MAIL ITEMS

Temuka Leader, Issue 243, 16 March 1880, Page 2

MAIL ITEMS

Stan!ey has established a Belgian trading station at Congo. The French Army is now better armed and numerically stronger than that of Germany ; the strength ot the German army, on a peace footing, as shown by the military Budget for 1880 and 1881, is 17,227 officers and 401,659 men ; this does not include a projected increase which the Cologne Gazette gays is chiefly destined to reinforce the Alsace-Lorraine garrisons.

The people and Tress of Constantinople are virulent against En.:land, on account of the German missionary incident.

Ten Chinamen were burnt to death in San Francisco while stupefied with opium. Bret Harto is reported io be on the point of lesigning his German Consulate on account of ill health.

Tne Nort:. Gorman Gazette, in an article on British politics, expressed the opinion that in the next general election in Great Britain the Li'o.-ral.i wili pay dearly for leaguing with the Irish. Five professional roughs, ringleaders and organisers of the bread rioU ia Cork, have been sentenced to six weeks in goal.

Director Goa!p, of tho National Observatory at Cordova, Argentine Republic, telegraphs that a great comet is passing the sun in a northern direction. H. M. Stanley has established the first Belgian trading station ia Congo, Zalliiii.