ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4383, 7 April 1875, Page 2

ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA.

ARRIVAL OF THE ALBION.

Hokitika, Tuesday. The Albion, which arrived this morning from Melbourne, brings the following passengers for Wellington : —Mrs. Irvine, and five in the steerage. She also has news as under:- — ENGLAND. London, March 2S. The time for receiving the Californian mail tenders is extended to J st June. The wool sales closed firmly. 206,000 bales in all were catalogued, and 112,000 bought on foreign account. The opening decline was recovered, and ordinary good Australian brought equal to November rates, while superior kinds brought equal to May early rates. Half-breds realised good prices. The manufacturing trade is inanimate. The steamship Northumberland left Plymouth yesterday. The British Viceroy is docked at Liverpool. Arrived : John of Gaunt, from Melbourne; Glen Osmond, from Adelaide. March 27. The Prince of Wales is slightly indisposed. March 30. An immense Tichborne demonstration was held in Hyde Park yesterday, Dr. ICenealey presiding. The Spanish Government have refused to allow tho Due de Montpensier to return. Obituary—John Martin, member for Meath; AUSTRALIAN INTELLIGENCE. VICTORIA. Mki.bouune, March 31. Hr. C. Biddle, well known in cricketing circles, died yesterday. Tho murderer Sullivan still remains in Melbourne gaol. Mr. Cohen, Commissioner of Customs, continues in a very unsatisfactory state of health.

Sir Redmond Barry, acting Chief Justice, was throwm out of a buggy on Sunday, and broke his arm.

On the first day of the Rondwick Race Meeting in Sydney Sir Hercules Robinson’s Kiugsborongh won the Reger, beating Melbourne, his only opponent. Sir Hercules was very successful in winning also the Champagne and Trial Stakes, and running third for the Doncaster Handicap, which was won by Priam, Diver winning the Cumberland Stakes.

A virulent cattle disease lias broken out amongst the herds around the city. A Mrs. Murphy, a resident of Shoreham, went into the house of a neighbor, Mrs. Boland* and found her sitting over a bottle of rum» quite dead. Mrs. Murphy drank from the bottle, and died soon afterwards. Both women drank from the bottle on the previous night. The rum is supposed to have been poisoned in the interval.

Roberts, a cafe proprietor, has absconded from bail on a charge of fraudulent insolvency.