ARRIVAL OF THE SAN ERANCISCO MAIL.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 100, 25 September 1878, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN ERANCISCO MAIL.

The City of Sydney has arrived at Auckland with the San Francisco mail."- The following are the principal items of news': — - ' To"^aie^uire possession of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Austrian columns are doubled almost every day (?). ~ A collision has occurred on the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, m which eight persons were killed and. 30 wounded. The Musselman population of Belgrade propose to emigrate. Garabaldi has written a letter endorsing the principles enunciated by the German Socialists. ■■.-.-. Samuel Wild," a cotton spinner of Rochdale, has failed for £100,000. The ■ weavers of Oldham have struck against: a reduction oE wages. Three thousand looms are idle. England contemplates a new loan of £5,000,000. A fanatic, claiming to be Christ, has been shot at the head of a numerous following. As ho was only wounded, his adherents; claim that his life was saved by a miracle. Mr Labouche, the editor of "Truth," has three libels on hand. - • Thirty thousand nailers, were .on strike for many months m the Midland Counties. A boiler explosion of : a Russian . torpedo cutter killed the engineer, Btokers, and several of the crew. There has been an explosion of dynamite by which fifty soldiers were killed arid thirty-five wounded. r It is believed that Caidin&l Franchi -was poisoned. • Two thousand cotton operatives m Bristol have struck.' " Cattam &Merton, West India merchanti, have failed £300,000. Spain has been issuing^a £5,000,000 loan. Judge Eeogh, of Dublin, who was temporarily insane^attacked, his valet with a razor and cut him severely.