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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 8, 28 September 1880, Page 3

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London, Sept. 25 The wool sales closed today. The total quantity Bold during the series Was 260,000 bales ; 35.000 were held over for next sales. Merinos and cross-breds closed at about the same price as last auctions, and with a firm, active demand. Constantinople, Sept. 25. Admiral Seymour has returned to Ragusa from Celtigne, and the combined floet undo- his command will leave the former place on Monday for Dulcigno. The Poi t > positively refused to agree to the cession of Dulcigno, unless naval coercion is abandoned. The Albanians threaten to arrest the various foreign consuls, and the English consular staff have therefore left Scutari. London, September 25. News has been received from Chili that a very severe earthquake hat occurred in that country. Two hundred persons perished, and greal damage has been done to property The match between the Austra liana and Players of England com mences on Monday. The Horn* team will compriso the following professionals : Barlow, Bates, Barnes Emmett, Jupp, Lockwood, Morley Mycroft, Filling, Selby, and Sham. Pajub, September 25. M^ Barthehny Sfc.Hilare, the new ly-appointed Minister of Foreigi Asairs, has issued a circular stating that the foreign policy of France,wil tontbrai* te be of a pacific character w , ■■■< ' . ;i\wU < > •? ■ ft * • ■

rciicAGO.-THI^^ITY OF THE % The following extract on Chicago *: is laken from a letter to the Oiago Witness, by Wandering Star, who c writes under the heading of a " Trip c to Euiope via Ameiica" :— " I had r heard much of Chicago before I saw I it, one resident assuring me that it was in some respects the finest city 1 in the world. That was a startling 8 statement, seeing that this city is y little more than thirty years old, and ' that nearly the whole of the present '• buildings are leas than ten years 8 old. But I found it even so. The ''* best blocks of buildings in the most 6 fashionable parts of London, Man- " chaster, pr Edinburgh: cannot com-. 8 pare m®. ttose ft C|ida§o. Thfcsq v cities have/ doubtless. many single ' buildings equal to those of their 6 American rival, but none of them " have equal blocks and streets How f much this means of enterprise and 1 undying energy,} ? considering 'that; B ten years ago more tlian 17,000 of 8 hef best buildings were laid in ashes L ' in a single week, cannot well be put 3 into words. Her people seem not > to know what it is to cower before - a difficif!ty,^~W<hep.,-th*y found 3 their eijy/too.hW for\effi,oient drain - J age, they lifted its centre ten feet p in the air, while the world looked 1 on and wondered. When the waters of Lake Michigan, at the edge, were 3 too impure to drink, they tunnelled ' for their water two miles under the 1 lake, and drew their suppy from a 1 part where the water was pure, eup--3 Dlying the city not only with puie * water, but supplying it with force > enough to reach the top of the tallest building there. Nor have they been wholly occupied with engineering and street architecture. They have boulevards and public parks, of which they are justly proud. For churches I never saw such a city. There are said' to be 280 of those, and nearly all are Gothic and of stone, while some are really magnificent. Among the sights of the city are enormous '' elevators" for nnloading railway cars of grain, and loading ■ ships. It is a wonderful process, but would require too much space to describe. The one I visited then contained more than a million bushels of grain, and had loaded a ship that week with 80,000 bushels in an hour and a half, without either sacks or handling. The grain is borne up on revolving straps to the top of a building S6ven or ei»bt storeys high. It is there deposited in enormous bins, in which it is also weighed, and from these it falls down long shoots into the hold of the ship which waits to be loaded. Thence it is borne across Lake Michigan, on its way to the markets of the world."