UNPUBLISHED TELEGBAMS. THE SUEZ MAIL.

Southland Times, Issue 1698, 4 February 1873, Page 3

UNPUBLISHED TELEGBAMS.

THE SUEZ MAIL.

MELBOUBNE. j The coal supply at present amounts to ! 4000 tons, exclusive of the stocks of the Melbourne Gas Companies, who have from three to six weeks' supply. The prices for steamers are from 60s to 65s per ton, and for ordinary use from 72s 6d to 65s per ton. A number of engineers are using wood, and will do so until the price is reduced to 30*. From seventy to eighty vessels are lying idle at Newcastle. Kerosene in bond is at Hid, and at 2s in the market. Sydney:. The Baltnain Segatta Committee bare telegraphed to Mr Gulston, of the London .Rowing Club, their acceptance of the conditions for bringing out an English * crew.

THE SUEZ MAIL. I The Duke of Edinburgh is m Germany with matrimonial intentions towards a daughter of the ex-King of Hanover. The Australian colonists in London have subscribed a piece of plate for the best ram produced by the Colonies. The Stock Exchange Committee has ordered the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co/s new shares to be officially quoted. A site in Greenwich Hospital has been granted bj the Lords of the Admiralty for a monument to the officers and men who fell in the New Zealand war in 1863-64. An advertisement appears in the Oxford papers for 500 farm laborers, accustomed to rough out-door work, as navvies for New Zealand. The Eoyal Humane Society has given a silver medal to Christian, grandson of Christian, one of the mutineers of the Bounty, for saving the life of a girl named Browne, at Omaha, Auckland. Great complaints are made regarding the various modes of packing New Zealand hemp. Only 127 bales of wool were over from the November sales for the auctions in December. 2600 bales of New Zealand wool will be then offered. New Zealand •kin wool brought 20£ d, greasy 12£ d, and scoured 23d. New Zealand wheat was at 63s to 66s per quarter on November 29th. Mr Lee, F.R.G.S., gave a lecture in London on the people and resources of New Zealand, and made many converts to the belief in New Zealand as a fine field for emigration. Several letters have been received by friends of emigrants ■peaking highly of the Colony. An omnibus lately passed through London full of navvies, and carrying a flag inscribed " Off to New Zealand." The passer* by cheered them lustily. The papers give many extracts from Mr Anthony Trollope's letters regarding his sojourn in New Zealand. The New Zealand October mail was delivered on November 27th. The home papers publish a despatch by Sir George Bowen regarding the defences of the Colony on September 28tb, showing that there are between 11,000 and 12,000 armed Europeans in the Colony. Sailed.—On November 21st, Himalaya, for Canterbury; on October 31st, Warwick, for Auckland ; on November 15th, Forfarshire, for Wellington; City of Bombay, Euterpe, Lutterwonh, Naomi, and Sattara, for Otago. Arrived.—At London: Tyrol, from Auckland ; Wild Deer, from Otago. At New York: East Lothian, and Thames, from Auckland. The new Anglo-French Treaty provides a duty of 15 centimes per 100 kilogrammes on flax and hemp in stalks, raw, green, dry, or steeped ; on tow, two francs; on heckled hemp, two francs fifty centimes; on heckled flax, three francs ; od phormium tenax, raw, 50 centimes per 100 kilos; oh do, heckled, 2 francs 50 centimes; and on combed or hoisted, 4 centimei.

Sales of New Zealand hemp in November took place, at £30 to £43 10s. i It is rumored that the Duke of Edinburgh will have command of the ironclad Sultan. Sergeant Bates, of the U.S. army, marched from Gretna Green to London j i with the United States flag flying, unmolested, and thus won his wager. National Bank of Nevr Zealand shares will be shortly offered for subscription in the Colonies. Bochefort recently left prison to marry a beautiful woman, and then parted from her for ever, he returning to prison. The London papers make the Telegraphic Banquet the occasion of many articles on the integrity of the empire. The British Telegraph Company propose a reduction of the tariff.