ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 744, 7 November 1876, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

(.Per Press Agency, ) ADDITIONAL NEWS. A fire occurred at Pickering and Abbott’s cotton mills, at Blackburn. The damage amounted to £20,000. The Industrial Bank at Newcastle-on-Tyne has suspended payment, with losses to the amount of £IOO,OOO. Cape advices state that the position in the Transvaal Republic is alarming. Owing to the defeat of the Dutch troops, the natives became unmanageable. The Kaffrea have driven back the Boers, and the latest telegrams confirm the report that there is an absolute panic, and that the outlying Caff res triumphed all along the line, and that while the friendly Amaswazix tribe of Caffres behaved with reckless bravery, the Dutch citizen troops displayed the white feather. President Burghers was so disgusted with the cowardice of the Boers, that he implored them to shoot him then and there, that he might not survive the ignominy of the defeat. -According to the last intelligence, the Dutch people fear a Kaffir invasion, and there is a panic throughout the Transvaal. Gulf King is leading 40,000 men to the attack, and the Transvaal is threatened with a wholesale massacre of the Boers. For the present there is no danger of a native outbreak at the Cape, but it is manifest that the Transvaal Boers will require military assistance from us. For this reason reinforcements have left for Capetown. Lord Derby, in a despatch to Sir Henry Elliott, the British Ambassador, re the Bulgarian atrocities, directed him to demand a personal interview with the Sultan, to communicate Mr Baring’s report, and demand reparation and justice to the Bulgarians, the immediate rebuilding of houses, churches, and provision for the restoration of industries, and assistance to persons reduced to poverty. The Sultan was favourable to the acceptance of Lord Derby’s programme for the autonomy of the provinces, but the Turkish Government is so exasperated by the Russian influx into Servia, that the Sultan would have been deposed had he accepted. Russia chose to interrupt the programme, assuming the virtual dismemberment of Turkey, which also prevented its acceptance. In the battle of the 28th of September, one Servian battalion went into battle 900 strong, and next day only forty answered to the roll call.

The Gibbon Wakefield bust, sculptured by Mr Joseph Durham, 8.A., presented by his admirers, has been placed in the vestibule of the Colonial Office

In consequence of the loss of the Strathmore, the Admiralty has decided to order cruisers to visit uninhabited islands when passing. The Wolverine, now bound for the Australian station, will accordingly examine the Grozets.

At the Philadelphia Exhibition, the fol lowing New Zealand awards were made up to 3rd October. The other exhibits remained to be examined. Canterbury five awards for wool, viz, W. 8. Peter, Samuel Bealey, John Hall, J. 0. Wason, and F. M. Rickman , For wheat and cereals, Christchurch —W. D. Wood, R. Wilkin, E. H. Banks, P Cunningham, and J. Cox; phormium fibre, Charles Chinnery. Nelson, one iward for wool —George Ansley. Welling ton Wool, A. Braithwaite ; feather furs, Hector, Liardet. Kauri pine, Walter, Auckland. Wood extract, W. S. Grayling, Taranaki.

Cape news states that Kaffire Town has been taken, and 170 killed and 5000 huts burned. The canal from Amsterdam to the North Sea has been opened.

Mr Disraeli, in a speech before the Buckinghamshire farmers, defended the Govern*

ment policy, and attributed the Servian declaration of war to the actien of secret societies. Meetings protesting against the Turkish atrocities and the Government action continue throughout England. Intelligence from Dahomey states that a blockade has been established, and is still maintained by Commodore Hewitt, but the King of Dahomey will not pay his fine of palm oil, and has got up a little blockade of his own. He has closed the inland lagoon against English trade, and has strictly prohibited his subjects from dealing with the English merchants.

A war panic on the St Petersburgh Stock Exchange sent down stocks and raised discounts to fourteen per cent. There has been a great religious revival under Moody and Sankey at Chicago. A Spanish loan of fifteen millions for the Cuban war expenses has been issued. The failure of the Iceland fishing season has caused great distress, and eighteen hundred have emigrated to Canada. Grasshoppers are causing great destruction in Texas. Fifteen hundred armed Austrian Sclavonians entered Bosnia and urged the Christians to insurrection. A secret alliance is reported between the Emperors of Austria, Russia, and Germany. A dispatch from Rome reports a very serious and even alarming illness of the Pope and Cardinal Antonelli. The Pope has been able to take his walks in the garden of the Vatican until lately. Sir Thomas White, a member of the Board of Aldermen, has been elected Lord Mayor of London. At Cork a ferry boat was swamped in Foughall Harbor and fourteen persons drowned, nearly all being farmers and their wives. Count Von Arnim has been sentenced to penal servitude for one year. Further news of Chinese persecutions is to hand from Lyechin. Placards hostile to Christians and Europeans were posted in various places in the market. About nine o’clock on the morning of 20th, 4000 or 6000 armed men drew round to prevent the Christians from escaping. They manufactured a large wooden cross, and tied on it all the Christians they could catch, and then cut them in pieces. The number of persons killed was eight. The houses of the Christians were pillaged, and about thirty other persona are missing. On the 22nd the brutes went to the market of Pelinowcher, where they murdered four more Christians.

ENGLISH SHIPPING. Arrived—Countess of Kintore, on September 6th ; Waipara, on September 6th. Sailed, from Gravesend, for Canterbury— Rangitikei, on September Bth, with 320 immigrants and about twenty saloon passengers, passed Deal same day; September 18th, Valparaiso, 730 tons, to sail for Lyttelton ; Cardigan Castle, September 27th ; Waipa, October 16th. COMMERCIAL. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Circular reports on September 21st: —“ Wool—Arrivals to date, 144,430 bales, which will probably be increased to 170,000 bales, in addition to 30,000 bales withdrawn from last sales. There is a fair extent of private enquiry, principally from the Continent. Tallow—P.Y.C, new, 47s 3d; Australian mutton, fine, 44s 6d to 45s 6d; ditto medium, 43s 6d to 445; Australian beef, fine, 43s to 43s 6d; medium, 41s 6d to 42s 6d. Preserved meats—Boiled mutton, 61b and 41b tins, s|d to s|d; 21b tins, 7d to 7|d; boiled beef, 6fd to 7£d. The corn market shows a firmer tendency. New Zealand wheat 45s to 47s per 4961bs ; New Zealand flour, 30s to 33s 6d per 2801bs ; New Zealand hemp, £l9 to £22. Securities —New Zealand four and half consolidated, 95J to 96£; Bank of New Zealand, 2l| to 21J; National, S£ to 3|; City of Dunedin, sixes, 105£; New Zealand Trust and Loan, 3| to 3|; Otago and Southland Investment, I£.