ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 30 June 1880, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

[BY TELEGRAPH.]

Accklakd, June 29.

The English strikes cause a great check to returning prosperity. There is now 25,000 in our Lancashire mills, and the owners will only work three days a week till all the men go in. The loss of .the steamer American causes as much sensation as the loss of the Atalanta. A gunboat was sent in search of the missing boat, but has not yet been heard of. The opinion of the English press, in discussing the landing of French Communists in 'New Zealand, is generally adverse to any measures refusing'political refugee?.from other countries perfect freedom of access to British soil. v The Ball Mali* 5 GazhUb coiisiders the' Communists are an acquisition to the Colony. ' Clayden writes to the Daily News, saying thai his opinion re New'

Zealand for working men had been rather sanguine. There was still a fine field for capitalists, but working men should look before they leap. Sir Julius Vogel still advertises.offering free passages for female domestics.

The Selwyn memorial now amounts to L 21,000. France will be represented by 12,000 exhibits at the Melbourne Exhibition. The ship Finisterre left London on May 10th full, and the balance of the exhibits will be sent by the mail steamer. Messrs. Money, Wieram and Co. 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.

There is much less demand for passages to New Zealand, and it is expected Yesey Stewart will experience some difficulty in making up his party, owing to the recent depression. Accounts from the Colony by a writer in the Times say that the grant of preemptive rights to Grant and Foster over land in Auckland is as objectionable as a similar grant to Broomhall. Sir Julius Vogel has given orders for torpedoes for colonial harbors in New Zealand.

The Shipping Company's Scottish LaSsie sailed on the 15th inst. with 25 passengers, and the Loch-Cree leaves on the 25th for Canterbury. The goods and passenger traffic for all New Zealand ports is dull in the extreme, and ships are a long time loading.