THE SUEZ MAIL.

Press, Volume XXI, Issue 2341, 3 February 1873, Page 3

THE SUEZ MAIL.

The following telegrams received by the Suez mail appear in the ■' Daily Times " of Saturday : —

Tlie Duke of Edinburgh is in Germany, with matrimouial intentions towards a daughter of the ex-King of Hanover.

The Australian colonists in London have subscribed apiece of plate for the best ram produced by the colonies. The Stock Exchange Committee has ordered the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.'s new shares to be officially quoted.

A site in Greenwich Hospital has been granted by the Lords of the Admiralty for a monument to the officers and men who fell in the New Zealand war in 1863-4.

An advertisement appears in the Oxford papers for 500 farm laborers, accustomed to rough outdoor work, as navvies for New Zealand.

The Royal Humane Society has given a silver medal to Christian, grandson of Christian, one of the mutineers of the Bounty, for saviDg the life of a girl named 3rowne, at Omaha, Auckland.

Great complaints are made regarding the various modes of packing New Zealand hemp.

Only 127 bales of wool were over from the November sales for the auctions in Decern ber. 2t>oo bales of New Zealand wool will be then offered. New Zealand skin wool brought 20, d, greasy 12£ d, and scoured 23d.

New Zealand wheat was at 63s to 66s per quarter on November 29. Mr Lee, F.R.G.S., gave a lecture in London on the people and resources of New Zealand, and made many converts to the belief in New Zealand as a fine field for emigration. Several letters have been received by friends of emigrants speaking highly of the colony. An omnibus lately passed through London, full of navvies, aud carrying a flag inscribed '* Off to New Zealand." The passers by cheered them lustily.

The papers give many extracts from Mr

Anthony Trollope'a letters regarding his sojourn in New Zealand.

The New Zealand October mail was delivered on November 27th.

The home papers publish a despatch by Sir George Bowen regarding the defence of the colony on September 28th, showing thero to be between 11,000 and 12,000. armed Europeans in the colony. Sailed—On November 2lst, Himalaya, for Canterbury ;on October 31st, Warwick, for Auckland ; on November 15th Forfarshire, for Wellington ; City of Bombay, Euterpe, Lutterworth, Naomi, and Sattara, for Otago. Arrived—At London : Tyrol, from Auckland ; Wild Doer, from Otago. At New York: East Lothian and Thames, from Auckland.

The uew Anglo-French Treaty provides a duty of 15 centimes per 100 kilogrammes on flax and hemp In stalks, raw, green, dry, or steeped ; on tow, two francs; on hackled hemp, two francs fifty centimes : on hp.ckled flax, three francs ; on phormium tt'iiax, raw, 50 centimes per 100 kilos ; on do, hackled, two francs fifty centimes ; and on combed or hoisted, 4 centimes.

Sales of New Zealand hemp in November took place at £30 to £43 10s.

It is rumored that the Duke of Edinburgh will have command of the iron-clad Sultan.

Sergeant Bates, of the U.S. army, marched from Gretna Green to London with tho United States flag flying unmolested, and thus won his wager. National Bank of New Zealand shares will be shortly offered for subscription iv tho Colonies.

Rochefort recently left prison to marry a beautiful woman, aud then parted from "her for ever, he returning to prison. The London papers make the Telegraphic Banquet the occasion of many articles on tho integrity of the empire. The British Telegraph Company propose a reduction of tho tariff.