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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1928, 9 March 1875, Page 2

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(Router's Special Telegram.)

London, February 22nd. The Australian mails via California were delivered to-day. l John Mitchell intends again to stand . for Tipperary. * Feb. 23. The London Colonial wool sales opened this evening. The total arrivals amount to upwards of 200,000 bales: ppwrnrds of 8000 bales were offered^ consisting of 4757 Victorian ; 2740 Adelaide, and 1000 Cape, principally greasy sorts.;? The attendance of bpth home and foreign buyers was large* Prices, compared with last scries show' a deline of a penny to three half pence. : The death is announced of Sir Charles Lyell. : Pabis, Feb. 22; After a protracted negociation the Senate Bill has been framed so as to allow of departments elect ng one hundred and twenty-five members—a third retiring every three years—and the Assembly electing seventy-five for life. Marshal MacMahon waived his rigKt to nomination, Garabetta's warning against Bonapartism secured the votes of the Left, and eventually the Bill was jOted by 422 to 261. : Beblin, Feb. 22. r A Papal Bull issued to German Bishops forbids their acceptance of benefitures from the State, under pain of excommunication. Pabis, Feb. 24. Notwithstanding the vigorous opposition of Legitimists and Bonapartists, the Assembly rejected all the amendments proposed, and finally passed the Senate Bill by 484 to 241, in form already telegraphed. < x ' London, February 27th. ' The following appointments are announced :—Mr D.uCane, and Mr McLeary of New South Wales, K.C.M.G.'s ; Mr Gregory and Colonel Warburton to be, Comp&nions of the Order. William Henry Fancourt Mitchell, President of the Legislative Council of Vie-; toria, Mr Justice Cheeke, Senior; Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Sydney, md Major Richardson, President of the Legislative Council of New Zealand, Lave been knighted. The New Zealand four per cent, loan of "four milHoiDs is announced by Messrs Rothschild at 93 nett.

lenders are invited for the conveyance of monthly mails ria California for eight years. There is an excellent attendance at the: wool sale*. Cojnpetitioa has? improved; since the opening. Prices remain firm! at reported reductions, and quotations are on a par with the lowest rates at last May series. , ' " Wheat ii easier. The British Victory, from Liverpool to; Sydney, stranded on the Irish Coast. - Arrived:' Moravian from Melbourne ;. Darra from Adelaide. Paws. Feb. 26.. The Assembly lias adopted, by 436 to; 262, a Bill organising public powers. Mac.Mahon nominates councillors of state, Buffet, President of the Assembly, is forming a Cabinet. A note in official journals declares that MacMahon is resolved to uphold conservative principles.