ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 80, 2 April 1873, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

v Auckland, April 2. The Nebraska arrived last night, * having left Honolulu on March 16. She brings London maiL dates to February 6, and San Francisco' to March 5. There are 213 bags of mails in eharge of Mr Hoggard, mail agent. Among the passengers, eight in number, are Mr J. R. Dodson for Nelson, and Mr A. L. Smith for Christchurch. GENERAL SUMMARY. Intelligence had been received that the Cefa shore at Smyrna had been undermined by the tide .and suddenly swallowed up by the waves. Two hundred persons were drowned, chiefly , Greeks. Prince Gorfcchakoff has proposed an Anglo- , Russian Commipsinn to define the limits of the Russian territory in Central Asia. The shareholders in the Liverpool and London Insurance Company had a stormy meeting owing , to the new declaration of a dividend in consequence cf losses by the American fires, Forty persons have been killed hy an explosion in a coalmine in Staffordshire Further gigantic forgeries of Bank of England bills, cleverly counterfeited, have been discovered. They amount to over a million dollars. The Great Eastern has left with the new Atlantic cable. There is a serious revolt amongst the Ukraine peasantry on thelEussian frontier. The insurgents are massed and extend tbeir depredations throughout the district, laying waste some of the principal towns, and committing atrocious excesses, males and females being murdered in then: houses. The Government troops. sent to quell the revolt met the insurgents, and ' the engagement terminated in the disastrous defeat pf the troops. Russian Government advices warrant the announcement that the.Khivans will shortly sue for peace. Reinforcements are to be despatched to Turkestan. The Moscow Gazette hints that the establishment of a neutral zone in Affghanistan wiU accelerate rather than prevent a collision between England and Russia. The railway stations in Spain have been destroyed by the Carlists. Amadeua announces that he expected when he resigned to be recalled by the Spanish army. He never contemplated the creation of a republic which threatens the existence of the monarchy. The German Government regret that they did not re-establish Napoleon on the throne of France, &t> the republic is unsettling the monarchical influence. They regard the Spanish republic unfavorably. • The town of San Vincente Salvator has been destroyed by an earthquake. An accident occurred on the Hudson railway, by which a large number of persons were injured. Mr Webb's friends attribute the defeat of the subsidy to false reports that he had consolidated with the Pacific Mail Company. At a fire in a mattra^s manufactory in Boston,' four persons were killed and twelve seriously injured. A large fire broke out in New Orleans, when 200 houses were consumed. The Indian war continues. Several engagements have taken place, aud many been killed. . The Mormons are greatly excited over the proposals made in Congress for the abolition of their settlement. It is reported that Brigham Young is negotiating for the exclusive purchase of one of the Sandwich Islands. Burnside & Scott purpose to start an Austra--lian line to supersede Webb's, if the reply of the Government of New South Wales is in their favor. The yellow fever ic Brazil kills 30 daily. The report of the Committee of Thirty read, in ; the French Assembly, announced that the differences between Thiers and the Commission had been harmonized. The announcement was , received with enthusiasm.