ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4123, 8 June 1874, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL

VIA SUEZ AXD MELBOURNE. #- prince arthur cheated duke of connaught. wool firm. loss of the ship British admiral ox king's island, and S EVENT r-NINE LIVES. A VESSEL SEEN BOTTOM UP. CALIFORNIAN HAIL CONTRACT RATIFIED IN NEW, SOUTH WALES. WRECK OF A FRENCH BARQUE IN TORRES STRAIT. HEAVY FAILURE IN MELBOURNE. [Pivess Telegraph Agency.] The Bluff, Sunday morning. The s.s. Albion, Captain Underwood, arrived here this morning from Melbourne. She brings the English mail. The Albion left Melbourne at 2.30 p.m. on the 2nd instant, and arrived at Bluff Heads at one o'clock iu the morning, coming alongside the wharf at eight o'clock, having accomplished the run down in the remarkably short space of four days nine hours and a-half. She brings thirty-one saloon and twenty-five steerage passengers, and trvo hundred tons of goods for all ports. She sailed again for Duuedin at one o'clock p.m. Passengers for Wellington : Mrs. Sircome and family (four), Miss Sircome, Messrs. Sample, Thomson, and Davenport. Of her cargo eighty tons are for Wellington. The Albion brings the following news : REUTER'S SPECIAL TELEC-RAMS. London, May 26". Prince Arthur has been created Duke of Connanght and Earl of Sussex. The Commandant of San Jose, Guatemala, has been sentenced to be whipped and then shot, for the outrages committed by his orders on the British Vice-Consul there. Paths, May 20. A Bonapartist candidate has been elected to the Assembly for the Department of the Xoire. London, May 30. The Bank rate is three and a half per cent. Berlin, May GO. The Bishop of Eeinken3 has opened the first Synod of Old Catholics at Bonn. Paris, May 30. The Assembly met after the adjournment, but no Ministerial declaration has been ■made. Several of the Paris papers allege that it is contemplated at Madrid to propose a German Prince as a candidate for the Spanish throne. Rome, May 28. " The Pope is suffering from fever. Madrid, May 28. General Coueha has assembled twenty-six thousand men at Vittoria, preparatory to an attack on the Carlists at Estella. London, May 30. The money market is easy. The Bank rate remains at three and a half per cent, but a reduction of the rate of discount i 3 anticipated. , Prices of wool continue firm. The corn market is inactive. Adelaide wheat is in demand at 60s. to 67. per quarter. Mr. Samuel Saul, of Sydney, has been gazetted a commmander of the order of £jfi Michael and St George. The new Dutch Gazette contains an article declaring that Belgium is awaking to the fact that France would attack her in the event of another war with Germany. It has caused much discussion. The French press scout the idea, and affirm that the policy of France is one of peace. Prince Gortsehakoff ha 3 invited the Great Powers to a Congress at Brussels on the international law to be observed during war, as affecting the treatment of prisoners. The Pope i 3 recovering from the attack of fever and ague, and is able to take exercise. SPECIAL CABLE MESSAGE. London, May 30. Xew Zealand hemp, ordinary to good, sold £l7 to £24. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS. Melbourne, June 2. Intelligence was received on Sunday of the total wreck of the ship British Admiral, 1800 tons, from London to Melbourne, on King's Island, on the 23rd of May, with seventy-nine lives. Only nine of the passengers and crew were saved—four passengers, four seamen, and the third mate. The- ship's chronometer had got out of order, and the officers had lost their reckoning. The ship struck on the rocks on the west side of the island, and went to pieces. In half-an-hour not a vestige of her remained. She had on board forty-nine passengers, including eleven women and a number of children. The scene is described as heart-rending. They were all swept away. The captain, and the first and second officers were lost. The wreck occurred at a spot only about two miles from where the Xetherby was wrecked, nine years ago. The survivors arrived here in a small ketch, and are being cared for. The news created a profound sensation, as most of those lost had friends and relatives in the Colony. The Government have despatched a steamer to search the coast for any survivors of the wreck. An inquiry into the cause of the wreck will be commenced to-day. After an uninteresting debate, the address in reply to the Governor's speech was carried without a division. A Bill for the Reform of the Legislative Council has been read a first time. O'Fcrrall's frauds continue the subject of debate, and the Assembly insists on further investigation. Mr. Degraves has resigned his seat in the Legislative Council. Messrs. Taylor, Balfour, and Thomas Smith are candidates for the . vacancy. The Government are unlikely to join in the proposed Customs arrangements with the other Colonies. In the divorce suit, Bishop v. Bishop—wife against husband—the petitioner lias obtained a verdict. None of the bodies have yet been recovered from the shaft of the Duke of Timor initio near Maryborough, which caved in. A tender has been accepted for the erection of new Government offices. The amount is £137,707.

In an action for libel brought against the Licensed Victuallers' Gazette, the plaintiff has obtained damages to the amount of ,t ? 250. A vessel has been seen bottom up between Cape Howe and Kent's Group. Seventy-nine entries were received for the Melbourne Cup last night. They include four from New Zealand. His Excellency Governor Du Cane returns to Tasmania to-day. The failure is reported of Messrs. McCallum, Neill, and Co. The liabilities are declared at i'38,000. The South Channel was lighted for the first time last night, and the R.M.S. Nubia was enabled, in consequence, to come up to Hobson's Bay. The Aryus has made arrangements to get the results of the English Derby for publica. tion on the day of the race. The cable company estimate that the message will take an hour in transmission from London to Melbourne, as there is only the weather to contend against. The cable between Singapore and Batavia, that was broken lately, has been repaired. Sydney, May 2. Colonel Contenley, another of the Comninnist prisoners, has escaped from Noumea to this port, as a stowaway on board the steame 1 ' Egmont. The Government have carried the ratification of the Califomiau mail contract in the Assembly without a division. The Commodore has sent a complimentary letter to Captain Grainger, congratulating him on having got off the steamer Macgregor from the reef at Kandavau, and bringing her on to this port. The French barque Charles Augustus has been wrecked in Torres Straits; and also the Blue Belle, a pearl-fisliing schooner. Newcastle, June 1. The Malay, from -Wellington, arrived on the 25th of May. COMMERCIAL. Melbourne, Juno 2. Wheat is firm, but little is offering. Oats, ss. Sd. to ss. Pd., for prime milling qualities Brandies are again inquired for—Hennessys ) 10s. to 10s. 6d: case, 31s. Rum.is wanted. A late telegram from China states that the market is not yet open, owing to excessive rains, which have prevented the teas coming forward. It is likely to open with an advance of three taels. For sugar, there is little inquiry. Kerosene is very heavy.