THE SUEZ MAIL.

Southland Times, Issue 1603, 9 July 1872, Page 3

THE SUEZ MAIL.

By the arrival of the Albion at the Bluff on Friday, we are again placed in possession of the English mail via Suez only one day later than the due date at Melbourne. The P. and O. steamer Bangalore arrived in Hobson's Bay on the 28th, four days before her contract time, and the Albion left on the 29tb, bringing the English news. London; May 17. The Pacific Islanders Protection Bill passed the Lords after Lords Kimberley and Carnarvon and Bishop Selwyn had spoken earnestly in its favor. In Committee in the Lower House, Admiral Erakine proposed an amendment prohibiting the removal of natives to any island not under British protection, which was powerfully supported, but resisted by Government, on the plea that co-operation between Australian courts could not be secured. The amendment was lost by 15 votes. On Saturday, April 27, new wool sheds were opened at Millwall Docks by Messrs Cousens and Eenshaw, who promise a reduction in warehouse charges to the extent of 28 per cent. Upwards of 5,000 bales were on show, all of which were gold that night at Moorgate-street salerooms. Large numbers visited the warehouses, but their distance and inaccessibility produced an unfavorable impression. The softness of the Sydney sovereigns IB complained of at the Bank of England. One-fifth of the capital of the company to be formed for the construction of six Australian steamers via the Cape is to be reserved for the colonies. A subsidy from Victoria will be applied for. The passages are to be monthly. The establishment of a naval store and victualling yard at Sydney has been decided on by the Admiralty. Captain M'Donald, the captain of the Queen of the Thames, has bad his certificate suspended for 12 months. The Ballot Bill has passed without mutilation. Lawson's Permissive Prohibitory Bill was talked out of the House on its second reading. A Blue-Book, illustrative of the progress which Jamaica has made during the last four years, will shortly be published. It is said to contain very remarkable evidence of the prosperity which this once distracted island is now enjoying under the administration of Sir John Peter Grant. The wool sales closed on the 11th, with a slight recovery from the lowest point. During the greater portion of their progress, the attendance was thin and the competition feeble. French buyers ■were absent. Fifteen thousand bales were withdrawn. There was an average fall of about 2d. Greasy woola suffered most. Vessels loading at London, May 16, for India, China, and the Cape, 60,000 tons ; for Australia and New Zealand, 47,000 tons. Obituary. — Horace Mayhew (contributor to Punch), Robert Gladstone, cousin of the Premier; Richard Westmacott, R.N. ; Augustus Siebe, mechanician and inventor ; Inspector Baker, police attendant on the Queen ; Bishop 3?retzeler, the Jesuit Champion ; Simon Xaug, the "last of the Gretna Green priests; Lewis Samuel Thomas, one of the founders of the Graphic.