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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5483, 23 October 1878, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

(PER PRESS AGENCY.) Auckland, Tuesday. The Australia lias arrived with the mails frmn San Francisco. Passengers for New Zealand Messrs. Greer, McLure, Purnell and wife, Nubrey, Mcßeth, Hon Win. McArthur, M. F., Ediniston, Potter, Case, Rattray, W. McArthur, jim.; 21 steerage. EUROPEAN SUMMARY. London, September 30. Russia intends to issue a loan to cover tho deficiency in the budget. The strike in the cotton factories at Radcliffe, Pilkington, and M«worth lias ended id a compromise. Charles Wheetham, Alderman, has been chosen Lord Mayor of London. The Anti-Socialistic Bill has passed its first reading in the Reichstag. The Liberals have introduced many amendments. Tho Emperor has written a letter pointing out the importance of the Bill." The Albania insurgents are moving on the frontier of Bosnia. The last stronghold of the insurgents in Herzegovina, Klobuch, has been captured by General rhiilipovich. Tho Austrian troops arc to be recalled fiom Bosnia at the end of October. Thr-.e thousand Russians catered Batoum on tho 15th instant. The Sultan has definitely decided to cede nothing to Greece. Salisbury re uses his influence to induce the Porte to conclude a convention with Austria. He considers Turkey not alone in.being behind in fulfilling the treaty. Berlin. The British fleet has retired to Artiki, and saluted the Sultan previous to leaving. Russia asks from Turkey 310,500,000 francs indemnity. The Queen and the Prince of ‘Wales have written letters to the Government of Greece, suggesting pacific course in her dispute with the Porte. Russia promises to support Greece on the frontier question. A portion of Sooloo fsic.J islands has been coded to Spain. A colliery explosion took place at Abercadia, near Newport, in Monmouthshire. Out of 371 miners only 91 were rescued. The pit is on fire. The Egyptian obelisk was put in its place on tho 12th. A fierce fight took place at tho Home Rule meeting in Dublin because O'Donnell, who had suppo ted tho Government on the Extern question, was present. Paris is sending money to the yellow fever sufferers in the Southern States of America. Seventy-eight more French Communists have been pardoned. The editor of Lo Pays has been fined and imprisoned for three months for insulting President Macraahon. Cho'ora is increasing at Casablanca, iu Spain. A new plot lias been discovered against tho life of the Emperor William. Arrests have been made. The second son of Prince Bismarck. Count Wilhelm, has been elected a Deputy to tho Reichstag. ' Midbat Pasha has been allowed to reside iu Crete. At the Doncaster September Meeting the Champagne Stakes, for two-year-olds, were wo i by Lord Falmouth's chestnut colt ■ hariburt.- St. Ledger Stakes were won by Lord Falmouth's bay filly Jannette ; bay colt Chiideric, also belonging to Lord Falmouth second; P. Kenney’s chestnut colt Master Kildare third, and the Cup was won by P, Greeting’s Pageant, Hampton second, Kingclerce third. Condon and Melhady, tho released but expatriated Fenians sailed for New York on the 17th iust. The embarkations were secretly conducted. A national reception was given in New Yo k. The floods destroyed upwards of 1000 houses in tho Jullineer district of the Funjaub. The Christians in Turkish Croatia have revolted. M. Jacobin lias been sent as Papal Nuncio to Russia, concerning the Church in Poland. Mehemot Ali Pasha was not assassinated, as was at first reported, but was killed in a fight between rebel Bosnians and his own troops. The Sultan has remitted the grain tax in Constantinople because the bakers refused to bake bread owing to the high price of wheat. The Newfoundland Fishery difficulties between France, England, and the United States have been adjusted* France will abandon tho exclusive protectorate over Catholics in the East. Tho Pope will send a nuncio to Constantinople. Bosnia is virtually pacified, but the Hungarians iu mass meeting protest against its occupation by Austria as inimicable to the interests of Hungary. Bismarck has been ill with erysipelas, but has recovered* No trace of conspiracy or of accomplices has been discovered in Hoedel and Nobelliug eases. Von Bussel goes as ambassador to Paris, Von Moltlce is suffering seriously from a cold, contracted during "manoeuvring troops. Belgrade is being fortified by redoubts overlooking the Rivers Save and Danube. Parliament has been further prorogued till the 20th November. The Emperor William is desirous of resuming the reins of Government next month. 'i he Australian cricketer*, who have engagements to play in tho United S ates this autumn, have arrived at New York from Europe. Tho Germ in Socialists collected 150,000 marks to meet the expenses of the recent elections. Of this sum 3SiiO came from the United Stales. In the first heat for the Sportsman’s Challenge Cup, rowed on tho Thames on the 15th, William Elliott, of Hlythe, beat John Higgins, of Shadwell, by four lengths. An American boy named Braden, from Imlianopolis, Ims distinguished himself aboard the English training ship .Worcester. Simeon Hardy and Sons, of Condon, West India merchant?, have failed.

Tin? Tyne crew bent the Thames and Putney crews by two lengths in the International Regatta for champion fours. In the final heat for champion sculls. Higgins “ caught a crab” at the start, and Elliott won easily. Reports of the French harvest are good. The police dispersed a congress of Socialist working men's party in Paris. Mattilio. chief clerk to the . Minister of Marine under the Paris Commune, has surrendered, and is now on trial. The anniversary of the battle of Sedan was observed as a general holiday in Germany. The basis for future agreements between Germany and the Vatican are settled, which does not involve oven a partial repeal of the Falck laws. It is proposed that King Alfonso shall marry Christine, the s ster of his late Queen Mercedes. One hundred students, suspected of Nihilism, have been banished from the Universities of St. Petersburg and Kief. The English whaling fleet in the Arctic Ocean have had no success this seas m. In Cyprus 307 are in hospital, out of a force of 2040. Mount Vesuvius is in eruption. Mount ilecla is also active, and Cottoparl. The Dutch Indian Budget shows a deficiency of 1 1 ,000.00 fio ins; 10,000,000 having been expended in the Acheen war. The Swiss Government has granted an amnesty to the Catholic priests who were deprived of their livings in 1873, for refusing to comply with the requirements of the state. Internationalists’ Propaganda have been discovered by the police in Paris. The receipts at the Paris Exhibition up to the 4th amounted to 7.402,220 francs. A municipal loan of 05,000,000 francs is proposed for Paris. A memorial anniversary of the death of Thiers was held on the 3rd ult. The music was rendered by 24,000 persons. The Pall Mall Gazette inveighs against the Fenian Condon’s release, at the solicitation of the United States, as undignitjed, and says that the pertinacity of a thrice-preferred request for his release is disrespectful, and that Minister Walsh’s letter borders on the offensive In places he oversteps the line, and approaches to the free and easy. At a meeting of Lancashire manufacturers, called to consider the unprecedented commercial difficulties, the adoption of short time was urged. John Estwood and Sons, Iluddersley, near Halifax, failed for £150,000. The International Congress on Weights, Measures, and Coins on the 4th instant unanimously adopted a resolution deploring the fact that England, Russia, and the United States had not yet adopted the metric system. The American and English delegates afterwards passed a resolution petitioning the American aud English Governments to appoint a mixed commission to consider the adoption of the metric system by both countries. Rates between gold and silver is to bo regulated solely by their commercial value, and silver not to bo a legal tender for debts over >£2o. Herr Ruitz, an old Catholic priest at Heidelberg, has refused to obey the decision of the Synod regarding celibacy and marraige.

’ . AMERICAN* SUMMARY. September 30. A settlement of Trappist monks from Europoisto be made In Pennsylvania, i A day of national fasting and prayer is to be observed on account of the ravages of yellow fever,|and of commercial distress and discontent, throughout the country. Hayden’s surveying party, who had been attacked by Bannock Indians at Yellowstone, hare escaped without loss of life. A ring of jewellery thieves has been discovered .and broken up. The Chicago stouc-cuftors struck for nine days. Kearney, the agitator, has been sued for libel by a manufacturing firm in New York. The Oxford Iron Company has failed for six million dollars. A Arc in Fredoricktown, N. 8., caused a loss of £SOO.O The Greenback party in Maine have cast a vote largo enough to semi election for decision to State Legislature. A glove fight between John Connolly, of Boston, and Welsh, formerly of Now York, resulted in the latter being knocked out of time in the fifteenth round. Pennsylvania and Ohio have suffered from severe equinoctial storms. Sitting Bull has sent offers of peace from Canada and wants to return to his old hunting grounds in the United States. Brother Landreau, of Paris and New Orleans, sues the Peruvian Government for a hundred million as a commission for discovering augno beds. Cohen, a Jew procterian, is heading the working men’s riotous demonstration ia Washington, D.C, A number of wealthy and influential men have committed suicide during the month Jeannette Bennett, the sister of Bennett of thcNciP York Herald, has married a wealthy Now Yorker named Isaacßell. She was presented with lo,ooodols. worth of wedding presents. Hack Thorpe won the Great Eastern Handicap, Newmarket; Warrio 2nd, Milly 3rd. Alfred, liose-spinncr, Rochdale, Lancashire, has failed for £75,000. Sir Richard Griffiths, C.E., is dead. Lord Loftus, British ambassador, St. Petersburg!!, demands the withdrawal of the Russian agent from Cabul. The Indian troops are mobilising on the frontier of Afghanistan, near Ellin. Hopes of peace are entertained. Zona Libre (free trading ground), in Mexico, has been abolished, except to Malarnousaud New Laredo. Ex-Governor Ilaign, of I'alifornia, died suddenly of heart disease ou the 2nd ultimo. Bishop McCrosky has been deposed from the Michigan Diocese by the House of Bishops for scandalous practices, and for abandoning his pulpit. Orvalle Grant, brother of General Grant, has become insane. „ ' Hanlan and Courtney] arc to row Lachuro of Canada for £2OO. President Hayes is making a tour cf the North Western States, and is well received everywhere. A strike is going ou among the street car drivers of New York for shorter hours and increased pay. Alexander Austin, ex-tax collector of San Francisco, committed suicide in San Motes by shooting himself through the heart. Financ al embarrassments is supposed to be the cause. Gustav Mate, Director-General of the French Savings Bank at Sail Francisco, killed himself by a pistol shot through the brain on the 14th instant. The' 1 cause of suicide was financial trouble. Major-General John C. Fremont, has arrived at San Francisco, eu route to Arizona, of which territory ho takes the governorship. Matilda Stanley, known as the Queen of the gipsies in the United States, and recognised as such by all tribes, died atDnytoron in Ohio on tho 15th ult. A dynamite machine exploded at Bradford pa on tho Xsth, and blew four men into fragments. The deputy sheriff at Boutle L. A, V, having killed

a couple of men in a quarrel, was taken from gaol by a band of m-grocs the same night, and literally riddled w ith bulletsThe local columns of the New York papers are swelled out with accounts of daily murders and ali kinds of brutal deeds. Destructive flrods have been visiting Ontario and Canada. General Butler claims to have been nominated by the Democratic .Convention for the Governor of Massachusetts. The Managers party deny it, and call him a usurpe. Abbott has been nominated bv the Second Convention. „X e . 1,0 . w fever - after ravaging cities in the States Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennessee, is abating The cities which suffered most are Nomphsis. Canada Canton, Holly Sprimrs, Vicksburg, Bolton Range, aifti Port Gibson. Large amounts of money for the relief of the distressed were sent from all parts of the United States, and from Liverpool, London, Paris, and other European cities. An anti-Beecher meeting was held at Omaha on the 10th ultimo. During his presence in that city Be cher has made himself very obnoxious to working men by disparaging their social ; position, and by adulating* The Chinese embassy has arrived iu Washington and are shortly to leave for Spain and Peru. The barque Curio arrived at Philadelphia on the 19th. She brought 153 officers and crew of the Spanish frigate Flzavro, which foundered at sea. Wildemig’, tho famous European violinist, is creating a furore in New York.