NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Kumara Times, Issue 981, 21 November 1879, Page 2

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. Sa?i October 27. - The shipwrights at Grimsby, England, struck against a resolution of employers to extend working time from 54 to 581 hours weekly. Sir Francis Vvyatt Truscott has been elected Lord Mayor of London. Enghuids miners are organising a great importation scheme to America and Australia. Affairs in Ireland are greatly improving, and the rent agitation continues. The- Empress Eugenie intends sailing next February for Africa, to pray on the spot where the Prince Imperial fell. xV party of masked men attacked two land agents named Smith and Fraser and son, near Castlebar, Ireland. Several shots were fired, and young Fraser was shot dead. One of the attacking party's body was found in a bog hole, and recognised as that of a militiaman. A meeting of all counties and several boroughs in Ireland was held at Dublin, on October 28, and organised an Irish Land League for the reduction of rack rents and to facilitate the transfer of the ownership of the soil to cultivation. Parnell was appointed President. The meeting repudiated the charge of terrorism, deploring the fact that threatening notices had been issued. The Land League will defend tenants threatened with execution. Major O'Gorman wrote to the effect that the Irish had more cause for violence than the French in 1789. Count Minister, German Ambassador at London, had several interviews with the Marquis of Salisbury, explaining the political situation on the Continent. England is strongly favorable to the Austro-Germanic Alliance. anxious that England should joij^^^^^ AFGHANISTAN. The Governor-General of India has transmitted a plan for the future Government of Afghanistan to Home Government, which is being considered in Cabinet, and is highly thought of. It contemplates placing the, Ameer - in a similar relation in the Indian .Government as the Nizam now occupies ; that the army will be officered exclusively by British : a large military force would also occupy the country ; and the Ameer will be guided entirely by the British Resident. Schouvaloff proposed to the Marquis of

Salisbury that Russia shall have jurisdieon Western Afghanistan, while Engshould take possession of the part as far as Hindoo Koosh. Salisbury declined in most emphatic terms, saying England would "hot allow Russia to meddle in any way whatever in the matter. He said (ho future of Afghanistan has to he settled by England exclusively. Schouvaloff persisted, advocating plans suggested by his Government, and, seeing (Salisbury's stubbornness, proposed various other plans of settling the Central Asiatic difficulty, but Salisbury refused to consider his proposition. It is rumored that England obtained assurances from Persia that, in the event of a war between England and Russia, the Shah will not support the latter. The failure of Russia to conquer the Tekke Turkomans induced the Shall to give the pledge to England. AMERICA. San Francisco, October 27. The Hanlon and Courtney rowing match to take place at Mayville, New York, on October 1(5, was an inglorious "fizzle." Courtney's practice and race boats were found almost sawn in two in the boathouse. Hanlon rowed over the course alone making four miles in 33 mins. sees, pulling at the rate of 32 strokes to the minute. This time is the best by 1 min. 14| sees. There is a good deal of ill feeling about the race; The general opinion is that it is a gigantic fraud. Both Hanlon and Courtney are believed to be jirivy to the destruction of the boats. • The understanding was that the purse of 6000dols. should be shared equally if Hanlon was allowed to win. An outbreak of Indians occurred at *"* Colorado, United States, when Major Hombnry, in command of three corps of was ambushed by 700 savages near Milk River. According to the orders of the Indian Department, the troops did not fire until fired upon. The extent of ambush was then discovered. Major Hornby ordered a charge, and fell fighting ;15 killed and 40 wounded. The troops retreated to the wagon train, which was used as a fortification. Like the British at Rorke's Drift, only a handful of men were lit for duty ; Captain Payne, commander, being wounded, also the surgeon. Nearly all the animals in the train were killed. The Indians established a regular seige. The troops had seven days provisions. A scout ran the gauntlet and brought the news in a short space of time, 1200 men were got together, and advanced to the relief of the beseiged, but two days before General Merritt°arrived, the captain of a colored regiment and 40 men traversed a difficult country and forced his way into Payne's camp, and saved the command from extermination. The fire was incessant for seven days, and the stench from the" dead animals oppressive. The evening General Merritt arrived he had a skirmish with the enemy, who drew oh*. The troops arrived at the White River Agency on October 12 and found the buildings destroyed. The bodie3 of eight white men, including the Indian Agent, were lying dead and mutilated. The women and children were carried off, but were surrendered uninjured. On October 29 a collision between a passenger train on the Baltimore Ohio Railroad, at the rate of 40 miles an hour, resulted in the death of several persons and injury to others. Strikes for advance of wages are very numerous all over the Western States. The men generally have had their demands acceded to. Cigar makers in Chicago get 2dols per thousand advance. Iron w orkers and cabinetmakers more frequently strike. An incendiary fire destroyed the wing of Bethany College, West 'Virginia, to" gether with the valuable library. The suburb of -Montreal was burned, leaving two hundred poor people homeless. Murphy, pedestrian, won O'Leary's Belt and 15,000 dols. at New York. The steamship Cybele, which arrived at Quebec from Glasgow, reports the loss of Captain Stevens, who was swept overboard during a heavy gale. Sir Francis Hicks, President of the Consolidated Bank, Montreal, has been convicted for publishing false statements regarding the bank ; six other directors and the manager are on trial. Nearly a million sterling of gold arrived at New York from Europe during three days ending 22nd October. About 1,000,0000z5, arrived from Bremen on the 25th. Since the resumption of specie payment, about thirteen millions sterling have arrived in specie. Nine men fell down a shaft at the Lio-'a Brodie Mine, California, 4000 ft. Five were picked up dead, and the remainder were seriously hurt. Two men were recently killed at San Francisco during a Sunday balloon ascent from Wood's Gardens. The Grand Stand at the Michigan State Fair, Adrian, fell, precipitating 2,000 people among the exhibits and the large <*owd below. Sixteen were killed and 7.=] injured. Several subsequently . Vn accident on the Michigan Centra] Railroad at the Air Line Junction, neai Detroit, resulted in the death of 25 and wounding 31 persons. S switch engine and freight cars colL with the Pacific Express, bonne West, with emigrants. The Apache Indians in New Mexia slaughtered 40 whites in five days. Larg. numbers are on the war pah', and evi dently intend making a stand in the Ri< Grande Valley, near Colorado. Murder; are of daily occurrence. The body, of Dr Lemogni, the famou cremationist, was reduced to ashes in hi; own furnace, at Pittsborough, on Octobe 16.