Additional Mail News.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 130, 7 May 1885, Page 3

Additional Mail News.

Mr Deakin, irrigation commissioner, with Mr (r. . S Oumiin^liaoi. representative, of the Argus, and Mr J. L. Dow, Melbourne Age, leave by steamer fi>r Sydney at date. Berlin papors comment on the tact* that Queen Victoria did not send congratulations to Bismarck on his birthday. AH other rulers sent it. It Is claimed that at the next Parliamentary election a m«jotity of Liberals will be returned, and Gladstone will then retire m favour of Lord Hartington. The Volunteer review ai Brighton on the 6th April had to b« considerably curtailed owing to the heavy rain which set. m. A firm ut Birmingham has tnude two million airtridyes during six months for China. Henry M. Stanley, explorer, now m London, proposes to visit the United ►States at the end of April. The London merchants Scaramarga and Co. failed on the 25th March fot £1,000,000, caused by the decline m the inaiket. Charles Price and Co's 1 oil mills at Bolvidere, Kent, burned down. Los*, £200,000. A London stockbroker, whose name is not given, absconded on the 31st with a large amount m securities and leaving liabilities amounting to £175,000. Twenty-five thousand "Yorkshire colliers struck against 10 per. cent, reduction of wages on t'ne, 31st of March. The St* Jame> Gazette, April 2nd, reported the failure of Bing Davis, a London solicitor, for £1,000,000. He has fled to Spain. The Parliament of Switzerland have restored to the Cantons their right of local option. in regard to the salt* of intoxicating liquors. Biandy drinking has grown to frijjhtF'ir proportions, and the profound agitation forced the Government into this concession.

Wholesale arrests of Anarchists, chiefly Germans and Austrians, were made at Berne and Lucerne on the 3rd of April. A large Mormon emigration from TJtah to Mexico is going on at present under orders from the church. The English Press points to the miserable small sum subscribed for the relief of James Stephens as :i proof that Feuianism is dead. The Nationalists' strength, however, is giowing throughout Ireland. This is shown by the Laud Board elections recently. These results, it is generally admitted, are a forecast of the greatly increased League representation m the Parliaraentery elections which will probably soon i«ke place. An American named Robert Ire. land was kidnapped m N<«w York on March 25th by English officials. He was a piper m the English army m 1876, and deserted from Ayr, Scot land. Ireland was taken lo Canada, and will be returned to England 'for trial, and the case laid before the Secretary of State at Washington. The race between the Cambridge a.id Oxford cr»'ws came off on the morning of March 28th. The banks were lined with spectators. The water was smooth, and favourable for both crews. Both Imuilb got aff well together, but Oxford soon took tho lead, and maintained it to the end, winning by three lengths. Tithe, 21rain 36sec ; an improvement m the time of last year, when the record was recorded as 21min 39sec. The improvement is not as great as was anticipated iv view of the fine weather and smooth water. The Nationalists m Ireland are jnbi-. lant over the downfall of M. Ferry, the French Premier. They exult over it m their newspapers, and describe it as a just punishment of the Premier for his arbitary act m expelling Fenians from France. They say Stephens, Davies, and Leroy were as peaceable and law-abiding residents as any man m Paris, and that the act which made them outlaws was a piece of obsequiousness to England. Extraordinary honors and courtesies were paid to Prince Bismarck on his birthday on April the Ist. . The New York Financial Chronicle saj's the present views on the price of wheat are extravagant.