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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1655, 11 March 1886, Page 4

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AMERICAN SUMMARY.

■ \ -San Fbancisco, Feu. 14. A large consignment of whttcfish eggß I was forwarded by the Alameda'hy the Tj nited States Fish Commissioners,, as an experiment to New Zealand. Mr Hancock, who contested the presidency, is dead. Rioting is of daily occrirroricein Coke legiori, owing to tli« resistance by miners to the importation of foreign labour-. The weather is so cold at New York that people have been frostbitten while crossing the Brooklyn Bridge. A rchbishop Gibbon, of Baltimore, has received n ; circular from the Archbishop i and bishops of Australia, congialulating the episcopates of the United States on the occasion of the first Plenary Council held m Australia. A filibustering expedition against Honduras has been stopped at New York. An ugly political scandal is current, to the effect that several senators were approached with, bribes of stock by a gigantic telephone monopoly, *md that some yielded to the temptation. It is alleged that 750,000 dollars were issued to subsidise the Press and influence politicians m the interest of the monopoly. . The anti-Chineae movement inCaliy fornia is gaining strength, the Chinese being ousted from all the principal towns m the State. ' ' ' Efforts are being made to induce the Mormons to buy one of the Hawaiian Islands colonise. The objection is that the Hawaiian law forbids bolygamy. ; .».-■..-..•,-. : Archbishop Gibbon has been created a Cardinal. The hostile Apaches who have been slaughtering ranchmen and burning ; dwellings m Arizona have surrendered to a party of troop*. Two days before Uoloiiial Crawford was killed by a party BUpposed, to be friendly Mexican. ,-The affair threatens' trouble between the . United States and Mexico. : Mr Spreckles, of the- Oceanic. Cpmpany, has beeu instructed by the Company to )mve built .an iron steamer for the Australian trade, of 4000 tons gross register, and engine power to give a speed equal to that.of the Alameda and Mariposa. I'lie luew steamship is to be named the Sonora.a. ; A plot to" oust the Government of Guatemala: niorder th« president, and Isack the city; has been'discovered. Fifty conspirators have been arrested, iucludilog several colonels m the army. , r,> "..: ; Pacca volcano has broken out near [Guatemala, • destroying totally the [village of Saa Vincent. l j Immediate' .distribution -, ofr -fishing bounties has been ordered byvthu..GoI vernor-General of Can.ada torelieve.dis* '; tress caused by the failure of : Robin & , Co. Ten^ t|io)usand persons requyre- assis: ' tance. ' '" ' '"' •' '.' \v • '"; "** | Mr Stephens,, Presideutot the Canadian Pacific, has aslced the Dominion ' Government, to subsidise a line between ' Vancouver and China. : He thinks this line (Will divert a large, portion op the tea shipments now sent via San Francisco. .''•.; ;'....-. „ . . .-■ • ■ .'• ,v Wallace Ross and Plaisted, oarsmen, intend next: August to go through Niagara whirlpool , in a boat. : ;They believe Webb was drowned by an accident, and that the boat they have contracted , for will convey them safely through.' John Gribb, prominent murchant of St John's has tied, leaving evidence of heavy forgeries . . , . T