ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4361, 12 March 1875, Page 3

ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA

ARRIVAL OF THE SUEZ MAIL. [Per Press Agency.] The Bluff, Thursday. The Albion, with the Suez mail o£ the 22nd of January, reached this port at noon to-day, or four days before she was due. The Albion left Melbourne on the 6th instant, and will sail for Dunedin at five o'clock p.m. She brings two saloon and seven steerage passengers, with 80 tons of cargo, for Wellington, and the following news : ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL. [Recter's Special.] London, March 2. The lock-out in South Wales continues. The New Zealand lean 13 successful. The subscription has ceased. March 4. In a letter published John Bright ridiculed Home Rule. Prussia has resolved to require the Bishops to recognise the supremacy of the State over the Papal authority, under the penalty of disendowment. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. VICTORIA. Meluocrne, March 3. At a public meeting of merchants resolutions were passed in favor of the establishment of a harbor trust.

The Odd Fellows' Hall, Belfast', has been burned down by the freak of a drunken man, kicking over a kerosene lamp during a ventriloquist's entertainment. Dr. Buller, of New Zealand, is created a Companion of St. Michael and St. George. In a. fire at Albury, yesterday, a man named Charles Henry was burned to death. Schoofield's wool-washing establishment, at Portland, has been burned, and 100 bales of wool destroyed. Florence Bassett, a promising contralto, died ,|gflfcst night of consumption. ' Wheat, 4s. 7|d.; bottled, ale has advanced to lis.; raisins are in demand at an advance. NEW SOUTH WALES. Sydney, March 3. Arnold's body was found three hundred yards from his residence. A man servant was with him at the time of the accident, and Arnold, finding himself sinking, told the servant to tell his family how it happened, and then disappeared. The floods are subsiding. The Government call for tenders for the Californian service, in the colonies. On Monday, in the Intercolonial Cricket Match, Sydney in their first innings made 116, ef which E. Gregory scored 66, not out; Coates, 14 ; Evans, 11. In the next innings they quickly disposed of seven wickets for 44 runs. The ground is very dead after the late rains.