SAN FRANCISCO MAIL SUMMARY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 58, 9 March 1875, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL SUMMARY.

[Per Ctphjrbnes.] Auckland, Tuesday. Tremendous excitement was caused in London by the Cospatrick news. Telegrams were received some time before the arrival of the steamer Nyar.zi with the survivors, ani ■ft hen thnt teasel was due at Plymouth, the London journnls despatched special report era to await her arrival there, and chartered special steamers to endeavor to board the tteamer before the Cust-ma officer.", and to secure a monopoly of the news. Mr Forbes, the Daily News reporter, who was the first man in Paris alter the siege, succeeded in being the first to board the Nyanza and when tho others got on bo r,J it was found that he ha i disappeired with the survivors. When they turned up again it was found that he had entered into a contract, giving the mate .£IOO and the two seamen £25 each for a monopoly of their ttitements for the Daily News The sailors Bold St. Helena pipers with a briei account at from £5 to £16 per copy. Ihe Standard's special offered Cotter, ono of the survivors, £100 to act on behalf of his journal, but the News held him to his agreemuit. Lewi*, a weather beaten sailer, was the salvation of the party in the bost by his indomitable energy. He divided into nine portions the dreadful food which .sustained them. Cotter was some time ago in the coasting trade in Kew Zealand, and was working his way out again. He wns si.< menths ou the Jane Anderson, of Port Chalmeis. end then on the steamer Paierson, snd afterwards worked on shore for Mr Mackenzie on tho Port Chalmers and Oamaru railway. Tho Auckland Star's Londou correspondent fay 3 that Mr Vogel was greatly excited by the affair, and was te'egiaphing from Florence like a house burning to Shaw and Saville's oQice, from Thursday till Monday. The siuie correspondent considers that Captain Elmslie's coolness was affected through having bis wife and family on boarJ. He was io agitated tbat he allow el some of the boats to burn before his eyes, and made no at'.empt to provision the others. Sices this catastrophe attention has 1 eon callad to the Tlntern Abbey, bound for Canterbury, of which the IVmes says that if anything happenei not half the passengers could be eaved. The lord Chnmbsrlain has closed St. James' Theatre for indecent dances, and is proceeding vigorously against others. Bishop belwyn has been speaking against c:eiai)n. The Grand Duke Alexis has started O'i an Australian tour in the fdgja'e Ewetland, and i3 expectei to visit Ni\v Zealand. Poo Alphonso, the new bpanish King, studied tha military proles ion in England. The weather during the last ten da} s of December and the first week of January was very severe in the north of Britain, and in several places railway communication was entirely s'.opp-.d The streets of London were covered with geveral inches of mow, and all the ornamental v aters were fr >zen over. Theßtv W. C. Harris, M.A., fur tome time Principal of Christ's College, New Z(aland, has bee l selected, out of 54 candidate?, as Heal Master it the Winbotn Minafrr Grammar ScboM.