LATER ENGLISH NEWS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 251, 21 November 1872, Page 6

LATER ENGLISH NEWS.

London, October 31.

The Australian Colonists in London arc arranging a grand pnhlic banquet to inaugurate the connection of the Colonies with the ■mother country by telegraph. A charter is to be granted by the French Government to the Hank of New Caledonia.

Copper has advanced to LB7, and there are indications of a further advance. •

The market is bare of Australian meats, owing to their rapidly extended sale throughout tbe kingdom. Wool maintains latest quotations. Thirty thousand horses in New York have been stricken with the new epidemic.

November 1.

Lord Penzance, Judge of the Divorce Court, has resigned in consequence of illhealth. Baron Martin will probably be his successor.

The Bishop of Winchester, in presenting the prizes at the London University School, expressed his opinion that the Oxford University local examinations will haye J. great effect' upon the future moral history of the country.

Obituary.— Lord Kinloch, one of the Scottish Lords of Session ; Sir Alexander Duff Gordon.

, Mr Samuel Laing, late Finance Minister of India, is a candidate for the representation,^ Orkney and Shetland. The conditions of the Anglo-French commercial treaty have been published. The tariff of 1860 is to be maintained, with the addition of compensatory duties, equivalent to French taxes on raw materials. Differen tial shipping dues are .to be abolished 'by England.- In return, 1 she obtains complete freedem . respecting coal and jothve.r exports and imports. • . JFrance' may, with the assent j of Kriglanci, augment duties "after six months' - nfotice. 1 ■ .Tfie/.. totefflty" to >remanV operative .until the; 'expirition of the Austrian Treaty in 1877. i

• — November 9. Admiral Randolph's appointment to the Australian Naval S'ation is contradicted.

The Australian .Colonists' Telegraph 1 Banquet takes place on the 15th November. Earl Kimberley presides. The simultaneous exchange of messages. is desired. The steamer A trato is docked at Keyham. The emigrants will be detained at the depot for three weeks. The steamer Bulli has cleared for Sydney. Wool is firm.

Arrived.— Somersetshire, Jane Court, City of Dublin, Lord Warden, Anna, 'and Pamaicae, ' '

The Australian September mail was delivered in London on the 28th October. The Auckland September mail was delivered two days later.