ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1981, 30 June 1880, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

[PER tress association special wire.} AUCKLAND, June 29. The English strikes cause a great check to returning prosperity. Now 25,000 hands in tbo Lancashire mills will only work three days a week till all tho men go in. The loss of the steamer American causes almost as much sensation as tho loss of the Atlanta. A gunboat has been sent to search for the missing boat and has not yet been heard of. Earl Kimberley, the new Secretary of State for the Colonies, in his first speech since his appointment, said that there could be no difference of opinion in the empire as to anything that tends to promote tho unity and strength of all its members. The opinion of the English press in discussing the landing of the French Communists in New Zealand is generally adverse to any measure depriving political refugees from other countries of perfect access to British, soil and freedom there. The “ Pall Mali Gazette ” considers that tho Communists are an acquisition to the colony. Mr Arthur Olayden writes to News” saying that his opinion re New Zealand for working men had been rather too sanguine. There was still a fine field for capitalists, but working men should look before they leap. Sir J. Vogel still advertises offering free passages to female domestics. The Selwya memorial now amounts to £21.000. France, which was only represented by sixty exhibitors at Paris, will have 1200 at the Melbourne Exhibition. The ship Finisterra left Toulon on May 10th full, and the balance of the exhibits will be sent by the mail steamer. Messrs Money Wigram and Co. have sold the steamer Kent to the Spaniards, leaving the Orient lino in undisputed possession of the Australian trade. It is not known what the firm will do with the others.

Sir J. Vogel has given orders for torpedoes ior the colonial harbors. , The New Zealand Shipping 00. s Scottish Lassie sailed on the 15th with twenty-five passengers, and the Loch Oree leaves on the 25th with twenty-two passengers for Canterbury, The goods and passenger traffic to all New Zealand ports is dull in the extreme, and the ships are a long time loading.