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Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1135, 23 December 1873, Page 2

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[Anglo-Australian Press Telegraph Agency] HOKITIKA. December 22. Share market.—F. A. Learmouth reports Fiery Cross, £3 17s Gd; Just in Times, 13s ; Wealth of Nations, 70s ; Golden Ledges, 8s ; Anderson's, 5s Gd; Alexandras, 230s ; Larry's, No. 1,605, No. 2,2305; No. 3, 755. —♦ LATER ENGLISH NEWS. VIA CIBIE. LONDON DATES TO THE 11th DECEMBER. BLUFF. December 18, 7.30 p.m. The steamship Albion, with the English mail, has arrived here. She left Melbourne on the 13th. LONDON. December 9. The Emperor of Austria has created Mr D. Tallerman, a Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of Francis Joseph, for introducing Australian meats. General Woolsley is ill. A Conservative has been elected for Exeter in the room of Coleridge. PARIS. December 10. Bazaine has been adjudged guilty by Court Martial, and condemned to death and military degradation. NEW YORK. December 9. Congress is supporting the Cabinet in refusal to recognise belligerent Cubans. December 10. Spanish decided surrender of surveyors American expedition on eighteenth December. (Query—meaning.) * LATEST UNPUBLISHED. LONDON. December 11. Discount 4i. The judges unanimously recommended Bazaine to mercy. John Line, witness in the Tichborne case, and formerly a convict, will be prosecuted for perjury. SUEZ MAIL SUMMARY. A prospectus is issued of the New Zealand.Land Improvement Company, with capital of half a million. First issue a quarter million. The company will make advances to purchasers at interest on mortgage to enable the erection of farm buildings. The Lauderdale, with emigrants, was off Deal on October 21st. Six pounds mutton quoted 55s Bd. The Salisbury sailed with free passage immigrants, and colonists, and corporation. (Readers will interpret this for themselves—we give it up.) Macmahon takes a severely neutral view of French affairs. The German fortifications being pushe.i on rapidly. Grant has declared the recent money panic is the first step towards specie payment. Stoke, who shot Fisk, has been sentenced to four years imprisonment. It is anticipated in London that when, the line between New York and San Francisco is in proper working order the Australian journey will be completed in forty days. Dr Featherstone has been on an emigration tour in the north. In the course of next six months two thousand German and Scandinavians will be sent to New Zealand, after which German immigration ceases. A select party of Vignerons will proceed to Hawke's Bay. New Zealand ores are attracting great attention among English capitalists. Sailed—Dunfinlan, for Otago; Queen of the North, for Hawke's Bay; Salisbury, for Wellington. All bringing immigrants.