SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4785, 27 December 1872, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

The ' Bangalore' arrived oa the 15th. — Scotch journals publish a full biography of John Brown, Queen's attendant.— The health of Bismarck is failing.— The French Assem« bly is regarded aa more pliable than any which Thiers is likely to get in the future. — The rise in wools at the December sales averages l*d. to 2£d. per lb.— Tranship, ments of the Cape wools from America to London markets have been made. — Admiral Randolph has heen appointed flag-officer on the Australian station. — Tenders for mail service between London and Sydney imply the desirability of a mail steamer calling at Fiji. — Tallerman has floated a large meat company. The prices of Australian preserved meats are limiting the sales. Sevenpence to eightpence per lb. is now asked. — Heavy floods in Lancashire have carried off hundreds of sheep and cattle.— The Egyptian Government is reported to have designs on Abyssinia.—German fleet ships are about to visit Australia. — Marshal Bazaine is in critical health : not expected to survive his trial. — Three hundred Prussian women claim admission to the medical schools as students. — Ellen Kettell, charged with poisoning a woman named Arder, for the purpose of marryinf her husband, has been tried and acquitted. — A JEtoman Catholic priest haa been tried for smuggling cigars and tobacco.— An Episcopalian curate and an agricultural labourer have) been ohargedj at Banbury with pugilism. — The exact amount received by Gei many from France to November 1st is 200,000,000 franca. — The London merchants have su!j« scribed £2,000 to bring up the poor in the principles of the Established Churoh.— The neutralisation of the Suez Canal seriously discussed. — Two British seamen swam from Abydos to the Dardanelles —By the death of Gurney's divorced wife half-a-million sterling goes to the creditors in the estate of Overend, Gurney, and Co. — The Oriental Bank Corporation losea £436,000 by the failure ofGladstanes and 9°- — Livingstone writes to his daughter o! his speedy return homo. — Two thousand mill girls at Paisley gave Stanley an enthusiastic demonstration of welcome. — The National Bank of Ireland holds over a million sterling in gold.— There are ample funds for the coming defence of the Tiohborne claimant. — Brogden promises immigrants, when they shall have finished navvy work, farms on terms. — There is a large emigration of farm labourers going on to New Zealand.— The 'Ruahine,' formerly in the Panama service, has been altered to a single screw, and has been named the ' Laffey.'— The New Zealand mails were delivered on October 2nd.— •The mails for New Zealand, via San Francisco, left New York on the 14th.— At a general meeting of the Dunedin and Port Chalmers Railway Company the report and statement to the 12th were adopted. — Arrival: From New Zealand— 'Mendoza.' Departures; ' Celasno,' 'Zealand,' ' Crusader,' Lochnagar,' 'Ferndale,' and 'Mari. posa.'