ARRIVAL OF THE SUEZ MAIL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5144, 18 September 1877, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SUEZ MAIL.

Bluff, September 17. The s.s. Arawata arrived this morning at--6.45. She brings the Suez mail and the following additional

London, August 3, The Queen is at Osborne, in good health. Prince Albert Victor, eldest son of the Prince of Wales, has had an attack of typhoid' fever, but is recovering.

The Rev. Rowley Hill, vicar of Sheffield, is the new Bishop of Sodor and Man. Alfred Watkins, Liberal, has. been elected for Great Grimsby.

The New Bedford boat, ten feet long and one ton and a half register, has arrived in England after a passage of 49 days across the Atlantic,, the occupants being the owner and his wife. The boat had to be hove-to several times through heavy gales.

The Holy Cross Society are still subject to much public comment. The practice of confession inculcated by the society is receiving general condemnation. The law officers of the Crown have declared Admiral de Horsey quite justified in his action against the Peruvian ironclad. The Government and people of Peru are highly incensed against England, and demand satisfaction. At the Mansion House dinner Sir Garnet Wolseley, alluding to the war in the East, said the British Army was never in a more efficient state than now.

At a meeting of the Home Rule members,. Mr. Butt stated that should the present aimless obstructions be persisted in, he .should probably withdraw from the leadership of the party. The Lancashire colliers’ strke is ended, after ■ lasting six months. William Gale, the well-known pedestrian, has’ completed at Cardiff the extraordinary feat of walking 4000 quarter-miles in as many periods of ten minutes.

At a pigeon match for £IOOO at Hurlingham between Captain Forrester Leighton and Captain Aubrey, each receiving 50 birds, the' result was a tie, each bringing down 39 birds. Dr. Warren, author of “Ten Thousand a Year,” is dead. Enormous defalcations continue to be discovered in the Russian Commissariat Department. The Emperor has ordered the most vigorous proceedings against the culprits. Great difficulties are felt in provisioning the invading army, and the cattle plague seriously affects meit. Outside the army and Slavophilists the feeling in Russia is against the war. The Russians have thrown a bridge over the Danube at Pyrgos. Sir Arnold Kemball has telegraphed that it is true that a portion of the garrison at Byazid, which was in the town, surrendered and were all massacred by the Kurds. The remainder in the fort therefore held out until relieved by a Russian corps.

Parliamentary papers have also been published, showing that frightful atrocities are being committed on both sides. The Russians have obtained a list of persons implicated in Bulgarian atrocities last year, and shoot all of them they can catch. The Mussulman population flee before the Russians.

In consequence of Bulgarians being armed by thousands they are committing all sorts of outrages. F. A. Stanley has been appointed Financial Secretary to the Treasury, vice W. H Smith, who was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. The Mansion House Famine Relief Fund is rapidly increasing. The Queen and Prince of Wales subscribed £SOO each, and Baron Rothschild and Baring Brothers £IOOO each.