ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Kumara Times, Issue 812, 8 May 1879, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

AT AUCKLAND. [press agency.] - . Auckland, May 7. The City of Sydney arrived ftt silt o'clock this morning; with dates from .Sail Francitico to April 15. Passengers for New Zealand : Messrs Malison, - Lewis, Stevenson, and wife, Clark r and eight steerage. She brings 195' tons cargo, and 314 bags maize. EUROPEAN NEWS. ■’ r . ; London, April 14. No attention is to 'be paid to the Sultan’s authority in the settlement of the Egyptian difficulty. Business is stagnated atCairb. Twenty more Durham.collierfcgtruck . at Durham. Thirty thousand colliers are noWidle. . The military were called- out to suppress discontented operatives at, Blackburn. 12,000 looms are gtopjjpd, '- ’ and 5000 weavers ateJdle, v ..s The Times, driticuling . the Canadian, i tariff, says “ every branch of industry will be crippled.” !-! ’ ■ • ,The. Duke of Neweastlg’s chajnbgftf ; .;, house has been partiallybijrned. The mutilated body of Mrs Thomas,, a widow, had been found iu a bojc ih the Thames. ; ; A servant . been rJ ., arrested!" ,; '-T The village of Varnjoichy burned. ' • France declined to participate inf the proposed mixed: Government for ‘ Rpumelia. ' ‘ . Grevy i& issuing pardons ths-* Communists: as fast as possible. ; The German Emperor andJSismarck daily receive threatening letters! , In an attdmpt made to assassinate.the Prince of Servia, his attendant wia "• •- wounded. •’ - Forty persons were ; bttried sin an avalanche in the TyrPlJ - Kwc-tf/?/ An Austrian colonel has been murdered by brigands • There are ,17,,p00 suffers jby the Szegedin disaster, "who are still sup-. v ported by charity. ' Twenty thousand Russians’ have crossed - tlie ’ Caspian boundaries -to. Merve.- •’ Russia is negotiating with Spain for some islands in the North Pacific!: Eight officers of the Imperial Guard have been murdered in Moscow^in consequence of the assassination of a Gov? ernment spy. - ! , . Toddleben declares that wards the only solution of thed^teriLßoit^ißni ■: ■ difficulty, t The plague has disappeared: from Astrakan. ; , ' l '*T Russia concludes a new convention with China, and Surrenders Kuldja. The Pope wrote welcoming the Queen to Italy, ’ s ’ The Catholics are opposing Protestant schools in Rome, supported by foreign money. The Pope appeals to Catholics to subscrilre for their own schools,. A sharp correspondence is inking plaice between Sir Barbie Frere and the Secretary of Stale rfe the Zulu wariiThb ‘ latter censures Frere for beginning war without the Imperial’ authority! but says he does not desire to Withdraw their confidence in the present r Egyptian officers who to suppress tfie slave trade in'South Africa, defeated the chief trader/.aud ’ 11,000 Arabs :fled.: . ; , i.a • A. terrible famine has oconred in Upper Egypt, Many of the inhabitants are running about like wild; beasts, dig-

giug loots.