ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

Kumara Times, Issue 694, 18 December 1878, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

[press AGENCY.] AtidKLAND, December it. The iriail steamer Zealandia has arrived. Passenger for Greytnouth 3 Mr, F. Hamilton. EUROPEAN SUMMARY. London, November 29. The Clyde shipbuilders strike is over’. It is probable that the Duke of Edinburgh will be made a Rear-Admiral. Fourton and Garabetta have fought a duel ; neither were wounded. The latter' will be prosecuted by the Government. A Federalist plot has been discovered among the Spanish naval officers at Carthagena. The Rhodope insurrection! has ended. The Porte accepts the principle of the rectification of the Greek frontier -tfith the Thessaly line. Russia wants t d re-open negotiations regarding a definitive treaty. St. Petersbugh papers areadvised by the Government to be moderate in their language against foreign powers-.-The Russian army in the Asiatic provinces has been placed ott a war footing. The forts of Eapion, Eiagzana, Ali Masj id, and Sebi have been captured. The loss at Ali Musjid was 300. The iron and cotton trade in England is depressed. Coal pits and shuttling mills are closing daily, those in operation working short time and at reduced wages. Amy Sheridan, the actress, is dead.The Shropshire Handicap was won by Orontes. Storms of great severity have otecurred in the north of England and throughout Scotland. A committee endeavouring' to force the’ early assembling of Parliament, with a view to inquiry into the Afghan affair, was snubbed by Lord Beaconsfield,The Lancashire Handicap was won by Sir Joseph Towers. The subscription for the relief of the j Glasgow Bank shareholders- reached i £803,000. The depositors are asked to' ! accept 15a in the £. The High Court Justiciary definitely refused to bail more directors ; they are'committed for theft. Gray and Go., iron founders’, Scotland, have failed ; also Robert a colfiery proprietor, of Glasgow north. Cardinal Howard has declined the' Archbishopric of Dublin/ Sothern, the actor, has broken down’ his physicians rbcbnimferid long! retire” ment. There was a strike of the - Clyde iron Workers on the 28th.- The' Engineers Society agree with Elder', and have discharged 1200 raeri. The Shrewsbury Cup Was won by Sunrise. The England Carriage Company has' suspended. Wright Company's- liabilities are one million ; assets, nothing. The Glasgow House only fails. Garriar Pages, the French historian, is dead. Ther Paris Exposition, dosed on the 9th. The receipts since the opening have' bfeen 12,053,756 francs (£474,515 13s 6d>. Nnncari, who- attempted to* assassinate' i the King of Spain has been sentenced to’ death. Bismarck's d’aughtet* Marie is man-fed to-Count Rant Zan. Prussia’s deficit- for the- fiscal year is 78,000,000 marks. A belief is current that a plot exists-for the assassination? of all the- sovereigns of Europe. _ Giovanni Possaniti attempted to .assassinate King Umbeto, while the latter was entering Naples. He scratched the King’s l4ft arm, and' infl etsd a wound on bis--

thigh. Signor Cairola was aitting beside him in the carriage. -4 . Norwich, (undated* During a freshet 4000 houses wtero rendered and losb of lite ensued; AMERICAN SttMMARY. , .By an explosidn at the Sullivan. coal mine, Pennsylvania, 13 people were killed', and many,wounded; , A new line. pf steaniejfs is eskbliahed between New York and China, tbeomtiete with the route via England. It is pr,opos«id to abolish the rebiprdcifcy treaty With the Sandwich Iskndk t#& loss in the revenue is heavy. " ' A party of women hi Michigan fejJre'll arid feathered an editor. - 1 . Rear-Admiral Amon) Unitdd States Navy, recommends, the Nicaragua route 1 for the '(Ship cariah id cost 50,000,000 dollars. The body, of Stewart; of New York £ millionaire, has beeh stolen from ike Howe offers a reward fdr its retiii'iii Twd p'arties have been arretted. Great loss of life atid property ddcurrecl' during gales dri the liorthern lake\ - The Fishery award df ?,400jb00 dbllarS has. been paid to Canada;. The dteaiiiship Georgia is IdsV rena*! (?) charged the" gaptain with iht'oxi* cation' in the dttbiin The yellow fever has" disappeared from the Southern States. Rulofcon,. photographer, San FrailciSedj was killdd through falling from, a rtipt:;' The results of Ihd late elections favdur" the Republidans. " Some women, other than deritiids 1 , Heidi a niass meeSng at SaWtiake, arid eildorsed polygamy. . The New Ydrk and Bostdii baulks oppose the silver currdhcy; "Duke' Magfata," a fairiddS doit,,had beeh s,ent to England by the b'wper, Pierd Darrill, and will cdrapete with English horsesi . Manuel PafcjiJ, di<ftesideis of Penij has been assassinated: ',_\ . An earthquake destroyed several b'itieß in Salvador', South America. It is proposed that a vote of the p/dopie, of California be takeii on the Subject of urireslriofed Chiriese emigration. l ; ' ; " ';