NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 815, 22 August 1870, Page 4

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

We extract the following items of English and foreign intelligence by the above route from the Evening Post, August 17, which have been /supplied to that journal by electric telegraph from Nelson. Auckland, 14th August. Arrived, the City of Melbourne. She Jeft Honolulu at daylight on the 26th July, with San Francisco news to the 10th. On her upwarl voyage left Auckland on 7th July, and arrived at Honolulu on the ■23rd. The Ajax took her passengers and cargo the following morning; she had fine wind and weather throughout. On her return to Auckland she experienced favorable wind and weather; but on the 4th broke the cross head off the after engine. Sighted Poor Knights at 5 a.m , and ar rived at 2 p m., after a passage of eighteen days and nine hours. Passengers -Caotain Baldwin, Mr Coates, Mr W. Anderson, Mrs Harell; Mr Rich, Mail Agent; 3 steerage. For Sydney, 11 cabin and 7 steerage; for Melbourne, 8 saloon and 2 steerage. Cargo.—For Auckland, 1009 kesjs and 216 bags of sugar; for Sy Iney, 1"61 bags pad 660 kegs sugar, 112 ba©3 dried shrimps, &c. . SPECIAL FOR NEW ZEALAND. [San Francisco Bulletin.] London, 9th July. Tallow (beef) healthy; all sold at 43s to 43s 6d.; sheep, 455. Wool in good demand ; quarterly sales spirited; conti' nental purchases large ; prices firm ; arrivals large, but rapidly cleared. Hides steady ; firm market expected. Flax firm ; large sales made ; stock cleared, and steady demand for the future anticipated. Kauri gum firm, and market cleared. Liverpool, 9th. Wheat, 103 3d to 10s 4d per cental. GENERAL-LATEST. Paris, 9th, 10 p.m. The Moniteur says, respecting the Hohenzollern affair, that the abandonment of the present project by Prussia is not enough j France must prevent a recurrence, and demand liberty for South Grer jnany, the evacuation of Mayence, the renunciation of military influence beyond the Maine, and the settlement of the Schlesvyig-Holstein question with Denpiark. 11 p.m. If the silence of Prussia continues till Monday, French troops will be ordered to the Rhine on Tuesday. Great riots at Cork, and strikes in various parts of the United Kingdom ; also on the Continent, chiefly among iron founders. In Mulhousen, near Stras bu?gh, there is said to be sixty thousand out, and large bodies of troops were sent to keep the peace. health quite restored. In June, eighteen thousand left Liverpool for America—nine-tenths to New York.

SPECIAL. June 19th. —Strike on the continent spreading rapidly. All iron foundries stopping ; believed to be ordered by Central Committee of the International League. English and German Unions each sent a thousand pounds to support the move snent, and will send more if required. The masters in Cork hired a number o ! German tailors. The Irish tailors held a meeting and struck. Soon after rioting began, and a number of citizens aiding the police were stabbed by the rioters; birri cades thrown up ; several houses assailed, and shops attacked; many arrests made. A deputation, representing 60 thousand Lancashire operatives, to the committee of cotton manufacturers at Blackburn to-day, asked an increase of wages. The answer was that wages would be raised five per cent., if prices of goods after harvest should warrant. The Cork riots renewed ; hand to hand fighting; several constables wounded; great excitement; damage to persons and property serious. 24tb; —Brigett's great lace factory, Nottingham, burned. A quantity of loaded bombs found in an empty house at Lime rick. Cork riots subsiding. Carpet wea vers threaten to strike for higher wages. 27th. —Some cotton manufacturers have raised wages ; others hold out. Strike in Cork general; laborers in all departments of industry leaving work ; steamers and foundries abandoned ; Lockmere stopped ; women stay at home ; news boys reiuse to sell papers; no violence, but anxiety intense. In Cork, quiet is nominally restored; business of all kinds at a standstill. 4th July.— Grand reception Crystal Palace to Lesseps. Admiral Drummond to command Channel Squadron. Clothiers of Cork still importing German workmen. sth.—Earl Derby married ; no display. Prince of Wales to visit Denmark. A Bill for the revision of the Prayer Book passed Housa of Lords. PRANCE. 18th June. Strike of ironfounders tb/oughout the country —chiefly sustained by money from English trade unions. 26th. —Carpet factory burned in Beauvales, throwing eight hundred operatives out of work. July Ist. —No apparent diminution of the fajnall-pox, Minister of War declares

army ready to move at first signal. One corps was to operate agaiust Spain. A NEW YORK. Evangelical Alliance to meet from the 25th September to 3rd October. 5,000 delegates will bo present by invitation; 300 from Great Britain. loth. —Fares to San Francisco have been reduced to 130 dols., fi>afc class. The English mail from Australia, via San Francisco, forwarded to-day. 300,000 dols. have been fixed as a subsidy for the new Australian line, and thirty days out for tenderers. Revenue for the year 400,000,000 dols.; 'debt reduced for month by 15,000,000 dols. Great decay in American shipping; no steamers running between America and Europe under the American flag, although 160,000 tons are employed. The treatment of Jews in Eoumania, though exaggerated, has been cruelly inhuman. Greeek Christians there are very ignorant. The Jews number half a million. LATEST—SPECIAL. New Zealand fives, 991 ; sixes, 112. Honolulu Government voted 25,000 dols. for a steam line, suitable for freight as well as passengers. Webb's steamer Nebraska is to come shortly to Wellington and Melbourne on a trial trip. Large sales of flax to Continental buyers is the cause of its improvement. ADDITIONAL ITEMS. Before his death, Lord Arthur Clinton solemnly denied the charges against him. Collection of tolls at 500 gates in England ceased in one day. The Times praises Pullman's cars across America, which reader the trip one of pleasure. Hall's line is considered too slow, and twenty-one days is considered enough between San Francisco and Auckland. San Francisco papers consider a branch line via Fiji inevitable, and the only way to suit all parties, Canal across Isthmus of Corinth announced. Failure, of harvest in France; wheat active on 10th, m Liverpool, 10s 4d. Canterbury Convocation appointed a committee to watch proceedings at the Vatican. Amendment by Pakingfon, that the Bible be read in schools, was lost by a majority of two to one.