AMERICAN NEWS. (By the 'Frisco Mail.)

North Otago Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 1883, 9 May 1878, Page 2

AMERICAN NEWS. (By the 'Frisco Mail.)

A duel was fought between two gentlemen at Vienna, named Sydney and Pitta. The distance was six yards, and the weapons pistols. Both men were killed on the second lire. Grieflen, recently United States Consul at the Samoun Islands, has been transferred to the Consulate of Fiji. Silver has been shipped in large quantities from England to the United States. Afire in Philadelphia destroyed 100,000 dollars worth of property. i Captain Boardius has challenged all Europe at pigeon shooting. Mr Gladstone declined an invitation to visit the United State*, and deliver an address to the graduates of Gate College. Capital punishment has been restored in lowa. O'Donovan Rossa's lecture on " Ireland," at Toronto, on the 19th ult., gavo rise to a riot between Ribbonmen and Orangemen in that city. Rossa, fearing his reception there- might bo watm, leaped off a train in motion, fell in the mud, and was nearly run over. Fivo companies of the Queen's Own mustororl at tho royal drillshed near whoro tho lecture was dolivored, and 1000 police guarded St. Patrick's Hall. A mob of 7000 people crowded round tho corner of King and Jarvos streets, filling the market square. Rossa got to tho hall unrecognisod. 150 persona wore present, mostly young Irishmen. Tho fighting between the mob and tho police was severe The Female Suffrage Bill of Massachussotts and Rhodo Island has boon repealed. Patrick and John Roilly were precipitated over the Niagara Falls on May Ist. The Heir-Apparent to tho Hawaiau throne is visiting California. Madame Rosoll, of infanioui notoriety in the Unitod States, out hor throat in a bathing tub. She had boon tho promotor of divorces all her life, and was under arrest at the time of her death. Oliphant and Co., havo established a line of steamers between China and Peru. The barque Emma L P.irtridgo has been chartered at Boston for Dunedin. A tornado at Santa Fe blew forty-five cars off the trade and killed a number of people. Vermont wo« visited by disastrous floods. Miss Eleanor Chrey is leading lady at the Californian Theatre, San Francisco. Professor Boggie, of Marseilles, has discovered a new planet of the tenth magnitude. The Canadian Parliament refused to put a duty on flour and wheat. The Kansas wool-growers have held a convention, and requested their representatives in Congress to oppose the reduction of the duties on foreign wools. Fifteen idiots were burned to death in a poor-house at New York. The United States senators propose to offer a resolution deprecating the interruption of peaceful relations between England and Russia, and asking the President to offer to a{d as far as he constitutionally can in restoring harmony. Instructions have been issued by the Secretary of the Navy to men-of-war to seize all American vessels engaged in the coolie trade. The American Indian Sitting Bull is again menacing tliu country with seven thousand warriors.