ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4420, 20 May 1875, Page 2

ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA.

[Per Java Cable.] London, May 8.

The Berlin Post considers the recent Belgian note in reply to Germany meaningless and unsatisfactory. The health of Mr. Vogel continues very precarious. A medical consultation decided that a course of German baths was indispensable. Mr. Vogel cannot return to New Zealand before September.

The April exports from Great Britain show an increase on previous months.

Wheat is depressed ; metals are unchanged. At the wool sales competition is unabated, foreign buyers, especially French, operating keenly, the buyers being eager to supply the immediate requirements of the trade. Average prices were obtained, equal to the highest realised during the March sales. Total sales to date, 26,000 bales. Arrived : John Duthie, Vincent, Calypso. Galle, May 8. The Nubia has sailed for Australia.

The Emperor of Russia arrived in Berlin today.. The result of his interview with the German Emperor is anxiously awaited. The Italian Parliament has been engaged during the week in discussing undue leniency towards the Bishops, and a motion blaming the Government for allowing the law of Exequatur to remain a dead letter. Menghetti promised to introduce legislation to protect the State and to administer ecclesiastical property. He also stated that the relations with Germany were excellent. A vote of confidence in the Government was passed. It is announced that the Government had received an entirely satisfactory assurance from Germany. There is no cause to apprehend disturbance. The Brindisi mail was delivered yesterday. The colliers’ strike in South Wales is ended. The men are returning to work on the masters’ conditions. The Czar and Prince Gortschakoffi interviewed Bismarck immediately on their arrival at Berlin. It is generally supposed that the Czar exercised a pacific influence. Prussia has voted the suppression of religious orders. Melbourne, : May 13. Olsen, one of the three sailors who leaped overboard from the Carleton, at Queeuseliffe,to desert, and was supposed to be drowned, turned up all right. He was twelve hours in the water, and has been hiding with the fishermen since. The insurance companies paid £3700, losses on the Barwon Woollen Mill Company’s fire at Geelong. At the dedication of the new Catholic Church, Gordons, near Ballarat, Archbishop Gould again attacked the Education Act. Captain Kay, Clerk of the Executive Council for many years, is about to retire. The National Agricultural Society is attempting to prevent the importation of sheep from Tasmania, owing to the extent of scab there. The Eev. Charles Clark preached in Melbourne on the 11th. He begins services at the Atheuteum next Sunday. The Irish will hold an O’Connell centenary celebration. The Rev. S. Charles Strong will succeed Mr. Menzies, deceased, at the new Scotch Church, the spire of which is completed, and is the tallest in Melbourne. William Speedy, of Wainui, Hawke’s Bay, has been granted letters patent for improvement in pressing wool, &c. The Minister of Lands announced he would sell no more country land until Parliament hp'd an opportunity of expressing an opinion on the Land Bill. At the Mayor’s quarterly luncheon the Acting-Governor, Premier, and members of the Ministry were present. The Mining Department are calling for tenders for sinking bores to test auriferous areas. The repairs to the coffer dam at the Yarra wharf are completed. The Government Analyst reports on colonial beer that he found few samples of brewers’, all slightly adulterated with fusel oil; common salt added in some cases for increasing thirst. Imperfections of colonial beer attributed to the large use of sugar instead of malt, deficiency in quantity and quality of hops, and high temperature in fermentation. The King of Siam, it is stated, will probably contribute interesting collection to the Melbourne Exhibition. The TJttinga, mother and daughter, have been committed for trial for perjury on the trial of

Frank Sperrin, who was sentenced to ten years and two whippings, for criminal assault on the daughter.

Victoria Permanent Fire Insurance Company started, registered capital one million. Nominations for the Ararat meeting:— Beveridge, McLean, Girdlestone, Samson. •Tames Barker, laborer, suicided on the 10th by throwing himself from railway bridge, Williamstown. He was run over and killed instantaneously by the train. Arrived: 9th, Falcon, barque, from Oamaru, 18th April; Eliza Mary, from Oamaru, 22ud April; Otago, from Dunedin. Departures: 9th, Eosebud, for Dunedin. Sydney.

E- E- Stubbs and Co. have failed; direct liabilities, j£loo, ooo. Barlow, wholesale grocer, and Cohen, ironmonger, have called meetings of their creditors ; liabilities of the former, £28,000 ; assets, £IB,OOO. Cohen’s liabilities, £18,000; assets, £9OOO.

Large influential committee appointed at meeting held on the 11th, in favor of the annexation of New Guinea by the Imperial Government.

The Herald’s Cooktown correspondent attributes the rush of Chinese to representations in Canton by Hongkong merchants. The Queensland Government proposes to raise a loan of a million and a half for railways and public works. The Philadelphia Commission has determined to have a representation of the colony at the Melbourne Exhibition.

The Governor attended the Maitland Races, at which the Cup was won by Kiugsborough. Numerous burglaries have been perpetrated in the suburbs, causing great uneasiness. The Assembly is discussing the Land Bill A verdict of wilful murder has been returned in the case of the body of a child found in Harbor Bay. Murphy, charged with the murder of his wife by poison at Shoalhaveii and acquitted, was re-arrested. The Hero arrived from Auckland on the 10th inst.

The Attorney-General decided that the volunteers are not entitled to a second laud order. The Postmaster-General received a tele-

gram that the Sydney mail bag has been saved from the wreck of the Schiller.

Adelaide wheat, 4s. 4d. to 4s. sd. per bushel.

Adelaide. The Gothenburg fund has reached £B9OO. Heavy rains caused floods, and greatly injured the Botanic and other gardens, and the Glenelg railway. The address in reply was carried in the Assembly. The Council adjourned the debate. Mr. Ingletty, member for Victoria, has given notice of motion for the establishment of model and experimental fauna. New Zealand malting barley sold at 6a. 6d. Wheat dull at 4s. Id.