NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Kumara Times, Issue 1408, 6 April 1881, Page 2

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

[new ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] GENERAL SUMMARY. San Francisco, March 13. Steps have been taken by the New York Municipal Council to put a stop to walking matches in the city, denounced as frauds. Scarlet fever and diphtheria have become epidemic in parts of Canada. A cartridge manufactory, with American machinery, turning out 300,000 per day, has just been put into operation in Constantinople. A mass meeting in sympathy with the Boers was held in Chicago by nine thousand Dutchmen in that city. A case of poisoning from eating canned salmon, occurred in Chicago, ending fatally. Corrosion iu the can caused the poisoning. A great drapery establishment, on the Boulevard Haussman, has been burned down, and several lives were lost. The total losses by insurance c'om-

panies is 7,000,000 francs. Twenty* six persons were injured during the fire. Whole Villages it) Posen, Prussia proper, and Schleswig, are represented as being deserted, the residents emigrating to America. Government is doing all in its power to stay the emigration agents of the United States, 1 but in vain. The Boers, by order of Joubdrt, have dispossessed all the inhabitants' of Uti’echt loyal to the British, and or* dered their homesteads to be burned. Queen Caroline, widow of King Christian XIII., of Sweden, is dead. Portugal has adopted the Marquee treaty with England, which gives the latter Country the right-of-way for mill* tary and commercial purposes, , but makes no concession of territory. Cholera is raging in Chicago, whichf is astributed to the general consump* tion of oleomargerine. ‘ On his return from England, Edward Hanlau, champion oarsman, was a guest of the Atlanta Boat Club, at New York, on March 3rd. A dinner was given in his honor, at which Mayor Grace, the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, and other distinguished persons were present. It is thought the Union Pacific (over* land) Railway will go on to the London market for a loan of £40,000,000 with which to pay the United States Go* vernmeut. The whole sum due to it “from the road is 90,000d015. The steam whaler Mary and Helen, has been purchased by the United States Government, and will be fitted out to go in search of the missing Arctic exploring vessel Jeanette.