EUROPEAN CRMIES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 62, 30 March 1880, Page 3

EUROPEAN CRMIES.

Both the Austrian and Hungarian Governments have-nceep'ed-ihe liills proposing to k9Qp ?l ijpfi9^%i-«;.xt ten yeaWthe w»Mß6^it|)PoV The Austrian Government 'fays it has conscientiously studied the quos tion whether the effective could U* reduced, but has come to the conviction that m the* present? .jtfndtnre- of the world and the relative power of the large* European States ia diminu,tion of the army and nuvy. whi'jh would entail likewise a radical reorganisation, cannot be th"ught of. While the army system fof itKe^ MoixK ,archy has remained stationary since 1868,- ailuhe other gre^t Powers hove' ( in consequence of the Franco-German wai increased their armies. However regrettable this f..ot, the least that ,<jan 'be; done, in ; ,viow of it, to provide for the safety of the mo/archy and the nyytttenace .of ils.pt),. iition among the other Powers, is to maintain the present system, .which has hitherto so well stood the test The Government deems this its pajtriotic duty, ,but it would eoually deem it its patriotic, duty to take the 'initiative in the reduction of the? army even before the end of the tenyeais, if an understanding .were come to among the Powers to diminish their armies. The Hungarian Government, [it justification of its course,' gives a statement of what will be the comparative military forces of Kus?ia, France, Germany, and Italy when the system now in progress is completed. Russia, it is s»id, already disposes of a force of 2,389,000 men ; France has 1,815,000, and will have £,723,000 in 1892; Italy had at the end of September, 187:8," .■M75,000,r syid will have over 2,000,000 ; while Austria-Hungary has 1,1ii4,Q00. , ' ;' ' 1 1. I ' ■ ' ■ J-- '- .* ! *

The younc man who boasted that he would yet itaakfi> a 'noise -in- <'*he world now beats a gong for an hotel,; A Portland young man has sued his barber for cutting off his moustache. The barber said he didn't see it. . . ..;■< A quail on toast is worth two in the bush. i