The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1868. PANAMA MAIL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 147, 24 June 1868, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. W EDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1868. PANAMA MAIL.

(From the Wellington Evening Post Extra.) We [have to advise the arrival of the P.N.Z. and A.R.M. Co.'s s.s. Rakaia, S. H. Wright, commander, with mails, cargo, and passengers from England up to May 2. The Rakaia left this port on the Bth April, and arrived at Panama on the morning of the 4th May, after a quick and favorable passage. She left Panama on the 24th May, at 4 p.m.; arrived off Opara at 6 p.m. on the 11th June, just after dark, but did not enter the harbor. Since then experienced strong head winds. The following is the passenger list: — ' For Wellington — Miss Gibson and servant, Messrs Morison, Taylor, Hymer, Mr and Mrs Boyer and 4 children. For Sydney — Rev P. Young, Mr and Mrs Verney, infant, and servant, Mrs Hinde, Lieutenant Grant, Miss Den man and servant, Mr Trousseau, Miss Mansfield, Miss Scott, Mr Strange. For Auckland — Messrs Graham and Whitaker. For Greymouth — Mr Abbot. For Otago — Messrs Gribble, Weedon, Rev. Mr and Mrs Alves, and 5 children. For Napier — Mr Crostwait. For Nelson — Mrs Braithwaite and child. For Canterbury — Mr and Mrs Mellish, Miss A. Smith, Miss & E. Miller, Mrs Thomson, 2 children and servant, Mr A. Thomson. For Melbourne — Messrs H. Dobson, Cochrane, Forder. By the steamship Pelayo, from Havana, we have received a copy of the Kingston Jamaica Gleaner of the 15 th instant, containing special telegrams from the United States to the evening of the 12th of May. received via Cuba Cable. The news is three days later than that previously received on the Isthmus, and is as follows: — Havana, 13th May, 10 a.m. News has been received from Europe and the United States up to the evening of the 12th May. The Impeachment Committee was to give their decision yesterday, but the proceedings were suspended until Saturday, when they will finally declare whether the President be guilty or not guilty. The general belief is that he will be acquitted. In the meantime there is great excitement pending the result. Forney has resigned the Secretaryship of the Senate. Lord Brougham is dead. He was in his 90th year. Great riots have taken place in various parts of England with demonstrations of great animosity against the heads of the Catholic Church, resulting moreover in the wounding of a great, number of people and the destruction of various public buildings. Consols, 94 1-8.