Parliament for tbe removal of the three Jedges who presided at the Ticlibox-ne tx-ial, and for the abolition of Gray’s Inn. The Hon. Mrs. Kinnainl presented an address to the Duchess of Edinburgh, and a handsome Bible, subscribed for by 7572 maids of England. , At the Lord Mayor’s dinnex-, Disraeli made an invidious comparison between tlxe liberty enjoyed by England’s working men and foreign noblemen. It occasioned a great hubbub. It was understood to refer to Count Arnim’s arrest, and a remonstrance from Berlin is expected, for ou the following Monday The Times inserted a letter from Disraeli disavowing such reference. The Premier is blamed for this step, which is regarded as humiliating, to England. Failures.—De Pass, liabilities, £IOO,OOO ; Broad and Ziak, £10,455; MeEwau, speculator in stocks, £400,000. LATE TELEGRAMS. London, 3rd to 17th December. The Pope, in x-eceiving Archbishop Manning said he rejoiced greatly at the progress which was being' made by the Roman Catholic religion in England. Russia is making a campaign against the Turcomans, and has commenced operations in Khiva. The expedition is caused by the refusal of the Turcomans to recognise the Khivan Khan’g power to levy taxes. The Assembly has adopted a Bill subjecting all foreigners born in France to military service in the French army. An attempt was made to poison Colonel Phayre, political resident at Baroda, by the introduction of poison into his sherbet. General Addison’s arrangements for taking observations of the transit of Venus were here most elaborate. All previous computations wex’e cox-reot. The Baroness Resen, Abbess of a Siberian convent, convicted of forgery and extortion, has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment and eleven years’ banishment to Siberia. The New Zealand exports for November were £450,000.