ARRIVAL OF THE RINGAROOMA WITH THE SUEZ MAIL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4767, 3 July 1876, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE RINGAROOMA WITH THE SUEZ MAIL.

Bluff, Saturday. MAIL NEWS. The Queen is at Balmoral. A banquet was given to the Prince on his return from India, by the Corporation o£ Loudon. It was a splendid affair, and 500 guests were present. A ball followed in a pavilion specially erected in Guildhall, It is said that 5000 persons were present. Wyland’s motion in the House of Commons, regretting the increased national expenditure,'" was rejected by 263 against 175. Fifty-four arrests have been made in Salonica. Six executions have taken place. Enquiries into the conduct of others are proceeding. France and Italy have notified that they adhere to Gortschakoff’s memo. England refuses .to join. The Mediterranean fleet is ordered to proceed to Bessica Bay, at the entrance to the Dardanelles. The German Baltic squadron proceeds thither next week. The French and G erman consuls murdered at Salonica were bulled with great pomp. Further details regarding the Salonica murders state that the cmcute began in consequence of a young Christian girl wanting to become a Mahomedan. The originators of the distur. banoe fled to the adjacent mountains. The Challenger arrived at Spithead after a two years’ cruise. Henry Kingsley is dead. The dethronement of the Sultan was brought about in this way Ministers of State, after vainly soliciting for reforms in order to replenish the "War Treasury from the privy purse, became quite determined on the Sultan’s deposition. The palace was, therefore, beset by troops, and the heir presumptive proclaimed Sultan at the War Office before all the Ministers. Abdul Aziz" Khan was then conveyed with his family and household, including fifty-three boats full of women, to the old seraglio. England, France, and Italy have recognised the change, which is considered auti-Eussian. Sir Thomas Chambers’ Bill for legalising Australian marriages with a deceased wife’s sister was postponed sine die. Kilt is the winner of the French derby. Gainsborough’s celebrated picture of the Duchess of Devonshire, which was recently sold for ten thousand guineas, has been stolen. A number of men are still on strike, principally in Yorkshire and Derbyshire. The iron turret ship Inflexible was launched,, in the presence of 50,000 spectators, at Portsmouth.