THE SUEZ MAIL.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1659, 12 June 1875, Page 2

THE SUEZ MAIL.

DE,. FEATHEBSTON AND THE 008^ Jb\A.-LJUJi ■ r> £ —j> nr t

EMIGRANTS FOR 1 ZEALAND FROM DARM^aDT.

GERMAN ALARM ON THE STATE m? EUROPE. UJJ

FATAL PRIZEFIGHT.

Dr. Featherston, having in view the Cos. Patrick calamity, has written to the' Board of Trade, drawing attention to the necessity of prohibiting the shipment of combustibles by emigrant ships, and to the necessity also of seeing that the boat service is eqnal to all demands that may be made upon it.

The good service pension of £150 a year has been conferred on Captain James G Goodenough, senior of Her Majesty's, Bhing on the Australian station. . v

The Agent-General for New Zealand has through Mr Kirchner, for some time resident at Darmstadt, but well known in. the colonies recently despatched 400 c migrants, ior the colony he represents, and during the enstUßg season some seven or eight Vessels, carrying a similar number of people will sail under the same management. Several fires have occurred, Messrs Cogg. well's cloth manufactory at Trowbridge was destroyed, damage £10,000 ; and the Wellington Cotton Mills at Brighouse, damage £10,000. The Lunatic Asylum at Nice hag been burnt, with the loss of three lives. The extensive premises of Messrs Llewellyn and James, brass founder?, Bristol, have been burnt, damage £25,000; the Nottfi-lEastern Railway Waggon Works were consumed, the damage being £10,000. Seveu men were tried at the Central Citninal Court for [participating in a prizefight on Hackney Marshes, which resulted in the death of one of the combatants.^ All the prisoners were found guilty, Duf^Mr Justice Breit sentenced none to more than a week's imprisonment. ' • ■ On Saturday, the 3rd April, the To^er of London was thrown open to the public, when 4,000 persons were admitted. Mr Hepworth Dixon desedbed the historical objects to the visitora. There will henceforth be two free days overy week.

In consequence of the death of a medical student from injury sustained in placing iootbaU, the dangers of the game have been much discussed. ;.

Arrangements have been made for the dis- P posal of the Crystal Palace to a new company, which is prepared to restore tho building and grounds. . .■•■ In the House of Commons on April 26fch, all strangers, including the Prince of Wales, were excluded for 20 minutes on the motion of Mr Bi^gar, Home Ruler, M.P. for Cavan. Mr Disrscli and several other members indignantly censured Mr Biggar, who defended his conduct by asserting his wish to placejhe relations between Parliament and the^ess on a definite and satisfactory rooting.

A grand banquet was given at the Mansion House to the Boards of Works. The Prince of Wales was present and made a speech, in which he said that he looked forward with the greatest interest and pleasure to hia. intended visit to India, which had been the dream of his life. . >

A large number of Polish Catholic clergyhave seceded to the Greek .Church because tHey cannot accept the dogma of infallibility. ' "*!-\ In view'of the elections to the Senate,

the Bcnapartisls are displaying great activity, and tumerous prosecutions have been instituted agaiust their agents. .-., The presence of a secret Papal delegate in the* province of Posen has been discovered, and 30 Ecclesiastics have.^Beeu ! imprisoned for refusing to reveal his name.' The German cum Belgian correspondence sensation was deepened by an alarmist article in the Berlin Post, on the state of Europe. It expressed t're opinion that France was preparing for a war of revenge, and that her ru!er3 look fur aid to an Austro-Italian alliance, while Germany was exhorted to awake from her slumbers. The article, suspected of ministerial origin, produced great agitation, and although the North German Gazette softened some of the statements, it repeated' that the military reorganisation proceeding in France was productive of disquietude. The French journals expose the incorrectness of these representations, and ascribe them to malevolent designs on the part of the German statesmen. Bismarck is the wolf troubling the wate jj .-•