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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 11, 3 July 1885, Page 9

The Italian troops on the Red Sea coast are beginning to ieel the coast of colonization. The heart increasei, and it is now a1;a 1 ; 112 degrees ; flies and insects devour the soldiere morcilessly ; there is no other relief than that of covering the face with a wat handkerchief. To the tormenting he it of the day succeed nights of great huminity ; rain is frequent, and in the morning heat begins again. At nighftbe camp is visited by hyenas, and it is forbidden to fire upon them lest the noise Bhonld alarm the troops. Rations are not very palatable, nor even wholesome. Meat is plentiful, but it is necessary to cook it as soon as it is killed, for the beat spoils it rapidly. There is abundance of water, but it is not drinkable, and the soldiers say that they would an give an eye for a piece of ice. A soldier in garrison at Ddassowah writes : " The Government has the right to ask us, in the name of the country, to sacrifice our liveß, and we are ready to do so ; but it has no right to condemn us to so long and painful an agony."— Cor. of Pilot. An enormous emigration from Italy to American is expected this season. As a result of last year's cholera epidemic, Italy is suffering from an almost unprecedented commercial depression, and all branches of industry show a lassitude which amounts in some trades almost to stagnation. In the rural districts, the depressinn has caused an almost total failure of the production of wine and oil, and other crops have suffered a severe check. The strike among the rural labourers at Mautua is growing into larger proportions daily, and the authorities restrain the strikers from acts of violence and bloodshed with difficvlty. Thus far 170 strikers have been imprisoned. The tyranny of the Government in making unwarranted arrests, sappressing or pestroying telegrams containing truthful statements of the situation, and seizing all newspapers which are outspoken in their protestations against high-handed official acts, is wildely denounced. The treatment meted out to such journals as have given voice to the existing misery and denounced the acts of the officials is almost unprecedented. The jourualists are organising a league for mutual protection against the prosecutions which threaten to overwhelm them.