SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Kumara Times, Issue 2943, 6 April 1886, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

[united press association.] London, March 13. The Conservatives of Birmingham have abeady had caucuses for the next, genera! election, and (hey have decided to again contest all of the seven districts of the city. Everyone of these is now represented by a Liberal, and the inference is that the Conservatives calculate that the Liberals will not lie as strong in Birmingham at the next e!ection as they were at the last one.

Bradford, York County, has had a clog scare of a serious kind. In January a dog ran mad through the streets, bit twenty persons, and one of them died on March 12th in terrible agony with all the symptoms of hydrophobia. The other nineteen have consequently been thrown into a state of fearful apprehension that they too may be attacked by the disease. M. Pasteur telegraphs that he is unable to send virus to Bradford from Paris. Two patients were to have left for the latter city on March 14. A fund has been started to defray expenses. An orphanage for boys in the town of Voerde, province of Armeberg, was destroyed by fire. Five inmates perished in the flames, and 30 otheis were injured. The station-master whose neglect cr.ised the Mentone and Monte Carlo railway accident committed suicide ai Nice, whither he had fled.

It is expected that the Powers will withdraw the reprint,.! ivea from BSta* Qseece disarms.

The French Government have dpcided to issue a loan of 1,000,000,000 of francs to consolidate the 615,000i000 of six year bonds now outstanding, and to reduce the floating debt. San Francisco, March 14. The upshot of the strike on board the steamship Mariposa is that she sailed to-day with a new crow, : .ll nonunion men. On March 10th the wind blew with hurricane force on the Atlantic. The steamer for America was unable to leave Qaeenstown owing to the violence of the gale. Ships both oiuward and UlWard bound were under bare poles. A London cablegram (Ma.ch 10) says it seems that the appointment of Gladstone's son-in-law to a valuable Crown rectorship was the compliment paid by the new Lord Chancellor without the knowledge of the Prime Minister. The latter objected, and the appointment was recalled, but not before some of the Parnellites had made it the base of furious attacks on the Premier.