THE SUEZ MAIL.

Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1501, 2 December 1874, Page 2

THE SUEZ MAIL.

By tbe Suez mail which arrived yesterday we have lengthy letters from our London correspondent, '* Greenstone." We make tbe following brief extracts to-day:—

RU.IIOUHKI) APPOINTMENT OK MR. THOMAS

RUSSKLL AS ACKNT-CENERAL

By the way, we hear rumours of a change in the Agent-General's office. Is it true that Mr. Thomas Russ *U is to be appointed ? He would be a great loss to Auckland in one sense if be came permanently to England, although in another be would help her muchly. Auckland is not fairly represented now. Everytbingand every body is sacrificed habitually to Wellington, and without doing any injustice to the other provinces, a new Agent-General might improve your out-look materially. Mr. Russell is such a thorough man of business that I should think there could not be a better selection for the office. MR DISRAELI. Was to have visited Ireland this month for the purpose chiefly of selecting a place for a royal residence, but he has been attacked by gout and bronchitis which makes the idea of the tour quite impracticable. It is a thousand pities since the Irish had set their hearts and expectations on tbe promised visit, and he would have had quite a royal progress through the country. Like the late Liberal Premier, the old gentleman is rather feeble and failing, and his bodily powers are not equal to those of his mind. Should anything occur, which Heaven forfend, probably Mr Gatborn Hardy would be his successor. SOCIETY OP FRIENDS IN AUSTRALIA. A detachment of Quakers has departed from this country for the Australasian Colonies with a view to look after the interests of the Society of Friends at the Antipodes. It seems tbe relations of the body in the far off dependencies have not been of a very amicable nature of late, and the governing body at home have determined to make an effort to remove the irritating influences if possible. DELIVERY OF NEW ZKALA.ND MAILS. The mails which left Auckland on August 3 were delivered in London on September 17, which is very good work indeed. If the steamers could always accomplish such passages we should have nothing left to be desired. Unfortunately it is the exception and not the rule when we get our mails to time. The Williams and Guion boats have hitherto brought the mail from, New York, but henceforth the Eagle Company's boats are to bring them, which will be a saving of time, as they come direct to an English port instead of putting into an Irish poet. The last mail consisted of 163 bags from New Zealand and Australia.

THE "TIMES" ON THE RELEASE OF CRIMINALS

We don't intend to allow either Mr Gardiner or Mr Sullivan, to land here if we can help it, and the Americans are determined that you must find some other dust hole to shoot your discarded rubbish than the States. The Times says the freeing of these wretches does not evince a very high standard of local morality, but it adds, that " bearing in mind our own clemency to wife beaters and kickers in England, we have no right to be too exacting in this sense as to our Australasian progeny."