SAN FBANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 157, 3 July 1879, Page 2

SAN FBANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Portugal, with England, will look into the African slave trade and the development of the commerce and civilisation of the country. Kate Webster has been charged with kiUimr her mistress and then boiling her. Tho Directors of the West of England and South Wales Bank are to be prosecuted for misrepresentations in their annual reports A Conference representing 120,000 Devon coal miners has been held at Barnsteple, demanding ten per cent increase of pay or as an alternr tive, a strike. ' Sixty cotton operatives have sailed for Canada, where mills are being established. Norfolk and Yorkshire land owners are unable to let their farms even at reduced rents. Lord Chelmsford remains at Natal after Sir G. Wolsley arrives. There is much excitement in the English silk market in consequence of the destruction of silkworms in France and Italy. Webb won the six days' swimming match, making 74 miles. Three failures of cotton manufacturers at Preston are reported. President Grevy still continues to pardon Communists. The Government are prosecuting Paul Cassagnac for violent articles in his paper. The term of compulsory service in the French army is reduced to three years. Negotiations are opened for a FrancoAmerican Treaty of Commerce. BJ TWO S? ri ? ail m « w *-w« **> ordered to Sajmoa, the treaty made being very favorable

The Liberals have faeen bwfen on all aides, by German Conservatives It is proposed to increase the Gennati army. The German Qorennneot decline to accept the proposals of the rope to end the clerical controTersy. A. disease which is fatal in 24 boors has broken out in the Caucasus. Conflagrations in Eastern Russia are causing great distress. Among the Nihilists undergoing trial are three noble ladies, one being a Russian subject. Professor Nordensgold of the Danish Polar expedition has been heard from. He reports, all well, RUssia has demanded satisfaction from China for excluding traders from the frontier towns. Several female Nihilists are soon to be executed and four revolutionists have been hanged at Kieff. A strange, disease has broken out amongst the Tartars and a Commission has been sent to enquire into it. One third of the entire wheat Crop of Southern Russia is destroyed by insects. The Amoor has overflowed and famine is threatened. Ten thousand Swedes in the limber trade have struck. Cuba is to be placed on the same footing as one of the provinces of Spain. Chinamen in Spanish colonies are to get the same freedom as the people of otbet nations. Spain has demanded satisfaction from San Domnigo for shooting two Spanish Generals. The revolution at Crete is gaining headway and the Turtca are losing heavily. Some Greek brigands ambuscaded the Turks and cut them up and hung their limbs on trees. Turkish troops are sent to occupy the Balkans. I?be demand of Germany that Switzerland should renounce the right of having an asylum for foreign refugees is flatly refused. An avalanche at Fontana, in the canton of Pessan, destroyed! a church and several houses. Six inhabitants were killed. The Danube overflowed its banks, and nearly all the Austrian villages between Peath and Basis had water in the streets. A great conflagration has taken place in Poonab, in India, and all the important buildings were destroyed. . Famine continues in Cashmere, and all the supply arrangements have broken down. Many towns and villages are depopulated. A report is current from Calcutta that 20,000 people died of cholera while returning from a religious fair. Strikes are threatened in Calcutta. Gangs of malcontents in Poonah have written to the Bombay Government threatening to raise another mutiny, and to put a price on the Governor's head unless the distress is relieved. The steamer Eva sank in collision with another vessel near Calcutta, and 60 of the crew and 4 passengers were drowned. The ringleaders of the disturbances in Bnrmah have been arrested. Certain females of the Royal family of Burmah, for whose safety the British Government stipulated, have been placed in irons and will probably be starved. Riots have occurred in Madras. The papers call it rebellion, and considerable force has to be employed in suppressing it. AMERICA Mr Woodruff, of the Science expedition, fa dead. Dermod, one of the parties who aided the Fenian prisoners to escape from Australia, is a candidate as Sheriff for San Franoiaco. At an investigation before ;Confr«se most shameless confessions of bribery by Negto members have been made.