SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 12, 14 January 1881, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS

Atjcklanb, Friday. Arrived — City of New York. She left San Franciiso on the 21st December, and experienced heavy S. and S.W. gales for five days. Arthur Simpson and David Silvia were washed overboard and drowned. Passengers for New Zealand : — Messrs A. Hutchison, Bull, Maurice Stewart, Bromley, Sheer, Grossbeck, Ferris, Baldwin, Smith and wife, Rutherford, Grant and wife, Mrs and Mis Wilson, Brickley, wife and three children. AMERICAN. San Francisco, Dec. 21. Saukey aud Moody's success m San Francisco is not great. Small pox is decreasing. A larger area of wheat will be sown this season than m any previous year. Thirty people were burnt m a factory at Buffalo. General Grant favors the Nicaragua canal m oppositioo to M. Lesseps, and if a company is formed will be President. Father Gavagge is soliciting aid m New York for the Free Church of Italy. President Hayes is admitting Chinese vessels into the United States on the same footing as other nations. Courtenay, a pseudo English lord, is m gaol. Business is depressed m the Eastern States, and there are numerous heavy failures. Sir John McDonald's project to complete the Pacific railway with a foreign Syndicate excites opposition m Canada. The Bill purposes to surrender the part already constructed with a subsidy of twenty-five million dollars and twenty-eight million acres to the Syndicate. It is believed the Bill will be carried. An earthquake m British Columbia split the glaciers and filled the creeks and rivers, changing their courses. The crew of the ship Cashmere, from Melbourne, mutinied m Victoria harbor. The ringleaders are waiting trial. President Diaz was inaugurated without revolution. A Bill has passed the Brazil Senate admitting Protestants to the same rights as Catholics. The Chilians have established themselves at Piscoe after a desperate resistance. The Peruvians are massing ia a line to Lima. The Chilian army numbers 25,000, with 100 guns. GREAT BRITAIN. Mr Gladstone will probably propose a grant of £25,000. A new Antarctic expedition will be undertaken by Dr. Allen Young. It is. rumored that Earl Dufferin will be transferred to Constantinople. The Irish refugees are flocking to London, many of them destitute. The League Courts are shutting out appeals to the ordinary tribunals. Business men fear to serve on juries and lawyers to act against the Leaguers for fear of assaßßination. Parnell declares the Government too weak to crush the League. The Orange Grand Lodge has arranged a code of sigDals for men to assemble at any time of the night. 250 persons were lost by the sinking of a French steamer near Speggia. RUSSIA. The Nihilists are reaching St. Petersburg and a strong revolutionary movement iB threatened.