ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL, AT AUCKLAND.

Kumara Times, Issue 741, 13 February 1879, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL, AT AUCKLAND.

[press agency.] Auckland, February 13, The steamship Australia has arrived from San Francisco, bringing the European and American mails with dates to 2nd and 20th ult. respectively, of which the following is a general summary of news : Fearful distress prevails in the manufacturing districts of England. Five hundred agricultural labourers left in a body for New Zealand. The Cornish Bank, Truro, has failed, alter an existence of 110 years. The deposits amounted to £5.000,000. There is great financial trouble in couseqncnc in West Cornwall. The Town Council of Cork absolutely refused General Grant a reception, and charged him with auti-Catliolic ■sentiments. Beifa.it and other northern cities made more elaborate manipulations in his honor as a consequence, European capitalists refuse the Russian lean unless her armies in Turkey are withdrawn, and no fresh wars in \sia undertaken. Russia reduces the indemnity cl dm against Turkey by 10U,UUU,000 roubles.

At the great Council at Geneva, Switzerland accepted the principle pf separation of oh arch and state#* - r

An attempt Was made by an insane man on the life Of the Emperor of Austria.

An hotel-keeper at Copenhagen has been arrested for threatening the life of the Danish King. The Duke of Cumberland left Copenhagen because Prussia expressed displeasure at his residence there* The revenue of Great Britain shows an increase ,£1,803,485 for 1878 over the preceding year.

There is a general organisation going on of all trades in England, for the purpose of resisting an extension of the hours of labor.

England and Scotland have sufferedmuch by floods. The country around □aldington and Wrexham was submerged for many miles. Ice floated down the Thames, and steamboat traffic between Chelsea and Woolwich was suspended. Tne rumor is revived that Duke Connaught is to be.ome Viceroy of Ireland.

The Duke of Edinburgh will be appointed Admiral on a Noi*th American station. He wid repair to Halifax, Nova Scotia, with the Duchess in early summer. On the 18 th December there was a run on the London and County Bank t Lombard street, which began from the fact of an idle crowd assembled in front of the building, where a cabmen’s dispute Was going on. This gave rise to a report that the Bank was in danger. The steamship Oheron is totally lost in White Biy, near Queenstown, Ireland. Every member of the North Wales Miners Union who desires to emigrate t‘> America is promised £7 ] those who sro to Australia receive £l4. The North Wales Slate Qnarrvraens’ Union offer the same terms. It is believed many will accept, as most of the smaller quarries remain closed.

The Standard’scoiTespOnderttat Rome says the Jesuits have sent to the P..pe a kind of ultinl ituui) pointing out the evils resulting from then'exclusion from the government of the Church. The Pope is firm, and many of his friends fear the consequences.

The construction of Barracks for 150,000 men on the Constantinople lines of defence has been opened. A despatch from Vienna to London hints that the delay in the signature to the Russian and Turkish convention is due to a revival of Russian influence in Constantinople, and intrigues to prolong occupation.