MAIL NOTICES.
Ebid/lt, 2nd Ootobeb. For Tasmania and Australian Colonies (due in Sydney on 10th October), India, Chins, Japan, snd Straits Settlement, Con .tinont of Europe, snd United Kingdom, via Naples (due in London 18th November), for specially addresied correspondence only, per train, at 230 p.m. Money orders at 1.80 p.m. Connects with Anglian at Auck land. Mails for Norfolk Island, per mission y»pht Southern Cross, olose at Auckland at 2 p in. on 80th insUnk. Malls for Chatham Islands, por Kafau, oloie at Ohristohuroh at S p.m. on Ist Oot. Maili leave Sydney for Noumea and Biji on the; 14tb/ootober. Mails for.Kji, per TTpolo, oloie at Auck land on Thnnday Bth October, at 4 p.m.
SIRES OF THE SEASON.
Br. h. Westmere— lß9o.
Lord Rosebery on the Situation.
(By Eleotrio Telegraph— Copyright.) (Per United Press Association). London, September 28 Lord Eosebery, speaking at the anvoil ing o? Barns' statue, said a war would cause the extermination of the* Armenians, and they mu6t rely on strenuous diplo matic action. It would be unwise for England to act slone, and tbe better course would be to rouse other Christian countries. Tlie tono of several of the leading Huaaiui' papera is more amicable. Lord Salisbury had an interview yes terday with the Queen and Czar. The lattsr, accompanied by the Czarina, at" tended a seryioe at CratUio Church, and offered a prayer for an amity between the two countries. Tho Russian Black Sea flseft has arrived at tho mouth of the Bosphoxua. Tho Bmbaaaios, fearing letters may bo subject to e«pisnage, are using pigeons to convey despatches. Constantinople, September 28 M-. Cumbon, Fronoh Ambassador, in the name of Europe has demanded that tbe roformi grunted to six vilayets should bo extended throughout the Etapiro.
SUPPOSED MURDER.
