LATE TELEGRAMS

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 217, 28 March 1872, Page 6

LATE TELEGRAMS

London, February Ist. The Megaera Co n mission has closed. Mr Childers was fully examined on the Admiralty administration.

A Bishop Patteson Memorial Church has been prooosed for Norfolk Island.

The Bradford Chamber of Commerce has recommerided larger supplies of deep combing Wools.

The Pope and the Czar have been reconciled.

.The Queen's Speech promised a Bill for the suppression of the Polynesian Slave Trj|d3. Both Houses have passed the Address in reply.

The panic on the Stock Exchange is'subsiding.

Consols are at 91£. The Bank rate is 3 per cent.

In the Tichbome case, Sir John Coleridge's speech has occupied twentyfour days, and is still unfinished. The evidence gees to show that the claimant is Arthur Orton.

The wool competition still continues. Greasy is twopence, and washed and scoured threepence higher than in December. Adelaide wheat is wanted at '645. Victorian Sixes are at 114, and Fives at 105. Qonsols are at 92£. * February 20th.

Lord Hobart has been appointed Q-overnor of Madras.

A reduction of a million on the Army Estimates is # announced. '. The United States Government have abolished the duties on tea and coffee.

■A' destructive inundation has oc- [ curreft at Jsottingba,in, "'- . |

Ihe Imperial troops are to be withdrawn from the Capejof Good Hope. The large consumption of Australian meats still continues.

The Pacific Islanders' Protection Bill has been introduced into Parliament.

Messrs. Fitzherbert, Yogel, and Walcot have been created C. M. Q-.'s.

Large subscriptions have been made to the Livingstone expedition fund. The King of Spain has refused to a.ccept the resignation of his Ministry.

The English Government are confident that the provisions of the Treaty of Washington will exclude America's extravagant claims. The " Times' " admits that the American construction of the Treaty places England in an embarrassing position ; but recommends the Government to demur to the. American claims.

The Eight Hon. Charles E. Denison, ex-Speaker, has been raised to the Peerage. The wool sales were opened on the Bth February with 113,000 bales. There was a crowded attendance, and the spirited competition established an advance of twopence.

Blanqui, the Communist leader, has been sentenced to transportation.

The Ballot Bill passed the second reading in the House of Commons by a large majority.-

A banquet was given to Mr. Yerdon. Earl Kimberley was in the chair, and the Dukes of Edinburgh and Manchester, and other leading men, were present. It was a great success. Mr. Charles Cowper and Mr. Verdon were knighted.

M. Thiers, in opposing .the Comte de Chambord, says he will neither abdicate nor become King without a revolution.

The " Times " says no Confederate vessel was equipped in England during the war. The Alabama escaped unequipped. The leading American papers are quiet, on the subject. Lady Mayo has been created a Peeress in her own right.

The Vieeroyalfcy of India has been refused by Lord Kimberley.

Prince Bismarck offers to mediate between England and America.

Calcutta. On the evening of the Bth February, the Viceroy, the Earl of Mayo, after inspecting the convict settlement at Port Blair in the Andaman Islands, was &bout to embark in the launch to proceed to the ship Glasgow, when, in the darkness, an assassin broke through the guard and stabbed him twice in the back. The Viceroy fell, or jumped, into the water, and was picked up dead. The assassin is named Shere Ali, a prisoner under sentence of penal servitude for life for murder, and who had obtained a ticket of leave for good behaviour. The only reason he gave for the commission of the crime was that God had ordered him to kill an enemy of his country. When sentenced to death, he appeared to regard his position with triumph. Lord Napier has left Ceylon for Calcutta, as Acting- Viceroy. Five steamers are offering first-class passages through the Suez Canal to London for £35.