SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.
Riots have occurred in Wales regarding the reduction of rents. A brother of Ward Beecher has suicided at New York.
The English Volunteers are being supplied with ammunition and drilled in picked duty in order to quell any outbreak now expected. Ihe London Socialist condemns the sentencing of the Chicago anarchists. General Booth of the Salvation Army purposes visiting the States. 1 hirty-six miners were killed by an explosion in the Woodland Colliery, at Leigh, oil August 13.
A foreign lady, who lost £12,000 at a Monte Carlo gambling table, committed suicide in a village near Grenoble on August 22. This is the case of self-murder since the opening of the Monte Carlo season.
The Chinese Government has decided to oppose Russia’s occupation of Port Lazareff.
Port Stanley, in the Falkland Inlands, is reported to have been overwhelmed by land slides of peat. A great fire occurred at San Francisco on August 21st. The loss amounted to nearly 800,000 dollars. • Central Russia has suffered great loss fiom tornadoes and waterspouts, A laige area of crops was destroyed, and the passenger steamer Vera was lost on 'he Volga on the 21st August. Altogether 200 persons perished. Cholera in Italy is beginning to excite apprehension. There is also a scare in Japan, and sanitary arrangements are being made at New York and ’Frisco.
Germany has seized a large portion of the territory r ’ South Patagonia and trouble with Chili and the Argentine Republic is looked for.
A fire at London on August 20 destroyed 40,000 ba.rels of petroleum. Prices have risen in consequence. Hie Curragh of Kildare is being prepared to accommodate several additional regiments.
xV maniac named Shortiv attempted to assassinate the Pope on the Balcony of St. Petersburg, on August 10. The embankment of Irrawaddy River, Mandalay, broke on August 2 4s and* flooded the entire district, leaving 50,000 persons homeless. A great street car strike in New York, ended on August 26. Gatlin, the American editor, is released from the Mexican prison at Elpaso and the war cloud has blown over.
The Hon. James Ashburn, the veteran English yachtman, is in San Francisco, en route for Australia.
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Kumara Times, Issue 3084, 21 September 1886, Page 2
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