ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4527, 23 September 1875, Page 2

ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA.

SPECIAL NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAM. [Tho following tolcgrain is publishod by us under the authority of tho I'ross Agency, tho same being its special property ; ami legal proceedings will he taken against any person publishing the same without such authority.] London, September 6. New Zealand wools being in largo supply, are particularly depressed. Irregular lots show a fall of twopence to threepence. The following is the range of prices :—Eleeee, superior, 23d. to 31d. ; medium, 20d. to 22d.; inferior, 15d. t019d.; scoured, superior, 23rd. to 29d.; medium, 19d. to 22d.; inferior, lGd. tolSd.; greasy, superior, 13d. to 16d.; medium, lOd. to 13d;; inferior, 7d. to 9d. Hokitika, Wednesday. The Albion left Melbourne at G p.m. on tho 17th. She had light winds and calms weather throughout, making tho passage in four days seventeen hours. Passengers for Wellington —Mr. Macgregor, Mrs. Macgregor, and two children and servant, Mrs. Barber, Colonel Whitmore, and servant. Two in tho steerage. UNPUBLISHED CABLE TELEGRAMS. London, September 13, Prince Milau, in opening tho Servian Parliament, alluded earnestly to the insurrection and tho concentration of Turkish troops, and trustod the Sultan of Turkey and the European Powers would succeed in pacification. The second jury in ; the Alberta (Royal yacht) and Mistletoe collision case, returned a verdict of its being an accidental occurrence,

and added that the officers of the Alberta committed error.

September 15.

The foreign consuls are leaving the insurgent districts, and reassemble at Stolatz to communicate. Servia has ordered the mobilization of the frontier brigades, the reason assigned being the threatened concentration of Turkish troops. The French Press is greatly occupied with the progress of the Bonapartists' propaganda. September 16. The Doncaster St. Ledger was won by Craig Miller ; Balfe, second ; Earl of Dartley, third. Bismarck has submitted a Bill to the Bundsrath, fixing January, 1876, for the introduction of the gold standard throughout the Empire.

(FEE JAVA CABLE.) London, September 3. The ironclads Iron Duke and Vanguard came into collision off Wicklow in a dense fog. The latter sank in nineteen fathoms. All lives were saved.

.The Turks have violated Servian territory, and burned a village, lulled some of the inhabitants, and seized a quantity of cattle. Popular feeling in Servia is very excited against Turkey. The Pera arrived at Galle from Australia on the Ist.

September i.

The wool sales are languid. There has been a further decline on medium and inferior sorts of 2d. under the June rates, and the better classes of wool are Id. lower ; well-breds are shifty, but combing is eagerly bought. 125,000 bales are catalogued. The sales close on the 2nd of October.

Foreign arrivals are so large as to depress the corn market. Adelaide, 555. to 575.; New South Wales, 555. to 575.; New Zealand, 525. to 555.

The barque St. Brycedale was wrecked at Algoa Bay. Arrived —Hudson, from Lyttelton. September 6.

The Pacha has telegraphed to the Porte that the insurrectionary agitation is greatly allayed in consequence of the pressure by the European powers. The Servians are not likely to be aggressive. The insurgents refuse to assent to a conference at Mostar, and demand that Bosnia and Herzegovina be made a European tributary of the Porte. September 8. Further fighting has taken place in Turkey, but Servia promises neutrality. A sensation has been caused in Paris by a letter of Admiral Laroneir, commanding the Mediteranian squadron, declaring he will only support MacMahon while he keeps aloof from the party of the September revolution. Captain Anthony Hoskins succeeds Commodore Goodenough in the Australian command.

' Wholesale desertion has taken place from the Carlist forces, and the collapse of the cause is believed to be imminent.

A Chinese embassy proceeds to England in connection with the Magary murders. September 12. At the conference respecting the colonization of New Guinea, Lieutenant Armitrin gave the result of observations during a survey on the coast, and after prolonged discussion it was resolved to form a colonization society to organise an expedition of 200 volunteers under Government co-operation. The Australian mails via Brindisi and Queensland were delivered. There has been improved attendance and more animation at the wool sales, but without any recovery of prices. Stocks of tallow are unusually low. Arrived. —Crusader, from Port Chalmers ; W. M. Smith, from Auckland.

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY. Melbourne, September 17.

The Chief Secretary made the financial Statement in the Assembly on Tuesday night, and it was very brief, as Mr. Berry took nearly all the figures of his predecessor as correct. He stretched the deficit from £200,000 to nearly £300,000, and proposed to raise new revenue to the extent of £185,000, of which £150,000 is to come from a land tax, and the remainder from a tax on bank notes and succession duties. The tariff is not to be dealt with exhaustively this session, and it is only proposed to put a duty on woolpacks and baggingto protect a certain firm and one or two other articles which would only realise a small revenue, and to remit an equal amount of customs duties, not on any article comprised in the protective tariff, but on such articles as would afford most relief to the mining interest. A loan of three millions for public works, school buildings, and railways, is also included in the statement. The land tax is to be determined by valuation —2ss. in every hundred pounds value, aud such value to be determined by the grazing capabilities ; but it is unlikely that the Government will have an opportunity of carrying their shallow policy into effect, and the Berry Ministry will likely be one of the shortest on record. After the statement on Tuesday, an adjournment was made to last night ; and in the interim a plan of attack was organised, and led off in the Assembly last night by Service, the late Treasurer. Sir James MeCulloeh then moved the following amendment : —"That while affirming the principle of a property tax, this House considers it should be general, and therefore disapproves of the Government proposal." Thus the matter stands so far, but the Opposition can count upon a majority, and the end of next week will probably see the last of the Berry Ministry. The Cambridgeshire, from London to Sydney, was wreaked on the 7th iust. on the Night Island rocks, near Preservation Maud, in Bass Strait. The vessel has gone to pieces, but the captain aud crew were all saved. She had no passengers. The news only arrived from Launceston yesterday. The Bank of Victoria robbery mystery has been cleared up. Ghinn, the exchange clerk, from whose custody they were lost, is the thief, and £I6OO of the stolen notes have been found in his possession. He now frankly confesses to having abstracted the notes from the counter aud pocketed them. Sawyers, the receiving te?ler, pleaded guilty a.t his trial to embezzlement, and awaits sentence. The exhibition still continues very attractive. The daily average of visitors reaches nearly 4000, and last Saturday was over 8000. The Hon. John Robertson, Premier of New South Wales, is on his first visit to Victoria, and is being feted. Henry J. Smith, a well-known Pressman attached to the Argus, has died. A fire at Belfast on Wednesday night destroyed a large amount of property, insured for £9700.

The ship Cambridgeshire was insured for £17,500, including the New Zealand ofliee, £3400.

Richmond won the Kandwick Plate, 3 miles, in smin. 43sec, beating Kingsborough and Lurline.

The steamship Durham made a fine passage of forty-eight days, but she brought no later news.

The Kingarooma had a successful trial trip down the Bay on Wednesday. The dinner of merchants and bankers, in connection with the Chamber of Commerce, takes place to-night, and promises to be very successfnl.

Gold has been seen in the Magdala reef at the depth of 1681 ft. The discovery has caused great excitement in the district of Stawell, and great interest all over the colony. A lamp-trimmer named Olsen fell overboard from the Albion on her last voyage, and notwithstanding every exertion made to save him, was drowned.

Itistori gave a matinee yesterday, to enable the profession to witness her performance. The house was crammed.

lima de Murska has gone to Adelaide.

The Exhibition Commissioners passed a resolution in favor of opening the Exhibition during certain hours on Sundays, and the matter now rests with the Public Library trustees, to whom it has been referred. The Cyphrenes arrived at San Francisco three days after contract time. John Rentoo, who was rescued from the natives on Malayta Island, deserted from his ship when nine years of age, with four other men, and after being at sea thirty days in an open boat, suffering great privations, they

reached Malayta, when the natives destroyed their boat, and his companions died. Kenton alone survived, and a chief, esteeming his usefulness, kept him from being eaten. The man has relatives in Victoria.

Very satisfactory news comes from Cooktown. Gold is coming in from the Palmer and the reefs look well. The Chinese are" doing well, and Chinese merchants say that in six months there will be 10,000 more Chinese.

The expedition sent out from the Darwin to search for the murderers of Johnston on the Roper, arrested three natives and shot two chiefs. The party has been recalled.

Cable communieation was restored early this morning at two o'clock. . ..

The three-masted schooner Frank Guy, from Clyde to Wanganui, timber laden, lost her topmast and jibboom, and put into Sydneyi Shipping.—Melbourne:—Arrived—September 9th, Frances Gertrude, from Westport ; loth, Albyns Isle, from Dunedin. Sydney:— Arrived—llth, Eose, from Timaru; 16tb, Adneypoka, from Hokianga. Newcastle:— Arrived —9th, Glimpse, from Auckland ; 10tb, Melrose, from Nelson; Cesarewich, from Timaru ; M. A. Annison, from Lyttelton ; Stag, from Auckland ; Crusader, from Wellington ; 11th, Moa, from Timaru ; .Edwin Bassett and Spirit of the South, from Welling, ton; 12th, Craig Ellachie, from Lyttelton; 15th, Anne Melhuish, from Wellington; Vivid, from Auckland. Sailed —9th, Especulador, for Lyttelton ; 11th, Union, for Auckland.

Commeroial.—Wheat scarce and wanted, ss. 7d. to ss. 8 flour, £t\ 55.; oats slack, parcels offered at auction withdrawn, not coming up to reserves. A portion of the Albyns Isle's cargo is intended for Adelaide? Sugars firmer ; kerosene quiet. Advices just received of moderate shipments are favorable to market. Business generally very dull, owing to weather and uncertainty regarding the tariff.