Additional Mail News.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 6, 5 June 1885, Page 2

Additional Mail News.

(UNITED PBBSS ASSOCIATION.) (Wellington, Wednesday. The: snbject pf the proposed international .control pfihe ; Suez Canal was discussedby the iCpnimissioh ifr Paris; 4n May. German, Austrian, arid delegates Were m favor of international control, and the Bngiistiaiiblltalian^dcleT gatesopposed.it. „ t . The Italian Foreign Officehas notified that the Prince and Princess of Walesy intend toivisit Rome early m; May! ; : *The' object of the Prince's visit was said to * be twofold — (Ist) to arrive at an understanding with .'tlie. Vatican m regard to Irish bishops, and (2nd) to persuade Italy to form an alliance with England. The war against polygamy m Utah -is- i being waged successfully by tlie United States Courts, and the prospect is that the practice, will son be eliminated from; the Mormon; sy stein..; ;.,-. . i; :,. •:, £ The trial of Richard" Short for stabbing Captain Phelp'ih d'i)bnoyan Rossa's bi- ; fide in' New' York ended with a verdict of not guilty. ! The Judge's remarks to the jury wore :—'' Gentlemen, lam astonished lat your verdict. Yon are discharged from all further attendance on this pannel.", M ., „,.:, ; : „;. " The strained relations of Great Britain and Russia are throwing an enormous' amoliht of business m the way of the steamships of the Pacific Mail Company. On the line from San Francisco to China: the City of Tokio is reported to have earned £13§,000 dols. on her last voyage, the heaviest earnings for years. ; : The New York Times concludes from reports of summary affording the latest and most complete representation of tlie condition: and, - prospects of the Panama Canal, that it cannot he cqm.pleted m less .than five years^ nor/ at less post than .350,0b0,00 l 0dol3. ; also tjia) if its net! .re-^ ceipts wliem competed sfjpuijd tyeas Jjigh' as 13,000,000d015. anmialiy,'^' fixed 1 charges would swal|ow up pearly, all,