MAIL NEWS VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3774, 20 August 1883, Page 3

MAIL NEWS VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN. Mr O'DonncU's resignation of his connection Avith Mr Parnell''s Irish party has been accepted Avithout an expression of regret. James Carey, tho informer, Avas adjudicated a bankrupt after his desparturo. It is alleged that he had executed tAvo fraudulent deeds conveyinghis property to relatives. An expedition has been organised at Paris to drag the bottom of the Red Sea and Bitter Lakes for Pharoah's chariots and treasures engulphcd there. Tho Abbe Moignc is tho promoter of the expedition, and 7*5,000 francs have been subscribed. At a meeting of the Postal Committee of tho London Chamber uf Commerce it AA-as resolved to urge the Ncav Zealand Chajnbcrs of Commcrco to agitato for that colony entering the postal .pnion. Tlie enquiry into the collision bctAVcen the AVaitara and Hurunui blamed the captain of the AVaitara for leaving tho ship in charge of the second officer, but did not deal Avith his certificate. Tho steamer Doric, chartered by the Ncav Zealand Shipping Company, made an excursion trip Avith a number of invited guests from Holyhead to Gravosend, six hundred miles. The Duko of Sutherland, Mr Coster, and others Avere amom; the guests. The trip was a cojinjUtc success. The handsome fittings' and illumination by the Swan electric light Avere greatly admired.

AMERICAN.

Tho middle belt of the State of Mincsota aviis visited with a tremendous evclono on July 21st, six persons being killed and one hundred injured. The damage to the crops is estimated at 000,000 dollars. A destructive fire has ocoured. at Brooklyn, dock, by v.hieh jlipeo Y<H.sgis-v6ve 1 . to iLc. ■■-AV? r (;ei-?s ■ c&go. Captain Gi.ov-c-,' his Avife, mid three children and three sailors lost their lives. The damage is 1,000,000 dolloars. Tom Thumb died of apoplexy, Maco and Sladp, tho pugilists, have returned to Ncav York. Sladc after fighting Mitchell, challenges Sullivan, tho champion of America.

General Ayhvard, who led tho Boers in the Transvaal Avar against the British, has eloped with Miss Yon Hocsen, of Brooklyn. He married her at Boston, and then left for Australia. Five thousand telegraph operators have struck for seven hours' night Avork and extra pay on Sundays. There aro labour troubles also iv the steel, coal, and glass trades. Despatches, speaking of the return ot Avhalers to Now Bedford after an unprofitable cruise, say Avhaling interests in that vicinity are almost extinct. Numbers of dismantled whalers are lying at the wharves rotting. The Panama Canal company nws already spent $150,000,000, and the funds are exhausted. An effort is now being made to build up another company on the rums ot the first, buying the old stock at 010 on the dollar, and subscribing money to carry ou the Avork, $000,000,000 more are required to finish the canal. Tho majority of the stockholders arc Avilling to sell shares at 10 per cent, off what they paid, and confidence m Baron De Lesseps is shaken. Mrs Lanirlrv, in an interview on July 24 before returning to Europe, said during the American season she had cleared §120,000._ She commences a second American season ot thirtysix weeks on October 29, and then goes to Australia Tho condition of trade in Canada is unsatisfactory, and a financial crisis is feared owing to the extravagant railroad building. The pacification of Peru is proceeding rapidly, the Chilians A\-ithdraAA-ing.