ARRRIVAL OF THE JANUARY MAIL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 1016, 22 March 1865, Page 5

ARRRIV AL OF THE JANUARY MAIL.

The Steamship Hero arrived yesterday at Port Chalmers with the English January rnailg on board. The following waa published as a Times Extra, at 5 p.m. BY ELECTS 10 TELEGRAPH. "Daij,t Times Office, Tuesiav, 6 p.m. Hero arrived, with English Mail. Loft Melbourne on ICtb. Detention due to the delay of the Bombay at Galle. The English and Continental newa very unimportant. Her Majesty's Flacship Bombay, Admiral Elliot, was totally destroyed by fire, off* Monte Video, on 14th December; S'irgeon Snmllburn and 9:} men were lost, rr he African Mail Steamer Armenian, after leaving Liverpool, foundered on Arklow Bank the same night. Four of the ! lightship's crew were lost ia rendering assistance. The Cunard mail steamer Nin^ara also got on shore, but with little damage. I The new steamer Lilly was lost, and only : 12 out of 50 men were saved. j Kohl was executed on January 26th, to the last protesting bis innocence. The Theatre Royal in Edinburgh has been totally destroyed by fire. There has been a frightful accident in Dundee, in a dissenting chapel, through a rush to the doors; 11 men and nine women were killed. The exodus from Great Britain and Irelorid to America has almost ceased. The n'uht for the Championship and I belt bfUveen Wormald an'l Mnr.idcn on |t he 3rd of January, was won easily by W'orrnald. It i.< reported that Captain Sernrnes, late of the Alabama, has returned to Richmond in shattered health. Telegraphic communication is catabUntied between London and K-iilchta, a irwifier town of China, via St Petersburg. It i« stated that England has obtained n l,'ir#e portion of territory north of Zanzibar, :m a counter move to the Suez scheme. There are great strikes in 'the building trades. After determined opposition, the master builders gave way. The Privy Council have agreed upon C'olen«o's appeal. Lord Kin^xdown ha« | been appointed to draw up the report. A. letter has been received from MrFi*zcerald, New Zealand, to the Right Hon. FI. Ad'lerley, strongly recommending the llnine Ciovernment to abandon interference with Colonial affairs. The probability is that the Government will adopt the course recommended.