AMERICAN SUMMARY.

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AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Sam Francisco, Not. 23. The agent of the Zealandia claimed; the right to carry the English mails to the Colonies, alleging that the contract had not expired. The agent of the New Zealand Government at San Francisco notified the postal authorities to place

the mails aboard the Alameda. This was done, the agent of the Zealandia formally protesting, threatening to hold the New Zealand Government responsible for damages. The Chinese Ambassador denies that the Chinese Government has granted any concessions for making railroads. Senator Sharon, the California millionaire, is dead. He left IOO.OOOdoIa to charities. He- made a solemn affidavit on his deathbed that marital relations never existed between himself and Sarah Athlea Hill, plaintiff m the celebrated case against him. William Heath, a leadinsr New York broker, recently failed for several millions, and has been arrested. A tremendous fire at Qalve3ton, Texas, destroyed fifty-two blocks of buildings. The loss was two million dollars, and the insurances a million, mostly m foreign companies. Minister Carter, of the Hawaiian Islands; has left for Europe to propose a plan to England, France, and Germany to secure the neutrality of the Pacific Islands Centralising Authority, m Sandwich Islands, integrity to be guaranteed by the Powers. Mrs Parnell, mother of the-agitator, is stumping the -^United States m. favor of the Parliamentary Fund. A crusade against the liquor business m the United States, under Catholic auspices, is threatened by the Pope's endorsement of the Anti-Liquor decree of the American Plenary Council. There is a grea£ revival m the American iron trade. The mills are active. John Bowman^ ex-Mayor of St Louis, was assassinated within a few feet of Jiis own door, it is believed by a political opponent. The Free/ Trade Conference at Chicago" was largely attended. Mr Beecher denounced Protection as a jugglery of the devil. Mr Rodrigues, who accompanied M. de Lesseps to Panama, has published a book m New York with damaging criticisms regarding the canal. He declares that the scheme has alreadr sunk 20,000,000 sterling, and is doomed to m evitable failure. The Econdmiste Francaise warns its country-men that the whole concern is on the verge of probable bankruptcy, and the collapse will be the most terrible of the nineteenth century. The Canadian Pacific Railway Company started the first through train from Montreal to the Rocky Mountains on Nov. 3, but it is understood there will be no regular through service to the Pacific Coast till next spring. ! There has been a great storm off the eoast~ of .Xab'rad or. -rrEighty fishing yes T sels were wrecked, and seventy men lost their lives. The opposition to vaccination continues at Montreal and Toronto, and small-pqx continues its ravages. It has also spread to Prince Edward Island, and forty-one casei are reported m Charlotte town. Sir John Macdonald left Ottawa for England to confer with the Imperial authorities re American fishery fights. f • A conflagration took place at Iqnique, Peru. The loss was a million dollars, and the insurance 375,000 dollars i» British companies. - - - Civil war continues to rage, m Peru.