SANT FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 241, 22 October 1879, Page 2

SAN T FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

London, October 5. A million of Australian gold has been purchased in London for America. Wages have been reduced ten per ceut in all the Staffordshire potteries. A rise in tbe corn market is predicted, owing to the deficiency of the harvest. The shipwrights of Dundee have struck at the reduction of wages. There is a great failure of the Irish potato crop. Three thousand persons at Middleborough are penniless. The Home Secretary replying to applications for relief said there were no funds. The Lancashire coal miners' wageg have been advanced. Distress strikes are on the increase in England. The Russian harvest is unfavorable. Eighty-six young Russian's have been exiled for political offences. The Siberian Cossacks are to colonise the frontier. Works have been commenced to connect the Black and Caspian Seas. Au attempt on the life of the Sultan failed. Russia complains that Turkey is doing nothing to avert the collisions between the Christians and Mussulmen in Roumelia. A rupture between Turkey and Greece is threatened. Russia has proposed to surrender part of tbe war indemnity and the Asiatic provinces for a Turkish alliance. The Russian press violently attacks Germany. The Archbishop of Posen has bean imprisoned for unlawfully excommunicating a priest. Deadwood, the chief town of Dacota, has been burnt, and 2000 people are homeless. The Peruvians defeated the Chilian army near Columa.