THE WAR.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 226, 29 September 1870, Page 2

THE WAR.

The Victorian Government have taken steps to obtain the fullest and most reliable information respecting the French land and sea forces stationed at New Caledonia; but they appear to regard the communication as a privileged one, and for the present have no desire to make it. public. The Governor of South Australia, at the request of the Parliament of that colony, has premised to take steps to obtain similar information.

The Aiistraliscke Deutsche Zeitung, in an article entitled " Our position in the colonies during the Franco-German war,'' intimates that the Queensland press h _ deprecated Gorman meetings, aud that the other colonies are inclined to take the same view. It also says that amongst the Irish exist an unfiien ly Spirit towards Germany ; ttiat in some churches Prussia has been preached against ; that prayers have been oilered up for the victory of the French ; and thai one Catholic priest has denounced the war as one of religion, undertaken by Protestanism against the Catholic Church. ThcDeit/sc/uZcilung counsels Germans stroi gly to refrain from untoward demonstration, but calls upon them quietly aud strenuously to use every endeavour to continue remitting home substantial tokens of love for their country. If interfered with, our German contemporary states, all that remains for.'them to do is to point out that the English authorities in Victoria and Sydney have done less towards maintaining a strict neutrality, inasmuch as they have permitted Fren"h men-of-war to take in coal, " and who knows what besides," in Australian ports. — Melbourne Daily Telegraph, Sept. 17.