Items by the Mail.

Patea Mail, 28 July 1881, Page 3

Items by the Mail.

The Australia, arrived at Auckland from San Francisco with the British and American mails on the 25th. She brings English and American news to 3rd July. The following are the chief items : Tremendous storms have ravaged the Eastern and Western American States. The}' were particularly severe in Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, and New Hampshire. Horses and men are reported to have been killed by lightning. The wires were everywhere prostrated. The wheat crop of the United states for the year 1881 is estimated at four hundred and sixty million bushels. The Jews have been invited to Spain from Germany. Sixty thousand are expected to emigrate there. Two returned Communists have been arrested in Paris for blowing up the Thier’s statue. The master shipbuilders of London have yielded to the demands of the men, and a strike has been averted. Thirty thousand Staffordshire nailworkers have struck for 30 per cent, more wages. Mr Parnell’s visit to the United States in autumn will have the twofold object to “ pass round the hat ” and induce a more moderate tone among Irish Americans. O’Donovan Rossa, and others of the same ilk in New York, are by the violence of their utterances making Mr Parnell’s position exceedingly uncomfortable. The European Powers are conferring with a view of securing the complete neutralitj' of the Panama canal. The Board of Trade returns for Ma}' show an increase of £2,368,829 in imports compared with the same month last year, and an increase of £1,809,772 in exports. Lewis Potter, imprisoned in connection with (he Glasgow Bank frauds, died on June 17th. The New York Herald puts forth as a solution of the Irish problem the establishment of a grand Imperial Parliament, including representatives from Australia, Canada, the Cape, Ireland, and Scotland. The Madrid authorities resumed their raids on the gambling hells. In consequence of disclosures, 27 persons have been arrested, and warrants issued against others. • Ruptures between French and Italians are taking place all over the Continent. A great many Italians have left Marseilles, and even on the Paris Bourse Italians have great difficulty in transacting business, owing to national animosity. Ex-Elderman Clancy, of Ottawa, Canada, exhibited a flying machine on the 28th instant. At an average height of twelve feet he made a flight of a quarter of a mile. The machine is the result of thirty years’ thought and labour. The hay crop has just been harvested, and is the best Ireland has had since before the the great famine. The potato crop promises to be extraordinarily abundant, and the fisheries were never more profitable. In Kinsale the people are using cart loads of fish for manure.