THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4283, 11 December 1874, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

.ARRIVAL OF THE CYPHRENES. [Press Telegraph Agency.] Auckland, Thursday. The mail steamer Cyphrenes, Captain Woods, has ai'rived. She left San Francisco on the 10th November, three days behind time, caused by the long passage made by the Atlantic boat. She encountered terrific gales for three days between San Francisco and Honolulu. The Cyphrenes left the latter port on the 22nd, and had dirty weather with head seas since. She brings a large cargo, and forty passengers for Australia, and the folknying for New Zealand:—Mrs. Veal and family, Rev. Dr. Atcliffe, Kev. A. K. Tomlinson, Key. Dr. Copeland (for Otago), Mr. Hoare, Mr. Kobert Graham, and twenty in the steerage. She brings the following items of news : At the last Lord Mayor’s banquet Disraeli referred to the annexation of Fiji as a proof that the Government would maintain a national colonial policy. The strike in the West Yorkshire collieries is over. The men have resumed work pending arbitration. An extensive lock-out in Lincolnshire is threatened, the farmers insisting on a reduction of three shillings a week in the wages of farm hands. A terrific cyclone has occurred in Bengal, which caused the loss of 2000 lives and many wrecks.

The proposed marriage between the Princess Tliyra, of Denmark, and the King of Hanover, is reported to be broken off. > An Imperial German decree has established a Representative Assembly for Alsace and Lorraine.

Fifteen hundred persons are sick with typhoid fever at Darwin, Lancaster, being more than a sixteenth of thexentire population. The first attempt of the Prussian Government to have priests elected by the congregations failed, the congregations refusing to elect. The English Agricultural Laborers’ Union has adopted a proposal submitted by the Mississippi deputation, to deport five millions of laborers to the States.

The extensive migration going on is creating alarm in. Great Britain.

There is a famine in Samaria of a most desolating character, causing great ravages. John Laird, the shipbuilder, is dead. The Municipality of Naples propose to grant Garibaldi 6000 dollars annually.

A conflagration at Gifflis, Asiatic Russia, ’caused great loss of life and property. The Governor of Syria is instructed to sup•jji ooa- lell-RrUtimtniib’flCllOOlS.’ M. Avingdor, banker, at Nice, has suicided.

Rochefort has established La Lanterne at Berne. In wandering over the French boundary lie narrowly escaped capture. Cardinal Cullen and the entire Catholic Episcope have issued a pastoral, denouncing Professor Tyndall’s speech at Belfast as a revival of Paganism. 'The Government has entered an action in the Ecclesiastical Court against the Bishop of .Paderborne. The latter refuses to notice it.

Class differences in Montenegro between Russians and Turks led to several murders in the disturbance. The Government of tho Porte lias informed the British Foreign Office that they will punish the offenders. The steamer Mary, from Glasgow to Trinidad, foundered, and ten passengers went down with the vessel. The remainder took to the boats. One boat, with five men, is supposed to have been swamped. •The Pope, addressing the Bishop of Verdun, said he trembled for tho dangers which were threatening France. In the Argentine Republic the desertion of the troops who are joining the rebels, has greatly weakened the Government, whose downfall seems imminent. It is nqw too weak to engage with the rebels in battle. , Nana Sahib was discovered through applying to the Maharajah of Soindia for protection. He gave an interesting account of his wander* ings, and denied his connection with the Cawnpore massacre. Subsequently lie wished to withdraw his confession. His identity is doubted, because his appearance is too youthful. Earl Derby has counselled the Dutch to abandon the Acheon war.

The Prince of Montenegro has applied to the Russian Ambassador, ashing for an investigation of the conflicts between the Russians and Turks. The Ambassador replied that he was watching the course of events, and would see justice done. - The Cuban insurrection is likely to be terminated by the popularity of Generad Concha, who has arrived. He has been received by all classes with acclamation. The Spanish Ambassador has urged Lord Derby to take precautions against the shipment of war material from England to the Carlists. Lord Derby sharply replied, to the effect that the indefinite continuance of war in Spain showed great want of energy on the part of the Spanish navy. If it were- vlligant it might' render the landing of Carlist war material impossible. Details of the famine in Asia-Minor are of a very harrowing kind. 150,000 persona have already fallen victims. Emaciated men, women, aid children are pouring into the adjoining cities begging bread. San Francisco, November 10. In Louisiana, tho political disturbances resulted in an unsuccessful attempt to shoot Governor ICollog. Three shots wore fired. A gale and fog on Lake Erie resulted in tho wreck of many vessels, and the loss of four hundred thousand, dollars worth of property. Advices from Venezuela announce that tho provinces of Ooro and Barcelona have risen in revolution against President Bianco. Father Genderman, a priest of the German Catholic Church of Philadelphia, has absconded with 40,000 dels,, part of tho funds of the church. He is supposed hero to have eloped with a young lady, the organist of the church. Tho ship Sussex, fifty-seven days from Otago, arrived at San Francisco on the sth November. The barque Syren, from Lyttelton to San Francisco, was spoken on September 24, in S, lat. 34 deg. 42 min.; long. 128 \V. Tho ship Oartshurn, from Otago to SanFrancisco, arrived on October 24. Commercial.— The wheat market is weak. Sales of good shipping qualities at 1 dol. 52 cents. Liverpool market remains at 9s. Bd. to 10s. for average, and at 10s. to 10s. 9d. for better samples. Seed barley, 1 dol. 12 cents ,* browing, 1 dol. 25 cents to 1 dol. 34 cents. New York, Nov. 9. Sales of New Zealand wool at 03 cents; sperm oil, 1 dol. 65 cents.