ARRIVAL OF THE S.S. OTAGO

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1733, 23 July 1874, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE S.S. OTAGO

AT THE BLUFF.

Bluff, This day. Arrived : s.s. Otago, Captain McLean, She left Melbourne on the init| Experienced heavy wealfier, "and was hove to for ten hours near tho Solanders. She was then obliged to seek shelter in Dusky Sound, remaining 14 hours. The weather was terrific. Arrived at the Heads at'll p;m. last night. * She brings 53 saloon and 40 steerage passengers, 340 tons cargo,and s'horses .for all. ports. Sails, for Duncdm-at 5 p.m.- ' ; London, July 10. The House of Commons have commenced; discussing the • Archbishop of Canterbury's Bill for the suppression of ritualistic practices in the Church of England. Mr. Gladstone opposed^t as a dangerous measure, and. thought a judge should, be appointed to institute an inquiry. Lord Barrington, Conservative, who-was unseated for Eyre on a petition, and fMr. W. Stanton, Liberal Member for Stroud, who was petitioned against, have been declared elected. The Australian May mails, viaßrindisi, I were delivered on July 4. Forged marsinal credit on the Rational Bank of Scotland being circulated from San Francisco, and may, reach the Australian colonies. Wool is selling privately at a slight advance. The wheat market is drooping. Adelaide fetches sixty-six to sixty-four per 'four hundred and ninety-six pounds. Flour, forty-one to forty-five per two hundred and. eighty pounds." ;-? f' ■'• 7 The Californian wheat crop is nearly double that of last year. Arrived^ Hawley City, Florence and Posedon. ; >* Pabis, July 10. The Government has informed the Committefe bf?Thirty that McMahon insists upon the right of dissolution of the Assembly and appointment of a portion of the Upper Chamber as a Constitution. A debate takes place next week. The Bonapartist Propagar da, haa recommended the prosecution of Rouhn. Beblin, July 12th. An attempt was made to assassinate Bismsrck while travelling in an open carriage in the neighborhood of Kessengep. He was fired at and slightly injured in the wrist. • ■.' - The assassin was immediately arrested and found to be a young man unknown. Disturbances have taken place amongst the peasants in East Prusssia arrising from the operation of the new districts regulation law. Pabis, July 13. Figaro has been suspended for a fortnight for attacking the Assembly; -• Madked, July 13. c The Carlist general? Dpiregarry has shot several republican prisoners and announced his intention to carry on the war without mercy; M -■>■-■ X.

Auckland, This day. In the Supreme Court in Macfarlanp's case the evidence . for the plaintiff, has closed. The various men employed at the mill during the battle of the logs deposed to the intention to use violence. . Sharemarket.—Buyers, Caledonian, £9 15s; City of London, £1 11s; Crown Prince; £1 7s ; Moanatairi, £2 2s ; City of York, 10s 3d; Queen of the Thames Bi6d.