AMERICA.
: San Francisco, March 3. '"General "Diaz has been sworn in President of Mexico.
General Oortena has been artested, and his property confiscated. President Grant will-take the supreme management^' a leading bank in New
York.
The Samoan Government has entered into a treaty of friendship with the United States.
Two hundred and twenty-nine Sioux from the hostile camp on Tongue River have surrendered their arms and three hundred ponies. Eight "bodies of the oyster .schooner Laura, which was capsized near Apapolis in the gale of December 20th, were recovered at Baltimore.
The Chinese confined in San Quentin' gaol attempted to kill the warders by mixing pounded glass with their food. The plot was discovered. Gas in a Sacramento sewer, which' had escaped from the gas main, exploded. The streets were strewn with. lumber and dirt, and a wide and deep ditch, over half a mile long', was visible, bearing .the appearance of a .chasm created by some terrible convulsion of nature. . The House .Committee on Appropria-. tions insisted on a Civil Appropriations Bill of 360,000d01. to pay the claim of the Southern mail contractors for services rendered. It was regarded pro-, bable T that the proposed subsidy to the | Pacific Mail Steamship Company of 400,000d01. will not be agreed to. The Postmaster will probably only 'give! postages as compensation for services between San Francisco, Japan, and China.. -.-. ..■
The. Hawaiian Gafcette,'6f ■ February 14tb, says Ifc will be noticed, that the advertisement of the mail steamer is withdrawn, which is done 'by order of ; th.e Pacific Mail .Company. ,;Qn .enquiry we learn tfiat that Company has determined to iwithdraw 'from the route, In
their latest letter they say :— -"Should the Hawaiian Government be unfavourable to our view of what is. just and liberal in this contract,' we will immediately and for ever- drop Port Honolulu, and carry out our English-Colonial mail 'contract by running direct from San Francisco and Fiji. :
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Clutha Leader, Volume III, Issue 143, 6 April 1877, Page 3
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318AMERICA. Clutha Leader, Volume III, Issue 143, 6 April 1877, Page 3
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