ANGLO AUSTRALIAN PRESS TELEGRAPH AGENCY.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 1018, 1 November 1872, Page 2

ANGLO AUSTRALIAN PRESS TELEGRAPH AGENCY.

(by cable.) Losdost, Oct. 22. Melbourne, Oct. 2-L Judge Durman has been elected to the puisne judgeship in Common Pleas, through the suicide of Judge Wilis. The British debt has been reduced by four millions. Exports to the colonies were eight millions for the quarter. Coal has reached a lower price in Glasgow. The quarters revenue of Great Britain, for the quarter ending 10th September, was sixteen millions. Sir Roundell Palmer as Lord Sherburne, becomes Lord High Chancellor.

The vacant seat for Richmond, will be contested by the Lord Mayor of LondoD, and Sir Sydney Waterlow. Obiturt. —Sir Charles Neill3, Mr Seward, late American Secretary, and Admiral Cochrane. Graham, manager of the Bank of New Zealand, has sailed, "Watson takes charge of the Australian branch, Burns preparing to leave. France abolishe* differential duties payable by British vessels, and England makes concessions to French

mines. Letters have been received direct from Dr Livingston. The Government will send special commissioners to the African Coast to open direct communication with him. The fault in the Java Cable was found in a thousand fathoms of water. A new Atlantic cable is being laid. Money is inactive, Meats brisk; Wool, a shade lower, New Zealand fives at 102 ; sixes 112.