GREAT BRITAIN.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 84, 20 November 1872, Page 3

GREAT BRITAIN.

[BY AUSTRALIAN AND INDIAN TELEGRAPH.] London, November 9.

Sir George Bowen has been appointed Governor of Victoria. Sir James Fergusson is to be Governor of New Zealand. Threo hundred Warwickshire labourers have sailed for Queensland. The money market is stringent. Queensland debentures, Sixes, January and July, 113 j Tasinanian, 109£ ; Bank of Australasia shares, 55£ j Union Bank of Australasia, 46a-; London Chartered Bank,2si; National Bank of Australia, 53j. Copper steady, from £92. Australian tin ore, £85 to £95; inferior, £d 4. Tallow, steady. Petroleum, 9£. New Zealand hemp, £32 to £38. November 10. Money is tightening. Discount 7 per cent. Secretary Fish has tendered hia resignation to the President of the United States, and will relinquish his post in March next. The London Gazette publishes the terms of the French Treaty in regard to the following duties, which will come into operation on the Ist December:—" Wool (greasy), 3 francs 7 centimes; washed wool, 6 francs 14 centimes; bat- copper, 70 francß 12 centimes; tin, 15 fiancs—each per 100 killogrammes. [The value of a franc in English money is about 10d., a centime is the one-hundredth part of a franc; 100 killogrammes represents about 220 lbs. avoirdupois.] A Cuinmiusiou is appointed to meet at Paris to discuss certain unsettled questions respecting the duties. The Commissioners are afterwards to make inquiry into the fishery laws. It is believed Holland contemplates establishing a gold currency. British exports for October were £22,657,736. Xiegudd is elected President of the Republic Of Mexico. At the Lord Mayor's bnnquet at Guildhall, Earl Granville did not touch on home affairs, lie referred at length to the American claims, and said that the verdict of the Geneva Tribunal affected the purse, but not the honour, of the country, and advised England to pay without grumbling. The Government would be ready to give full explanations on the opening of Parliament. He strongly attacked the slave trade, «nd remurked that tho Government, while resolved lo inuintain the honour and interest of England, were desirous to promote peace everywhere. Archbishop Polding (of South Australia) and hia clergy have transmitted to the Pope a telegram, to which the following reply, dated November 8, has been received: —"The supreme Pontiff receives with great pleasure the congratulations of the Archbishop and his assembled clergy, and most willingly transmits through the swiit eiectric current tho benediction abked lor." A telegram received in London, on the 9th of November, suys :—: — Boston, U. S., Sunday. A most disastrous fire broke out this morning. The whole of the buildings, from the Commercial to the Centre streets, have been destroyed; and other buildings have been blown up to stay the progress of the flames. The daumgo ulready done is to the extent of two hundred millions of dollars. The fire is still progressing.