COLONIAL NEWS. Heavy Insurance Losses.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1273, 26 August 1880, Page 3

COLONIAL NEWS. Heavy Insurance Losses.

Adelaide, Augu>t2l. The Government has taken action to recover the £20,090 against the insurance company for losses on the WTeck of the shfp Hyderabad at Ofcaki, on the West Coa-t of New Zealand, in 1878.

Melbournk, August 25. A race meeting will be given here in honor of Sir Hercules Robinson, who lias taken his passage to the Cape by the John Elder.

The Ex-Empress Eugenie. — The Empres« Eugenie (the I'apv Times says) experienced line weather during the whole of her progress through Zululand, and she also enjoyed good health, with the exception of a slight attack «»f malarious fever incidental to a visit to that part of South Africa. The same paper mentions that there was on board the Trojan, the vessel by which the Empress returned to Europe, the Basuto pony,a fine specimen of his breed, which the Empress rode iv Zululand. He is bound for t'hiselhurst. Regarding the departure of the Empress, which took place on July 0, the dtp*' Time* says :—": — " The Empress must have left our shores deeply impressed with the thoughtful consideration of the people of South Africa. She asked of us that she should not be the subject of public demonstration, however kind in its design, or of prying newspaper ciiticism, or of any of those attentions which the may have expected in many countries. Her \vi>h has been fully obeyed, and the closing scene yesterday of this solemn visit was in accoi'd with all that has been done. At 3 o'clock the Trojan was cleared of visitors; the great steamship was moored in the entrance channel, and the gangway, with its sides covered with the Imperial purple and its floorii q carpeted, was placed ;• the ground was kept by the Royal Engineers, and Colonel Hassard, C. 8., the commandant at Cape Town, was in attendance. The crowd on shore was not large, and as the carriage of the Emprees drove up, hats were respectfully lifted in a silence that was almost profound. The Empress bowed graciously to the right and to the -feft, and when she stepped on to the deck and answered the salutation of Captain Travers, she walked across to Mr Fuller and thanked him for all the kindness he had shown, and for the exoellent aipShgements which had been made on her behalf. In the few minutes before the vessel left, after the Empre«s had come on board, the Dean of Cape Town was introduced to her by Sir Bartle Frere, and almost immediately afterwards the Empress embarked, Lady Frere and the Governor and pirty left the steamer Trojan. The steamer at once went to sea, and was escorted out of the bay by H. M. S. Boadicea." Pbince Napoleon and Mb Bkadlauoh. — According to the Gatdois, Prince Napoleon and Mr Bradlaugh (who is now in Paris) have oherished a great esteem for each other ever since they accidentally met in London towards the clo«e of the Franco-German war. Mr Bradlaugh might have had some compunction about talking to an Imperial Highness, but it was some time before he was aware of the name and rank of the gentleman into whose company he had fallen. When the discovery was made, the French Prince and English Radical were enchanted with eaoh other's views, and we are given to understand that this mutual admiration feog not (teased.