Additional Mail News.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5348, 29 June 1885, Page 2

Additional Mail News.

— .+. — [Per Pbbsb Association/) (Fer s.s. Zealandia,vU Auckland.) Serious anti-Jewish riots broke out "i» - Vienna on June 1, due to election agita- - tion. Forty arrests were made. The German Government has begun a vigorous opposition to the Socialists' movement. Meetings have been prohibited, and gatherings of Socialists have been -suppressed. Madame Adelina Patti has contracted' with- the Directors of the Stadt Theatre, Hamburg, for the entire season of 1865-86,. including a tour throughout Europe. M. Depretiß, Prime Minister of Italy, • has asked leave to go into retirement on'account of old age and illness. A B.ory is going the round of the French press that there have been fifty suicides this season at Matte Carlo. Thiß U denied by the authorities of the place. Panama wishes to separate from the United States of Colombia, and be annexed to the United States of America. Beecher has thrown down the.gauntlefc in favour of evolution. Colonel Charles Denby, an Indian lawyer, has been appointed United States Minister - to China. The feeling in the Council of the Russian Empire is that the duties on most importations should be increased 20 per cent. A sea canal was formally opened at Sfc Petersburg on May 26. The Czar and Czarina, the Diplomatic Corpß and crowd* of citizenß were present. The Apache Indians are committing groat damage in Arizona, destroying trenches and murdering settlers. "Faith pure" is the last craze in the United states. " A London despatcJ^^One 3, states that' there was almost a riot at the last meeting, of the Corporation of that city over th« mention of the name of Victor Hugo* Sir John Bennick, a member of th« Council attempted to move