LATEST SPECIAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 697, 17 August 1870, Page 3

LATEST SPECIAL.

[No date given.] New Zealand Fives, 99£ ; Sixes, 112. The Honolulu Government has voted a Bubaidy of 25,000 dollars to a steam line between Australasia and San Francisco via Honolulu, suitable for freight as well as passengers. Mr Webb's steamer Nebraska is to be despatched shortly to Wellington and Melbourne on a trial trip. Mr Hall's line is considered too alow, and 21 days is thought enough between San Francisco and Auckland. The San Francisco papers consider a branch line via Fiji inevitable. Large sales of flax to continental buyers are the cause of the improvement in the market. Before his death, Lord Arthur Clinton solemnly denied the charges brought against him l_in connection with the female personators.] Tne collection of tolls ceased at 500 gates in England in one day. The Times praises Pullman's cars on the Central Pacific Eailway and across America, Baying that they render the trip a pleasure. A canal across the Isthmus of Corinth is announced. Owing to the failure of the harvest in France, wheat is active. On July 10, it was quoted in Liverpool at 10s 4d per cental. The Canterbury Convocation has appointed ft committee to watch proceedings at the Vatican. An amendment on the Education Bill, moved by Sir John Pakington, to the effect that the Bible, should be read in schools, was lost by a -majority of 2 to 1.