THE MAILS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 3863, 4 July 1874, Page 5

THE MAILS.

The following items of news are from files to hand by the mails, and to some extent they have not b. jeu anticipated by cable :— London, May loth. The White Star Line have offered to pat on fast steamers to carry the San Francisco mail across the Atlantic. The Prince of Wales held a levee on behnlf of the Queen on the evening of April 27. The Pi-ince of Wales presided at the annual festival of the Royal Society of Musicians. Speaking at the Koyal Academy dinner, the Prince of Wales paid a warm tribute to the memory of Sir Edwin l.andeeer, and proposed the health of Sir Garnet Wolseley. The Duke of EJinhnrgh presided over the centenary banquet of the Royal Humane Society; and on Saturday, the 9&h, he opened the Chelsea embankment. On May 9 the Queen and Princess Beatrice visited the Empress Eug-enie at Chiselhurst. Dr Livingstone's African attendant, Jacob Waingerhardt, has been presented to the Queen at Windsor." From the series of recent papers written by Dr Livingstone, extracts from which were read before the Geographical Society, hopes were expressed that, with Waingeihardt's assistance, a connectedhiarrative of his late history might possibly be compiled. Dean Stanley's funeral sermon was based on the lessons derivable from Dr Dr Livingstone's life. The Queen, Baroness Coutts, Lady Frere, and others, furnished wreaths to deck the explorer's bier. A reconciliation between Messrs Kirk and Stanley took place over the grave. The Queen and the Royal Princes sent ca-riages to join the procession. A deputation has memorialised the Government to make some provision for Dr Livingstone's family. The application has been favourably received. A report is current that Mr Stanley is under instructious from Mr Bennett, proprietor of the New York Herald, to attempt the discovery of the sources of the Nile. Proposals have been made to erect a memorial to Dr Livingstone at his birthplace, near Glasgow, and a statue in Edinburgh. The following new baronets have been created: — Henry Win. Peek, Philip Rose (solicitor), George Eliot, John Kelk. Mr Arthur W. Peel resigns the duties of Liberal whip to Mr Adam. Major Burne is appointed Assistant Secretary in the political department of the India Office. Dr Hayman has been appointed to the rectory of Aldingham, Lancashire, worth £1000 per annum. The Rev. W. Jones, vicar of^Summertowns, has been nominated to the bishopric of Cape Town. * A t the annual grand lodge of English Freemasons, the Marquis of Ripon was installed Grand Master. Mr Gladstone is spending a few weeks near Snowdon, and is devoted to literary pursuits. He is contributing articles to the Contemporary Review. George Eliot will shortly issue a new collection of poem<s. Stuns? into activity by their recent defeat, the Liberals of the City of London are. about to form a Liberal club, with affiliated branches in the chief provincial towns. Owing to the want of accommodation in Pall Mall, a junior Reform Club will be established. There is a split in the ranks of the Home Rulers. Orders have b3en givea at the Royal Arsenal to manufacture 17,000,000 of Henry-Martini cartridges during tho current year, s The annual exhibitions at South Kensington will be discontinued after the present year, owing to the want of public support. . ■ .-.. A scrutiny of the voting at the Petersfield election unseated Captain Jolliffe, and the seat was awarded to Mr Nicholson, the Liberal candidate. - The member for Wakefield having been unseated for bribery, Mr Sauderson, Conservative, has been returned. Mr Waring has been unseated for Poole, on the ground of treating by agency. The Royal Russian yacht having grounded at Flushing on Tuesday night, the Czar was unabls to arrive in England at the time arranged. The programme had to be changed, and the Emperor landed at Dover instead of at Gravesend, reaching Windsor late on Wednesday night. Mr Justice Keating's decision for the removal of images from the Worcester Cathedral reredos is to be appealed against. Protracted debates have taken place in the London School Board respecting the acceptance of a donation of £500 offered by Mr Peek for the encouragement of religious education. The Rev. Newman Hall's petition for divorce has been withdrawn, he paying the costs. The latest reports from Calcutta state that in the famine districts of India there are now 1,342,CG0 persons on the relief works, 200,000 receiving charitable relief, and 4n0,000 supported by advances or sales of grain. The condition of the people is generally better, but severe distress occsisior-ally breaks out, faniiue telling cruelly upon the children,-hundreds of whom are, nearly fleshless. Distress is extending,rapidly among the cultivating cLiss, who eagerly seek grain advances. Rains have been falling in some districts, but -not in sufficient quantity to allay anxiety. About £100,000 has been "remitted \o India from the Mansion House fund, besides several large sums from Manchester and other northern cities. ■ A collision took place in the Channel, during a fog, between the Bangalore and the Prince Rupert. The former was slightly damaged, and the latter Las not since been heard of. The steamer Liberia, bound for the African coast, is believed to be lost, wreckage having been found. The Grand Duke Alexander is likely to visit Australia next year with the Russian squadron. Should the annexation of Fiji be decided upon, the governorship will probably be offered to Captain Glover. . . Oold has been found in the Bokkeveld district, 90 miles trom Cape Town. The quartz yields four ounces per ton. The effect of the Durham strike was to send up house coal Gs per ton. A serious accident has occurred at the Alexandra Palace. One man was killed and eight injured by the fall of a cornice. The French transatlantic steamer Amerique -was found derelict in the Channel, and was towed into Plymouth by two vessels. On. examination she was found only slightly injured. Thecrew and passengers had abandoned her in a pauic, dm ing a storm. She has returned to Havre. £150,000 has been claimed for the services rendered by the tne vessels. The Music-hall, Glasgow, capable of accommodating 4000 persons, has been destroyed by fire. Over 400 persons have been thrown out of employment by an explosion at the ship-building works of Messrs Scott, at Inverkeithing. French labourers have been officially warned against delusive representations intended to decoy them as emigrants to America. The Paris correspondent of The Times has published the substance of Bismarck's conversation with King Victor Emanuel on the visit of the latter to Berlin last year, in which he confesses to two mistakes in connexion with the war of IS7O. He over-estimated the military resources of France and uivter-estiuiated her financial resources. The German troops should have overrun the whole country, and have demanded an indemnity of 500 millions. He suggested that Italy might reclaim Savoy and Nice, and that Prussia, on plea of iuability to desert her ally, might commence a final war with France. King Victor declined the bribe. The official press both in Berlin and Rome have been instructed to contradict the statement. Itis stigmatised as a Lokl invention, intended to discredit Germany's pacific professions. THE STRAITS, CHINA, AND JAPAN". General van Swieten, suite, and the larger portion of the Dutch troofw, have returned to Batayia, where Blondin had the honour of performing before them. Cholera rages in Samarang, Sourabaya, and. Batavia. , The Irreconcilables in Acheen are likely to give the Dutch a good deal of trouble in the future, and even now there is more or less of fighting. Governor Clarke has headed a successful expedition against a band of robbers and pirates who had fortified themselves on the border of British Malacca. The Emperor of China has been, on a journey to the Western Tombs. A party of foreigners, including many ladies and a consular officer and his wife, have bsen

stoned at Hankow. No serious injury was inLi ;ted.

The serious riots in the French settlements at Shanghai early iv May, arose from the authorities making a new rosid, which interfered with the Ningpo graves. The mob stoned the foreigners, and sacked and burned their houses. The police fired, shooting several Chinese. The Volunteers wore c»lled out and sailors landed before-, quiet was restored. The English settlement was not affected. Strangers paying a visit to Dunedin are often at a loss to know which is the best establishment to visit for the purchase of drapery and clothing. Herbert Imynes, and Co. offer special advantages to the public that can be met with nowhere else in the city. They keep at all times tha largest and best assorted stock of every clxss of goods, imported direct from the leading manufacturers and warehousemen at home, which being bought entirely upon cash terms, they are enabled to offer goods of such sterling value as cannot bo equalled by any other house in the trade. Every article in stock is marked at a fixed price for ready money, from which no abatement is ever made, so that the most inexperienced buy their goods at the same price as the best judges. Their terms are—net cash, without discount or reduction of any kind. A i fuller description o their stock will be found in an advertisement in the first page of this tiaper.—JAdvt. , HotiiOWAv'K Pim,s.—This medicine has triumphed over overy obstacle with which time, prejudice, and vested interest have opposed it, and it at length sttnds furth victorious as the most reliable remedy for those derangements of the system so common at tho change of seasons. When the air grows cooler, and the functions of the .skin are retarded, an occasional dose of Holloway's Pills will indue the liver and kidneys with | greater activity, and compensate the system for duiii- | ni:lied cutaneous action. As alteratives, aperients and tonics these Pills have no equal. To every a"cd ■amidelicate person, whose appetite is defective digestion mlirm, and tone of health low, this medicine will be a precious boon, conferring both ease and strength. iJii db Jonsu's Light-Brown Cod Livkr OilInvariably pure, uniformly excellent. -Dr Lothebv, Medical Officer of Health to the City of London writes;—"lnall cases I have found Dr de Jongh's Lod Liver Oil possessing the same set of properties, among which the presence of cholaic comounds, and of iodine in a state of organic combination, are the most remarkable. It is, l believe, universally acknowledged that this description of Oil has great therapeutic power ; and from my investigations, I have no doubt of its being a pure and unadulterated article." Sold only m capsuled Imperial Half-pints, Pints, and (iv irts, by all chemists, druggists, and storekeepers, bole consignees, Ansar, Harford, aiid Co., 77, Strand, London.—[Advt.J Is these days, when aleholic liquors are so largely consumed, and consumers are so much ia doubt whether their systems are not being gradually impaired by adulteration, it Ls well that one, nt least of the popular beverages of the period is reliable as pure —that is Udolpho Wolfe's Aromatic Schiedam bchuapps. It differs from other Holland Gin, the produce of juniper cwnmunis, the Schnapps being made from the Italian juniper, wnich gives a finer aromatic flavour. If it is necessary in the interests of the public to denounce the too common practice of manufacturing noxious compounds as wines and spirits it seem* only juss to point to this meritorious exception. —i>. M. Herald, January 21st, 1871. Messrs Dalgktv Nichols, and Co., Agents, Bond street, Dunedin.