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Patea Mail, 31 July 1880, Page 3

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Via ’FRISCO. The s.s. City of Sydney reached Auckland on Tuesday, 10-30 a.m.; having left San Francisco duty 4th, a day before contract time, but detained through thick weather and a gale. Passengers for New Zealand :—Miss Langmore, Mrs Moore, child and nurse, Rev Anderson, Messrs Hunt, Keller, Wills, Lovewell, and Page. England is making numerous important additions to her torpedo fleet. A statue to Mr Henry Cecil Raikes lias been erected on the Thames Embankment, London, near the new Conservative Club at Westminster Bridge. Mr Raikes lias been an active leader of the Conservative party, and this statue is a recognition of his services. A great uproar occurred at a Protestant Reform Society meeting at Exeter Hall, to protest against Catholic appointment by the Gladstone Ministry. Home-grown wheat shows a shilling decline in price. The steamer Humboldt, at Liverpool from New York took fire. Every bale of cotton had to be thrown over-board. A riot between the people and the police took place at Dublin. Several were seriously injured The Government Irish Land Bill is strongly- opposed by the Conservatives and is generally- condemned by the Press, which regard it as a confiscation. Several duels have occurred recently) chiefly with French journalists. Six thousand Communists have returned to Paris. The German Church Bill passed by 206 to 202. Prince Bismark said the Bill was drawn by himself, and ho would not permit its mutilation. He avows his intention to leave Pailiamcntary fighting, and devote his attention to Foreign Affairs. The general opinion is that the Vatican got the best of the Chancellor in the Church fight. The leading Austrian journals express the belief that the end of Turkey- is at hand, and advise Austria to take as much Turkish territory as possible.

The Sultan refused to allow the Harem of the ex-Khedive of Egypt to land in Constantinople. Pirates are ravaging the Coast of Asia Minor. Cholera has appeared in Japan. In Calcutta the Chamber of Commerce takes desponding views of the future export trade. EXPULSION OF JESUITS . EXCITING SCENES IN FRANCE. In France the execution of the decree against Jesuits and authorised religions bodies has led to most exciting scenes. At a Jesuits’ Chapel in one of the provinces the mob hooted the priests, and the priests locked themselves in cells, which the police broke open. 39 establishments with 451 members have been broken up. The Archbishop of Avignon offered hospitality to a number of expelled Jesuits, but he received a peremptory telegram from the Minister of Worship, which caused him to eject the Jesuits without delay. All judges and public prosecutors of Versailles resigned rather than give effect to these decrees. Some of the expelled have purchased the old Ncverall estate in England. T URKE Y’ S HE SI ST AN CE. The Sultan is alarmed at the secret designs of the Powers, and proposes to render the Dardanelles impregnable by torpedoes and forts. The ports are proclaimed in a state of siege throughout all the provinces on the Greek frontier.

The new territory to be ceded to Greece is estimated at 390 square miles, containing 400,000 inhabitants. ALPINE TUNNEL IN DANGER. The St. Gothard Tunnel is threatened. Landslips are disintegrating the masonry, and engineers think the only way out of the difficulty is a modified line traced out. DISASTERS AND GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. Twenty persons were killed by fire damp in a mine at Darmstadt. Sixty-three persons were killed by a storm and waterspout at Dresden. Rain and a tornado killed 56 persons and destroyed 105 houses in Austria. The village of Uamena, in Hungaiy, was destroyed by fire. Many persons perished. Famine has raged in the district since the beginning of the year, and the misery is indescribable. 1011 houses burned in Hungary since May.

A Russian floating batteiy, Kremlin going to the Pacific, collided with a Danish steamer and was so crippled that it had to put in Kelingsford for repairs. THE HOLY CZAR'S MORALITY. It is believed the Czar of Russia intends morganatic marriage with a Princess by whom he has had thirteen children. TROUBLES IN CHINA. Late news from China says Spain, Portugal, and Peru arc quarrelling with the Chinese authorities for interfering with Coolie Immigration, Spain threatens to occupy ports in Formosa, with troops from Manilla to blockade the Chinese coast. Ching How’s treaty with Russia has been published, accompanied by a memorial denouncing himself and the document. Russia had the advantage in all the negotiations. She was to be paid 5 million roubles. Her merchants to enjoy special privileges and use convenient routes to travel. For these consinsideralions China was to receive back only a portion of her terrritorv.