ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

Kumara Times, Issue 790, 12 April 1879, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

[press agency.] Auckland, April 9. The Zealandia, mail steamer, has arrived. She brings 37 saloon and 20 steerage passengers. Amongst the list is Sir T. Eider and daughter, AMERICA. General Sherman, Commander-in-Chief of the United States Army, died four days after his wife. Famine prevails in the most fertile districts of Bolivia and in the thriving city of Rnego, the most important place on the line of the Central Pacific Railroad.

The State of Nevada is nearly obliterated by fire in consequence of a fearful gaie from the west. At times the flames leaped from house to house from block to block with lightning rapidity. The panic-stricken half-clothed people seized handfnls of the most valuable articles, and left all else to the flames. In three hours all the business part of the town was in ashes.

Arrangements are being made to commence the Canada Paoific railway at an early date.

A general revival of trade in America is indicated. A new line of export is the shipment of iron for China.

The colored people are leaving Louisiana in large numbers. Poverty and beggary are predominant throughout the agricultural parts of the States. Kearney, an agitator, is stumping in California for working men in favour of a New State Constitution. The New York World declared at a late session of the Senate of the United States that several senators were so intoxicated that no business could be transacted.

Tildeti is generally believed to be the coming man for nomination as President. The Vanderbilt will case has been compromised and dismissed. The 101st aniversary of Robt. Emmetfc was enthusiastically celebrated at New York on March 8.

A woman has been admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court.' _ A project is on foot to tunnel the north rivet between New York and New Jersey*. Recently an ex-stockbroker, and ten years ago a millionaire, who had given 100,000 dols. to New York Chrches was sentenced in that city to five years imprisonment for theft. RUSSIA.

Col. Khopp, of the gendarmerie, has been strangled by Nihilists. Several secret presses have been discovered at St. Petersburgh and KiefF. In attempting to suppress the latter, .two gendarmes were killed and t\vo wounded. Many arrests of Socialists have been made in Lenreberg and Cracken. Russia protests against the new Turkish loans because her \var indemnity has a prior claim on the country; The Russian Government opposes the investigation of a committee on the plague, and has suppresed the Golos for publishing plague news. A slave footman in St. Petersburgh being attracted by the disease, he and eight of his followers were and their effects burned. - Increased friendliness is seen between the Russians and Turks in the occupied districts, both sides vying in kindness to each other.

The Emperor and Empress of Russia go ( to. the Crimea in the spring. The./grand Duke Nicholas is reported seriously ill.'

The Government has .discovered a plot* to forcibly liberate imprisoned Nihilists.

FRANCE.

Ambert, formerly engineer of the Paris Commune, has been sentenced to fivo years' imprisonment. The south of France has been ravished by destructive storms. Ex-President Macmahon is suffering from opthalmia, complicated with serious general illness.

The Fronch Atlantic cable is reported to, be parted.

Henry Lakay, banker, and President of the Chamber of Commerce, Paris, having become a fraudulent bankrupt, absconded. The French Chamber of Deputies has voted 225,000 francs, for participation in the International Exhibition at Sydney. The Paris journals write furious attacks on Leon Lay, Minister of Finance. Twenty-three sailors who were on their way to Ferrell, to spend the carnival, were drowned by their boat upsetting. ■♦■•■" jV-.: : ' SPAIN.

Work has commenced at the Inter' national Buildings, Madrid, for the position of 1880.

The British steamer Memphis went ashore in the Harbor at Corunna. No lives were lost.

The Spanish ship Murillo atid the British steamer Silistria collided near Skerries. The Murillo afterwards went down. The captain and several are injured, and a number are missing.