ARRIVAL OF THE SUEZ MAIL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4552, 22 October 1875, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SUEZ MAIL.

[A portion of the following was published by us in a Second Edition yesterday]:— Bluff, Thursday. The Eingarooma, with the English mail, left Melbourne at 7.30 p.m. on the 17th. On the 19th she experienced a terrific nor'-wester, with heavy sea and thick and squally weather, which compelled her to heave-to for nineteen hours. The arrived at the Bluff at 10.30 tills morning. She brings forty saloon and thirty-five steerage passengers, 360 tons of cargo, and 200 sheep for all ports. She sails for Dunedin at 1 p.m. CABLE MESSAGES. London, October 13. The Cesarewich Stakes was won by Duke of Parma, 1; Vagrant, 2; Perplex, 3. A Kepublican Governor has been elected in Ohio, signally defeating the democrats. This is important as indicating the future financial policy. October 14. Mr. Wade, British Minister, telegraphs from Pekin that he has obtained the necessary guarantees. Earl Grosvenor goes to Yunan. The Prince of Wales has arrived at Turin, en route for Alexandria. Bismarck is unwell, and will not accompany the Emperor to Italy. MAIL NEWS. At the final meeting of the Cospatrick relief fund a balance of £542 was distributed amongst several applicants. There is a scrimmage between Whalley and Kenealy. The. former refuses to accept the political leadership of the latter. There is a marked decrease during past year of emigration from the Clyde to Canada and United States. Governor Musgrave, of South Australia, is created K.O.M.G. ; and Mr. Weld, Governor of Tasmania, and Dr. Hector, of New Zealand, Companions. The P. and O. Company have purchased two new steamers of 3000 tons each, and have one building of 3400 tons. A railway accident occurred on the Midland line near Skipton, and seven lives were lost. The Alexandra grain warehouse at Gloucester docks was destroyed by fire. At Eifafu, in Eussia, 300 houses were burnt. Complaints have been raised on Colonel Baker’s sentence. The question of his military status was settled by the Queen signing his dismissal. The Queen sent a letter of sympathy to Miss Dickinson. An explosion occurred on board a Spanish steamer, by which seventeen lives were lost and twenty people were injured. Keuealy’a son sent a challenge to Major Dickinson on account of his 'speech in the Commons on Colonel Baker’s case. On the suggestion of the Speaker, Mr. Disraeli, and the Duke of Cambridge, to whom the matter was referred, the letter was treated with contemptuous silence. The foot and mouth disease is rapidly spreading in England and Ireland. _ Meanwhile stringent regulations stop importations. The price of meat is already advancing, and the pubuc are growing anxious. Birmingham is manufacturing war material for Germany, France, and Japan. Lilly Agnes won the Ebor handicap.

Alexander Collie is supposed to have fled toBuenos Ayres. • The autumn manoeuvres in Germany were so ■ severe as nearly to equal a small campaign. Several cases of sickness and death occurred. In France there are fresh calls for a modification of the programme. Lniera declines to enter the Senate. He prefers the Lower House. Very heavy rains in India are causing heavy floods, with loss of life at Delhi and in the Punjaub. Great damage to property. Obituary—McClure, Boyle Bernard (dramatic writer), Sir E. Ryan, Prince Charles of Bavaria, Professor Smith of Berlin, Lord' Grantley, Waterloo hero, and Bennet, veteran actor. The exports to" New Zealand amount to .£283,750. The Indian financial statement was made by Lord George Hamilton. An amendment was proposed by Smollet, condemning the policy of borrowing large sums each year without regard to income, and was negatived by 66 to 2. A motion by Fawcett, censuring the Government for deferring the Indian Budget to the close of the session, was also negatived. A scheme for army organisation will engage Hardy’s attention during the recess. The Priuce of Wales’ visit to Sheffield was a distinguished success. The Prince and! family afterwards left for Scotland. The Duke of Edinburgh was handsomely entertained in Russia by his father-in-law. The Duke of Connaught has arrived in Berlin, after visiting the Grand Duke of Baden.. The Duke has been promoted from the rank of captain to that of the Major in the 7 thHussars. The King of Italy presented to the Queensix Italian ponies. A statue to the late Lord Mayo was unveiled at Bockermouth. Subscriptions have been started by working men to erect a statue of Plimsoll near the ■ East India Docks. Cardinal Manning, in receiving a deputation of Maltese residents in London, delivered an address touching on the warlike tendency in Europe, probability of a sanguinary war, from which ; the Papacy would, emerge with renewed power. The statement that Cardinal Manning was admitted to the Royal: circle, and obtained an introduction to the Queen, at a garden party is denied. There is dissension among the Magna Charta Association. The Leicester branch is unable to obtain a satisfactory statement of the appropriation of its contributions, and has: repudiated Kenealy, and denounced him as dictatorial, tyrannical and avaricious, and the Englishman as the most infamous paper ever published. The committee threaten to prosecute Kenealy for slander. AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY. Melbourne, October 17. The Ministry is not yet absolutely formed, but by Tuesday next the complete list will be announced to the House. The names will include several members of the late Kerferd Government, with Kerferd as Attorney-General; McPherson,. Chief Secretary ; McCulloch, Treasurer and Premier ; Gillies, Lands ; and one or two new men—perhaps Madden and Jones—withW. Wilson in Upper House. A vessel burned at sea was seen in latitude 22’33 S. 35’31 N., about 900 tons. A portion of the fishplates and bricks seen in the hold and some of the iron werered hot. The letters MOB, and underneath Liverpool were seen on the stem. The figurehead was a woman carrying a child. Thevessel was seen on August 17 last. The Church Assembly is sitting, and dealing, with matters of some importance—the election of bishops, and providing for the pecuniary wants of the Church. Two nightmen named Bamgather and hia son were suffocated by foul air in emptying a cesspool at East Melbourne. The Greenwich pensioners are dissatisfied because the increase in pensions after a certain age does not extend to those in the colonies, and they have resolved to petition the Admiralty. Bentley, late manager of the Bank of New South Wales at Beechworth, was sentenced to nearly eight years, for making false entries; and the accountant, Hughes, to three and a half years. The City of Melbourne left San Francisco on the 11th inst. The South Australian Parliament has been prorogued to November 10. The Governor in his speech referred glowingly to the' future prospects of the colony. Langton delivered a free-trade lecture at Eaglehawk, a mining township, last night, and was very warmly received. The Oyphrenes reached Sydney yesterday. Shipping. —Sailed, from Melbourne, 15 th, Mary Bannatyne, for Hokitika ; 16th, Gleaner, for Greymouth. Newcastle—Arrived : 14th, Emily McLaren, from Wellington. Sydney—Sailed : 15th, Moneyrick, for Auckland. Commercial. —Large sales of kerosene at Is. 3d. Is. 2d. is now asked for Devoe’s ; Is. 3d. for Diamond. At sugar sales yesterday, prices 18s. advance. Flour very firm ; £l2 refused. Wheat, none offering. Oats, nothing doing. ADDITIONAL AUSTRALIAN. Melbourne, October 17. Although Sir James McCulloch has not absolutely formed his Ministry it is believed that he has all the materials to hand ready to be welded together. Sir James will be Treasurer and, of course. Premier; McPherson, Chief-Secretary ; Kerferd, Attorney-General ; with perhaps Madden as Solicitor-General ; Gillies, Lands ; Ramsay, Public Works ; and Joseph Jones, it is said, has been offered the Customs; anyhow the liberal section.of his constituents are preparing an opposition for him at Ballarat. The team is likely to be a strong one, with good debating powers. 6. P Smith and Murray Smith both declined office; the former on grounds of ill-health. It is stated that Higinbotham has declined for the present the leadership of the Liberal party, stating that the time for action is not yet ripe. The weather for some time past has been most unpleasant, an unusual quantity of rain and a prevalence of stormy weather causing a good deal of sickness. Two nightmen met their deaths in a very unpleasant manner on Thursday, by suffocation in a cesspool which they were emptying. The coroner at the inquest made some very strong and forcible remarks upon the sanitary state of the city, and at the request of the jury promised to bring the matter before the Chief Secretary, with the view of the total abolition of cesspits within the city and suburban boundaries. The desire of the Rev. T. F. Bird at the meeting of the Congregational session to pass a vote of sympathy with the Rev. Ward Beecher was not shared in by his rev. brethren, and the motion was withdrawn owing to the want of unanimity. The attendance at the Ballarat races was very small. Southern Cross won both the Cup and Handicap easy. It has been decided that the Ristori testimonial shall take the form of a wreath. The City Council have yet to settle the matter of granting Ristori the use of the Town Hall for dramatic entertainments ; but the Mayor has settled the matter himself, by letting the hall and obtaining the license, and he will see that it is carried out, whatever the consequences may be. _ . A free trade lecture, in a mining town, was received with great warmth last night, and Langton, the lecturer, met with a good reception. This shows that the country is not all for protection, and especially amongst the miners. The postal card system has proved a great convenience in Sydney, and 72,000 have been issued since the system was brought into force. Another coach has been stuck up in New South Wales and fired at by a masked man. A ball grazed a passenger’s leg and struck a matchbox in somebody’s pocket; but no injury was done, so say the reports. Members of Parliament must look out what they do. A telegram from Adelaide states that some members in that colony were present at a cock fight recently. There are now two missing ships at sea—the Strathmore, for Otago, and the Strathnaver, from Sydney to London.