THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5507, 20 November 1878, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

ARRIVAL OP THE CITY OF NEW YOliK AT AuCKI-AN'D. . AUCKLAND. T ie«d.*iv. The City of GU«go v Biolt .a I- d on f.heSrd inst. 'for £s,bo'V>od, hi c-n-equT ce of 1 *rge advance* on Auieiican securi ies, grain and real estate. The value of the latter is much depreciited. Smith, Fleming, and Co., Fast India!! merchants, Leadeuball-street, u»‘r liable for cash advances amounting to £353,000. and acceptances for £900,000 All the directors have been arrested, charged with fraud, and confined separately. Of these W. E. Taylor is ex-town collector of Glasgow, a member of the school board, and a partner in a large grain dealing firm in the West of Scotland, Inglis is a lauded proprietor in the East of Scotlmd, Louis Putter is a member of a large shipping firm in Glasgow, Wright is a member of an East Indian firm in Loudon and Glasgow, Robert Salmon was manager of the (Tty of Glasgow Bank when it stopped in 1557, and Stewart is an Edinburgh merchant. His arrest created great sensation, but it met with general approval. The Grown authorities appointed a lawyer to officially investigate the affairs of the bank. The research is to extend back to 1857, and the report is worse than the most gloomy forebodings. The loss is' £5,190,955, which, with the addition of £1,000.n00 of capital, the shareholdt-ra will have to make good. The report shows systematic deception. A call has been made on the shareholders for £S“O per share. Steps are being undertaken to organise a relief fund for shareholders.

Nicol Fleming, connected with the bank, has absconded, chartering a at-amer for the coast of JCiutyre, whence he hoped to reach Spain. A large number of Glasgow and London failures have followed this financial crash, among them Potter, Wilson, and Go., Glasgow, for £fioo,ooo ; Hanna, Donald, and \Vilaon, engineer*, Paisley, for £70,000 ; Westwich ami Co., specie merchants, London, for £70,000. James Morton and Co., Glasgow, have placed their books in the hands of accountant* ; they were largely indebted to the bank. Heugh, Balfour, and Co., Manchester, have failed for £2.000,000.

Five batteries of Artillery and the second battalion of the 14th Regiment at Curiagh are ordered to India. A correspondent at Calcutta telegraphs as follows :— ** Unless Shere AU gives us satisfaction on the present occasion, we will be forced to secure for ourselves the passes piercing the mountain ranges along the whole fiontier from Khyber to Bolan, and further strategic measures will be adoptedto dominate the Suleiman Range and Hindoo Koo*h mountains. 1 '

The S iltan has been asked to intervene between Afghanistan and England. A number of war ships have been ordered to the Persian Gulf from the squadron of the Adsairal of the East Indian station. y

The Bombay newspaper* announce that the Kuybenese have declared iu faror of the British. A despatch from Bombay to London says :— “Troops have been ordered to advance from liera Ghazlka, thus threatening Afghanistan from a new point. It i« reported that dissensions have broken out among the great Afghanistan chiefs The Ameer baa asked the tribal councils for assistance. It is believed that tribes mustering 150,000 fighting men have assented ; the other tribes, with about 35,000 warriors, remain nentrA."

The Ameer has freed from prison his son Hakoub Khau, who is a noted general. A despatch from Darjeling says 200 men of each regiment at Peshgar, and the horse artillery, w.th 40 powder batteries, have gone to Yamrood.

A despatch from Sb. Petersburg says if the Ameer is beaten, and bis territory is annexed to England, Rus-ia will occupy M*er and Ebalkh, in Southern Tmki-tui, near the Afghan b irders. The Am-erof Afghanistan’s force at AU Mu-jil is estimated at 25,000. An Afghan embassy is to proceed to St. Petersburg,

The Ameer’s reply to the Viceroy has been received, and is in substance, “You may do your worst, and the issue is in God’s hands." Northcoto admitted iu his speech at Wolverhampton the possibility of a renewal of war. The Government has offered free passages home to the families of officers engaged ia active service in India.

The organisation of the Qneetah column of invasion is approaching completion. It will have six months’ supplies by the 31st inst. The French Cabinet is discussing the English and Afghanistan question and the state of affairs iu Turkey. The situation ia held to be very grave. A movement is on foot in Bulgaria to exterminate the Mohammedans.

Baker Pashk has undertaken to complete the fortifications of Constantinople in two months.

The British Minister energetically insists that the Turkish slave trade must be abolished.

Eighty thousand Austrian troops have been withdrawn from Bosnia.

.Roumania has been recognised by tbe United States.

The British fLefe has been withdrawn to Artaki Bay. Further withdrawal has been stayed on account of the movements of the Russian-,

Turkish money has depreciated so rapidly that it is now only one-third of its nominal value.

Corruption among tbe Russian army officers is discovered to be widespread. Five hundred officers, including forty colonels, are accused of misapplication of moneys. Tbe Government at Constantinople baa received intelligence that Saad Gelden Pasha, on announcing that be had received orders to surrender Podgoritsa to tbe Montenegrins, was killed hy the Albanians, and 156 officers and men under his command were massacred.

Turkey has definitely rejected the Austro* Turkish convention.

Pirates have appeared in the Persian Gulf. War between Turkey and Greece is consi* dered inevitable.

A despatch from Vienna states that Russia informed the Powers of the stoppage of the retreat of Russian troop?, and has invited them to join in energetic representations, which Prince Lobauof is instructed to make, in order to induce the Porte to take prompt measures to stop outrages upon Christians. A Vienna despatch says that Russia is still urging Rouineba to conclude a convention granting a right of passage for Russian troops through her territory for the minimum period of two years. Count Audrasay has so far induced Bouxn«*Ua to withhold her consent.

The Russian army in Rouraelia and Bulgaria still amounts, contrary to the treaty, to 153,000 men. L 4000 waggons, with Christians, are in the wake of the Russian

army. The Sultan declared to Minister Layard that he would never conclude an alliance with Russia.

The Russians refuse to quit Adrianople till after the signing of a definite treaty with Turkey. The Czar is contracting the issue of military furloughs. In no case are they extended beyond February. Russia will make an immediate demand on Turkey for 8,00>’,000 roubles. The Russian tariff is to be raised 15 per cent, aud an income tax added. The Servian army is to bo reduced to ft peace footing immedutely. The Clyde shipbuilders have reduced wages 74 per cent The redaction affects 40,000 employes. It has been quietly accepted. The Eddystone Lighthouse remains uninjured; the foundations, however, »re reported unsafe. . _ • The Colonial Trust Corporation of London

have decided on a voluntary liquidation. Wages have been reduced 10 per cent, at Oldham. Negotiations are said to be pending betweea Austria, France, and England to secure an anti-Russian alliance. James Lnwers and Co., of Liverpool, have suspended payment. The liabilities are from one to two millions. - The race for the Criterion Stakes at New-

market on the 21st was won by Monsieur Phillips, Lancastrian second, and Roeouder third. The Cambridgeshire Stakes was won by Isouomy. Count von Bismarck, nephew to the German Chancellor, committed suicide. The cause was physical suffering. ... A panic occurred in the Glasgow iron trade. The price of pig iron was at one time lOd. 10 Vhjconut Bury and other directors of the London Colonial Trust Corporation, which defaulted in its debenture interest, have bean sued, and the books of the company ordered into Court. ' One thousand Glasgow weavers are on state against the 74 per cent, reduction of wages. A panic at the Colosseum Theatre at Liver* pool led to a frightful result. Thirty-five men, two lads, and several women worei There were between 4000 and £OOO. in the theatre at the time. The panic was caused by a cry of “ fire,” without cause. The Emperor William resumes the rents of Government early in December,

A Prussian four pep cent, loan has been • fleeted with Berlin bankers to the amount of 60 00Q,0''0 marks.

The Cniuitetw Bismarck, Prince Bismarck's daughter, will, it i* hum nuced, marry Count R irnz'U »>n November 4.

The Herman Socialist Bill ban passed, and tlie Central Socialist (J imnirte- ha* v«dnnta ily dissolved. The Smdaliwt newspaucra are alnn suspended, and will appear under new tit e». t he Rnhschilds have aijreed to the loan for Egypt of £61,000,00 ■ (sic). Eng'anfl, Italy, and Prance will not recognise Servian independence till the civil and political tepidity of the Jews in proclaimed. The Duke '-f Kdiubnr-h has sailed from Marseilles for Canada t * welcome the Marquis of Borne

Negotiations between the Vatican and Ger many have ceased. A report that the annual military con«cription in Germany is increased by 20,0u0 L deni- d.

After the passage of the Anti-Socialist Bill on the 19th, *221 for, against 149, the Reichstag prorogued. Bismarck read a message that, armed with this Bill, he hoped to cure the prevalent disease ; if not successful iu two and a half years he hoped to obtain a further concession

The Emperor William sent 1700 dollars for the benefit of the yellow fever sufferers in the Southern States of America. The International Peace Congress at Paris is ende d.

Humors of Prince Louis Napoleon and Princess Thyra’s betrothal are revived. A strong' French fleet has been ordered to the Mediterranean.

’ No more Communists are to bo arrested. Seventeen persons have been drowned by flood* in Northern Italy.

The Italian Consul at Trieste ha% been insulted by Austrian sailors crying “ Death to Italy.” % An internationalist named Juan Monkasi attempted to assassinate King Alfonso on the 25th.

The cashier of a bank at Odessa defaulted with 16 000 dollars ; a run on the bank followed, 1,500,000 dollars being withdrawn. Deaths from cholera in Morocco have reached 696.

It w expected that ft proclamation of war against the Ameer will be gazetted shortly, epfcifying full reasons for declaring it. Army officers are ordered to learn the Afghan language. Herr Hoffman, the Imperial Chancellor of Germany, has resigned. The dyke on the Damictta branch of the Nile ha* burs*', and it is impossible to repair it. Ten thousand men are engaged in building a new one. There is great damage; 120 square miles are overflown, and 20 villages submerged, involving a loss of from <SOO to 1000 lives.

AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Francisco, October 28.

The Australian cricketers won the match with the New Yorkers on the 2nd. The totals of the innings were—Australians, 162 ; New York, 161. Iu Philadelphia the match finished on the stb, hen the umpires called time and the match was over. The Australians were 43 runs behind, and had only lour wickets down in their second innings. It was a drawn gome. At Toronto on the 9th the Australians were victorious. They finished the first innings with 123 to the Canadians 100. In the second innings the Canadians scored 54, when the Australians went to the bat and defeated their opponents with eight wickets to spare. - During the game a m m iu charge of tlieAustraliaft*' wardrobe absconded with five valuable gold watches. On the 10th a sec >nd match between the Australians and twenty-two Montrealers was commenced. B mnermanand Murdoch, for the Australians, made 86 when time wa* called, as against the Montreal* 90 They also heat the Peninsula Club (eighteen). Thev did not play in Chicago. The party arrived in San Francisco, and were warmly received- Consul Booker invited the Board of Supervisors to attend a match which was commenced at the Recreation Grounds, at San Kr»nci-c<>, in the presence of an immense crowd. On the 25tb iuat. the Australian team v. twenty two Californian'! match ended in favor of the Australians, with 134 run* and an innings to the good. The Manhattan Savings Bank in New York was entered by burglars on the 27th, and 2,767.700 dollars were stolen. Serious trouble is apprehended among the maritime provinces of the new domnioa if the Halifax fishery award is not paid. Elevated street railroads in New York have been indicted by a grand jury as a nuis mee. School* lave been clo-ed in Virginia on account of the utter poverty of the State. Cyrille Dion, a celebrated billiard player, died suddenly on the 2nd instant. Hanlon beat Courtney in a five-mile scull race at Montreal on 3rd instant by a length and a quarter. Respectable sporting papers accuse Courtney of throwing the race over in over in favor of Canada.

James Donnelly, a Scotchman, was discovered in the W»l of the steamer Cheater on her arriva l in New York, a stowaway. He had been twelve days without food or water. The Cheyenne Indians are raiding in Nebraska, and have done incalculable miscbiefExpedithms of United States troops sent against them are failures. The hostile Cheyenne Indians have all surrendered.

A walking match between O'Leary and Hughes, of New York, closed on the 15*h. Hughes w ■ used up. O’Leary mule 322 miles in the i z day** tramp; Hughes, 311. A half druuken man walked into a New York church recently during service, and plunged a knife into a woman whom h© mistook for hia wife, with whom he had a quarrel.

John As McDonald will be made Premier of Canada.

Believers in the milleninm advent of Jesus Christ ere holding a conference in New York. The attendance was large and influential. An train on the old Clotiy railway, near Boston, was thrown off the track on the Bth. Fifty persons were killed and nearly 1»0 injured. They were returning from the Hanloo Courtney races. The released Irish Fenian prisoners recently arrived in New York, and intend to make a statement that the treatment of political prisoners in England was so barbarous, degradlog, and inhuman as to call for condemnation from the friends of humanity the world over. Boucicault has subscribed 900 dollars to start them iu business.

General Shearman’s son Thomas has joined the order of Jesuits through his mother’s influence, the result being domestic unhappiness. Seven negroes outraged four white women on the 7th iontaat near Mount Vernon. The Illinois sheriff was killed trying to arrest them. They afterwards were all lynched by the indignant citizens. Sever© storms have wrought great damage along the Atlantic coast Admiral Paulding, XJ.S. Navy, is dead. The October cotton crop returns are 5,000,000 bales. W. J. Fosswell baa been arrested in New York for attempting to pass forged notes of the Union Bank of London. The Harvard graduates offer their College Boat Club 10,000 dollars to send a crew to England. hr*-at made its appearance in New Orleans and Memphis, and the yellow fever epidemic ceased.

The proposed commercial treaty between the United States and France will be defeated, owing to the strenuous protest by the Anaeucan vine-growers. Admiral Gore Jones, RN., was detected in disguise on board the Russian war steamer Europe, in New York, and requested to leave the ship. A meeting wrts held at the Cooper Institute, New York, on tho 21st, at which the released feniaus Ctradoo and Melody spoke of tho barbarities practised in English prisons. The steamship City of Houston, from New York to Galveston, foundered on tho 23rd during a gale. No lives were Inst.

The constitutionality of all laws bearing on polygamy in Utah is to be argued before the United States Supreme Court. By this it Is intended to legally settle the Mormon question. Robert Aulay, Grand Chaplain of the Orange Young Britons at Ottawa, Canada, was murdered recently by the opposite party, and was found Soaring in the river with hia skull pierced by a ball. Lord Dufferin, late Governor General of Canada, sailed from Quebec for England on the 19th. Thousands bade him farewell. The blacks on the Danish West Indian IsJfind, Santa Cruz, have revolted. They murdered the planters and destroyed much property before they were suppressed. Hayti had been visited with a tremendously destructive hurricane. Gold In paying quantities has been discovered in Southern Chill

Cettawayo, the chief of the Zulu Caffrea, is threatening open hostilities against the British.

: The, UpralSs correspondent at Glasgow telegraphs as follows Tho meeting of the shareholders of thp City of Glasgow Bank was largely attended. Iu view of {he hopeless re-

snscitation of the shattered concern,* a strong fueling was expressed by a few prominent shareholders in favor of a voluntary liquidation, as being less costly than a judicial liquidation, and leas oppressive to the poorer shareholders. Repeated reference was made to the prompt action *<f the Crown, and the mines of the shareholder* who can testify that 'hey purchased -lures onfrau lulent misrepresentations were t vkeu d *wu for the u«e of the Pr«*urat >rFi*cal. Rumors reach me that further warrant-* have been for the arrest of the old directors of the bank. There have been runs on seme of the local building societies to-day, but nothing seriously approaching a panic. ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS. London, October 23. A desnatch from Constantinople contains the following :—The bulk of the Russian forces iu Bulgaria are moving southward. The Russian infantry alone in Eastern Roumelia already number 80,000 men. Another army corps is near Constantinople. There are 15,000 men in Adrianople. * St Petersburg, October 22. The Journal dt St Petersburg states that in consequence of an increase in uncovered notes issued during the war by 500,000,000 roubles, the tariff is to bo raised 15 per cent., and an income tax introduced. It exhorts the people to improve the agricul u*al exports so as to compete with the United States. The Oolos says it is considered that a demand for the immediate payment of three million roubles is probable. London, October 20.

A disastrous railway collision occurred today at Pontvpride. Twelve persons are reported killed, and over 20 seriously wounded. Several had their limbs amputated, and more deaths are expected. October 25.

The Standard publishes a sensational despatch from Vienna that Russia’s military preparations are so vase that nobody can doubt that she is bant upon further conquest. The only question appears to ha whether she will wait till spring, or recommence war before that time. Her «-xcu3o will probably be the outbreaks of Bulgarians, which were got up by Rus-ian agents. A camp of 60,000 men is forming at Kischeneff to replace the troops who have crossed the Balkans southward. Russia refuses to evacuate Dobrudsca or Roumaoia until Ronmania has concluded an offensive and defensive aliimce. Russian agents openly claim that Moldavia, as far as the Sereth, must become Russian.

The Times, in' a leader, says Russia ventures to stand in the way of the execution of the Berlin Treaty because she trusts to the forbearance of others. A word spoken in earnest by England or Austria would bring her to her senses in ft moment. It is preposterous to assert that onr band? can be tied by the Afghanistan difficulty. We must force ourselves upon Afghanistan, to the exclusion of others, who have no right there. Our course is clear; when we shall entre upon it is another question. It is certain, however, that the decisive campaign will.uot commence before spring. Our attention will meanwhile be given to carrying out the Berlin Tre atv. The St. Petersburg Rushi Mtr says that Angle-Turkish Intrigues are on foot to spread the Rhodope insurrection to Sbumia. The only result of such a move will be to cause Russia to assert her right as conqueror and revert to the Treaty of ;Sau S ? .efano, All the powers are too weak and occupied elsewhere to offer any resistance. A Bucharest despatch says the Bulgarians have been informed from St. Petersburg that neither Prince Nikita, of Montenegro, nor Prince Milan, of Serrxa, has a chance of becoming ruler. It is believed that the election will be managed quietly, and that Europe will be confronted with au accomplished fact. A despatch from Rome announces that the Ministerial crisis is over. Admiral Brece has accepted the Ministry of Marine.