ITEMS FROM THE EUROPEAN MAIL.

Waikato Times, Volume IV, Issue 245, 4 December 1873, Page 2

ITEMS FROM THE EUROPEAN MAIL.

The lushest pricfa yet. realised by shorthorn cattle was at Now York Mills, Sew York, 1-L of Mr Campbell'* Duchesses realised in round numbers 4000 guinea! each. Four ot them were taken to England. I lie Stock Exchange Committee hare ordered the 5 per cent ]>t!benl urea for £500,000 issued in July lust by the | N Z Government, to be quoted in the official list,. On tH<? arrival o! H.M.*. Encounter, at C«|»« Coast Castle, H.M.*. Barracouti will proceed to Australia to relieve the J3a.il.sk. The fourth serifs of wool tales for the present year commenced on October 3m. The opening was characterised by much spirit, and thebe«t rates of the last, scries were obtained. The action of the colonies in prohibiting the exportation of c.ittle would seem to be justified from ;he fact that the cattle disease continues to leappear in sevei.il districts of the United Kingdom notwithstanding that energetic measuies to stump it out have been adopted by the local authorities. We are told that fresh outbreaks have 00- ' cvi red in Warwickshire an 1 Northamptonshire. Ciptaio J. Turner, late Q.iartermaster 50ih Foot, will receive the distinguished service pension lately enjoyed by Captain Collins, decesuol. Captain fumer, it will be remembered, served in Kew Zealand from November IS, 1863 to 1860, aud wan p eseutatthe assault and capture . f rta i« gianhia, the repulse of the enemy's attack on the camp at Nukunurn, and the affair of Kakaramea, for which he received the me lal. The Archbishop of Canterbury held a general ordination the other day. Ta* examination was ohiefly conducted on tins occasion by the Ley C. VV. Sandford, M. A., formerly Senior Censor of Cii Oh, the Archbishop's Oxford Examining Chaplain. All were University men but two, who were "out lemon born vi New Zealand, and who had studied at Bishopdnle, Xelunn, and were presented to the Archbishop lor examination by the Bishop of Nelson, witli whom they will return at the end of the year to the diocese of Nelson. One of them was Mr John Pratt Kempthorne, who was appointed by the Archbishop to rear! the Gospel on account of the umv entisnietory examination he had pas*ed, and the of.her, Jfr T. 8. Grace, i* the son of the Rot T. Grace, of Taupo, New Z aland, a missionary of longstanding and givat. courage during the last Maori war, when he resolutely ■»tood to his post. lVee are deflnite links connecting the mol her Church with the Cliuroh in the colonies. The Bishop of Nelson prenched tlie sermon on 1 Thess. v. 12, which will be published' »t the request of the Archbishop and many of the young men ordained. The memory of Bishop Patteson is noft likely to bo soon forgot ten . [Die At tome.v Genet al, Sir John Duke Coleridge, has jmt elected a memorial pillar at a place « here four crossroads meet hi the ne ; ghbourhood of Ottery St Alary, Devonshire, to the late B-.snop. It will be remembered that. Sir John D. Coleridge is a cotuin of the late Bishop, who pre-viou-ly to his Episcopate held the cliarue of a small district church in the neigl bourho-id of Ottery St Mnry. The following is tin* inscription :—": — " In memory of John Coleridge Puttfson, D.D., Missionary Kishop. IJorn in London Ist lnrd, 1827. killed nt Xukui.iu, near the Island of Santa Cruz, 20th Jji'pt ember. 1871, touet her with two fellow-workers of ' Our Lord, the Ei-v Joseph Atkm nnd Stephen Taronniara (in vengeance for wrongs Stored at the hands of European*), ■by siivase men whom he lovwl, and for who«e suke he gave up home nnd country, and fronds dearer than life. Lord J.-sus, grant that we may live to Tliee like him, and stand in our lot with him before Tny Throne at. the end of the days! Amen. A kimmnn desires thus to k<>ep aliTe for aftertiuw the memory of a w mp, n holy a.id a humble man." Inscribed on the several sidi>< of the pillar nre four text* from Scripture. There are those, prrhiipi, who m«y think that the words "in rcngi-anco forwiongi siiflVml at the hands of Europeans" might in chanty li»ve been omitted from the inscription, as Hipv cut ii rcH.x'tion udoii a ri"e which ought in justice only to bo incurred by a few individuals. Tin following important circular has recently been issued from «he Admiralty :— H Sovt-ral,in.«tances having recently occurred of iniimiiL'i'ft liiivins boen pprformed on board Ht>r*Ma|.">U'i> fliipson ibrcign ttutions by the commanding officer, no clmplatnor cothul Iviiig in the neighborhood, the I^rds Commts!«tonersol tlicAdtntriltvrefrrredtliequestion of | ho validity of such mai ria^es to the law officers of the Crown. At the law officers have given their opinion that marria?e« »r>lemnU«d under the ciicumstaiicea stated above are not v,ilid, their lordships are plcaed to diiect tbat no marriage shall in futnro be solemnised on board one of Her Majesty's ships by the commanding officer."