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Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 541, 3 July 1880, Page 3

Sir Julius Vogel denies giving an order for torpedoes for Colonial harbours. A writer in the Times says the grant of pre-emptive right to Grant and Foster over land in Auckland is as objectioual lo as the similar grant to Broomhall. Arthur Clayden writes to the Daily News saying that his opinion re New Zealand for the working men had been rather too sanguine. There was still a line field for capitalists, but that working men should “ look before they leap.” English strikes have caused a great check to the returning prosperity. There are now 25,000 hands out of work in Lancashire. The millownors will only work three days, a week till all the men go in.

The loss of the steamer American has caused almost as much sensation as the loss of the Atlanta. A gun boat was sent ill search of the missing boat, but she has not yet been beard of. Earl Kimberley 7 , the new Secretary 7 of State for the Colonies, in his first speech since his appointment, said there could bo no difference of opinion in the Empire as to anything that tends to promote the unity 7 and strength of all its members.

No Followers Allowed. A lady entered her kitchen rather suddenly, and was surprised to see a fireman quietly seated. The cook at once said : “As our chimney lias not been swept for some time I thought it would be a good thing to have a fireman in the house in case of fire.”

A protest is made against the system of raking up sensational items of scandal, which exists more especially with the Press Association correspondents in New Zealand, and notably so at Invercargill and Auckland, where petty connubial squabbles are bashed up, and made to do duty for items of interesting'news, merely to pander to the taste of scandalmongers.