EUROPEAN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1081, 7 October 1879, Page 2

EUROPEAN NEWS.

(PER TAIIAHUA AT THE BLUFF.) Reference was made in the Houst> of Commons, on August Bth, to the danger of another native war in New Zealand. Mr. J. P. Smythe asked if it vrere true that preparations were being made to ! £: settle at once and for ever the native difficulty,''' in accordance with the views of settlers. Sir M. Hicks Beach replied that he had received no communication on the subject, and should therefore infer that nothing very serious had taken place. He added that the news in the Press was six weeks old. He hoped that any apprehension of disturbances was unfounded, and read the postscript of a letter dated 23rd June, which appeared in the Standard, from its own correspondent at Wellington, who gave the principal ground for alarm, as the writor said, " I learn bytelegraph that settlers have precipitated matters by forcibly- ejecting native ploughmen. It is feared that hostilities are imminent." The. Standard followed up the lettGr by a leader commencing, "It will be seen by the letter of our correspondent in New Zealand that that Colony is upon the verge of another native war." At a meeting of the shareholders of the; Bank of New Zealand, Sir Charles Clifford took the opportunity to refer to the scare thus created by the Standard, and pointed out that the area fvllectod was so small as compared with the rest of New Zealand as to be scarcely worthy of a thought. Sir Charles paid a high tribute to the progress of the Maoris in civilization. His remarks altogether had a considerable influence in putting a proper construction of the actual state of affairs before the public. | A series of letters which recently ap- j peared in the Daily News on English agricultural laborers in the Britain of the South, together with many other details useful to intending emigrants, have been re-published in a pamphlet form, under the title of " The England of the Pacific, or New Zealand as an English Middleclass Emigration Field." In reply to a question, Sir M. Hicks Beach declined to publish certain official information regarding Australian defences, though he consented to hand the documents placed at the disposal of the Houae,

I for perusal of members. .. , [ the Globe, Colonel Arbuthnut su\, tr < pointed out that .Sir M. Hich p 101,11 reticence was very like lockinc door after the horse had been sto! b! the papers were printed by Colo, i a '.laments, and sold for a few „ e lar were to his certain knowledge in the i of foreign governments lla »<l On August 3rd, the immigrant -v Euterpe, for-Canterbury, New y j 'I was run into off Graveseml, ft lel ford, s.s., from Colombo, ,l„j u r / t; to her starboard bow. inju'ri,,., ,7," carrying away the mizz.-n boon, J?"? 9 gear, and the poop railiivs. ' LLer: "! The ship Punch, winch put Plymouth after having been nshor, ' the rocks near the Manaehs, whilst . ° ''' voyage to Sydney with AW euiigiw.t" charged her passengers on A«..| lsl '' The emigration depot deemed it n i: 'o oa '! : |i to df>ck the vessel and overhaul her ' Lyons papers announce a di <!,,., winch if true will have a very lnliuencc on the silk trade, and textile industries. It is stated that'n lustre appearance and durability 0 f ' can be communicated to fabrics of certain chemical processes. Pi ax in a bath of dissolved silk emerges therefrom in a tenders it indistinguishable, save 1 analysing, from silk itself. Tho invents who resides in Parihoo, offered his covery to the Association of Manuf U " turers in Lyons for LL'O,OOO, ami ir" alleged they have agreed to purchase it The Nordenfelt guns are an imprm-, ment upon the Gatling, and ;uv j,- c ' obtained for Victoria!" Tho toiw' launch building for the Colony by Tho" 0 croft will be ready in a row months. " A 1 Jill will be brought into P.arliamon by Sir H. Solwyn-Ibhot-son. It ij, tended to introduce certain modification into the charter of the privileges granted to several colonial banks. The banks l 0 which the Bill applies are tho Bank ,f Australasia, the Bank of British is T o r [{ America, the Bank of South Australia the Oriental Bank Corporation, the Lot','! don Chartered Bank of Australia, th« English and Scottish Australian Bank, the Chartered Bank of InJia tl' Australia and China Chartered Morcam'if Bank of India, London and China p,,J of British Columbia, and the lonian and Bank of Egypt. It is feare i owing to the late period of t'ne ses s i n ,, ,i' Bill will be withdrawn. ' The Financier, referring to the duti on wines, thinks that, the colonics have far greater grif-vanens th M Spain, and considers that 2 a Gddiitvcn their unfortified is a ',ax on nature whilst the same unty ori the fonjij c j wines of Spain ana Portugal is a tax upon In the Hourjo of Co-mmons, in answer to Sir Bereyford Hope, on the lid, August, the Chancellor of tho Exchequer said that a ueaft charter of the propose! Victoria University, containing a proposal to give the power of granting degrees jo women as well as to men, had been sub-mit-ted to the Privy Council, and wj now under consideration. Under the recent Act it was necessary that clatters when granted should be laid before Parliament. Cape news states that in Natal dissatisfaction prevails among all classes of tlu community with regard to the conditions of Sir G. Wolseley's settlement of Zululand. Every one regards it as a perfect farce, and calculated to make Zululaiid the centre of continual disturbance and danger. Even those who disapprove oi Cetewayo's deposition, are loud in asserting that if he was deposed a strong central Government under the British th; should be established in his place. The general conviction is that the colonies must distinctly decline to have anythin; to do with, this settlement, and » pudiate it-.