ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 3649, 20 December 1879, Page 3

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

The Auckland Star's special correspondent 'hvLondon, in his Anglo-Colonial notes, cays : ■ — "The harvest prospects are much improved, especially in the north. The farmers are taking heart." f Protests in the New Zealand papers againßt F.further immigration are copied into the EngI liah Press, and. will have the effect of making raanj small farmers contemplating emigration go to the Canada Dominion. The agents are very active. Special settlements like Mr Yesey Stewart's would be snapped up eagerly, and hundreds of desirable, families would go. Itmay be years before so favourable a combination of circumstances for first-class emigration occurs again. / The commission appointed to examine into the defence of the Colonies are instructed to pay Bpecial attention to the mean*, both -naval nnd military, for protecting the principal seaports within the Colonial possessions and stations established or received for coaling, refitting, repairing Bhips of the navy ; also to examine all plans and designs for works of defence ; to take the evidence of best and naval authorities. 75 Sir Julius Yogel ia doing his utmost to rconciliute the Falmouth electors. Nearly all tho emigrant ships bound for New Zealand stop there on their outward voyage, and Sir Julius penuaded Mr Inman, of tho great Inman line, to pay . the town a visit with the i view of seeing whether it would not make an leligible port for the Atlantic steamers. Faltnouth possesses a splendid harbour. Pauline Lucca received an offer of 800,000 francs for an Australian tour, but it is uncertain whether she will accept it. At a theatrical supper in London to commemorate the hundredth night of " Drink," William Rignold said that his brother George would soon return to England. He had made a pot of money in Australia, and could retire whenever he desired. Mr F. A. Weld, Governor of Tasmania, is to be knighted. - The Loch Urr, for Auckland, took out eight pure Lincoln rams from Kirkhame, Inglewocd ; also six splendid bulls for Mr M'Lean, of Auckland, and four for the Loan and Mercantile Agency. These shipments of stock are valued at £6000. Colonel Trimble has written a letter to tho Liverpool papers describing at length the recent Maori trouble. The epistle is not calculated to inspire intending emigrants with confidence, and will do the Colony more harm than good. A man named James Smith was heavily fined at Blackburn for representing himself a 9 an emigration agent for New Zealand, and taking money from intending emigrants. Miss Alice May has achieved a success in one of the minor parts in Leoocq's new opera bouffe, "La Petite Mademoiselle," at the Alhanibva. A public meeting was held at Nottingham, Dr Kenealy presiding, to promote tho candidature of the Tichborne Claimant for Parliament. " Captain " Jack Barry was one of the speakers, and he behaved in a most extraordinary and eccentric mauner.