DIRECT TELEGRAMS FROM EUROPE TO AUSTRALIA.

Southland Times, Issue 1660, 12 November 1872, Page 2

DIRECT TELEGRAMS FROM EUROPE TO AUSTRALIA.

. ■♦■ (Prom files per Tararua ) London, Oct. 23. A Ballarat bishopric is to be created, .and the Archbishop of Canterbury nominates the first bishop. Herr Carl Sahr has been appointed G-erin:»n Consul at Sydney. The mayor of Adelaide's congratulatory message to th.9 Lord Mayor of London on the" opening of telegraphic communication~botween England and Australia has been recorded in the civic archives at Guildhall. Ten ships, containing 1,785 emigrants, have been despatched to New Zealaud during the last quarter. 12,500 tons of Californian wheat are now en route to England. Preserved meats are scarce. London, Oct. 24. Tha Cardiff Steam Goal Owners* As. soeiation have resolved to reduce the price of coal. At the London School Board meeting yesterday, Mr Heed, M.P., withdrew his motion, and the amendment of Mr Picton was carried by 17 against 6, whereby the Board will consider individually each case in which children are recommended for gratuitous education. Consols, 92i. Mr Knatchbull-Hugessen, in lecturing at Deal yesterday on i: The Colonies and their Government by the Mother Country," insisted strongly on the necessity of cherishing the connection. The Duke of Argyle, Secretary _of State for India, is heartily co-operating with Lord Granville, Foreign Secretary,' iv the endeavors which will be made to suppress the Eastern slave trade. The Rev. G-eorge Badger accompanied Sir Barfcle Frere to Zanzibar, and they will start early in November. The newspapers are dissusaing the letters of Mr Eeed, late chief constructor for the Navy, and comparing the standstill policy of the Admiralty with the rapid advance of Continental power 3. Discount is unchanged. London, Oct. 25. Ifc is staled that the San Juan question has been decided in favor of America, and that the award declares the claims of America to be in accord with the terms of the treaty of 1846. The harvest in California this year ia the largest known. Money is less active. The Agricultural Bureau at Washington for October report the wheat crop to be five per cent, increase orer 1871, and the quality to be improved. The stock market is recovering. Victorian six per cent. . debentures, JanuaryJuly, 115| ; Victorian fives, 106£ ; South Australian sixes, 109^. Bank of Australasia shares, 51£. Wallaroo copper, £86, Other stocks unchanged. The first batch of Taamanian navvies has been despatched. The Atrato, s.s , has returned to Plymouth with her shaft broken. Arrived — liiacoinahir©, from Melbourne. An extraordinary horse epidemic has broken out in America. The Attorney-General, in addreasrag his constituents, ridiculed the idea of a Tory reaction. He defended the Admiralty against the attacks of Mr Eeed, the late chief constructor, and said thafc the colonies were never better affected than at the present time towards the mother country, which would becoina the

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bead of a large and flourishing federation. He also spoke warmly on the subject of the American arguments advanced at Geneva. London, Oct. 28. The Newcastle collieries have reduced the price of coal. Colonel Hawes has been appointed an aide-de-camp to the Queen. The Staffordshire colliery engineers have commenced a strike. The weather is excessively rainy. Disastrous inundations have taken place in the midland counties of England, and in France and Italy. London, Oct. 29. Admiral "Randolph succeeds Commodore Stirling in command of the Australian station. Mr Sedgwiek Cowper has been appointed secretary to Mr Tallerman's meat company. Large contracts have been taken for Australian meat, deliverable in 1&73. London, Oct. 30. The Australian September mail was delivered in London on 28th inst. Mr Bedford Pitt is the Conservative candidate for Richmond . Earl Rranville, in distributing the prizes at, Bamsgate. enlarged on the educational advantages afforded by the Oxford local examinations. Obituary.— Mr Frederick Dundas, M.P. for Orkney; Sir Alexander Duff Gordon. London, Oct. 31. Thirty thousand horses in New York have been etricken with the new epidemic. Lord Peiuance, the Judge Ordinary of the Court of Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, has resigned bis judgeship in consequence of ill-health. It is probable that be will be succeeded by Baron Martin, of the Court of Exchequer. The Bishop of Winchester (Dr. Wilberforce), in presenting the prizes gained at'tbe Oxford local examinations at the London University, expressed an opinion that the examinations, as they were at present conducted, would have} a great effeciTon the future moral history of the country. Mr Samuel Laing, formerly Finance Minister in India, is a candidate for the representation of Orkney, vice Mr Frederick Dundas, deceased. Obituary. — Lord Kinloch (Scottish Lord of Session}. Lodtdoit, Nov. 1. The conditions of the Anglo-French Treaty have been published. The tariff of 1860 is to be maintained, with the addition of compensatory duties equivalent to the French taxes on raw materials. The differential shipping dues are to be abolished by England, and, in return she obtains complete freedom respecting coal and other imports and exports. France may with the assent of England, augment the duties after six months' notice. The treaty is to remain in operation until the expiration of the Austrian treaty in 1877, vrhen England will enjoy the treatment of the most favored nation. Admiral Randolph's appointment to the Australian naval station is contradicted. The banquet to celebrate the opening of telegraphic communication between England and the Australian colonies is fixed for 15th inst. The Earl of Kimberley, Secretary of State for the Colonies, presides. An exchange of messages with the colonies will probably be arranged for the occasion. The steamship Atrato is docked at Beyham, and the emigrants are at the depot, where they will undergo three weeks* detention. The Auckland September mails via California were delivered on the 30th October. The steamer Bulli has cleared for Sydney. "Wool is firm. Arrived. — Somersetshire, s.s., from Melbonrne August 26 ; Janet Court, from Melbourne July 23 ; City of Dublin, from Melbourne ; Lord Warden, from Melbourne August 10 ; Anna, Damascus.