NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 427, 20 January 1875, Page 3

NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL

(" Argus " Summary.)

London, Nov. 28th.

An old English sailor has published a circumstantial statement, that after rescuing Roger Tichbourne from a boat drifting in Pacific, they were landed on Sydney Island where he nursed him 18 days, till he died, and then buried him. Before his death he wrote a statement with the blood of a bird, now faded. The British consolate at Honolulu is investigating the matter. f The sensational ac-ount of the discovery of a vast conspiracy in Russia, implicating ladies and persons of high station in charges of threatening the life of the Czar, have been declared an c tire fabrication. Nothing is known of it in St Petersbnrgh, and no arrests have been made* The students of the Medical Academy and Technological Institution have been turbulent, and a comtniss-ion oF inquiry has been appointed. The protracted disabilities of the Russian non-conforming sects have been removed by a decree. These sects number fully 10,000.000. The P. and O. Company have given notice of the removal of their mail station from Southampton to London at tbe close oj 1874. The following dividends have been declared : — The Trust and Agency Company of Australasia, 10 per cent ; Scottish Ausstralian Mining, 15 per cent ; Otago and Southland Investment, 10 per cent ; Australasian Mines Investment, Is per share ; the P. and O. Company, 7 per • cut. The following failures have taken pla c : Abraham Daniel De Pass, liabilities £100,000 ; Lewis Bro Iziak (connected with Sydney), liabilities £10,455 ; Alex Macewen (outside speculator in stocks), liabilities £400,000, partly secured.