SUEZ MAIL TELEGRAMS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume V, Issue 16710, 5 February 1873, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL TELEGRAMS.

HOKITIKA. January. 31st. The Tararua arrived here at noon to-day, having left Melbourne on the 25th. • . The s.s. Baroda, with the Suez mail, arrived at Adelaide on the 18th. His Royal Highness llie Duke of Edinburgh is in Germany with matrimonial intentions, with regard to the daughter of the ex-King of Hanover. The Australian Colonists in London have subscribed a valuable piece of plate for the best ram that can be produced in the colonies. The Stock Exchange Committee has ordered the New Zealand Loan Mercantile Agency's new shares to be officially quoted. A site has been granted ab Greenwich Hospital, by the Lords of the.Admiralty for a monument to the officers and men of the Navy who fell in the New Zealand war of 1563-64. An advertisement appears in an Oxford paper for five hundred farm labourers, accustomed lo rough out-door work as navvies, for New Zealand. The Humane Society has given a silver medal to Christian, a grandson! of Christian, of H.M.S. Bounty, for saving the life of a girl at Omaha. ; ■ Great complaints are made regarding the various modes of packing New Zealand hemp. '."',-... The Otago and Southland Investment Company has declared an interim dividend at the rate of ten per cent per annum ; . ■ : Only 127 bales of wool from the November sales remain over for auction. For auction in December there are 2000 bales of New Zealand wool. New Zealand wheat, on November 28th, was quoted at G3s to G6s per 4961b5. ' ' ' . New Zealand skin wool brought Is Shd. ; greasy, 12|-d ; scoured, Is lid. The Secretary of the Itoyal Geographical Society gave an interesting lecture to the London people on the resources of New Zealand. He made many converts, who consider New Zealand a fine field for emigration. Several letters have been received by friends of emigrants speakiug very highly of the colony. An omnibus recently passed through London with navvies carrying a flag, ou which was inscribed the motto, "Off to New Zealand." The passers by cheered lustily. The newspapers publish many interesting anecdotes ot Mr A. Trollope's sojoura in New Zealand. The New Zealand October mail was delivered in London on the 27th November. The home papers publish Governor Bowen's despatch, relative to defence, of the 2Sth December, iii which it is stated that there are between 11,000 and 12,000 armed Europeans .in Zealand.. The new Anglo-Erench Treaty -provides for a duty for phormium tenax,; raw, 50 cents per hundred kilogrammes hackled. 2 francs 50 cents ; combed or twisted, 4 cents. At llie November sales New Zealand hemp realised from .£3O to .£43 10s. Arrivals of New Zealand shipping at London :—Tyrol, fro i\ Auckland ; V\ ild Deer, from Duuedin. . ■ New York.—Arrivals from New Zealand; East Lothian, and Thames from Auckland. Sailed from London to Auckland.— Durham, Edinbro' Castle, Warwick, Zanza. For Canterbury,—Cissy, Himalaya, John Bull. For Nelson.—Echo, Joyce Phillips. For Otago.—City of Bombay, Charlotte Gladstone, Europe. Sutterworth, Naomi, Saltair. For Wellington.—Agra, Chattanooga, Forfarshire. St. Andrew Castle. Freights. Tonnage at Liverpool for Auckland, 35s to 465. It is generally rumouied that the Duke of Edinburgh will have conmand of the ironclad Sutton. . ■ .. ..! Sergeant Bates, for a wager, inarched from Gretna to London, carrying the American flag. He was allowed to proceed the whole journey without molestation. Itochfort recently left his prison to marry a beautiful woman. After the ceremony they parted for ever, Kochforc returning to his prison. The London papers make the Telegraphic Banquet the occasion of many articles on the integrity of the Empire The British Telegraph Company propose a reduction in the tariff for messages transmitted through their cable.