SAN FBANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 204, 27 August 1879, Page 2

SAN FBANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

[Per City of Sydney at Auckland.] Corporal Taylor of the 4th Lancashire won the Queen's prtee at Wimbledon with the highest score known yet. The Postmaster-General, replying to a question, said that under the new contract with the P. and O. Company tbe mails would be conveyed to Mel bourne in 39 days. Mr Gladstone, in the Nineteenth Century, accuses the Government of gratuitously raising a series of foreign questions to occupy Parliament, and thus divert attention from international reform. The result of the present foreign policy everywhere was disastrous, and the financial affairs were grossly mismanaged. The steamer Celebra, with the ZanzibarMozambique section of the South African cable left the Thames on the 10th July, and the Scotia passed Gibraltar with a portion of the Australian duplicate cable. The West of England Bank Directors have notified a second call of £100. The French Government refused permission to any officer on active duty to attend the funeral of the Prince Imperial, the only exception being those named in the Prince's will. The strike of colliers in Monmouthshire, South Wales, terminated in the men agreeing to resume work at a redaction of ten per cent. An increase of 37,000 men in the German army is contemplated. Prince Jerome stated to a Bonapartist deputation that he would fulfil the duties of the head of the dynasty, but must be allowed to cboose the time, and in action would not intrigue against the republic which begot the present Government of the country. Bitter feuds exist among the Home Rulers through Mr Parnell abusing the tactics at Cork. The Rev. Mr Talmage's popularity at Glasgow in its enthusiasm is still unabated. The Colorado beetle has appeared at Cork. The Government Bill limiting Bank shareholders' liability to twice the amount of paid-up capital has been read the second time. The Warwickshire miners wages have been reduced ten per cent. The Nottingham cricketers will visit America. The Marquis of Hartington in the House of Commons, deprecated any attempt on the part of the Liberals to force abolition of capital punishment. Mr Chamberlain amid ironical cheers said that Lord Hartington was no longer the leader of the whole party, but only of a section. j Large tracts of land have been flooded in Derbyshire and Yorkshire. Three hundred Bradford engineers on strike will emigrate to America. Tne Orange celebration in Ireland passed off with only a few cases of stoning and shooting. One person was killed. The foreign immigration to New York is 4,000 weekly. A fire in Hamilton, Canada, caused a loss of half a million dollars. The yellow fover bas broken out at Memphis and the inhabitants are fleeing in thousands. The Chilian army was defeated by the Peruvians at Colonia with terrible loss. Cholera is spreading among the British troops in India. Twenty vessels were lost m a hurricane in the Adrian sea. A powder millin California exploded killing nine men and wounding forty. The shock was felt for twenty miles.