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Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 97, 15 March 1876, Page 4

EUROPEAN NEWS.

POUT CHALMERS.

March 11. The whaler Splendid sailed hist night find fell in with tvhales outside. They killed one which realised 100 barrels. guaiiamstcAn. March 14. The Superintendent declines, the responsibility of removing men from Thames to Wellington. Men, who agreed to go, irritated thereat. Some have interviewed the Mayor. Public meeting to condemn Kir George Drey's action spoken of. WELLINGTON. March 14. Lnr ,r e consignment of salmon selected and packed bv F. llimkland is on the way for Australia' and New Zealand ; 200,000 eggs have been seemed.

i Sir .1. Glover, of Ashaiitu farm, has been appointed Governor of New Zealand. , An extensive lockout of cotton weavers Uis occurred at Muelesfield. The London Trades Council has resolved to initiate a movement against the present high prices of meat. , Nearly 1,000 colliers are on strike in North Wales. A railway train, containing military recruits, ran olf the embankment near .Odessa, Carriages were set on lire, 54 "people injured, and 08 killed. Violent storm lias occurred at Oran, in Algeria. The damage is estimated at 500,0U0 francs. Some stir has been made by Mr Tyfe, agent of Mr Plimsoll at Liverpool, having telegraphed to the Queen to stay the^ departure of an nnseaworthy vessel. The ■matter was referred to the Board of Trade. 20 of the crew had been sent to prison for refusing to proceed to sea. Subscriptions for widow and children of 11. Wainwright amount to £1,200. There is great danger of a general war between the masters in men and the iron trade on the vital question of piece work. Messrs Easton and Anderson, owners of the Nile iron works, having decided to extend the practice of piece work, about 2,000 engineers went out on strike. Arrangemenets are being made at the Cape fur importation of coolie labour. The Government allow £7 per bead tor .every Chinaman delivered in the colony up to a thousand. The preparations arc now complete for rehoisting to its position on the summit of the column of the first Napoleon as Emperor, not in his regimentals and cocked hat but Imperial robes. > The Hour had an article on the new fibres of Commerce, in which it particularly dwelt upon the various fibres to be found in Now Zealand. Dr Hector, of New Zealand, read a paper on the Alps of the (Southern Island at the Geologist’s Association University College. Emigration from Ireland is on the decrease. Last, year it was nearly 22,000 Jess than 1874.