SUEZ MAIL ITEMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 41, 13 July 1877, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL ITEMS.

A verdict has been given against the Brighton Aquarium Company for „200 for keeping open on Sunday, but tho Court of Exchequer granted a rule for a new trial. It was stated at Woolwich, on the' sth,' that within a fortnight there would be ready for issue at immediate notice a complete oquipment for an army corps of 5,0,000 men. At a review of the Highland Rifla Military, at Fort George^ upon Colonel Ross asking who would volunteer for active service, tbe whole regiment, 700 strong, stepped forward as one man. ■ • ■ Recruiting is brisker than it ever I has been since the Crimean war. . The news of war breaking out in the East was received with great satisfaction at Aldershot, it being hoped that it would lead to active service. A Birmingham manufacturer has received an order from the British Government for 25,000 tents. Five hundred of Whitehead's torpedoes have been bought at „500 each. The Emperor of Germany has been visiting Alsace and Lorraine, and has been well received. The French Ministry, at the request of the Spanish Government, bave ordered the expulsion of Don Carlos from France, Negotiations for the renewal of a treaty of Commerce between England and France are virtually suspended,

the French Ministry feeling unable to press ihe Chamber of Deputies for an extension of free-trade unless England reduce the import duty on cheap wines.