COLONIAL ITEMS.

Evening Star, Issue 4898, 12 November 1878, Page 2

COLONIAL ITEMS.

At the recent sale of the Middle Park raid, which realised in all 45,205 guinea?, ilr Qharle.. Fisher bought Queen of Naples and La Name, each for 500 guineas, for exportation to Australia. Assistant-Paymaster Colin C. Wilson, R.N., 18G9, now serving as secretary's clerk at Portsmouth, has been selected by Commodore Wilson to serve as his secretary on the Australian station. Lettersandpapers dated Melbourne, August 12, and Adelaide, August 15, were received in London on September 20, having been dispatched by the Aconcagua, which overtook at Suez the Oriental Company's steamer with the regular mail from Victoria and South Australia of August 6 and 8, and her letters and papers, forwarded via Brindisi, were delivered simultaneously with those brought by the mail steamer, the transit occupying, from Adelaide to London, less than thirtylive davs.

Tho Queen lias been pleased to approve of Mr Franz Kummi-r as consul for New Zealand and its dependencies for His Majesty the King of Denmark. Ifc is said thatjihe O'Keefe millionaire business is nothing but a hoax, and that the large family of " the O'Keefe's" are very much disappointed. A life, of the late Bishop of Lichfield, written by a Derbyshire lady, is in the press, and will be published at an early date. Mr David Riddell, of Blackhall, the wellknown stock breeder, recently dispatched from Paisley for London, for shipment to New Zealand, a stud of nineteen splendid animals. They were purchased from Mr Riddell by Mr Russell, of the New Zealand Balk, London, and comprised the entire

horse Star and Garter, by Royal Prince, aged two years; one colt and eight fillies and mares, from one to four years old. The following ships are ordered Home : The Nymphe to Spithead, the Sapphire to Devonport, and the Sappho to Spithead. General Warre, who succeeds Sir Charles Stavely as Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay army, served in the New Zealand campaign of ISG3 as colonel of the 57th. Sir Julius Vogel has written to the 'Times' urging a reform in the present telegraph tariff. ° r ~ A team of English footballers is to visit the Colonies in the spring.