THE SUEZ MAIL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 201, 7 December 1871, Page 5

THE SUEZ MAIL.

The barque Freetrader, six clays from j Hobart Town, brings news that the P. and O. C<>. 's mail steamer Rangoon | was lost, when leaving CJallo on the Ist \ November. j The following is from the Extra of the Hobart Town Mercury :—: — j Hobart Town, November 27fch. The branch mail steamer Alexandra, Captain Brown, arrived off Clenelg soon j after one o'clock this morning, with the j distressing intelligence of thu wreck of the U.M.B. Rangoon, when leaving Galle harbour with the mails for Australia on the Ist of November. The mails have all been lost. The passengers and crew have been saved, but the former lost their luggage, and had a narrow escape. No further particulars have reached us. The P. and 0. Company's steamship Behar (formerly on the Galle and Sydney line) was dispatched from Galle on the Bth November, and will probably reach Melbourne to- morrow morning. The following summary of the news whs j prepared at Galle after the wreck of i the Rangoon, and has been telegiaphed to us by our correspondent at Adelaide :- — The P. andO. Company's steamer Behar sailed from G-alle on the Bth of November, and arrived at King George's Sound on the 23rd. She would sail again for Melbourne on the evening of the same day. The mails and cargo for Australia were lost. The only mail saved was that from Ceylon, which was recovered in a partly damaged state. The passengers had a narrow escape, aud lost all their luggage. Late telegrams are to hand, o£ date London, October 3rd. In the great fire at Cl>icai*o five | hundred persons were burned, and { 12,000 buildings destroyed. The London Insurance Companies lose about one million sterling by the firo. A Fenian raid had taken place on Canada, but failed. General O'JVeil, the leader of the infatuated rebels, was captured. The wool sales closed with prices one penny lower. One of the steamers with the A us- ! tralian submarine cable on board reached the Cape of Good Hope on the 17th of September on he. 1 way to Port Darwin. Another submarine cable is proijected in Londou, for tho pur.-

pose of uniting Honolulu with. Melbourne. The Government have refused to release the remainder of the JFenian prisoners. The Qoeen'u health haa improved. Mr. Gladstone reviewed the work ot the session in a speech at Greenwich, and promised more reforms next session. Sir Hercules Robinson is appointed to succeed the Earl of Belmore as Governor of New South Wales. "Wheat is 2a lower. Tallow has improved. It is reported that Brighain Young has fled from America. TheGerman'Parliflment was opened on the 16th of October [September?] The evacuation of the remainder of France held by the Germans is proceeding, the payment of the remainder of the indemnity having been arranged for satisfactorily to Ger-. many. There is a strong feeling of indignation against the authorities on the subject of the wreck of the Megsera. The captain and engineers of the ship, have given evidence that she "was thoroughly rotten. A great fire has occurred at Windsor. Field-Marshal Sir John Burgoyne is dead. The trial of the Tichborne case would be resumed on the 7th of NoA r ember. Arthur Orton is expected to be produced as a witness. \ The yacht Columbia beat the | Leonora twice in the iufcer national I race. | Obituary. — The Earl of Biinrswen, | Sir Hugh Hall, Alderman Moon, j Sheriff Young, Sir Roderick Murehison, Mr. Charles Babbage, and General Patrick M'Mahon. A severe monetary crisis has ocj curred in Paris, owing to the scarciry • of soecie.