SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 623, 17 June 1876, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Auckland, June 1,7.

The s.s. .City of San Francisco arrived this morning. She connects with the Zealandia atKandavauon the 13th. The latter left San Francisco on 25th May. Passengers— C. Fergusson, W. Crake, G. Crake, Hendle, and Manning. Third Class Messrs Ross, Eliott, Michael, Casey. For Welling-ton-cabin: Captain Bower and wife ; third class, Mr Burke, wife, and sister. For Lyt telton —second class : Miss.McCadam. For Port Chalmers cabin ; Rev Coleman Creigh, and Messrs Clows, Hall, and Cuff. Cargo—For Wellington, 100 cases goods, 25 bales hops; for Lyttelton, 2 samples, 25 bales hops ; for Port Chalmers, 25 pieces red wood timber, 50 cases salmon, 1 sample. London (undated).

A Paris despatch says that snow has seriously damaged the vines in the Bordeaux district. No such wintry wmather has been known in Paris at this season for fifty years. The Levant Herald reports the plague increasing. At Bagdad there were thirty new cases, and ten deaths. A despatch from Calcutta reports the Punjaub frontier quiet. There is reasonable hope that the disturbances are completely ended. Two of the disaffected clans have promised peaceable behaviour in future. Cholera is raging fearfully in Madaly among great numbers of people, who are erecting earthworks for the King of Burraah. it is rumoured that thejplague has appeared at Muskat, and the authorities of Bombay and other Indian ports have established stringent quarantine for vessels coming from Muskat.

The iteichsamger of Berlin, states that the investigation at Salonica has not afforded any trustworthy explanation of the real cause of the assassination of the Consuls, but it is certain that the murders had not

any connection with the alleged forcible conversion of the Christian girl. Sir Edwin Buckley, Bart., a member of Parliament, has been declared bankrupt He transacted business in Manchester and elsewhere. His liabilities amount to 6,600,000 dollars. The liabilities of W. and A. Faircase, of Liverpool, cotton dealers, whose suspension was announced, are over 600,000 dollars. The barque Caswell arrived at Queenstown, in tow of the gunboat Goshawk. The mutineers killed Captain Best, who belonged to London, and the first and second mates and steward, all three of whom were from Glasgow. One of the seamen killed two mutineers, both of whom were Greeks; Another Greek sailor was badly cut by the carpenter’s axe, but he survived, and was landed a prisoner at Queenstown. Captain Best was shockingly mutilated, and the two mates were shot and stabbed. The steward was shot while coming up the’ companion ladder. England has dissented from the proposals agreed to by the Northern Continental powers for reform in Turkey.

The Channel fleet is ordered to be in readiness to proceed to the Mediterranean. Two vessels are already despatched there. Germany has ordered five ironclads to the Mediterranean.

Count Andrasay at the latest date published a note assenting to peace, Europe would remain undisturbed.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Auckland, June 16

Flour, £l2 10s ; Christchurch, £ll 10a; bran, £5 ; pollard, £6 ; oatmeal, £l4 ; pearl barley, £23 ; oats, 2a 6d ; wheat, 5a Id ; barley, 5a ; maize, 5a 3d ; hams and bacon, lOd ; cheese, lOd ; butter, Is 3d ; potatoes, £4 10s. Fat cattle, 25s to 28s per hundred pounds ; sheep, 2d to 2id. Buyers—Bank of New Zealand, £l7 16s ; Colonial, 31s ; South British, 53s ; Shipping, 77s ; Tairua, 14s; Ajax, 5s 6d ; Waitekewu, 6s; Beach, 75a ; New Zealand Insurance, 80s. _ Grahamstown, J une 16.

A telegram has been received by Dr Kilgour from Sir G. Grey, stating that circumstances rendered it requisite that Sir G. Grey should sit for Auckland city west. Wellington, June 17-

The Hon Mr Fitzherbert has published a statement with regard to the financial position of the province of Wellington now that its entity is about to cease. The substance of the document is to the effect that the assets .of the province are more than double the amount of its liabilities, or using a trade expression, that it can pay 40s in the £; this is exclusive of the large blocks of land in the province, on which considerable sums have been expended towards the extinguishment of the native title, and the negociations of several of which are almost complete. Hokitika, June 16.

Two children aged eleven and eight, daughters of Patrick Griffin, sent to look after cattle between the Taipo and Wainui rivers, have been lost since noon on Wednesday. A search party has gone out, but little hopes 'are entertained of their being found alive. Hokitika, June 17. Mr Manton, mineralogist, with twentyfive years’ experience, assayed yesterday, at the Bank, a parcel of Mount Eangitoto ore, as taken direct from the mine, which yielded four hundred and thirty ounces one dwt of silver to the ton of rough ore; the silver is richly impregnated with gold, which is discernable to the naked eye. Mr Kirkland’s assay report regarding this mine is therefore confirmed. Mr Manton is prepared to challenge any person doubting its accuracy. Port Chalmers, June 16. The ships Horra from Glasgow and Oberon from London are at the heads. Dunedin, June 16. The grain market is steady. For wheat quotations are unchanged, viz, good to prime samples, 4s 6d to 4a 8d ; ordinary, 4s 2d to 4s 4d ; ordinary qualities are in full supply, but comparatively little prime grain is at present offering. Prime malting barley is in request at 4s ffd for ordinary. Oats continue in moderate demand : inferior feed, at Is 8d ; good bright do, Is 9dto Is lOi ; milling, Is lid. j