ARRIVAL OF THE SUEZ MAIL.

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

ARRIVAL OF THE SUEZ MAIL.

The Bluff, Wednesday.

The Bingarooma, Captain McLean, left Melbourne at 5.10 p.m. on the 18th, with the English mail, and hove-to for a few hours this morning. She arrived at 7 p.m. on the 22nd. She made the run in three days twenty hours, being the quickest on record. She brings 42 saloon and 53 steerage passengers and 441 tons of cargo, for all ports. She sails to-mor-row for Dunedin, at 4 p.m. Passengers for Wellington by the'Bingarooma—Miss Gair, Mrs. Startup, Mis 3 Ada Startup, Messrs. Charles and George Startup, Mrs. Martin ; and ten in the steerage. A few tons cargo. CABLE MESSAGE. London, September 16. The Servian Parliament is divided on the question of the address to the throne. There is a strong minority favorable to a declaration of war. The Empress of Austria has been thrown from her horse, and sustained a slight concussion, but is now recovered. MAIL NEWS. The Queen is at Osborne. The Emperor of Morocco is expected to visit England shortly. Miss Agnes Livingstone married Alexander Bruce, of Hamilton, Liverpool. Ruffianism is still rampant. A number of persons have been charged with brutal assaults with divers weapons. Kindall, a tourist, perished on Snowdon.

Two ship-knackers were fined and imprisoned for sending a rotten vessel to sea for the sake of the insurance.

Frank Scudamore, of the General Postoffice, has accepted an appointment under the Turkish postal service. The Good Templars have resolved to raise the sum of a thousand pounds (sic), for propagandist purposes, amongst them. A young lady, Nora Hastings, cousin to the Marquis of Bute, has joined the Roniish Church. The Rev. Gervase Smith has been elected President of the Wesleyan Conference. Prom Montreal come tidings that Fechter, the actor, is dying. Bell, a Liberal, was elected for Hartlepool by a large majority over Kennealy's son. The Queen was amongst the prize-takers at the Royal Agricultural Society's meeting. The weather was cruelly unfavorable to the exhibition, diminishing the attendance. At Wimbledon, the Elcho challenge shield was won by the Irish team, with 1506 points. Freeman won the Goodwood Stakes, Aventurer the Goodwood Cup. . A general lock-out of cotton operatives throughout Lancashire is impending, owing to a further reduction in wages. Two thousand men struck in the St. Gothard tunnel. At the contractor's request troops were sent, who, being pelted with stones, fired, lulling four and wounding eight. The town of Lefke, in Asiatic Turkey, was nearly consumed by fire. Twenty houses were destroyed by fire at Constantinople. Grant's six-storied cotton mills at Glasgow, and Broadwood's weaving factory at Belfast, were consumed, and large damage done. Colonel Baker has been cashiered from the army. A vote of £40,000 has been passed for the administration of affairs in Fiji. Some good purchases of first-class horses have been made by colonists. King Cole, also purchased for Victoria, is brother to King Lud, sold at six theusand guineas. Sailed : for Wellington, July 31, Howrah. Loading—St. Leonards, Pleiades, Avalanche, and Commissary. Obituary.—Commander Chas. Jeffries, aged eighty-six, the last surviving Copenhagen hero; Sir Chas. Locock, physician; Bishop Thirlwall; Singer, the sewing machine manufacturer; and Hans Christian Andersen, the author. AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY. Melbourne, September 18. The Chamber of Commerce dinner last night was very successful. Jeffrey presided in the chair. The Acting-Governor and Chief Secretary were present. W. A. C. A'Becket represents the Government in the Upper House. The City'Council decided at a meeting yesterday not to let the Town Hall for Sunday entertainments. The Mayor and some other members thereupon resigned from the Town Hall Committee. In the Divorce Court yesterday judicial separations were granted in Brown v. Browr, and Benbow v. Widborne (sic). In both cases the parties were married in New Zealand. The exchange clerk Ghinn has been committed for trial. Shipping.—Newcastle, September 16:—Arrived—Tasso, from Nelson; Kohinoor and Dunedin, from Lyttelton; William Ackers, from Wellington. Sailed—Glimpse, for Auckland. Sydney, September 18. In White's case for bribery the conviction was quashed, as the majority of the Court decided that there was no power to award hard labor in common law. A miners' strike is about to take place at Wallsend. Adelaide, September IS. A contract has been taken by a Cable Company to lay a cable between Cape Jervis and Kangaroo Island. The Stamp Bill has passed. The International Free Trade Bill has been read a, second time.