SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 27 August 1901, Page 4

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

General Summary.

(Per Sierra at Auckland.)

A Bread Trust has been incorporated at Trenton. New Jersey, with a capital of three million dollars. The immediate ambition of the new corporation is to control the bread output of New York City, Jersey, and Newark, and eventually to control the breadinaking industry in all the more important cities of the United States. Already several'large city bakeries have been absorbed. The National Bread Company aims not only to consolidate all the large baking firms, but it wid use a new bread-making machine,* which kneads the bread without handling, and at the same time increases by 30 per cent, the weight and size of a baked loaf with the same quantity of flour.

The battleship Maine, designed to be bigger, stronger, and faster than her namesake, whose wreckage still lies in the harbor of Havanna, was successfully launched at Philadelphia on July 27. The vessel is 56 per cent finished, and will be turned over to the Navy Department in less than two years. An immense crowd gathered for the ceremony of the launching, a<d the affair provoked a tremendous ou.burss of The Ma : ne will be a si3tor ship to ihe Ohio, recently launched at San Francisco, and of the Missouri.

The Shamrock II accompanied by the Erin, left Gourock on July 27 fur New York Great enthusiasm was displayed as the challenger departed. The ciptain desired to go out under and was favoured by a light breeze, sufficient _to keep the flags streaming in the direction tho yacht had to sail. The challenger cut an odd figure with her stunted spars and scanty canvas. Sir Thomas Lipton and the yacht designer, Mr Wa-son, sailed in her. For miles along the shore crowds occupied every vantage point, and cheers passed from groups until the ohal enger disappeared in the distance. Sir Thomas Lipton returned on a tug after addres-ing the crew of the yacht and assuring ihem if any favour were shown ic would not re to the disadvantage of the Bri ish boat. The American yacht, the Columbia, has been sailing trial trips with the Defender and the Constitution, and has proved herself a remarkable yacht, beating the Defender rather badly. The result of the race with the Shamrock II is awaitad with interest.

• A despatch from Aden, Arabia, says that in a fight between the Mad Mullah and the British, on July 15, the former was routed, leaving 70 kiUed. The Bri tish casualties were:—Lieutenant Frederick and 12 men killed, Lieutenant Dixon and 20 men wounded. It appears trouble has been brewing for a long time in the interior of the Somali country. On the coast, where the influence of Colonel Hayes Sadler, British Consul, extends, the natives are friendly, but inland the power of the British officials is small. The expedition long necessary was delayed because of Britain's hands being full in South Africa, and finally had to be made up of native troops under Colonel Swayne and British; officers. The expedition's objective is not stated, but is undertaken, amid great dangers and difficulties.

A despatch from London, dated July 15, says :—" In the House of Commons to-day the Financial Secretary of the Treasury, detailing the progress of the Pacific cable, said that several sectional cable houses had already been constructed and sent out, and were being erected at various places. A survey had been practically completed over 100 miles of the proposed route, and the manufacture of the cable would begin this week. Mr Chamberlain said the landing sites had selected on Queensland, New Zealand, Norfolk Island, and at Vancouver, and the Cable Board was satisfied as to the ability of the contractors to complete the work by the end of 1902. Insulting the German Flag. A despatch from New York says tho little South American Bepublic of Columbia has insulted the flag of the Kaiser of German, and serious international complications may follow. The HamburgAmerican line steamer Alleghany was held 12 hours in the harbour of Savanilla, Columbia, and in spite of the protests of her captain, Abel Murillo, an insurgent, was taken from tho ship. The German flag, with which he sought to protect himself, was torn from his hands as a " dirty rag," and he was taken by force to prison. Murillo was secretary to General Oribe, and insurgent leader. When the vessel arrived at Cartagena she was ordered to be detained by the authorities there. The captain protested that he was sailing under the German flag, and no official of Columbia had a right to stop the vessel for any purpose whatever. According to a signed statement by three of the Alleghany's passengers, Murillo left the United States about four months ago on a passport signed by the Columbian Minister at Washington. On arrival at Savanilla he was arrested and taken to Bogota, where he was released on tho understanding that he would sail on the first vessel for the United States. This he did, boarding the vessel at Savanilla. He expressed fears that he would be arrested at Cartagena, and when he arrived at that port he refused to go ashore. When word was brought that the 3ovornor wished to see him. Murillo's errand in Columbo was to carry a peaco manifesto from General Uribe. It was necessary for someone to go, in order to show tho authenticity of tho document, and Murillo undertook the duty. Feeling was very bittor against bim, and it is presumed that he will be imprisoned in the old Spanish prison at Cartcgena, which is below tho dovel of the soa, aiidmost unwholesome. The matter had been laid before tho German Government, but it is not yet known what action will bo taken, if any, in tho case. Scandals in Germany. Despatches from Berlin, state that weekly financial reviews, "road like confessions of national sin." The press is horrified at the disclosures of mismanagement, and worse in tho conduct of commercial concerns of Mgh credit. A large speculation took place during thn lata speculative boom in Germ »ny, and i' appears that the careful supervision of private affairs carried on by the pat< rmil Government of Germany is not more effective in prevenring dishonesty than a scrutiny of creditors to which other people trust. It is likely, however, that thn German method of punishing thoso who have practiced dishonest m 'thod* of becoming rich will bt\ sure and severe, and may act as a deterrent example, which is needed in other binds quite as much as in the one where it will be shown.

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