ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 44, 13 March 1878, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

: Attqeland, Tuesday night. The, steanier with the San Francisco ; mails arrived here this evening., at fiVe o'clock.' The fpUowing are, the chief items of- American, English, and Continental, intelligence. i Tvvo. French ironclads., hajre been cruising at tli©.mputh of Daj!uan.elles> . The Greeks have raised an, aj:iny of :14p,OQp,.troops + " v .■ """ '" *• "■ ■•; EfUssia. has sugge>tecl tO:E;ngland that 'America, should participate m the Con.iference, an y d, 5 England proposed Greece. 1 BfiHiri jpurpals assert that Admiral Horhsby . ha^s b^en^ ordered, to seize the Turkish fl^et i& necessary, to pre'yent :its. I surre'nder,^/Russia^^ s * • * Eight hVpd^ed.TiiTkish.refuge^swere suffocaled^in^ajCaye^ " " . * Prince Bisma.rck!s.interyentibn ) on.beT i . h.alf of ; 4»u.str\a ; has secured Russian assent to an 'early meeting of the Congress, thereby avoiding, a. collision with Austria/ O-f the hundred- Eussian prisoners, tried, the majority were acquitted. It is. said that O^map,; Pasha is' to be court marshalled §>r burning Eussians alive . The people are*, so ' exasperated that he dare not leave his lodgings. The English war .rate has appropriated . to the army £;3,(toq,p6q, " ' • '" * Typus fever is" raging^ amongst, the ltus'sian-Caucasian army, ; 'Italy proposes to join an anti-Kussian alliance. ' The Turks, are., hurriedly, erecting . earthworks. Lord, Derby's, despatch, i.ga|nst the . Russian occupation ( of Constantinople is mbstdecidedly worded, and clemonstrates v that an entry of lier troops will be viewed" ,as a.breach of the Armistice, and mights pyovoke disorders..' "Her . ' Majesty's.. G-ovei'ciment" canr^oi' recognise that ; the entry of the British fleet had any-i bearing on the Russian occupation, *' The guns' of the Dardanelles;, forts fired a salute on the first entrance of the British'' fieeii. ' "' y 'The Russian official organ advocated .•a_gen?i"il European disarmament. After . the peace Ru i gSJa % "propp|es ..to., economise lier finances. i r J?heV ßussian's have massed> over-; jwjielming forces at Andrianople ipr an. ail vance npoii^ Con^tan,tin6ple and/ Galilippli, m the eyeht of the failure qf the pea eg negotiations'.; ' ' ' ' . The wages of the Staffiordshtre v ironworkers have been reduced seven per cent. * ' ' ■ ■ ' ■ • ■■' , T;he EnglisXhaye again, defeated the Jo.waikas, m India. i] 'Otdharn' Mill's have , been closed m, consequence of a strike amongsj the ' hands. ' " ' ' ' " " ' ■ Twelve- thousand- weavers.ajfc Wjggan resisted a" reduction of wages. '•; Tiie "Kaffirs have been'defeated with, heavy loss, and 20,000^ cattle a.ml sheep, captured. ' ' '.'..' i Ameer Codui is massing troops against. England. ' ' : " n ' ' • ' ''■ . '■■■ Alarmirig > poverty and distress .is prevailing ai San Francisco, an^. owing to the number of unemployed,, soup houses have been' established. ' ' ' In consequence of the treaty between America and- Samoa^ m future the mail ■steamers'' call tliere.. . ' ' : : The steamship Metropolis wenta^hpre^ near Norfolk, Virginia, and 276 perished ; with the wreck. ' ' ." '.' "• " ' '

John B. Harman, the Deputy Grand of the American Odd Fellows, has been, despatched on a Hussion to Australia. A body of 10,60 D unemployed men, applied to Mayor' B/oughtoh. for work. A bo.^, supposed tq contain the remains of Christopher. Columbus, has, been exhunqed at San D ; omingo. Thomas. Adamson,, Tfnited States' Cousul at M e lUo4rne, has been nominated Consul-General af H,i° Janeiro. "V^ool has been dull, with no prosp.ec.t p^ improvement. Austmlian has been; Offered at J^o\y; Yort «t 42 to 4;5 cents. San-Francisco flour has been, sailing at 5" dol. o.ai cents,, "^hoat, <}u,iet^ fECides, quieter.