THE LATEST.
The smallpox is causing great alarm in British Columbia. The steamer Prince Alfred is quarantined. There is a dispute in Victoria whether the City, Provincial, or Dominion Government should regulate the quarantine. The steamer Idaho, from Esquimas, ran on a chain of rocks. The steamer California, bound for Litki, is wrecked. la both cases the passengers were saved. The Washington correspondent of the Alta California on the 19th June says that the American Government will not object to the postponement of the arbitration, and thinks it. will lose nothing by giving Great Britain a pretext to withdraw. No extra session of the. Senate will be called. There is no information to warrant the statement that tile efforts to adjust the differences "will be ineffectual. He also says that" the eastern strikes are subsiding. . At a meeting of piano-makers the resumption of work was strongly urged. Singer's sewing- machine; workmen, and the sugar refiners are still out, also the. workmen on the Qeatral Railroad*
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 173, 22 July 1872, Page 4
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