MAIL NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1019, 10 March 1882, Page 2

MAIL NEWS.

San Fbanoisoo, Feb. 16. Mail steamer detained from 11th till date. The report of the American Consul at Manchester shews a decrease in the exports for the year ending September 30, 1881, between the Consular district and the United States to be over $3,000,000, or 20 percent, as compared with the previous yearß, Sir Henry Parkes, who is accompanied by C. W. Feild and J. D. Babcock, delivered an address before a speoial session of the New York Chamber of Commerce, on the 15th inst. The subject was the commercial relations existing between the United States and Australia After thanking the Chamber for the welcomd aocorded, he proceeded to give a desceiption of the six Australian • colonies, claiming that in a few years the group will become a vast Empire and a great Power. The Philadelphians are making provionß for reoeiving Jewish refugees from .Russia. In the House of Commons nn the 15th inst., Fir Charles Dilke denied that'any French troops has been prepared for embarkation in Egypt. The English Government, he said, was still adverse to the European concert as a means of adjust- , ing difficulties, and he denied also the. existence of a revolt at Herat; and in regard to English interference in Russia, ho said it would do moro harm than good. The Tra.le Association of London has despatched a new form of grain contraot to the United States; details are not yet published, but alterations, are considerablo. i < ) j ' ; • Joßeph Mariell, ■ ox-President of the Frenoh Senate, and Henri : Augusti Bar bier,, the poet, are both dead., Joseph De Caisne, a distinguished botanist, iB also dead. ; The Marquis of Hnntley, , the fugitive English 'nobleman, proposes to take up his ffisjdepce jn the Western States of America;, ' It is reported (hat the (jji)oep has Ijep recommended to visit'Mentoqfl ojj accouut .of.fejiro'g'healtHr : ' - !At!,: " l The firm of Louis Schard, East' Indian merchants, of Mincing-lane have fpiled for £280,000. ANQTPR ARREST FOR INSPAispi}Ap&' SLAUGHTER OP BRITISH SUB- ; JECT3 IN TUNIS. Mrlbouhne, March 9. Arrived, this morning—Union Company's steamship Alhambra, from the Bluff. Adelaide, March 9, In connection with the recent disclosure of a conspiracy on the part of Hicks acd Barltop. to defraud tI)P Mutual Provident Society and tho Australian Alliance Company, proceedings have been taken against Mr Horion, who attented tho signaturo of Weatherhead, and lie lias been arrested for collusion with Hicks and Barker. Paris March, 8, Telegrams are to hand from Tunis reporting that bodies of the insurgents hare recently committed several raids in various parts of the country, and that a provision train waß looted, and a number of Italian and British subjects who were passengers have been killod. London, Makch 8. W. B. Hughes, Liberal M.f.'for'PwiWß. " '