ARRIVAL OF THE SUEZ MAIL STEAMER TANJORE.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXI, Issue 2724, 7 May 1877, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SUEZ MAIL STEAMER TANJORE.

NAVAL DISASTERS,

GREAT DISTRESS IN GERMANY.

FAMINE IN INDIA AND CHINA.

THE BISHOP OF NELSON AND THE PAN-ANGLICAN SYNOD.

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Bluff, May 6. Captain Thompson, late of IJ.M.Sj. Challenger, has been appointed to the command of the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert. Several naval disasters are chronicled.

The Sirius and Thebes are both disabled. Tho Lynx, with a crew of over 100 men, has not been heard of since last November. « Sir J. Paget succeeds as Surgeon-Major to the Queen. The report of the Admiralty Committee, respecting the late Arctic exploration by the Alert and the Discovery, shows that although lime juice was recommended as favorable for sledging parties, Sir George Nares decided to omit it, as the men had been previously saturated with lime juice. Five new ironclads are to be added to the survice this year — the Dreadnaught, Nelson, Northampton, Shannon and Tetneraire. A new description of vessel, a torpedo ram carrying no guns, •is to be constructed. ; Sir Haiding Gifford, the SolicitorGeneral has found a seat for Launceston, and Mr Sydney Herbert, brother of the Earl of Pembroke, has been returned for Wilton. Obituary — Field-Marshall Fitzgerald, Admiral Sir E. Belcher. Eleven steamers are advertised to sail for Melbourne via the Cape. There is an immense demand for American meat, and shops for its sale have been opened in the surburbs of London. I Captain Havelock, late Colonial Secretary of Fiji, has been appointed President of the Island of Nevia ia the West Indies. Great distress prevails amongst the working men of Germany, and a large immigration has taken place into Belgium. The famine in Southern India continues to be very severe, and it is feared that the July and August crops will be a comparative failure. ; Harrowing accounts are given of the famine in Northern China where no aid is avaiable for the uufortunate people. The Times notices that the late Lord Mayor (Alderman Cotton) has received from the Mayor of Dunedin the sum of LIBO, contributed in Otago towards the relief of the sufferers in Bulgaria, and remarks that it was the only public subscription for the purpose in the Australian Colonies. The Bishop of Nelson has replied to the Archbishop of Canterbury's invitation to. attend the approaching Pan-Anglican Synod that he is prevented by pressing work in his diocese ; but he strongly disapproves of resolutions carried at any such meetings being elevated to the rank of authoritative decisions. He thinks that the independence of Ecclesiastical Provinces will be endangered by suoh a conference and that it will lead to centralisation.