ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4463, 9 July 1875, Page 2

ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA.

ARRIVAL OF THE MIKADO AT AUCKLAND. The following was published by us in a Second Edition yesterday [The following telegram Is published by us under the authority of the Press Agency, the same being its special property ; and legal proceedings will be taken against any person publishing the same without such authority.} SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. Auckland, Thursday. London, July 1. The Telegraph Contract has been signed. The Eastern Company lays the cable for a subsidy of £7,500 for ten yearn, shared between the New Zealand and Sydney Governmerits. The Company promise to send a ten word word message between England Port Darwin, for £3, provided the Australian Governments pay a subsidy of £20,000 yearly. The White Rose, bound for Lyttelton, put into Mauritius, damaged. The captain died. Sir Julius Vogel has gone to the Weildbad baths.

The Hon. Mr. Waterhouse returns immediately. Dr. Croke has been created Archbishop of Cashel.

Auckland, Thursday. The Mikado has arrived. She left Sydney on tho 3rd July, and has forty-seven cabin and thirty second-class passengers through to San Francisco. ENGLISH NEWS. London, June 2-1. The Hon. J. Vogel is awaiting tho decision of his colleagues in the New Zealand Ministry as to whether lie shall resign or not. Disastrous innundations have occurred at Toulouse, through the overflowing of the River Garonne. Only one hundred persons are known to have been drowned, but probably very many more deaths. The German Court of Appeal has convicted Count Arnim ou a charge of unlawfully removing State documents. He has been sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment. June 27. Details of tho inundations at Toulouse are heartrending—2so corpses have been found. The destruction of property is immense—--20,000 people have been rendered destitute Marshall MacMahon has gone to Toulouse to afford succour.

Money easier. Bank rate of" discount, 3J. Trade is depressed, hut confidence is slowly reviving.

The wheat market is firmer, but unfavorable reports have been received of the French and American harvest prospects.

Arrived. —Tho Hydaspes and Waitaugi. Juno 29. The Emperors Francis Joseph of Austria and Alexander of Russia met in Bohemia. The inundation in Franco has extended to several departments in tho south of 1- ranee. The Assembly has voted 2,000,000 francs for the relief of the sufferers.

The Capo Cabinet has objected to consider Lord Carnarvon’s suggestion, that there should be a conference of delegates from the South African States to consider a scheme for confederation, because such step is considered premature. The American team of riflemen won the match against the Irish team by 38 points. AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY. Sydney, July 3. Pending the commencement of the new Californian mail contract, the Government has arranged with the A.S.N. Company for four additional trips to San Francisco and back. After a heavy debate Parkes’s resolution for adopting the committee’s report on the removal, by the Colonial Treasurer, of £250,000 from the Bank of New South Wales to other banks, was negatived by 30 to 25. Satisfactory reports from the pastoral districts have been received j the increase of flocks is unprecedentedly Jarge. Extensive preparations for the Philadelphian Exhibition are being made by the Commissioners. The steamer St. Osyth has arrived from Melbourne.

There were heavy gales at the beginning of the week, with tremendous seas, along the coast. Vessels arriving at Newcastle have been unable to enter the port. No serious casualties are reported, save that the ships Ben Nevis and Result, bound for Newcastle, are ashore at Broken Bay. Schedule of F. W. Cape, broker, filed in insolvency : liabilities, £93,000 ; assets, £254. Heavy rains caused floods, but no serious damage is reported. At Goulboum snow fell for five hours. The breakwater at Wollongong has been damaged by a gale. Four concrete blocks, each weighing twenty-five tons, were washed into the sea. No steps have been taken hi regard to tbe Australian team of cricketers for New Zealand.

The North German ship, R.D.8.G., from Hanover to Wellington, was spoken on Ist May, 25 days out. Arrived. —John Knox, from Lyttelton. Sailed. —Joliba, for Lyttelton.

Arrived, —At Newcastle: The Helena and Maggie, from Napier; and the Emperor and Adelphi, from Lyttelton. Sailed. —The Kate Monaghan, for Greymouth ; the Mary, for Wellington. Melbourne, July 2.

The Full Court sustained the conviction of the defaulter O’Ferrall, and confirmed the sentence of nine years. Frank Stephen’s lifeboat made a successful trial trip to Queenscliff.

The steamer St. Osyth arrived on Sunday, after a passage of actual steaming under fortythree days—the fastest on record. Actual time occupied in passage, forty-five days. She left Plymouth at midnight on 12th May, and was twenty-seven hours at St. Vincent. Has 300 passengers and full cargo. Sir George Bowen is expected to arrive in Melbourne about October 16.

The death of J. C. Lambert, the actor, is announced.

Tremendous flood at Echuca, Murray River; much damage done.

The estate of Thomas Luke and Co. shows liabilities £36,000 ; the deficiency will probably be small. Fears are entertained for the safety of the ship Crown Prince. She left London in January last, and nothing has been heard of her since.

The Land' Bill has passed its second readins; without a division. The creditors of McEwan have agreed that the bank be paid 6s. in the £on their claim, and the estate afterwards be wound up on behalf of the other creditors. The barque Corrido, from Newcastle to Adelaide, with coals, was wrecked on Swan Island. Crew saved. All hopes have been abandoned of saving the Blencathra, ashore ouJKing’s Island. The Eev, Charles Clark has been requested to lecture on behalf of the Tichborne claimant, and has been promised the use of some fresh documents, but he declined. Adelaide, July 2. Adelaide wheat 4s. Brisbane, July 2. Mr. McAlister, the Premier, was . seized with a fit of apoplexy, but is recovering. The Legislative Council has passed the third reading of the Marriage with Deceased Wife’s Sister Bill.

The official reports from the Palmer Goldfields are satisfactory.

Tasmania. At Launceston the country is flooded in all directions.