SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 154, 29 June 1880, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

[Per Zealandia, at Auckland.] The strikes in England cause a great check to the returning prosperity. There are now 25,000 bands out in Lancashire, and the mill owners will only work three days in the week till all the men go in. The loss of the steamer American causes almost as much sensation as that of the Atlanta. A gunboat has been sent in search, bufc the missing boat has not yet been heard of. Earl Kimberley, the new Secretary of State for the Colonies, in his first speech since his appointment, said that there could be no difference of opinion in the Empire as to anything that would tend to promote the unity and strength of all its members. The opinion of the English press in discussing the laDding of French Communists in New Zealand is generally adverse to any measure depriving political refugees from other countries of perfect access to British soil and of enjoying freedom there. The Pall Mall Gazette considers the Communists are acquisitions to the colony. Mr Arthur Clayden writes to the Daily News saying that his opinions re New Zealand for the working men had been rather too sanguine. There was still a fine field for capitalists, but working men should look before they leaped. There is much lesß demand for passages to New Zealand, and it is expected that Vesey Stewart will experience some difficulty in making up his party, owing to the recent depressing accounts from the colony. A writer in the Times says that the grant of pre-emptive right to Messrs Grant and Foster over land in Auckland is not objectionable, as a similar grant had been made to Mr Broomball. Sir J. Yogel has given orders for torpedoes for the colonial harbora. The New Zealand Shipping Company's ship Scottish Lassie sailed on the 15th May with 25 passengers, and the Loch Cree leaves on the 25th with 22 passengers for Canterbury. The goods and passenger traffic to all New Zealand ports is dull in the extreme, and ships are a long time loading. Sir J. Yogel stili advertises offering free passages to female domestics. The Selwyn memorial fund now amounts to £21,000. France, which was only represented by 60 exhibitors at Paris, will have 1200 at the Melbourne Exhibition. The ship Finisterre left Toulon on the 10th May full of exhibits, and the balance will be sent by the mail Bteamer. The steamer Liguria sailed for New Zealand on tbe 13th May with Mr Press and party, forty-six in all, third clasß passengers for Auckland, besides others in the first and second cabins. Money Wigram have sold the steamer Kent to the Spaniards, leaving the Orient line in undisputed possession of the Australian trade. It is not known what the firm will do with the others.