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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 100, 26 April 1873, Page 2

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London, April 6.—The Times in an article on j the Postal Conference regrets that the scheme should be marked by conflicting claims re the ter- ' minus. The Standard take the same view. ! The Pope is alarmingly ill. The City of San Salvador Guatemala has been destroyed by an earthquake. Eight hundred persons were killed, and twelve millions of dollars lost. Brigham Young has abdicated and fled to Arizona. The French elections are likely to result in favor of the republicans. The Carlists have been further defeated. Mr Lowe, in his Budget speech, estimates the surplus at five millions; the revenue at 76 millions, and the expenditure at 71 millions. A penny is to come off the Income Tax, and hall the duty of. sugar in May next. The Alabama claim 8 have been paid, partly by savings, and partly by Exchequer Bills. The London Exhibition was opened on the 14th instant. The Khan of Khiva has beheaded the Prime Minister, and impris ned his relations. The Russian prisoners are forwarded to Orenburg. lhe Baroda left Galle for Australia on the 14th instant. The Australian Eebruary mail via Brindisi has been delivered. France has paid Germany another £10,000,000. Discount 4 per cent. Tallow improving; hides and leather dull; wheat falling. The Prince of Wales has been • installed as Grand Master of the United Masonic E_night Templars of England and Ireland. Tho Hawaiians approve of the American project to establish a harbor on the island. The German Emperor, Bismark, and Von Moltke will visit the Czar at the end of April. The exports of coal for the March quarter were 2-J million tons. . The Russian press demands the acquisition of Khiva.