AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 27, 30 June 1885, Page 2

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

! San Francisco, Juno 6. Nothing is doing m wheat charters. Coal receipts for May were over 76,000 tons, nearly one-third of which came from Australia. Prices are now tywer than at any time within remembrance. There is no animation m the wheat market. Light offerings range from 1.37£ to 1.40 per cent. . - - ' • ■:- June 8. 1 Hanlan has accepted the challenge of Teenier, of Pittsburg, to row him on any course m the United States or Canada. , The cholera news f ronr Spain has ledthe New York Board of v Health- to- tak« most vigorous quarantine measures. At., the annual communication of the , Grand Lodge of Freemasons at New York, every Lodge, m the States w»b represented. The Grand Master's address insisted on the Masonic belief m God as the corner stone of Masonry. Mr Beecher has thrown down the gauntlet m tavor of Evolution. - The revised edition of . the Old Te«#_ ment meets with slow sale m Amfijfl^p" The total exports of domestic breadstuffs from America ports '-tfuring^-iiuJL^^ four months ending" 6n-april 80th was 45,078,690d0K ' The polygamists m Idaho are forcibly resisting the authorities. The English steel ship, Earl of-Dal-housie, 1700 tons/ was capsized m San Francisco harbor while m tow. She sank m seven fathoms of water. California is suffering from a plague of locusts, which eat ths grass out by the roots. News from Winnipeg gives details of a gallant attack oh Kiel's camp. The rebels were driven ±rom .their rifle pits and ambush at bayonet point by General Middleton'a Volunteers. . Kiel sent a messenger stating that unless the troops retired ,the prisoners would bY massacred. The' troops, however^ charged and soattered the rebels, and rescued the prisoners. T!w winter wheat crop m the United States is reported to be the worst m ten years. There will be scarcely twenty-six and a half million hushels for the Paoiflo Coast alone.* A Jinall-pox epidemic prevails m Montreal. By a treaty between Salvador, .Costa Rica, and Nicaragua, the territory <o$ Gu.atetn.ala will be dismembered, Salvador taking the largest slice.