ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 17, 12 February 1884, Page 3

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

, Many lar^e . failures' have occurred in If ew York, from high charters and the low price of wheat. , It is reported that the Rothschilds have offered to buy the fParis) Government railways. A company will be formed for ihe purpose of acquiring them. Th* lafe«t news from Panama «ays ihnt men continue to arrive by every vessel for the Canal Company. The number now employed exceeds ]4,000. It is hoped that much progress will be made this year , A meeting of 4000 persons, including several women,, was held in Paris on the 13th January" ' Violent speeches were delivered favoring, an armed, revolution as the only, means of ending the stagnation in traded '"■ ' Oae hundred and fifty thousand hands are otit; q'f ; emplbyment'in Pans. Figaro,' of tlie 12th January, puts the number, of suicides in. Paris for the year 1883 at, 4000, and says the nnmber is unexampled, and accounts for the increase by "the. pace at which -we live." The announcement that Bishop Moran had been selected by the Council of 1 Cardinals as successor to the late Arch- | bishop Vauglian. of Sydney, is premature. | Sir'J. Yogel is making good "progress with his 'scheme to form a public company \to undertake . the construction of laying; a duplicate submarine cable between England and Australia. Sir J. Vogei offers .to undertake the work on condition that the Australian colonies guarantee a subsidy of £4,000,000.