ADDITIONAL NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Kumara Times, Issue 743, 15 February 1879, Page 2

ADDITIONAL NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

("NiiW UfiAbAtfo press association*.] Auckland, February 14. The Steamship Australia as detained for $6 hours ill Sah Ei'ftUolsco On account of the nOn-ftrrival of the English tnailsi January 21; The Birmingham library has heed burnt, destinyiug 80,00 d volumes. Princess Caroline of Hesse is dead. The troops at Peshawur and Afghanistan are settled dbWtl at winter quarters. All Imposing ditrhar \tf<is held Ufj tfellalahad oil the Ist inst. by General Si Browm The ffeeling is friendly, and the health of the trdups good. Siewart’ij command is damped at Ghudnee road) aftel niarching through Citudahar. Russia wants a prolongation of the time of occupation. ( .. ; The German Government \,Vlll force the Samoans to grant satisfaction of dll demands. The American steamer Bulgarian iu totally wrecked off the Welsh coast. The Oldham, cotton strike is oVer. the ! freedom of the eity on account (it the Cork affair. Giant elaborately tfaU feted in Belfast. The distress in England is harrow* ing., 6500 persons are daily I‘elleved at Manchester aidnC. Sir J. Stephens, Jndge of the High Court of Justice, W. Lake, and Sir Anthony Cussaby have resigned. Gladstone will contest Midlothian at the next election.M. O- iilas and Co., TiOildon, merchants, have tailed for £BO,OOO. Twenty persona were killed by A recent collision at the Warsaw railway. A second vessel, fully laden, has left New York for Sydney, with American articles to exhibit at the August Inter* - national Exhibition. The ship Donnerdale and barque J. D. Peters have beeri chartered. The Oxford Boat Club declines to row the Harvard Club. *