News by the Sues Mail.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1753, 27 September 1875, Page 2

News by the Sues Mail.

By way of the South, we have Melbourne papers to Sept. 17 eh, which contain fullwr news by the Suez mail. Chinese officers are making large purchases of arms in Germany. Mr. Albert Grant, the unseated member for Kidderminster, lately entertained 500 electors of that town at his great house at Alberfc-gite. They came up by special train at his expense. Meetings of working men, chiefly of the republican type, have been held at various places to protest against the English Excheque.i bearing; any part of the expenses of the Royal visit to India. Captain Webb has performed the unparalled feaf of swimming from Dover to Calais. He accomplished the di sUnce twenty-two houis. In connection with the socialisb conspiracy in Russia, 800 persons are to be ■ indicted. The plot extended to 37 provinces, and a revolutionary propaganda was discovered among a portion of the army. A testimonial was presented to Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall, in commemoration of their golden wedding, consisting of an annuity of £100, and an album containing the subscribers' names and letters. The members of the Palestine Exploration Expedition have been attacked by a band of Algerians. The assailants were repulsed, buc nine of the exploring party were wounded. The Court of Chancery has given the daughter of the late Doubles Jerrold absolute possession of the £2,000 raised for the benefit of the widow and unmarried daughter. A brother in America claimed a share. To aid the fund for the testimonial of respect to Sir Moses Montefiore, a bazaar has been held at Willis's Rooms. Bombay, August 24.—A dinner is to be given here on the occasion of the Prince's visit to an escort of 1000 sailors. A Royal hunt is arranged for in Goimbatore. The Prince of Wales and suite will breakfast at Voothamore, and proceed in carriages to Pallachy, where a grand camp will be established. Passing the night at Pallachy, they will afterwards reach Michael Valley, where the Prince and suite will be accommodated in tents, and the rest in huts. There will be plenty of game, consisting of elephants, bison, and tigers. Active preparations are now being made in Ceylon to receive the Prince. H R.H. in Colombo will lay the first stone of the breakwater, and be enterbained with an agri-horticultural show, and a ball, and will receive deputations from the Colombo municipality, Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, and Planters' Association. In Kandy, a meeting of the chiefs has been held and a, grand reception in native style is proposed. Several railway servants were seriously injured by the bursting of the boiler of a locomotive on the North-Eastern Railway at Solberk station1, near Leeds. Through the bursting of a defective boiler at the Star Ironworks, Wolverhampton, an engineer was killed, and six workmen mortally injured. An officer and two warrant officers were killed by a terrible explosion at the Pyrotechnic School, at Toulon, said to have been produced by a drop of perspiration falling upon certain fulminates with which some naval lieutenants were filling bottles. At Hounslow Gunpowder mills, an explosion wrecked several factories. The workmen were fortunately absent at the time. Obituary.—Sir Francis Head, aged 82; Sir Frederick Arrow, deputy-master of Trinity-house; Mr. Mundell, Q.C P wellknown at the Parliamentary bar; Dr. Benjamin Davies, Hebrew scholar of Regentpark College; (General Dufour, aged 88, who in 1847 commanded the Swiss troops, against the Sonderbund ; Mr. Tabrum, member of the London School Board for Finabury; Pastor Coquerel, head of the French Protestants ; Dr. Thirl wall, bishop of St. David's, aged 78; Mr. Davidson, cheap music publisher; General Holloway, Kigby Waaoa; Dr. Latham, aged 87;