LATER AMERICAN NEWS
NEWS TO JAN. 26, VIA SAN FRANCISCO AND SYDNEY.
Sydney, April 2. From New York we learn that the first sleamcr for the Darien Canal expedition has sailed, and the rest of the fleet were to follow soon.
Subscriptions towards the Staunton Retiring Fund amount to 100,000dols, A lumber-yard and pier belonging to Messrs. Conkin and Co. lias been totally destroyed by fire.
The strike on the telegraph lines has been amicably arranged. Washington news is to the effect that an ndjournment of Congress is expected about Ist of M ay. Women clerks attend the Women's Suffrage Convention. The Reconstruction Committee have agreed to their re; oiton the Virginia Bill passed by the Senate, and have recommended its adoption by the House immediately. Mr Norton's Bill provides for a national currency ; the equalisation of circulation was taken up and afterwards adjourned. At Indianopolis a great fire has oceured ; the damage done amounted to 300,000d01s mnongst other places the Opera Hall was destroyed. At Boston, a man named Collins, clerk in the City Treasury, has prored a defaulter to the extent of 160,000d015.
San Feancisco. Rain has fallen very generally. There H ig every prospect that the next season's harvest will be the finest ever yet garnered. —Quotations : Flour superfine, 4dol 35c, to 4dol 75c; for wheat, Idol 35c, to Idol 75c—Freight, low, and a large amountof tonnage disengaged. Prices to Liverpool were £1 17s 6d per ton. Information lias been received that E. M. Stanton, late Minister of war, is dead. One of the national banks, with only 2,00C,000d01. capital, has issued cheques for 40,000,000d01. in one day during the gold battle.
Vessels loading for the colonies were the G-alilee, the Sparkling Dew, and another, name unknown.
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Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 85, 18 April 1870, Page 2
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