Hokitika, Tuesday. The Branch Mail Steamer was tele graphed at Adelaide on the night of the 19th. The Bangalore arrived on the evening of the 20th. GENERAL SUMMARY. London, August 9. The increasing dearness of meat has provoked a formidable agitation through out England, especially in the northern counties. An indignation meeting has been held and companies for the importa tion and distribution of Australian meats has been projected. During April, May, and June twelve ships conveyed 2598 emigrants to New Zealand. Childers has entered the Cabinet as Chancellor. Lancaster resigns his office as Victorian Agent-General. Lord Hatherly’s resignation is reported imminent owing to a failing of eyesight. The downfall of the Duffy Ministry has given general satisfaction. The ‘ £ Daily Telegraph” alone condemns Lord Canterbury for refusing Duffy a dissolution. * The Queen proceeds from Osborne to Balmoral shortly. The Prince of Wales visited Kentham Castle on the occasion of the celebration of the majority of the Marquis of Stafford. The Duke of Edinburgh has commenced bin Continental tour, under the title of the Earl of Kent. Extensive drainage works are com menced in connection with Windsor Castle. Sir John Rose is gazetted baronet. The ex-Emperor Napoleon is at Bagnor, Sussex. The Empress and Prince Impe rial are in Scotland. Gibbes gives £30,000 to the Keble Col lege, Oxford, for the erection of a chapel. Mademoiselle Nillson’s marriage took place with great eclat at Westminster Abbey. r The Bennett judgment is viewed di versely by the Evangelical party. Some Ministers counsel concession, but the ma jority recommend inaction. The Rev George Rogers sailed with a party to found an English colony in the State of Minnesota. The Duke of Cambridge held a grand review at Aldershott, which was followed by a sham battle in Long Valley. Eton defeated Harrow in the annual cricket match, after two days’ play. The Belgian Artisan Choir, of one hundred and seven voices, has excited the admiration of distinguished audiences in England. The forces for the autumn manoeuvres will rendezvous at Pewsy and Blandford, thence proceeding to Salisbury Plains. The Channel yacht race was won by the schooner Guinivere. The Wimbledon rifle meeting was suc cessful beyond all precedent. Sergeant Milton, of the London Scottish, won the Queen’s Prize ; Edward Ross, the Albert Prize; Sergeant Croft, the Army and Navy Challenge Cup. 