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Grey River Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 1631, 27 October 1873, Page 2

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[Anglo-australian press telegraph AGENCY.] Bluff, Oct. 25. The s.a. Albion has arrived. She left Melbourne on October 20, and briugs English news to October 18, also 51 saloon and 30 steerage passengers, and 522 tons of cargo for all ports. Melbourne, Oct. 20. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency telegraphs under date London 18 — Wool sales progressing firmly. For crossbred greasy, clothing, and washed the market is firmer ; clothing, washed, and scoured have advanced one penny since the close of last sales. Up to date 75.000 bales have been sold. There is less trade demand for tallow; mutton, 435; beef, 40a ; bust side leather, 134 d ; Adelaide is I ■ worth 603 per 961 b. New Zealand hemp stocks are accumulating. Arrived. — Baruda, with the September mails. • September 5. At the Vienna show of New Zealand exhibits the following awards were made : — Medal for merit : Government of New Zealand for geological and mineralogical models, agriculture, horticulture, and forestry. Medal for merit : J. G. Bluett, and Dumerque and Place, Waiknku, and O. Goulter(New Zealand flax). New Zealand wood collection— Honorable mention : G. A. Anetey, Rangiora ; P. Cunningham and Co W. H. Lane (grain), J. T. Meek. New Zealand Agricultural Society (grain), J. EL Rogers, J. N. To3hwJH, W. D. Wood. Chemical industry — Honorable mention : Messrs Boenicke, Brown and Campbell, Combes and Dally, Henderson and Macfarlane, L. Nattrass, Owen and Graham, and R. Walker and Co. Substances of food as products of industry — Medal for progress : P. Cunningham and Co. ; medal for merit : Canterbury Meat Preserving Co., W. J Caukwell and Co., G. Parnell, Reeves Co. ; honorable mention : A. Dornwell, J. Gilmour. Textile industry and clothing — Medal for progress .* Cornelius Thome ; medal for merit : Agent-General in England, A. J. Burns and Co., and Webley Bros., Nelson. Leather and indiarubberindustries—Honorable mention: T. Wilson (leather). Wood industryMedal for merit : George Fraser j honorable mention: Robert Graham (Maori carvings), Seuftert, Auckland, Tarahora (mats). Ediicatipn teaching and instruction—Honorable mention : Walter Laurie Buller, Dr William Lander Lindsay. Honorable mention : Auckland Patent Steam Rope Company. Beetham and Sons, James Brogden, Canterbury Flax < Association, and Tarahora. Tallerman's Meat Company, at the ; half-yearly meeting, declared a net profit 1

LI4OO. It was stated at the meeting that, theie were 53 meat preserving establishments in Australia and New Zealand, and 320,000 cases were received last year, equal to 17,500 tons. The total imports of New Zealand wool this year is 104,584 bales, of which 91,575 were sold. New Zealand wools gave way in the course of late sales, and are only now Id higher than in May. Superior fleece, washed combing, command extreme rates. Some of the best Lincolnshire rams were bought recently by Russell, of Auckland ; Porsori, of Canterbury ; and Smith, of Napier. Sharpe, of New Zealand, is I also a purchaser. London, Oct. 15. The Hon. Saul Samuel having concluded arrangements in London in connection with the Pacific mail service, leaves shortly for America. If he completes business there in time it is his intention to return to New South Wales in the steamer Macgregor, which leaves San Francisco in January. New interest has been added to the trial of the Tichborne claimant by John Tine, steward of the barque Osprey, deposing with great circumstantiality to the picking up of a boat containing the claimant off the Brazilian coast in the spring of 1854. He further deposed that the Osprey took the claimant to Melbourne. His evidence caused a great sensation. Mr Henry James, whose seat in the House of Commons became vacant on his accepting office as Solicitor-General, has been re-elected for Taunton. One of the indictments against Marshal Bazaine, whose trial was postponed until after the evacuation of French territory, by the German troops, was that he tampered with the positive orders from the Emperor Napoleon, viz., that he was not to jeopardise the army.

The rigorous enforcement of law against the Roman Catholics in Germany has caused the Pope to write to Emperor William, urging relaxation of the severity. To this letter the Emperor replied that the Roman Catholics in his empire are an organised political party, sowing religious discord, and that the attitude of the Roman Catholic clergy amounts to open revolt.

Mr John Bright has satisfactorily replied to a letter from the Staley bridge Republican Club, urging economy in the administration of finance.

The bank forgers were betrayed by the woman who lived with them. Besides penal servitude, the prisoners have to pay one-fourth the expenses of the prosecution. I A large meeting of Imperialists took I place at Chiselburst on August 15, and were received by the ex-Empress Eugenic. The party numbered four hundred, including a quaternion of the old guard of f the 6rst Napoleon. The young Prince, during the procession to church, was cheered by cries of vwe Napoleon ! from: every quarter. All the witnesses from Wapping for the 1 Tichbourne defence declared they had known Arthur Orton, but found no trace of him in the claimant. Several Hampshire wicnesses positively assert that the claimant is Sir Roger Tichijorne. The late Duke of Brunswick leaves L 14,000,000, principally to the city of Geneva. Shipping arrivals — From Otago : City of Bombay, Margaret Galbraith, Lutterworth. From Lyttelton : Warwick. From Invercargill : Palmerston. From Canterbury : Crusader, Beautiful Star, and Moss Glen. *

Shipping departures — For Otago : May Queen, Christian Macausland, Jessie Readman, Cciller On, Zealaudia. For Wellington : Helen Denny. For Canterbury : Cardigan Castle, Soukar. For Auckland : Commissary, Haworth. London, Oct. 18. The German Emperor's letter to the Pope in reference to Jesuits, is warmly approved of in England. The announcement of Arthur Orton s arrival in England is a hoax. The ship Norfolk has arrived with Harrison's frozen meat.

An admiral of the republican fleet has been dismissed for declining the second engagement with the insurgent ships before Carthagena.