SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3496, 9 March 1880, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

(Pee Press Association.)

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INDIAN NEWS.

Bombay, March 1

The British Indian Steam Navigation Co.'s steamship Vangorla, trading between the Various ports on the Indian coast, foundered daring a terrific gale she encountered from Bombay. The captain, chief officer, all the engineers, 100 natives, comprising Malays, and all on board were drowned. ~ ■■'■'; Calcutta, March 1. The statements published in the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette last Saturday detailing certain arrangements with regard to the future of Afghanistan are now declared without foundation.

The friendly overtures made by General Roberts to the hostile Afghan chiefs hare not been attended with success. Mahomed Jan, who keeps the field with a large force, when first communicated with evinced a determination to continue the war, but ascertaining the terms of peace, professed to express dissatisfaction, and proposed a further conference. It is reported that attempts were made ineffectually to renew diplomatic relations, so that there is no alternative left other than to renew hostilities upon an extensive scale as soon as the severe winter weather moderates. Suez, March 1. The Pacific Steam Navigation Co. Steamship, which-left Melbourne on January 31, arrived here to-day. English. London, March 1. The Hull District Banking Company suspended payment yesterday. At the wool. sales to day 9,400 bales j were catalogued, making 115,200 since the commencement of the present-series. Prices are firmly maintained. .It is resolved to close the present series of auctions on the 12th inst, and a further series is announced to open on April 20th -the probable quantity for which is estimated at 3,500 bales.. March 2. Mr W. Forster, late Agent-General for NeW South Wales, delivered a lecture on colonisation before the Society of Arts. He attacked the Emigration policy of the ! Australian Colonies, and remarked that political success was achieved by men of the worst commercial and social charac- ! ter. This aroused a hot discussion, Sir Charles Nichollson, Bart., Mr H. Toir, Mr Alderman Solomon and others warmly commented on the lecture, and the discussion was stopped on the ground of its.strong party character. A more peaceful impression prevails since Ministers' speech on the German Array Bill. The Czar being in constant apprehension of an attempt upon his life by Nihilists, has decided to leave St. Petersburg for the present and return to Lividia, his Palace in Southern Russia.