AMERICAN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4036, 28 June 1884, Page 3

AMERICAN.

San Francisco, June 7. _ The total earnings of tho Pacific Mail Company last yoar were—Passengers, 1,319,867 dollars; freight, 3,083,082 dollars. Of this tho Australian branch of tho service contributed — Passengers, 234,509 dollars; freight, 134,278 dollars. . . It is proposed to hold a World's Fair m St. Louis, Missouri, in 1892, to commemorate the four hundroth anniversary of tho discovery of America by Columbus. The bribery of the Massachusetts legislators this session on the subject of the Oath Bills has been so general and flagrant that an investigation, urged by the force of public opinion, has been undertaken. Mormon families are mustering courage to sue the estate of Brigham Young for property gabbled up by Europeans during his lifetime. Benjamin Butler has accepted the nomination of and monopoly of the organisation for the President of the United States. Butler is generally cenceded an important element in the Union fight, especially by the younger Democrats. The Australian mail service is exciting the attention of our mercantile community, and has been brought before Congress. On May 20th Senator Miller presented a memorial from the directors of the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco praying that tho necessary action might be taken to maintain the service between the United States and Australia and New Zealand, and it is now understood that the Post Office Committee of the House of Representatives, acting on the recommendation of Postmaster Gresham, have prepared a measure providing for the continuation of the subsidy of §40,000 per annum.