THE SUEZ MAIL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 205, 4 January 1872, Page 6

THE SUEZ MAIL.

From the " Daily Times " Telegrtvtns., The , following . .'intelligence . was brought by' the- SIS: Ra'ngit'dto wiiic'h' arrived at Hokitfka at 6 p.m. on ! Saturday.the 30th tilt :—

The Nubia anchored at Queenscliff at midnight^ on r th,e 22nd. . She left Galle on the 29th November.. . , f , , Dates from London are to the 3rd ; telegraph news to the 27 th. The Queen's health continues to improve. The Prince of Wales is ill of typhoid fever, The wool saleß opened at a penny higher rate. There is a great demand for Australian meals. Four' shops have been established at Aberdeen for the sale of New Zealand preserved meats. Captain Macdonald of the Queen of the Tuames, has published a pamphlet advocating tbe Cape line of steamers, to do the voyage to Melbourne in forty days. A stall for the sale of Australian preserved meats has been opened in Manchester, and is "daily ""crowded with customers.

The Liverpool emigration report for October shows an increase.

Fifty thousand persons attended Mr. Gladstone's meeting at Greenwich. His speech occupied two hours. t)ne liuudred and seven reporters were present, and the whole was cabled to America the same night.

The agitation in the labour market is extending, and the nine houra 1 principle has been generally conceded.

LATE TELEGRAMS.

London, November 27th. Mr. Bright has- recovered, and will return to public life. Mr. Disraeli has been elected Rector

of^ the Glasgow University, and Sir William Maxwell, R-ector of Edinburgh University. 2000 applicants have been made by officers to retire* prior to the issue of the warrant to carry out the Army Act. The French Governmenfchas resolved to submit to the National Assembly a project for doubling the capital of the Bank of France, increasing its circulatiou of notes to 3,000,000.

The rate of discount has been raised,

six per cent, by tbe Bank of France. Cholera has reappeared in Constantinople. The Republicans elected most of their candidates in New York, and also in Massachusetts and Wisconsin. The famine in Persia is rapidly increasing. The German Reichstag has adopted a Bill for introducing gold coinage. M. Thiers received the Chinese Ambassador, who apologised for the Tien Tsin massacres. Some of the Rangoons' mail bags have been i^ecovered in good preservation ; also some passengers' luggage. Mr. Butt has visited Glasgow for the purpose of advocating repeal of the Union, and Frish self-government. Mr. Pigot, proprietor of the Irishman has been sentenced to four months' imprisonment. M. Thiers has offered the Pope an asylum in France, but he remains at the Vatican, A great anti- Papal demonstration has taken place at Brusselc. At a meeting of wool importers, the London Association was reconstituted. There is a great demand for Australian meats, of which, stocks are exhausted. The first message despatched from Galle to the Melbourne "Argus" via Java was on November 28th.

ADDITIONAL SUMMABY.

In the Tichborne case, Capt. Angell was examined in the interest of defendant, by order of the Court, before sailing for ' Australia. He stated that he knew Arthur Orfcon when he was .young and believed the claimant to be the

same man.

M. Benedetii's attempt to whitewash the Empire has signally failed. He endeavoured to throw the odium of the proposed annexation of Belgium on Bisraarpk, but the latter retorted by publishing secret despatches found in M. Bouher's houS3. Imperialism suffers deeply by- the exposure. • The personal effects of the 'lmperial Family have been sold by auction. The Pope and the French Government are in dispute about appointing a French bishop. The Pope claims the right of independent nomination, and M. Thiers resists this claim.

. There are seventy vacant .seats in Italy because the Pope refuses to re-. cognise the sovereignty o? Victor lEman'uel. ' . ( _, , r . „r , \ The Papal & ujicio sent to, CaQatajn- j 'tiriople to conclude a concordat regards, •ipg the Armenian Church has resu,rne<i itnsucceßßfuK, , , . . . '-' T-he G'ermaxi " iron ' croßs' t ' an<^;.\par ; '.raqdal have been.! 'bestowe^ upon &jjtr-.] g«6n Mafley^ of, Crimean and] Hew^ Zealand' fame. „,..,..,- „„ j Tne Bavarian .Govern,men]fc stapdaj out firmly for religious liberty, ais protectiner 'Catholic/ reformers -lay' every < constitutional meank , . ■ The quarrel, bet. ween-. the Germnn, and non-Gernian population in Austriaha^reacfied a crisis. Eohemjaderaiindji an independen^Governmcnt"Hk«?jilunrjary, wnich is refasecl., ..CQU|it HQ%nwarth', the' leader of the'CzebH party, hHs resigned', , I

, «\ -,o -*i. -■»■* *.i, y. iAt&KBNi/b c „ .Chicago is^alr^dy „rj©ng from t itK ashes. p,jlt js^estiinMei, ijsnfc> ftora, 70,d00 to 80,000 persons wiU ; ,have,;tft l be.^provided, foT t through "the winter, jlpglanal's , . generous, „ assistance. . ; is warmly-acknowledged in America.

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

London November -"*fh.

In the Tichborne case Hiaret and his son gave . testimony favourably to the claimant's identity.

■Sir Charles Dilke in a specfeh atNewcastle made an elaborate, and scandalous attack upon royalty. He ad- r vocated a republic for England,

Messrs Bright and Ghilderei fesuoie : their Parliamentary duties nest ses- r Bion.

COMMERCIAL."

The fourth of the , series of \^opl sales closed on the llth of Qctobeiv when 137,097 bales were dispose^ o"f ? , including 39,438 from New Zealand '

making the total salts for the year 652,299 bales. Prices for New Zea-' land ranged as follows : — Flee'ce.ls s<f to 2s 4d ; half-scoured, Is lOd to^stfd :| greasy, lid to Is 6d ; and latiibs^ Is 8d to 2?.

In flax there is a fair amount of business doing. About two thousand five hundred bales were sold at full rates. An improvement in the mode of preparation is noticeable. ■ •

Hides are not so active. , The,arrivals were 4475 salted. New Zealanda first heavy, 6d ; half seconds heavy, 6iL , There is. a very good market for r taHow\ The^e is. an advance of 2s on mutton* and Is on beef. Australian (?) gupi-^-; 82 casks — sold as follows: — Red frosted, '£41 ; middling to good, &35' b £36.

New Zealand sixes, 1891,' 110 to 1 12 ; fives, 101 to 102. Consolidated", 1001 to 10 U. Sixes, Juue "and ! De / < ember, 111 to 113. The Batik " of. New Zealand, 18£ to 19 J.' BjinVpf/ Otago, 3. 1 discount. Console," 9i& 93. Money is still dear. . . Tie French Government has twentyfour millions sterling ready for piyraenfc of the fourth instalment of the " war indemnity.

SHIPPING

Arrived. — Gravesend, October; 26th, Crusader, from Lyttelton ; Wild Du.ek,, Oct. 23th, from Auckland,' Roslin. Castle, from Otago, Oct. 27th. Sailed. — Cadueens, for Auekfan'l- — oft' Biixham. Oct. 2Stb ; Cyrennj Oct. 18th ; Harvest Home, Oct. 9th ; Warrior- Queen, Oct. 29fch ; Malay, Oct. llth ; Charlotte Gladstone! Loading. — England and Naomi, for Auckland ; "Wild Duok, for Canterbury ; Charlotte Gladstone anJ Crusader, for Nelson ; Tyrol, for Otago ; Enterprise and Jessie Read man, for (Velliugton; Celaeno, for Wa:iganui.

Cleared for London, Nov. 2nd, Cor laeno.