SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 226, 15 November 1880, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Auckland, Monday. The San Francisco mail steamer Australia arrived at Auckland at 3.30 p.m. yesterday. iShe brings G3. cabin and 32 steerage pnsseu eers. Among them are the Hon Mr Dea Vcß'ix, the new Governor of: Fiji, the Hon. VlrElen, Captaiu Herbert, Mr Alexander Brogden, and Mrs and Miss Brogden. Dr Preebles, the Spiiitnnlistic lecturer, did not arrive. He leaves by the November mail. Coles' circus has also arrived with a troop of elephants, camels, &c. . AMERICAN SUMMARY. A frightful accident occurred on the Pennsylvania Central Railroad in a collision between two trains*, when 24 passengers were killed aud 30 or 40 wounded. A mistake in the signals was the cause. A special train of cars with the September Australian mails chased the regular train and caught it at Omaha, gaining 24 hours and enabling connection with the steamer at New York, to be made. The mail will thus reach Englandin 40 days from Sydney. Captain. Foreman, of the British ship Adieu, arrived at San Francisco from Newcastle, reports that on September 15 he passed

Christmas Island, said to be uninhabited, and from the deck discovered the wreck" of; a vessel well up on the eand in Southeast Bay. Close to the' wreck, be made but a small but but there were no indications of life about it. Owing to the very rough weather he was unable to land. * ■ The " Journal of Trade " for October 9 estimates from the wheat growing returns to ihe 25th September that this year's total return of American wheat will not exceed 465 691,000 bushels and probably may prove 10,000,000 bußhels less. Californian'salnion eggs are being exported to Europe in large quantities. Jay Gould has purchased the New York World, paying 400,000 dollars for it. The Admiral of the British fleet in the Pacific waters has been ordered to proceed immediately to Callao, Peru, and protect the British interests there. Moody and Sankey, the revivalists, are in San Francisco, holding religious meetings. A colony of Catholic Connemara peasants has been settled by the Rev. Father Nugent in Minnesota. Each family has 160 acres, 'a horse, and a cow. Many of these colonists left Ireland last spring shoeless. A horse distemper is raging in New-York, Brooklyn, and Jersey City, and about 8,000 animals are invalided. The disease? has .also appeared in Chicago. Theodore Glancey, editor of * the Santa GlaDcey (California) Press, has been shot, by Clarence Grey, and killed, for stating in bis paper that Grey was unfit for an office to wbich he bad been nominated. Jamea Thomas Evans of Sydney, recently in the employ of the New South Wales. Government, was, on a warrant for forgery, taken from the ship Cambrian Monarch immediately on her arrival in port on the I\\x September. The d tcctive had anticipated the arrival of the ship by taking a passage iv the Zealandii from Sydney on the 12th August. Application was made for his return to the colony under the Extradition Act of 1842. ' ' News from the Jeanetta Bennett, the Arctic exploring vessel, has been received- *to Angust 29, 1879, and'published in the Herald in a letter dated Cape Scrudezaman, which came through the Russian Charge. d'Affaires. It was written when the vessel was on the point of sailing for Wrangel, and the officers and men were all we11.. . ; The Panama Canal Syndicate is not yet perfected and no definite progress has been made towards that end. , By the election of John Taylor as first President or! tha Mormon church vice Brigham Young, control is given to the English yiints. Governor Murray, of the Territory, in his report just made to the Secretary of the Interior advises the abolition of all antiMormon laws or else their immediate and rigid enforcement. The present policy -of the Government is bringing it into contempt. CANADA. Sir John McDonald stated that the Syndicate bad bound itself to complete the Canada Pacific railroad in ten years, and bad also given a money security to work it for ten years after completion. The Syndicate was bound to place the lands in the market at once and to carry out a systematic scheme .of immigration. The road would not cost the old provinces of Canada a cent. He was enthusiatic in anticipation of German capitalists aiding in directing the stream of immigration to Cauada, and English capita ists were in a fever to buy land in the North West. He had accepted an offer of Mr Brassey, M.P., for 64,000 acres near the base of the Rocky Mountains. GREAT BRITAIN. Sir Charles Dilke takes the place of Mr W. P. Adams on the Board of Public Works, and Mr Leonard Courtney, M.P. for.Liskard, takes Sir C. Dilke's place in the Foreign Office. - . The firm of Henry Britain, jun., doing business in Birmingham, Bombay, and Calcutta, has failed. Liabilities, £150,000. A fearful gale raged on the Cornwall coast on the 7th October, and harbor works and quays were damaged, and manysmall yachts and boats destroyed. Arms are being largely imported into Ireland, and freely bought in many places. The manager of one establishment in Dublin boasts that he bns sold 1400 rifles in a short period. In Belfast breech loaders are advertised at 15s 6d, and there is a brisk trade in rifles in all the small country towns. Mr E. Parnell's demonstration in Cork was an imposing affair. The Mayor and Corporation presented an address to the agitator, and the city and shipping were covered with bunting, 50,000 of the public being present. Mr Parnell declared that landlordism bad been created for maintaining English rule in Ireland, and must fall. Voices cried out, "As Lord Mount Morris fell." . : A meeting of 500 Orangemen in Gifford,. County Down > passed a resolution calling on the Government to suspend trial by jury,' and declaring that citizens of the United; Slates and foreigners were abusing the hospitality of the United Kingdom and. should be expelled. On the s lh October, Mr Parnell addressed a meeting of 10,000 people in KilkennyNine" members of Parliament and 50 priests were present. He announced that when sufficient information bad been collected the Land League would organize in great strength against paying .rent on the estate of every renting landlord. The members of the Landlords Association have impressed upon the Government the necessity for immediate steps to be taken for the protection of life and property. The barracks at Athlone, Carlow, and Sligo, and other places in the West of Ireland, are to be prepared for the full complement of troops the buildings are capable of accommodating. The. imports into Great Britain for September were, in value, £6,500,000 greater than last year, and the exports were greater by £2,500 000 for the same time. FRANCE. The Vatican threatens to recall the Papal Nuncio from Paris if the Jesuit decrees are enforced. The German Franciscans have been evicted, and the English Passionists are threatened with the same fate. France refuses under any circumstances to participate ia the occupation of any of the Turkish ports. Two editors have been imprisoned for libel on President Grevy. The Radicals of Paris talk of inviting Garibaldi to visit the city. - ; GERMANY. ; Bismarck proposes the formation of a State Working Men's Assurance and Mutual Assistance Society, to wbich laborers and employers will be bound to contribute. The system will be the first tried in Prussia. The workmen's strike is spreading, and now embraces carpenters, turners, weavers, and other trades. RUSSIA. On the 9th October tbo marriage of the Czar with the Princess Dalmoroti was solemnized in the Chapel in the Imperial Palace. The Czar's family disapproving, the Czare witch went to Hafsal and the Grand Duke Vladimir on boaid bis yacht, in order that they might not witness the ceremony. The Grand Duke Nicholas and the Minister of War were present. Hart maun says there are 13,000,000 organised radicals in Russia. '. ITALY. On account of the number of French Jesuits taking refuge in Italy, the Government intends to revive the measures hostile to the Order passed in 1873, but allowed to fall into disuse. TURKEY. . One of the' murderers of Dr. Parsons, the American missionary, has been condemned to death, and two others to fifteen years penal servitude. NORWAY AND SWEDEN. The Press in these countries is in hot disousßion on the question of the repeal of the -Act of Union, and the establishment of a Norwegian republic. The Swedish journals maintain that the^bonor of. ..Sweden. is h> volved and that strong measures should be employed if Necessary. The relationsTbetween the King and the Norwegians are very much strained, and a large majority denied the King's right to an official vote, I