ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Kumara Times, Issue 648, 25 October 1878, Page 2

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

■; by ifla , ;

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

[press agency.]

. . EUROPE(AN t SUMMARY. lipNpoif,. September 30. An American boy natned Bradeu, from Indiaribpolis, has! diatipffifofcd.- himahlf aboard the English tramingl^ip^Worcesfro®l French harvests good.' ‘ 'Police dispersed aCongress of . •Socialists-, and* working meh’b'partvi ?af Paris. ;V'f ; f. < Metilion, chief tofhe Marine under the PaHbiaii 1 Commune. - surrendred, and tnah f ". ••■*?** The anniversary bf the ‘ was observed as a general “'hWlidiy Germany. .. jfir \ A basis for future, agreement between Germany and the Vatican has been settled, which does ;not involve even a partiid, repeal of the Falk Laws. . : No traces of a conspiracy or accomplices have been discovered in the Hoedel and Nobling cases. ” It is proposed that marry Christiana, the sister‘/ of his late Queen Mercedes. ' \'i • One hundred students at’mi Petersburg, suspected of Nihilism,been banished from the University .at Kief.- - The English whaling fleet in the Arctic have had no success this season;; - . Vesuvius is in eruption, and Mount Hecla is also active and also-Cotopaxi. The Swiss Government have granted' an amnesty to the Catholic priests who * were deprived of their livings in 1873|for refusing to comply witih the requirements }' «f the State; . ; ‘ ;w; ;-ivi7TT

The V ; Dutch Indian Budget shows a deficiency of 30,000,000 florins, 10,000,000 having; been expended in the Acheen war. A memorial anniversary of the death of Thiers w&s held. on 3rd ult. Music rendered persons. The Pall Mall Gazette inveighs against the Fenian Landon’s release at the solicitation of the United States as undignified ; says the pertinence of a thrice preferred request for his release is disrespectful, and Minister Walsh’s letter borders on the offensive. In plaices he oversteps the line, and approaches to the free and easy. A meeting of the Lancashire manufacturers has been called to consider the unprecedented commercial difficulties, and ; tire adoption of short time is urged. . • ’ John Eastwood and Sons, Huddersfield, pear Halifax, . have - failed ; liabilities £160,000. The International'Congress on weights, measures, and coins, on the 4th inst., unanimously adopted a resolution deploring the fact that England, Russia, and the United States had not yet adopted the metric system. The American and Engr glish delegates afterwards passed a resolution petitioning the English aind American to appoint a mixed commis- > eiqn to consider the adoption of the metric system by both countries, and *that the rates between geld, and silver be regulated solely .by their commercial value, and silver not to be a legal tender for debts -over £2O.