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ITEMS FROM OUR MAIL FILES.

The R.M. steamship Alameda arrived at Auckland on Sunday with the English and American mails via San Francisco. From exchanges we take the following' items :—: — A work entitled " The Crown Prince's Diary," which ia written by the Crown Prince of Germany, is to be published this week in Berlin. The maple sugar aeason has opened in Vermont, and it is expected that the season 1 ? crop Mill reach 10,000,000 pounds. Since 18S0 the industrial establishments iti Kansas have increased from 700 to 900, and in capital from $7,000,000 to $19,000,000, with an annual product at present of $81,000,000. The Palace of Compiegne, which was a favourite resort of the Emperor Napolpon 111., will shortly be opened for the first time since the Franco-German War. It is intended to give a graud ball there next month for a charitable purpose. The "Journal de Commercio, of March 3rd, calculates that there are now 10,000,000 pine trees existing in the great Government colonies in the Province of Kio Grand do Sul, which at an average of 60 mils, a tree, are worth the enormous sum of 900,000,000. mills., or say, §250,000,000.. It is probable that the Princess Irene of Hesse, third daughter of the grand Duke, will bu betrothed to the Grand Duke Michael Michailovttch, the second of the six sons of the graud Duke Michael Nicolaievitch, one of the uncles of the present Czar. The Grand Duke was bom in 1861, so he is five years older than the Princess, who is now staying at St. Petersburgh with her sister, the Grand Duchess Serge. A British Parliamentary paper just issued shows that in 1885 the total number of persons who emigrated from the United Kingdom was 264.456, of whom 207.644 were of British origin, 53,783 were foreiguers, and the nationality of 2,958 was not distinguished. Of these 184,470 went to the United States, 22,928 to British North America, 40.689 to Australasia, 3,960 to the Cape of Good Hope and Natal, and 12,338 elsewhere. The total number of emigrants in 18S4 was 303,901. The number of emigrants landed in the United States in I*Bs was 113,529, of whom 81,540 canib from the United Kingdom, 10,179 from British North American, 8,272 from Australasia, and 13,748 from other parts. The total number of emigrants in ISS4 was 123,466. Mr Davitfc addressed a meeting of Irishmen in Glasgow, and eulogised Mr Gladstone's Bills, out intimated that the Irish people might hereafter demand the concession of further rights. At a meeting of the City of London Liberal Association a resolution recommending the second reading of" the Irish Bills was passed by a larjre majority, an amendment, moved by Sir J. Lubbock, M.P., deprecating Mr Gladstone's scheme as dangerous to the integrity of the Empire, being rejected. The newly-constructed deep-water docks at Tilbury, opposite Gravesend, which have cost about three millions of money, were formally opened on the 17th April. The agitation against existing rents ia extending in Wales, and the payment ot tithes is refused unless a substantial reduction be made. The correspondents of two German newspapers have been expelled from Belgrade, and there is much coolness in the diplomatic relations of Germany and Servia. General Boulanger. the French Muiister of War, has ordered that infantry conscripts of ISS3 shall be enrolled in regiments stationed in their respective localities. This order being a reversal of the present system it will probably give rise to a debate in the Chambers. The town of Stry, near Lemberg, in Galicia, has been entirely destroyed by fire, and many thousands of persons arc homeless. It is feared that upwards of 100 lives were lost. There is great want of food, and very lawless proceedings have occurred. Nearly all the men employed on the New York tramways have struck, and have forcibly prevented the running of the cars worked by fresh hands. They destroyed a car and resisted the police, who, however, dispersed them, about 70 persons being injured. At Baltimore also the tramway men have struck, and there have been 4 some riotous proceedings in consequence. Owing to the St. Lawrence being dammed by ice. a great portion of the city of Montreal has been inundated, and property valued at more than half a million sterling has been destroyel. The Belgrade correspondent of the North German Gazette has been expelled from Servia. ostensibly for having indulged in political intrigues. A week or two ago his colleague of the Cologne Gazette shared the same fate, and these expulsions are only one symptom of the offician tension which has existed for some time back between Belgrade and Berlin. The tension was lately aggravated by a communication in the Pester Lloyd, emanating, as it afterwards turned out, from the Orleanist Marquis de Flere, a Frenchman connected with the management of the Servian railways. The writer gave a minute account of an interview which he had had with Queen Natalie, and the strong anti-German feelings entertained by Her Majesty, and he also charged the German Government (inferentially on the strength of that Royal interview) with'having offered the Servian War Minister a loan of £2,000,000 if he would order cannon in Germany and not in France, Against this charge the North German Gazette at once rose up in arms, and after a smart passage of arms between it and the Pester Lloyd, the latter journal has now ended by formally withdrawing the invidious charge, and by rebuking the Marquis de Flers for having so far abased its confidence. But there has yet been no disclaimer on the part of Queen Natalie of the pronounced German spntiments ascribed to her, and the incident has revealed the existence of a good deal of bad blood between Belgrade and Berlin, at it has also furnished to the official mind here another proof that the Orleauists lose no opportunity of allying themselves with the ill-wishers of Germauy. A recent calculation (of Conservative source) gives the following as the present state of the vote in the House of Commons on the Irish bills .* Gladstonians — ready to vote for any Gladstonian measure whatever, 235 ; Parnellites— ready to vote for this Gladstonian measure, 86 ; total, 321. Hartingtonians — ready to follow Lord Hartington against this measure, 80 ; Chamberlainites —ready to follow Mr Chamberlain against this bill, 15; Tories — ready to vote against any Gladstonian measure whatever, 250 ; total, 345. Probable majority j against the measure, 24. From these j totals, however, certain deductions must of course be made for members avoidably and unavoidably absent. Then again allowance must be mads for changes of opinion between this and the time when the division bell rings ; and, above all, allowance must be made for the scource from which this calculation comes, and I the bias which it must necessarily have, j A return, so far as can be given, of the total sums spont by the Imperial British ' and Indian Governments on naval and military operations in or connected with Egypt, on its civil administration, and on any matters relating to that country since January 1, 1882, up to March 31, 1886, has been published. Itshows that the expenditure in 1882-83 was $25,670,855; in 1883-84, $3.925,025 ; and in 1884-85, §17.376,875. It also appears that 1,971 troops lost their lives there in the same period. A new Parliamentary group has come into existence in France. Its founders, who belong to the different political parties, advocate a policy of free trade.

In a manifesto to their constituents they declare that under cover of protecting national industry the lecent protective lawe have oppressed the working classes and diminished the productivity of the country's manufactures; that notwithstanding the general misery among the million, the landholders are now agitating tor an increased corn tax ; that it is therefore necessary to strive by a common action to alter the law in a more liberal sense. Another calculation from a more unprejudited source says that " it is estimated that close on 640 members will t ike part in the division, in which case it will be a 'best on record,' and it is further judged that the Ministry will be defeated l>y tno votes. It is rather soon to begin such arithmetical niceties, but it is quite certain that tho majority either way will not reach double figures." The Greek imbroglio has again suffered a tainting fit, and the statesmen who control the aildirs of this bellicose fifth-rate power have consented not to turn its armaments loose on the whole of Europe for a time at least. Of course, it is quite plain that the Hellenic statesmen are playing a bluffing game ; that they hope to gam what they want by keeping up an unceasing agitation, which will so continuously threaten the peace of Europe tiut the great powers will eventually give them what they want in order to quiet them. A fresh outburs.t of belligerency may, therefore, be expected as soon as the effect of the last one has died away. The Greek statesmen have played this game so often that they are experts as it, but still it is quite possible that they have played it out.

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Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2168, 1 June 1886, Page 2

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1,521

ITEMS FROM OUR MAIL FILES. Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2168, 1 June 1886, Page 2

ITEMS FROM OUR MAIL FILES. Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2168, 1 June 1886, Page 2

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