THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5768, 24 September 1879, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

(PER PRESS AGENCY.) Auckland, Tuesday. The s.s. Australia arrived to-night from San Francisco, leaving for Sydney shortly afterwards. English dates are to August 14. She brought the following news ; GEXE UAL SUMMARY. Air. Longman, the last of the original partners in the firm of eminent publishers, died in London on August 31. Her Majesty the Queen has sent Mr. Buckstone, the actor and author, £59, Lord Beaconsfield has recommended a grant of £IOO to be made him from the Royal Bounty. A novelty in trade was the recent shipment of pig-iron from Liverpool to Xew York. Mr. Hone, a prominent Irish amateur, has takenja team of gentlemen cricketers to America. He has written a letter proposing that tho Irish meet the English players in the States. One thousand cotton operatives have struck in Glasgow. The Belfast merchants have asked the appointment of a Parliamentary conimittee to inquire into the effect of the depreciation of silver upon the commercial interests of Great Britain. A British Royal Commission, under the presidency of Lord Carnarvon, Colonial Secretary, has been appointed to report on the defences of the British colonies. Two fatal cases of cholera have occurred in London. The new Brazilian loan is more than twice covered by subscription. David Martineau and Sou's sugar refinery, London, was burned on August IS. Tho loss was £IO6O. Joseph Pistoria, who took part in tha mutiny on board tha Caswell in 1876, has been hanged in Cork. Sir Charles Tapper has ordered 45,000 tons of steel rails, at 975. 6d. per ton, to be delivered in Montreal for the Canadian Pacific railway. The builders' strike in Bristol, began in 1873, has now ended. Miss Mary Atkin, the niece and amanuensis of Thomas Carlyle, has recently married her cousin, Mr. Alex. Carlyle, Breutfield. The principal failures reported are ;—Lorraine and Co., merchants, London and East Indies, with £42,000 ; Simmon Bargheim, iron merchant, £40,000 ; Thomas Driver, cotton spinner, Blackburn, £30,000 ; James McHenry, £97,009 (money chiefly lost in Texas Pacific Railway and Furness Iron and Steel Company, of London); Arthur Kidd and Co., carpet manufacturers, Manchester, £46,000 ; W. S. and T. Caine, iron merchants, Liverpool, £150,000 (losses in American trade).

A disturbance took place atLurgan between a Home Rule procession and the police, who charged on the mob with fixed bayonets. The mob subsequently wrecked liord Lurgan’s lodges and the house of a Protestant. The violence and determination of the rioters was so great that the officers killed one and wounded two before they were brought under control.

Mr. Albert Pell, formerly chairman of the Central Chamber of Agriculture, and Mr. Clareswell Read, President of the Norfolk Chamber of 'Agriculture, both M.P.’s, have gone to America in connection with the commission to inquire into the causes of agricultural depression in England. They will take cognisance of the present harvest. The Timet says the departure of Resident Minister Walsh from London is generally regretted, and thinks the demand made by the American Government (or 103,000d015. damage to the fishermen in Fortune Bay may lead to diplomatic complications. The London Financier says the American purchases are now beginning to be estimated at amounts considerably in excess of those thought of, and notwithstanding the purchases ot iron, £c., the conviction prevails that gold will be taken in payment to a considerable amount. It is known that largo amounts of bills against wheat shipments, with the usual 60 days’ run, have been steadily accumulating during the last month. The severest storm for many a year raged iu England on August 4, duriug which hailstorms fell measuring sin. in circumference. The damage was great in Bedfordshire, and here the hay crops were nearly swept away, and many cattle were drowned in Cambridge, Norfolk, Guilford, Leicester, and Bath. The Times says that the hay and other fodder crops throughout England and Wales are many millions of pounds short of the average value.

The Staffordshire colliers, to the number of 3400, have struck against the reduction in wages. Lord Derby has resigned the presidency of the Liverpool Working Men’s Conservative Association, in consequence of the change in his relations with the Conservatives.

Venard De Saint Anne, the originator of the project for bridging the English Channel, promises to begin Operations without delay. He estimates it will require seven months for the experiments, and a million francs will suffice to pay preliminary expenses. To raise funds he has laid the project before the French and Belgian Chambers of Commerce. Eightyfour of these have expressed themselves in favor of the project. He will visit England shortly to lay the matter before the English Government. To span the deep water ha has recourse to the tubular system. The Home League Rule proposes converting the movement into a regularly-elected convention of the Irish nation.

The Irish Volunteer Bill has been rejected in the House.

A letter from Nordenskjold, dated February, says that the Swedish Arctic navigator states he did not expect to be free from ire before June. The report that he had pa . l Behring Straits was therefore a pi.m.ture one.

On the 18th, in consequence of heavy rain storms, the traffic was suspended on the railway between Chester and Holyhead, and Birkenhead was flooded. The rain was so violent at Sheffield that it washed away the boundaries of houses in course of construction. All the low-lying lands in Derbyshire, Trent, and Derwent were overflowed. The wheat is gradually roiting, and many crops left standing will not pay for cutting. In the Vale of Chydde, in Wales, thousands of acres of crops are submerged, and hundreds of cattle and sheep are drowned. The injury done to growing crops in many of the districts is irreparable. The Oxford was inundated to a depth that made it navigable for boats. The severity of the rains will be further indicated by the fact that they have caused a rise in the Thames, which has flooded the Home Park under the walls of Windsor Castle, and interrupted the barge traffic. Dr. Newman Hail, the Congregational pulpit orator, has obtained a decree of divorce from his wife, on account of her adultery with one Richardson, a stablekeeper. The trial excited a great sensation. Ambrose Forticue and William Baugham, supposed accomplices of American forgers, have been committed for trial in London.

According to the United Service Gazette Sir Garnet Wolseley will be the next Commander-in-Chief in India.

The Home rule fix has been settled, Messrs. Gray and Parnell having had a satisfactory explanation. _ An English steamer collided with the Spanish steamer Concord off Gape Finiaterro on August 11th. The Spaniard was sunk, and 14 of her crew drowned.

A serious riot took place at Belfast on 11th August, caused by a Catholic procession. Many persons were injured. Lieutenant Carey, on his return to England on 20th August, was met at Plymouth by a committee, who presented an address of wall come, signed by 3000 names, which were obtained in a day or two. The address expressed entire confidence in his valor as a British officer and honor as a gentleman, and sympathised with him in “ his present trying circumstances.” The Queen has positively refused the commander-in-chief’s request, that Lieutenant Carey be dismissed the service. He was released from arrest on 21st August. Unarmed Volunteers are to he enrolled in Ireland. Count De Chambord is on a visit to London. Mr. Gladstone and Sir Charles Dilke hare addressed large meetings in the Liberal interest. England is the only power not invited to send officers to witness the great Russian military manoeuvres that commenced on the 25th ultimo.

Two hundred colliers embarked at London on August 20 for New Zealand. Business is improving m Manchester. Jhe Guardian says demand and supply are about farmers who were dissatisfied with the agricultural prospects of Englrnd, have left in the steamer Helvetia for Texa*._ They were mostly from the north of Yorkshire and Durham. Several commanded capital to the extent of £SOO or £6OO, while others entered into partnership, one group having raised a capital of £I2OO, While Lady Yogel was going in a boat to t ! -e Devorau regatta with her children, she observed a boy fall out of a punt into the w r ter. She seized an oar and assisted the boatman in pulling to the spot, which was reached just in time to save the boy from drowning. In consequence of the active American demand very large iron making districts iu England are showing unraistakeablc symptoms of revival. Charles E. Grissell was committed to Newgate prison until the prorogation of Parliament for evading the warrant of the Speaker for his arrest. The United States Consul at Manchester, England, says the failure of the crops is much more serious than is generally supposed abroad. The demand in England for meat and grain from the. United States will be enormous. Business is greatly depressed. Last year more than 80,000 persons were supported iu Manchester by the public. The coming winter will probably witness still greater destitution. At the Mansion House, Lord Beaconsfiold said the Treaty of Berlin has taken its place among the archives of the capitals of Europe. Its end is to assure a general peace, and if dancers and difficulties supervene in countries to which the Treaty specially relates—[The remainder of this sentence has not been supplied]. After insisting that landed property ought to continue as at present, his Lordship concluded amid frantic cheers. Thomas Pairdy, a large landed proprietor at Hoy, County Meath, was shot dead on entering his own door. Lord Chelmsford and Colonels Wood and Butler have arrived at Plymouth. They were cheered on landing. The working men of Sheffield are arranging a system of emigration to the States and elsewhere on a large scale. The steamship Louis Dairo, from Antwerp for Naples, was wrecked during a fog off Ushant, and twenty-seven persons were drowned. Fifteen persons were killed, thirty-six seriously wounded, and forty slightly injured by a railway accident between Nancy and Vezelis. The rapid decline of Bonapartism is proved by the failure of three Imperialist newspapers in the provinces for want of funds. Grant’s hotel, at Paris, has been sold for 1,000,000d01. by auction. It was bought by M. Phillipart. M. Lesseps starts for the States in October. Denoneanx, whose work on the Danube and Antwerp is well known, will be his chief engineer in the Panama canal, if that work is undertaken. Five hundred pilgrims, double the number of last year, have started for Lourdes. A Standard despatch says that some French Catholics and Loyalists, frightened at Ferry’s Education Bill have determined to emigrate to the Island of Papua, and there found a Catholic colony under the direction, of the Marquis De Hoys. Gambetta advocates agitation in favor of the Ferry Education Bill among the masses. The London Economist says the weather in Franco is all that could be desired, and the crops have made great progress. It is now certain that a fair average may be counted on. A heavy fire has occurred at Bordeaux. The estimated loss la 2,000,000 francs. Prince Jerome Napoleon has purchased a local advocate called L’Auiocrate Jlepublicain, and repudiates hereditary Imperialism. (?) A French barque, with a number of Swiss, French, and Belgian colonists, well supplied with arms and ammunition, has left Flushing for New Guinea. GERMANY. The leading Gluecke mine, at the Zabize collieries, in Prussia was flooded. Two corpses were discovered. There are supposed to be eleven in the pit. A new comet' has been discovered by M. Polisha, of the Academy of Science at Vienna. It is in lOdeg. 6min. 2?ec. right ascension, 49deg. Omin. 6sec. north declination, f with daily motion of plus 6 minus 3 minutes. ■ The difference between Russia and Germany has passed to the stage of diplomatic precautions. It is said that the friendly intercourse which existed between the Austrian and Russian Cabinets has almost entirely ceased. Austria will conclude the alliance with Germany. The electoral manifesto of the new Conservative party declares that the State and Catholic Churches should meet each other half way ; that religious instruction should be left to religions bodies) but that inalienable rights of State should be guaranteed, especially as regards education. There is estrangement between Bismarck and Gortschakoff, which is Hot extending, however, to the Czar and Emperor. The value of railways which the Government is in negotiation to purchase is £75,000,000. ' SPATN. An indemnity is claimed from Mexico for the murder of Spanish subjects in that Country. Incendiary fires are frequent in the provinces. One involved a loss of thirty-four •persons."' A Prgtestaut meeting at Garguella, near Eigueras, was recently invaded by gendarmes. The pastors were arrested and women driven out, and the names of the men present were written in the police book. ’ RUSSIA. Fears are entertained that the Merv force has met with disaster. The wheat exports are diminishing enormously, and the rye export is increasing. The Government proposes to surrender Kuldji to China if the Chinese make certain concessions favorable to Russia. The treaty for cession will probably be signed during this month. The Chinese have 100,000 men and 100 guns available, in case of war. A great increase in the number of Nihilists is reported. ’ Famine prevails in Siberia. The Government is distributing corn. An alliance has been formed with Persia. The volunteer fleet subscription at St. Petersburg has closed. It reached 2,000,000 roubles. The Nihilist head quarters have been removed to Kieff. Lazareff’s expedition is suffering terribly from heat, dysentry, and scorbutic ailments ; horses ate dying in great numbers, and camels are very scarce. Traction engines, without rails, are used on the Steppes. Lazarsff has died at Sohat from a carbuncle. TURKEY. Commissioners, Sabet and Ali Saib Pasha, have been appointed to settle the Greek frontier question, The Porte has rejected Servia’s demand for indemnification for losses caused by the recent invasion of the Servian frontier. A plague has appeared on the Turko-Persla frontier. Short crops are expected in Asiatic Turkey. "Wheat has risen three prices in Mesopotamia. The Sultan has written to the Pope giving full liberty to Catholics in his dominions. ITALY. The Pope endorses the Panama Canal project. The health and strength of the Pope has visibly declined. He refuses the advice of his physicians to change his residence. He has been warned, by an anonymous letter from Baltimore, to guard against poison. Lava was flowing from Mount Vesuvius from cone to base, but the eruptions had temporarily ceased. The Countess Lambertini has applied to the Court of Appeal for the revocation of the decree in the Cardinal Antonelli will case. She has new evidence, revealing her mother’s name. The Czar has written to the Pope declaring his readiness to make peace with the Catholic Church in Poland. The violent attitude of the Belgian bishops assembled in Malines has caused trouble at the Vatican. The Archbishop has been summoned to Rome for an explanation. The Jesuits have sent the Pope a memorial of entire submission. Its sincerity is questioned at the Vatican. AUSTRO-HUNGARY. Austria is aiming at an attempt to secure a stronger foothold in Turkey. The losses by the Serajevo fire will reach fifty million florins. Two thousand inhabitants and forty-six soldiers were killed, and many were wounded. The entire trade of the city was ruined.

PERSIA. Should a second dry winter occur, P-. r-ia would bo threatened with a famine a- disastrous as that of 1872. MOROCCO. English officers are fortifying Tangier*, and are also constructing a fort and barracks there for the use of British troops coming from India. BULGARIA. The Indian corn crop is a total failure .rein drought. ’The Ministry is to bo impeached for violating the ConHtitution. A fire at Sophia caused a lo?.s to the extent of £BO,OOO. A great many artillery horses were destroyed. INDIA. The drought in Cashmere continues. The condition of the people is deplorable. _ Cholera is still prevalent iu Cabul, and is diminishing in Candahar. It has reappeared among the regiments returned to Cabul from Herat, and has created a panic. EGYPT. The Khedive has informed the English and French Consuls that he will not answerfor the consequences of Rivers Wilson and 1 iebligoier s return to the country ; still he has been informed that he must accept the latter comptroller, in company with Baring. The Khedive consented under protest. Affairs iu Abyssinea look threatening, and General Gordon has started for Massowah in consequence. AFRICA. Mr. Stanley has steamed direct to Congo, intending to open that river to commerce from the West Coast. A steamer from Antwerp, laden with goods, is at his direction. He is under the patronage of the King of the Belgians. There has been a revolt of some importance against the King of New Calabar on the west coast, and all traffic has been stopped. AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Francisco, Sept. 1. A rowing match has been arranged between Courtney and Hanlou for 6000dol. a side. It takes place at Aatangua Lake next month. Tile most exciting event of the month in San Francisco was the attempted assassination of the Rev. Dr. J. D. Kalloch, the candidate of the working men’s party for mayor, by Charles De Zonng, one of the editors of the Chronicle. De Zonng had assailed Kalloch in his paper, and abused him shamefully, as well as revived scandal against his father, who had been dead thirty years. Kalloch, in a speech, replied in kind, questioning the respectability of De Zoung’s mother. The next day after the speech Charles De Zoung drove up in a closed carriage to the Temple, Kalloch’s church, and sent a message in that a lady wanted to see him. When the minister came out, in obedience to the message, De Zoung shot him from behind the curtains of the vehicle, inflicting two wounds, one iu the breast and the other in the groin, from which he is yet suffering. The most intense excitement prevailed, but luckily no deeds of violence followed. De Zonng was taken to the county prison, where his brother also fled for protection. the building was surrounded by military with galling guns for its protection, and to prevent the prisoners being taken out and lynched. A general election takes place in California on the 3rd instant. The working men’s ticket wilt carry the city and county of San Francisco, and Kalloch, if he survives, will be Mayor. The New York Herald prints nearly two solid pages of interviews with prominent men as to whether General Grant will accept another nomination for Presidency. All believe he will not. He prefers the actual presidency of the new Nicaragua Canal Company. The excess of exports up to August during 1879 is 263,572,989d015, Yellow fever is still raging in Memphis and New Orleans. New cases in the former city are increasing at the rate of 40 or 50 daily. Sitting Bull and his Indians, now numbering nearly 8000, are determined to reside on Canadian soil.

The rice crop in Louisiana is greatly reduced this year. Captain Webb, the English swimmer, is now in New York. Having offered to swim a match with anyone in America, to be not less than 10 miles, and for not less than 500fldols. a side, it was taken up by Captain Boynton, the latter to use his life-preserving armor. The contest came off at Newport, Rhode Island, on the 22nd ult., but Captain Webb fell sick while in the water, and had to be taken out by his friends, leaving the victory to Boynton. The latter has again been challenged by Webb. European immigrants are arriving at New York by thousands weekly. They mostly go to the western prairie States. Ex-Governor Sprague, of Rhode Island, and Senator Ccnkling have recently become the subjects of newspaper remarks, on account of a serious quarrel which grew out of Conkliug’s intimacy with Mrs. Sprague. The husband ordered the senator out of the house at the muzzle of a shot gun. Mr. Secretary of State Evarts is mentioned as a Republican candidate for the New York Governorship, Senator Coukling’s escapade having rendered his prospects cloudy in that direction.

Speaking of Nordur’s, or Nordenskjolds’ feat, the New Yorh Tribune remarks that the practical value of this north-east passage has yet to be determined. It will be, at all events, greater than that ;'of the north-west passage, for the discovery of which Sir Robert McClure was knighted, and for which he received a reward of £25,000. A letter from one of Nordur’s assistants gave an interesting account of Leohade, a peculiar race inhabiting the north-eastern part ef Siberia. They are very much like the Greenlanders, are small, brownish yellow skin, coal black eyes and hair, and have a singularly frozen expression of face. They live in tents, dress in skins, and feed on salt fish. Their women are tattooed in the face. A dictionary has been made of their language, comprising about 1300 words. It will, no doubt, prove of iuterest to linguists, as the tongues of the Polar race hitherto have been as great a puzzle to the philologist as those of the negroes of tropical Africa. Hew York, Boston, and Philadelphia have each sent a fine line of exhibits to the Sydney Exhibition. San Francisco will not be fully represented till the Melbourne Exposition next year. CANADA. A cloud burst at Buetonche, causing the death of two women and children, and levelling eighty houses. The Marquis of Lome has paid a vioe-regal visit to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Bush fires have been raging in Bradford, Hinchenbrook, and Oldham, and many farmers are made homeless. A family named Parsons is missiug. Woodstock has been levelled by a severe gale, with great loss of life. Serious riots have occurred between the French and Irish in Quebec. It appears that the Irish ship laborers have been asked to accept a reduction of wages by the French section and refused. Now that the Canadian Parliament has adjourned without doing anything to further the Canada-Pacific Railway, Ministerial papers are beginning to change their tone. They charge the mother country with indifference to their interests, and this is coupled with new intimidations that if means can be got in the United States, it may be necessary to seek assistance with that country, and let Great Britain go. SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA. Tho mortality from yellow fever at Havanna is reported to be nearly 200 weekly. Another outbreak is expected in Port-au-Prince, Hayti. The Peruvian warships Huasoar and Union have visited the Chilian ports, destroying launches and capturing the steamer Runac, with an entire regiment of cavalry, fully armed and equipped, besides three vessels loaded with coal and copper. Mexico is in a state of revolution. Diaz, the President of Mexico, has declined a second term, and has expelled many foreigners for inciting revolution in the country. Serious riots have occurred at Santiago de Chili in consequence of popular discontent at the conduct of the war. Tho populace erected a barricade, and shouted, “Death to the Traitor Ministry." Two persons were killed in a conflict with the troops, and several were wounded. The Chilian President has fled to Vina. Delmaf, the Minister of War, has resigned. The Portugese Consul at Pernambuco has been stabbed to death, and the assassin escaped. The Peruvian authorities stopped the Chilian Envoy while on his way to Columbia, and seized his instructions, which were to propose

an offensive and defensive alliance between Chili and Columbia against Peru. The ship canal propn-.ed across the Isthmus of J'linda from Odar Keys to the month of the St. John River will effect a .saving of about 1 00 miles in the water route from New Orleans to Ne w York. COMMERCIAL. San Francisco, September 1. Wheat, Idol. 5/l.c. to Idol. 72£c.; flour, .viol, to sdol. 621 c.; barley, full, 62jc. to 75c. per cental ; brewing do, ,80c. to 85c.; oats, idol, to Idol. 590.; hops, 3ic. to 121 c. per lb.; quicksilver, 40c. per lb.; Columbia salmon, Idol. sc. to Idol. 7£c. per 121 b.