ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

Kumara Times, Issue 860, 3 July 1879, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

[NEW ZEALAND TRESS ASSOCIATION'.] Auckland, July 2. The City of New York left San Francisco on June 9th, arriving bete to con tract time. She brings 64 cabin, and 32 steerage- passengers of which 29 cabin and 6 steerage are for New Zealand. Among the passengers is Mr G. E. Barton, M.H.R., new American Consul for, Auckland, and Mr Grifleu formerly Consul at Copenhagen. GENERAL NEWS. London, June 8. The Pope dissolved the marriage heween Prinee Moreleo and his wife, daughter of the late Duke of Hamilton. The lady is about to marry Count Passilo Eestitica of Austria. Emily Soldeue and Powell her husband, obtained a vu'dict agiinst the Manager of the London Philharmonic Theatre for violating copyright, by producing Genevieve de Brabant without license. Stanley, the explorer, was at Zanzibar on last date. Dr Newman is elevate! to the Cardinalate by the Pope who stated when conferring the di tiixion that doing so, he had done signal service to the Sacred Col! go. and to Society. An influeutal assembly of English and American residents at Rome, met on 14th, at the English College, to present congratulations to Caidi- a: Newman on his elevation, together with rich suit of robes, and a complete set of beautifully wrought sacred vessels for ur,e on the altar, subscribed for l>y Roman Catholics of Great Britain. Lady Herbert of 'Lea, read the addresses and made the presentation. Miss Stackpoole presented a beautiful flower piece. Cardinal Newman was supported on the right by Afchbisli >p Gcfchioiian, Primate of all Ireland, and D. Clifford, Bishop of Clinton. Italian pipers are filled witli praise of Cardinal Newman. King Humbert expressed a desire for an interview.

Garibaldi will teside permanently in Jtmne.

In Hungary recent Hoods destroyed 3QOO houses.

The Porte has discontinued neyotiationa with the Ottoman Bank for a loan of £2 > > 00(),000, and intends resuming the project for inification of general tlebt under the auspices of a French Synyicate. • The British ironclad Iron Duke which went ashore at Shanghai, has been again floated. "IT ISN'T MINE!" . 4>. _ She was a stylish young lady of about eighteen years, and to accommodate a friend she took the baby out for an airing. She was wheeling it up and down when an oldish man, very deaf, came along and inquired for a certain person supposed to live in that street. She nearly yelled her head off trying to answer him, and he looked round, c night sialic of the baby, and said, ', Nice child, that. I suppose you feel proud of* him ?"—" It isn't luine 1" she yelled at him —" B->y, eh 1 he looks just like you."—" It isn't miue !" she cried again ; but he nodded his head, and continued, " Twins, eh ] Where's the other one ¥' Despairing of miking him understood by word of month, she pointed to the buby, at herself, and shook her head. " Yes, yes, I see. T'other twin in the house Their father is fond of them, .ofcourse?" Sha turned the perambulator and hunied the other way, but he followed and asked. "Do they kick about much at night.?"—" I'te'll you tnin't mine !" Aw shouted, looking very red in the face.—l "think vou're wrong there," he answered. "Children brought up on the bottle don't thrive very well." She skirted on a run for theg.te, hut before she had opened it, became up and asked, " Have to spank 'em now ard then, I suppose?" She made about twenty gestures in half a minute, and he helped the perambulator through the gate, ard said, '• Our children were all twins, and I'll send my wife to give you s <me advice. You see " But she picked up a flower-pot and flung it at him. He jumped back, and, as she entered the house he called out, " Hope insanity won't break out among the twins !"

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