NEWS TO APRIL 18.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 115, 18 May 1867, Page 2

NEWS TO APRIL 18.

[by electric telegraph prom hokitika.] Evenimg Mail Office, May 17. The Gothenburg arrived at Hokitika from Melbourne at 8 a.m. having on board the English Mail for the West ■ Coast. 1 ... GENERAL SUMKAfiY. .* . London, March 26. The Australian January Mails were delivered in London, on the 14th and 21st of March. The Queen has held three Courts at Buckingham Palace, in person. The Princess of Wales was slowly recovering from her attack of rheumatism. No further Fenian disturbances had taken place in Ireland, The Church Rates Abolition Bill had been read a second time, by a majority of . 230 to IS7 votes. Sir Patrick Grant has been appointed Governor of Malta. / Treaties of alliance between Prussia, Bavaria, Baden, and Wurtemburg, have been made public. The armies of the ■■ latter State are to be organised on the Prussian system, and to be placed at the disposal of Prussia in case of war. The draft of the Federal Constitution is still under discussion in the North German Parliament. The new Italian Parliament has been opened by the King. Garibaldi has taken his seat in the Lower Chamber. The last French troops have sailed from Mexico. The British Columbian Legislature has voted for joining the British North American Confederation. A supplement to a bill having reference to Southern affairs, has been passed by the new Congress over the President's veto. The leading features of the Derby Reform Bill are published, and include suffrage (?), personal rating, and dual voting. Mr. Gladstone denounces the dual vote as tending to array the rich against the poor. Several Reform meetings have been held, but the people are quiet. Prince Alfred, after visiting the Paris Exhibition, will proceed to Australia in the Galatea. / The Prince Imperial of France is very lun wel I. The King and Queen of Denmark are in England. The landholders in the northern territory of South Australia intend pressing Government to refund their money, with, interest. / Another Fenian raid on Canada is expected, and the Federal troops have been | moved towards the frontier to check it. The report of Dr. Livingstone's death is not fully confirmed. The Liverpool Grand National Steeple Chase resulted as follows: — Coortslevan, Ist; Fan, 2nd; Stangarry, 3rd; 23 horses started. The Easter Volunteer Review will be held at Dover. The Cunard and West India mail contract soon terminate. The Great Eastern has sailed for New York, fitted to accommodate 3000 passengers for the Paris Exhibition.

A great earthquake has occurred iv Westmorland. Obituary. — Hon. Mrs. Gerald Foley, Lady Janet Buchanan, Col. Caulfield, Sir H. Crawford, Professor Godsir, Mr. C. S. Poole, General C. Gordon, Lord Rivers, Admiral George Scott, and Colonel H. C. Owen.