ARRIVAL OF THE-S.S. EASBY.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4902, 7 December 1876, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE-S.S. EASBY.

AUSTRALIAN AND TORRES: STRAIT MAIL NEWS. The s.s. Easby arrived ia harbor yesterday. The Sydney papers of November 28 contain a general summary of news by the mail' via Torres Strait, , which, though in-parts anticipated by cablegrams, i will be found to give several hitherto unpublished items, and in other cases further details :—, > 'v. - 'r. ; Brisbane. . ; The Torres Strait-mail has arrived. One General and, many officers were killed in suppressing the outbreak in Japan. A vessel recently sailed from the Clyde for Port Desire," in Patagonia, with emigrants, for the’purpose of formmg,a:Sdotoh,colphy;th,ere. Captain Stevens, of the' LyfpeJVfpon,; reports that he spoke the Rifle, barque, 60 milesuorth of Cooktowh, short of provisions ; she had been twenty months out, and was making, for .Cooktown for supplies. The mate informed him that thirty ;mea out-of .acrew of thirty-eight were down With scurvy. She had on board 150 tons of sandalwood, and 50 tons-beohe-de-mer. - : £. f An important speech has-been delivered, at Leeds, by Mr. W. E.' Eorster, in favor of the foreign policy of Earl-Derby, and he impressed upon his hearers the. necessity of rallj ing round the Government. An exhibition of the different designs sent in by the architects .competing for -the Byron Memorial will shortly take place at Kensington.". ; The Annual Congress of the ■ Social -Science Association: commenced on-October 11, at Liverpool ; the;inauguration address was delivered by. Lord Huntley. t. The second volume of “ The Life of the Prince Consort,” by Mr.’Theodore Martin, has just been published ; it is a great success,, The ex-Empress Eugenio is about- -to visit Rome, for the purpose of appealing to; the Popefor financial 'assistance to the ; Bonapartiet cause. There is to be a general election in Italy. -■ > ; ; Melbourne. The Senate of the University negatived the proposition of the Council by a largo majority, to establish a faculty of _ arts, and relieve the professorial board from its .present duties in - connection with examinations. '

Tho Rev. R. K. Ewing has published a long defence to the charges of tho Presbytery, in the ,4ryi<.t. Twenty thousand signatures are attached to the petition in favor of the grocers’ licenses. A meeting, called under free trade auspices, at Richmond,' refused to hear Henry Tavlor, tho Laborers’ Union delegate. The Rev. W, ■ Henderson, of Ballarat, and the Rev. Mr. A. Campbell, of Geelong, are appointed to represent the Church' at the PanPresbyterian Council, to bo held in Edinburgh, in July next. . Sir Arthur Gordon > fuses to acknowledge the Polynesian Company’s claim to the lauds purchased from the ex-King of Fiji in 1868, but has offered, as' an act of grace, to recommend that .the‘company be recouped the original purchase money of £9ouo. It is estimated that the population of Vic- 1 toria on September" 30’was’ ’ 834j984 persons—boihg 453,345 males and 381,639.feiU!v|e« ’ Mrs, Scott-Siddons’ engagement has closed at the Theatre Royal, and Signor Vlajeroni appears. Mr. Edwin. Adams continues at the Academy of Music. ' ■■ .- ;