ARRIVAL OF THE S.S. ZEALANDIA WITH THE EUROPEAN & AMERICAN MAILS VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3590, 29 June 1880, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE S.S. ZEALANDIA WITH THE EUROPEAN & AMERICAN MAILS VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

(Pee Pbess Association.)

AUCKLAND,

This day.

GENERAL SUMMARY.

The strikes cause a great check to the returning prosperity. There are now 25,000 hands out in Lancashire. The mill owners will only work three days a week till all tho men go in.

The loss of the Bteamei American causes almost as much sensation as the loss of the Atalanta. Gunboats have been sent in search of the missing boat, which has not yet been heard of.

Karl Kimborley, the new Secretary of State for the Colonies, in his first speech since he was appointed, said there could be no difference of opinion in the Empire as to anything that tends to promote the unity and strength of all its members.

Landing of French Communists

The opinion of the English Prnss discussing tho landing of French Communists in New Zealand is generally adverse to any measure depriving political refugees from other countries, of perfect

access to British soil and freedom therei The Pall Mall Gazette considers the Communists are acquisitions to the Colony.

Arthur Clayden writes to the Daily News saying that his opinions re New Zealand for working men had been rather too sanguine. There was still a fine field for capitalists, but working men sbou' ' look before they leap.

Sir Julius Vogel still advertises, offering free passages to female domestics. The Selwyn memorial now amounts to £21,000. '*'

MelTsouine Exhibition

France, which was only represented by sixty exhibitors at the Paris Exhibition, will have 1200 at the Melbourne Exhibition.

The ship Finistere left Toulon on May 10 full, and the balance of exhibits will be sent by the mail steamer Ligaria which sailed for New Zealand, May 13th, with Mr Press and party, 46 iv all, third class passengers for Auckland, besides others in the first and second saloon.

Money Wigram have sold the steamer Kent to the Spaniards, leaving the Orient Line in undisputed possession of the Australian trade. It is not known what the firm will do with the others.

There is much less demand for passages to New Zealand, and it is expected Mr "Vesey Stewart will experience some difficulty in making up his party owing to the recent depressing accbuuts from the Colony. A writer in the Times says the grant of pre-emptive ri^ht to Messrs Grant and Foster over land in Auckland is an objectionable one, as similar to the grant to Broomhall. Sir Julius Vogel has given an order for torpedos for Colonial harbors. The New Zealand Shipping Company's ship Scottish Lassie sailed on the 15th with 25 passengers, and the Loch Cree leaves on the 25th with 22 passengers for Canterbury. The goods and passenger traffic to all New Zealand ports is dull in the extreme, and ships are a long time in loading.