ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 600, 22 May 1876, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

i *, Auckland, May 22. The s. s. Australia arrived from Kandavau with the English and American mails. She connected with the s.s. City of New York on Saturday week. The s.s. Colima arrived that day. The City of New York sailed for Sydney on the 17th. Sir Daniel Cooper is a passenger. He is understood to have come out with the intention of having the Kandavau connection superseded by a direct line to Bay of Islands. Bobert J , the champion billiard player, and Kirby, the theatrical agent, with Mr and Mrs Meader, sensation artists, are passengers for Sydney. The (reorgia Minstrels, and Oats' Opera BouffeCompany, follow. The passengers per Australia for the South, and which leaves at eleven o'clock, are-Mr and Mrs Duncan, for Port Cha'mers ; and one steerage for Wellington. ENGLISH AND AMERICAN SUMMARY The Secretary of War, Delknar, has been arraigned on trial of impeachment for selling Gffkea. There i& an eruption of Mount Vesuvius and an exceedingly grand scream of lava is flowing towards Pompeii. The fires cast splendid crimson tints upon the clouds. The eruption has been expected the last four weeks. The steamer Agrigentis, from the Italia' nnrtr, collided with the English steame-. Hylbon Castle ofl Cape Malta. The Agrigentis immediately sunk ; of sixty-four per- I sons aboard, nine of the crew and twenty i pa&sengere were drowned, r

Balicoa, the coiner of the Mint of California, has defrauded the Government of U.OOOdols in gold. Shocking cruelties to the insane in the Washington Asylum are exciting indigestion.

Four powder magazines at Rait Lake City have exploded, causing terrible devastation in the city. The damage is over one hundred thousand dollars. One child's head was knocked off by some debris a mile away. Several people were killed. The Pacific Mail Company's difficulties arc the topic of discussion in commercial circles.

Another large failure of a West India house is reported iu Liverpool. A revolution in Hayti has deposed the President.

The latest Turkish advices report that the Montenegrans have joined tho insurgents. Tweed's accomplices, under threats, have agreed to refund the plunder from New York city. A heavy fall of snow at Bordeaux has damaged the vines. INTERPROVTNCIAL. Auckland, May 20. Sir Donald McLean has left for the Waikato, accompanied by Hone Te One and Hon Taipa. The Native Minister has business to transact with the Ngatiwhaias respecting their land at Cambridge ; he will visit the Kingites, if Tawhau invites him, but considering the present aspect of affairs this is not likely. Sir Donald is expected to be absent from Auckland ten days. Arrived—Phoebe. Grahamstown, May 22. The bodies of Cribble and his companions are not yet found. A hat, identified as belonging to one of them, was picked up on the beach yesterday.

Wellington, May 22. Arrived—The J. G. Uoleson, from Lyttelton.

Oamarxj, May 22. The boiler of the contractor's engine on the Waiereka line burst. Taylor, the contractor's clerk, was killed on the spot, and several others were severely injured, of whom some are not expected to survive. Port Chalmers, May 22. H.M.S. Nymph arrived last night. The ship Wild Deer, with a cargo of wool and grain, sailed for London.