ARRIVAL OF THE S.S. EASBY FROM SYDNEY.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4452, 26 June 1875, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE S.S. EASBY FROM SYDNEY.

EUROPEAN NEWS; VIA TORRES STRAIT. The intelligence from Europe generally has been anticipated by cablegram. Two days' sale of pictures in London realised £IOO,OOO. Dover is about to be made a fortified harbor. Captain Nares, Captain Stephenson, and Captain Markham, of the Arctic Expedition, have been presented to the Queen, on her Majesty's birthday. A meeting was held, presided over the Eight Hon. B. Disraeli, to take steps for the erection of a monument to Lord Byron. Mr. Warner, Secretary of the Sun Building Society, has been committed for trial on a charge of embezzling £35,000. Lord Coleridge, the Chief Justice of Common Pleas, has issued a refutation of charges brought against the Judges" who tried the Tichborne claimant. Mr. J. Cowen, member for Newcastle-on-Tyue, has tabled a notice of motion condemnatory of tli« proceedings in reference to the trial of the Guikwar of Bai-oda. Renewed hostilities on a large scale are pending in Spain. Consols, April 30, 93J to 94. [The following appeared in a Second Edition yesterday] : The screw steamer Easby, Captain Kennedy, left the Cosmopolitan AVharf at midnight of 18th inst., cleared Sydney Heads at 1 a.m. on the 19th; experienced light westerly and southerly winds to Stephen's Island ; from thence strong-S.E. winds till arrival. Passed a barque off Cape Farewell standing towards the Strait. Arrived at 1.10 on the 25th. Passengers—Saloon : Mrs. C. Bragg, Master Bragg, Mrs. Jeffreys, Miss Jeffreys, Miss Marshall, Mrs. Percival Johnstone, Miss Richards, Mrs. Willeston, Mr. H. N. Douglas, Mrs. Douglas ; and three steerage. Six saloon and twelve steerage for Southern ports. London, June 15. The Concordat between Russia and the Vatican (announced by Z'L'nivers) has been contradicted. It is stated to be only a rapprochcmcnt. The firm Alexander Collie, commission merchants, of London and Manchester, has suspended payment. The liabilities are estimated at three millions sterling. : Arrived—Adamant, from Wellington.

TENDERS FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL SERVICE. The tenders for the mail service from Sydney to San Francisco were to be opened on the 10th instant. A telegram has been received from London, in reference to the matter, as follows : “London, June 15, 2.40 p.m. “Tenders for the San Francisco service have been opened. Pacific Mail and Railway Combination lowest. For service via Fiji £89,950. For service via Auckland, £74,950.’ Melbourne, June 17. The debate on the land question has been further adjourned. A point of order was raised that the Bill must originate in com-

mittee, as it proposes taxation in increasing the assessment on stock ; but the point was overruled. Judge Molesworth having pronounced upon the illegality of the sale by the Government of the Royal Park frontages, although a Bill in equity was dismissed on technical grounds, the matter was brought before the Assembly on a question of adjournment, and the Government were asked to accept a motion relative thereto' as a want of confidence ; no definite reply was given, and an amendment will be moved on the Land Bill. The estate of the late J. C. Strachan, M.L.C., has been proved under £65,000 ; the late Mr. J. D. Pinnock £II,OOO ; Mr. Michael Dawson £228,000. A sale of Morley’s draught horses took place to-day. The highest price given for stallions was 280 guineas ; for Shouldn’t Wonder and Young Beaufort, 150 guineas. The Officials in Parliament Bill, which was read a second time in the Assembly, cancels the provision for preventing members from accepting any position of profit under the Crown. An attempt at a private settlement of McEwan’s estate was unsuccessful. Brisbane, June 17. News has been received that Mulligan’s exploring party, which left Cooktown on April 29, arrived at Junction Creek to-day. They crossed the heads of the Palmer and St. George Rivers, and passed into the Mitchell between the junction of the Hodgkinson and McLeod Rivers. They found that agood road could easily be made available. After prospecting for some days, the party crossed a granite range, runring east, into the head of the Mitchell River, where they obtained innumerable colors, but without payable prospect. Where they expected to traverse rough country they found it level, with deep rich alluvial soil, well grassed and watered for over 3000 square miles in extent ; it was interrupted by mountains further south, where extensive scrubs were discovered, estimated at over one hundred and twenty square miles, growing fine cedar and kauri pine. The party crossed the main range into the head of the Herbert River, where they found a large extent of good country, and obtained prospects of stream tin. Crossing the range again into the western waters, they passed the head of the Lind River, and reached' Fossil Brook Station. Their horses were sick from eating a poisonous plant. They stop at Junction Creek for four days awaiting orders. The Assembly passed an address to the Queen urging the annexation of New Guinea, and the Council have also adopted it. A daily Hansard of Parliamentary proceedings is to be published.