ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 835, 26 February 1877, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

DEATH OP CAPTAIN FERRIES.

Auckland, February 26

Arrived —The Zealandio. She left San Francisco three days late. Captain Ferries died of heart disease live days after leaving. Ho had been sick several days in San Francisco. Passengers for New Zealand—General Bridge, John Hyde Harris, Sir Mathew Woods, and Mr Wainwright. From Honolulu —Hon Young, {Canadian commissioner, come to report on New Zealand and Australian products. The Rotorua not having arrived from Sydney, the Taranaki will leave with the San Francisco mail this afternoon. hail summary;

L number of £ashi Ennouks crossed the Danube and plundered the Roumanian outposts. The commander of Sabstria was ordered to punish them at any cost. The relief works and measures to relieve the famine in Bombay and Madras are esti mated at six and half millions sterling. The Servian General, Totennatieff, relieved himself at Prague with incessant orations favourable to Russia. The authorities interfered, and the police escorted him over the tne Saxony frontier. As he showed a disposition to resist, force was threatened. • '1 he British ship Adatredale, bound fm Bas Francisco with coal, was totally de-

stroyed by fire. The crew, numbering twenty.three, set out for Marquesas Island, over two thousand miles distant. One boat capsized in a gale, but all were saved except one. After twenty six days in open boats, and undergoing great sufferings, they arrived safely. In the event of a war split is expected in the British Parliament, the Liberals arc dividing under the opposite leadership of Hartington and Gladstone ; and Oonserva* tives dividing through known differences between Salisbury and Beaconsfield. The Porto has warned Servia that no armistice will be granted beyond the Ist March.

The Countess Howe, through grief at the death of her husband, threw herself from a window and was killed, A fire occurred at Stonehall coal mine, Bolton. Fifteen are known to be killed. Commercial intercourse between Russia and China is suspended owing to Chinese suspicious being excited by Russian exploring expeditions. It is"said that Servia and Turkey agreed to accept the statu quo ante helium as the basis of a treaty for peace negotiations. It is reported that Russia will not oppose Seivian peace negotiations, in order that should war arise Servia may be invaded as Turkish territory. The Porte has sent a despatch to its representatives abroad, giving notice of the appointment of three Christian Governors, and that reforms were proceeding unremittingly. American troops were again defeated by the Indians.

The revolutionists, at Eucador, defeated the President’s troops in a bloody battle. The revolutionists expected to enter Quito. The steamers George Cromwell, from Hull, and George Washington, from Halifax—the former with thirty and the latter with thirty-onejpassengers —were totally lost. The Roumanians are redoubts opposite the Turkish fortress at Waddeu. Prince Gortschakoff is dangerously ill. It is reported that he is likely to resign, owing to the Emperor’s unwillingness to declare war.

The American ship Uakata was struck by lightning and burnt. The captain and his wife escaped, and were rescued after being in a boat four days. The Freemasons have refused to recognise negroes. A fight occurred, whites against blacks, in South Carolina.