ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Kumara Times, Issue 434, 15 February 1878, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

[press agency.] Auckland, February 14. Arrived—City of Sydney. The passage was prolonged by unusually heavy gales and confused sea. Passengers for New Zealand—Messrs Ralph, Fisher, Jackson, and Conroy. . Mukhta Paaha has been appointed to the command of the army of defence of Constantinople. Fugitives are arriving at Constantinople by thousands. Commissioner Layard writes to the Baroness Burdett Coufcts that “ the distress is terrible.” Midhat Pasha is in London. ■ A strong demand is made at Constantinople for his return. Baker Pasha has been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General in the Turkish Army. Archibald Forbes, war correspondent, reports terrible suffering by the array of invasion. Words cannot describe the misery of the situation on the Danube. The Russians suppress telegrams with a view of preventing the state of affairs becoming known in Kurope. , Spotted typhus has broken out j among the Turkish prisoners in i Trateschi and neighborhood. It is whispered it is a plague. | Germany and Italy demand for their fleet the same privileges in Turkish waters as England. The London Times special of the , 4th i eports a heavy battle near Tartar | Bazaajek, between Radetsky and the | Turkish force falling hack from Sbiti- | man, A victory is claimed by both j sides. ! The Turks are bombarding the towns i in the Crimea, and causing irritation at . St. Petersburg, seeing that peace hegotiations are proceeding, j Erzeroum is little better than a huge i hospital. A hundred soldiers die daily, j two or three being frozen to death every ; ’ught. Typhus fever is raging,.and the j corpses are barely covered with earth. ; The consequences are terrible. | If peace negotiations fail, the Saltan | will unfurl the flag of the Prophet, and I cmII on the faithful to rally to the stanjdard. I The latest despatch, dated London, | January 20th, says the Turkish peace' delegates were received with military honors by the Grand Duke Nicholas. Austria demands a voice in all peace negotiations, and will not recognise a peace concluded without her consent. The Austrian position is regarded as an understanding with England. Vienna, January 20. A Pesth special says—lzzed Pasha conveys to the Turkish Plenepotentiaries full powers, and will inform them that England is not likely to go to war. Another correspondent says negotiations are commenced. It is stated that the Plenepoten tiaries have been instructed they may offer to make Batoum a free port and cede tet ritory on the Asian frontier, nearly as far as Kars, and dismantle the fortifications of Kars and Erzeroum. They also propose the following programme for discussion by a European Conference: Balkans to be considered southern limit a Bulgaria and Romnania being independent. The Dardanelles to be open to men of war of all nations; settlement nf Montenegrin and Servian question will be temporarily deferred until difficulties already arisen be reported on. Russians demand that Adrianople be included iu Bulgaria, also cession of Batoum and opening the Dardanelles to Russian and Turkish men-of-war. only. EUROPEAN SUMMARY. Lord Derby has recovered, and will resume his Parliamentary duties immediately. M. Gambetta desires to have the French Chamber adjourned throughout the summer to ensure political quiet during the International Exhibition. A Cape Town despatch says an engagement took place at Ramgah, in which the British troops were successful, Volunteers - are eagerly enrolling. Dr Metchiks, member of the Hungarian Parliament, has been convicted of high treason. The (British Parliament opened on 17 th January. The Queen’s Speech states the cause of the • early assembling to be the war in Europe, The Address in reply to the speech was moved- in the' House of Lords bv Earl Wharn.cliffe seconded by - Earl Loudon, and in the. House of Commons by Mr V ilbraham Eyreton, Seconded by Mr Robert Tenant. of Leeds. ; ■ * ■ :•

Budget of Russia shows a deficit of 600,398,425 silver roubles. '

At the forthcoming Postal Congress, France proposes.an international post office, at 1 per cent tax, the rate of exchange to be adjusted by congress. Cholera deaths at Mecca average daily 60, and at Jeddah 38, The vote in the Spanish Cortes on Alphonsonites stood 389 in favour, to 4 opposed. The Queen, in a dispatch to the Sultan, expresses sympathy for him, and says she will follow the counsels of her ministers. Cardinal Manning will negotiate with the British Goverment for the removal of the obstacles to the reestablishment of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy in Scotland. 1 he London Times and other journals estimate that the fourth quarter of the fiscal year will show a deficit of nearly six millions on the budget. 100,000 persons were present at the funeral of M. Raspail. Native companies have been formed for the development of Chinese mineral resources. A Japanese ship of war, the Teld Kuwan, built and wholly fitted up in Japan, manned and officered by natives, is about to start on a cruise in the Mediterranean. M. Gambetta’s tone to the French Republic is, “ Delay and prudence.” The Consett Iron Company, of London, the largest makers of ship plates in the world, are contracting their business. lii a letter Garibaldi exhorts Kin<* Humbert to follow in his father’s foo£ | steps. | Aheavy fire occurred in the warehouse j of Crocker, Sons, and Co, of Watlingi street, London,’ the largest that' has | happened for years. The loss was £200,000. , D. M‘Gregor and Co., merchants and steamship owners, .of Leith, have failed. Liabilities £IOO,OOO .. ; to £150,000. Mr M‘Gregor resigned his seat in Parliament. The ex-Queen Isabella insists on .attending the marriage of. her son, but the .Government refuse to alloy her to enter Spain. ; . ; : , , • i unknown map committed suicide by leaping from tho gallery at st, ; Pau|’s. :, : £*., , , ;1 A demand has been raaHehy several French Republican papers .’ to remove the present commanders of several army corps who are Buonopartist, Joseph Anderson and Sons, provision dealers of London, failed for £200,000. Mexico resumes diplomatic relations with France, and participates in the Exhibition. _ The result of the Triennial Municipal Elections in France, was a large Republican gain. Corporal Chambers is the only remaining military Fenian prisoner not released. The barque Penestro, from Cardiff for Constantinople, was run down in the British Channel.' King Humbert, of Italy, has issued a proclamation pledging, himself to carry out his late father’s policy. The funeral of Sergeant M‘Carthy, who died shortly after his release from prison, was attended by 60 000 persons. The verdict of the Coroner’s jury was that he died from heart-disease, accelerated by the treatment received in prison. AMERICA. Mr Creighton, agent for New Zealand in San Francisco, sends by City of New York, a consignment of half a million of white fish eggs. The barque G. M. Tucker has been chartered in New York for Dunedin and Wellington. The Stella Kitb, schooner, with a crew of thirteen men, natives of South Boston, foundered at sea recently. Stage Superintendent M‘Kenna, paptnred at Hillsborough, Ohio, on the 15th had purchased a property there with proceeds of last summer’s plunder. He had married and settled down. Genera! M'Clellan has been installed Governor of New Jersey. War is threatened between Guatemala and Porta Rica. Guatemala invites immigration, and is sending out agents to induce it. The Spanish Government have proposed peace with the insurgents in' Cuba. . President Hayes intends to. make the Chinese question a"'subject' 6f message to Congress. ; General O’Neill, the Fenian, ia dead.