ADDITIONAL CABLEGRAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume XII, Issue 3556, 31 December 1881, Page 2

ADDITIONAL CABLEGRAMS.

(per s.s. wakatipu, atpm&matoS).

LONDON, December 19., ' if Rev. Fathfr Robert *Duhn has been J. appointed Bishop of Brisbane, and the Rev. Dr Caiii has been appointed Bishop of Rockhampton, , 7, The British Government have agreed to' make a present to the New South Walea^ Government of H.M.S. Wolverene, tully . armed. The material seized by the authorities at - Dublin, which it is believed was intended.-7 to be used for seditious purposes, includes 30 rifles, 100,000 cartridges and bullets, a small quantity of dynamite, a number of sword-bayonets. • Mr Freylinghuscn, the new Secretory of State for tbe United States, is pursuing a policy of moderation that gives general satisfaction,and which it is thought will lift the Government ont of the difficulties into which the policy of the late secretary, Mr Blame, landed it. .December'2o. V Prince Bismarck is recovering his health, M. Gambetta refuses to retract tbe state. ment he made recently to tho effect that the British Government bad recognised Ftbff treaty entered into between Fiance and the; Bey of Tunis. Earl Granville Is much " annoyed at the obstinacy ot the French Premier. A stormy scene occurred in the London Common Council in connection with the !:j| movement started for the defence ot pro- j| perty in Ireland. The Council refuses to ■- subscribe to the fund started by the Lord Mayor, , , ':: December 21, 'Severalfemale Land Leaguers are niak- I fog themselves very prominent, and daring ' the authorities to arrest them, Their moot* ing-places arc only closed, and the police take no notice of the agitators unless they | become conspicuous as vagrants, or othor- . .' wise break tho peaSe of the streets, The Police Courts then deal with them, '.. 77 Several Nihilist| have been arrested in St Petersburg, who were detected carrying dynamite enclosed in oranges. Further intelligence has been received in i reference to the discovery of the Jeannette. 7jj The, vessel reached a high latitude iv the Arctic Ocean in, June last, and became f blocked in the ice, and was so crushed that, H she bad to be abandoned. Some of the Vl crew perished from cold and hunger. The I survivors took to the boats, and after many privations, being almost famished; reached the great Siberian liver, the Lena, which ',3 flows into tbe Arctic Ocean. This river they navigated in their boats. Thoy. were treated kindly by the natives. They reached t| the City of Irkutsk, in Asiatic Russia. It is from this city that the news of their safety has been despatched. The ■ news created great excitement in America,