{Per Press Agency.') LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AirSTRALIA. * [Per Mikado, at Auckland.] London, October 19. The British Arctic Expedition arrived at Carey’s Islands on the 27th of July, and left immediately for Smith’s Sound. The season is described as very open. There is every prospect of a high latitude being reached. The members of the expedition are stated to be all well. A French note has been sent to Turkey to protest against the latter’s default in the payment of coupons, A cable telegram from Sir Daniel Cooper announces the death of Sir Charles Cowper, Agent-General of New South Wales, AUSTRALIAN NEWS. [Per Mikado.] Sydney, Oct 23. A great fire occurred at the Home Rule diggings. One side of a street was entirely destroyed. The Customs authorities have seized a thousand cigars and other dutiable goods aboard the Normanby, from Houg Kong. The ship Samuel Plimsoll has arrived from London with immigrants. She en countered a field of icebergs a k hundred miles in extent. Melbourne. A boat capsized at Sandridge, containing five one was drowned. Connaught is scratched for the Derby. Thousand to eighty is taken against Ster- Hng, Adelaide, Wheat, 5s lid, INTERPROYINCIAL, Auckland, October 28. The Mikado sails with the English mail to morrow at noon. The Vision, schooner, has arrived from Samoa. She reports having seen a slaver floating bottom upwards. The Kaipara railway was opened to-day. Passengers were conveyed free. The German war vessel Gazelle, from Sydney for Auckland, has been sighted off the coast. The passengers per the Hero presented Captain Logan with an address and purse of sovereigns in recognition of his cool be havior during the fearful gale on the passage from Sydney. A special telegram to the Star from Tea wamutu (Waikato) states that a jealous husband tomahawked another native, who has since died. There is great excitement in the settlement. The crops are abandoned, The murderer and his wife were educated and married by Arct deacon Maunsell, Arrived —Mikado, from Sydney, to take the outward San Francisco mails. Auckland, October 29, A woman named Heath, an immigrant by the British Empire, tied her child to her back and jumped from the wharf into the harbour. She was rescued. It is believed that the cause of the act was unhappiness with a man she is living with nominally as her husband. Napier, October 28. 