LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ENGLISH TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XX, Issue 2045, 13 November 1872, Page 2

LATEST INTELLIGENCE. E N GL I S H TELEGRAMS.

[PER ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAPH.] ANGLO-FRENCH TREATY. .WOOL FIRM. (PEOM BEUTER AND OTHER SOUBCBS.) London, October 31, — -The Australian colonists in London are arranging for a grand publio banquet, to commemorate the connection of the Colonies with tho mother aonntry by telegraph. Lord Kimberly will preside. A charter is to be granted by the French Government to the Bank of Now Caledonia. London, November 1. — Admiral Randolph's appointment to the Australian naval station is contradicted. Banquet to celebrate the telegraphio communication between tbe Colonies and England is to : take place on the 15th. The ' Atrato' has been dooked at Keyham, and will remain three weeks. Thirty thonsand horses in New York have been stricken with a new epidemic Lord Penzance retires from the judgeship of the Divorce Court, The Anglo-French treaty provides for the maintenance of the tariff of I860; with tbe additions of compensatory duties, equivalent to French taxes on raw materials. Differential snipping dues are now to be abolished by England. In return she obtains complete -freedom respecting coals, and other imports and exports. France may, with England's consent, augment the duties after six months notice. Australian September mail was delivered in London on 28th October. A disastrous fire has occurred at Montreal, in Canada. There have been immense shipments of grain from California to England. The estimated wheat crop of California is 700,000 tons. 1,000 vessels are wanted, and tonnage rates have advanced 100 per cent. The P.M.S.S. Company have purchased the Panama railroad, aDd all steamers in Central American routes and California coast. Laura Fair, who shot her paramour (a married man) because he returned to his wife, and was oonvioted and sentenced to be hung on first trial, has been acqnitted by a " Know Nothing" jury on her second trial. There is intense excitement in San Franoisco, and threats of lynohing her, in whioh all honest people rejoioe. Webb's steamer ' Dakotah' leaves San Francisco for Anckland, on the 6th November, to be followed by the ' Santiago de Cuba' as soon as possible. The line to be put through first-class. Obituary. — Samuel Lang (Finance Minister of India) ; Lord Kinloch ; Sir Alexander Duff Gordon. Shipping. — Arrived : ' Somersetshire,' * Janet Court,' • City of Dnnedin,' ' Lord Warden,' and ' Damascus.' Cleared : ' Bnlli,' for Sydney. Commercial. — Ootober 31. — Wool maintains the latest quotations. Copper has advanoed to £87 per ton, with indications of a further advance. The market is bare of Australian meats, owing to the rapidly extending sale throughout the kingdom. November 1. — Wool firm.