NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.
[united press association.]
London, December 20. Subscriptions are being raised in the United States to relieve the Irish distress. The Press warmly approves of the Marlborough House relief fund. The Duke of Edinburgh has purchased Norris Castle, in the Isle of Wight. Baker Pasha has started for his first visit to Aleppo. He has no Executive authority, but his powers enable him to make a thorough investigation of all branches of administration, and to report directly to the Sultan.
An explosion of fire damp occured in a coal mine near Chemnitz. Eighty were killed.
A tenant evicted by Lord Eermoy struck him with a cudgel on the steps of the Limerick Club, and felled him to the earth, where he lay insensible for some time. His assailant received five years' penal servitude. At a meeting of Irish sympathisers, held at Glasgow, a resolution was passed calling for the impeachment pf Lord Beacohsfield and Salisbury. In the North of Ireland the landlords generally are reducing the rents ten to twenty per cent.
Sixty Mahommedan refugees were starved to death at Sofia.
The weather is severe. Wolves are appearing in many parts of France and Germany. Heavy Hoods ,111 the Isthmus of Panama submerged the railroad almost its entire length, flooding.out the Natives along the Hue and destroying much property., The passengers from the steamers could not land, as the Aspiriwall : steamers went to sea to escape the hurricane, which wrecked several vessels in the harbor and do-
stroyed a portion of the Pacific Mail Company's wharf. Three hundred passengers and the freight were delayed. In England the farmers' Alliauce demands reformed land laws.
The-Duke of Richmond, in a speech admitted the necessity of revising the rental, if the dialVess Continued, Government remitting -the -Income Tax where the agricultural depression was not eased; by abatement of the farmers' rent. • '
In consequence of the revival of the Cotton trade, the weavers are demanding increased, wages.
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Kumara Times, Issue 1027, 16 January 1880, Page 2
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