ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 7, 29 April 1876, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL

Aucland, April 28. The City of San Francisco arrived at seven o'clock, with the English and American mails. Site proceeds through to Sydney at noon to-morrow. She left San Francisco at 1 p.m. on the 3rd April, and Honolulu on the 11th. Arrived at Fiji on the 24th. Made the Four Kings on the 28th, at 9 a.m., after fair weather for the principal part of tlie passage. GENERAL SUMMARY. : A TERIIIBLE BAH/WAY ACCIDENT. A terrible railway calamity in France was caused %■ the breaking of a bridge, owing to heavy' rain,,storms. The carriages fell On top of each other, and immediately disappeared in the. river, where they were broken up by the strength of the stream. Those who were not killed by the fall were unable to escape from the waggons in which they were imprisoned, and were carried down the river until they were dashed to pieces against the rocks or slowly drowned. Over 30 bodies have been^|fliscoveredj^b.ut, itl^is-< does not represent all the victims of the accident. . ; . ; - A land slip in Germany lias caused the death' of six persons, and : injured twentyone others. , 7 ■ Two hundred thousand marks have been subscribed for Cardinal Ledoeliowski, by the aristocracy and clergy of Posen. A destructive hurricane swept over Germany, and did great damage at Cologne. It is rumoured that the forthcoming interview between Queen Victoria and the Emperor William is for the purpose of ceding to Germany the right of the Duke of Edinburgh as heir presumptive to the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg Gotha. Count Moltke will probably resign as Chief of Army Staff. He will be succeeded by General Wartenstern. Fifty thousand dollars have been recovered from the wreck of the German steamer Schiller. The Prince of Wales arrived at Alexandria on April 1, en route for England. Letters from Gordon; the African explorer, aimounce that he lias subdued the hostile tribes which destroyed the servantsof his party. After this he proceeded by land to DufiiL He found the Foi'ta, rapids were not navigable, and made a detour on the left bank of the Victoria Nile. The steamer Isabella, from Rochelle for the Bristol, was wrecked on Pendever rocks, between St. Ives and LruulsenrL Six corpses were washed ashore. The crew, 30 in number, all perished. A team of the best Scottish marksmen, including six* competitors last year for the Elcho Skield,igo:td;thfe American Centennial Matches. English and Irish teams also go. / A London telegram, under date:-March 20, says nearly fill the railways north of the Tay are more or less blocked with snow. The Caledonian line is covered ■with snow 20ft. deep near Aberdeen. Twelve trains : are snowed in at one point. More than a dozen trains are blocked on the Great' Northern Railway. The telegraph lines, are buried at, several points north of Abardepn. The " Ilark Lane Express," in its Grain Market Review, .says that Hoods and storms on the Continent cause great anxiety to farmers. M'Mahon has announced that a nniver-saL,-*exhibition will,-, shortly*, be..-held in H Tli# "SpariiMf" ste'anier 5 exploded and sank. Many persons were killed or wounded. ! ' It is stated that England will claim ai indemnity from the 'Wfiited State's, or. behalf of Englishmen who. : splfered in the Emma Mine scheme. A destructive fire ; has. occurred at Boston, demolishing several blocks. New York .Times,?'; in reference *• to the Pahk .of New York failure, |s&ys it seems the Vice President ran the institution in his own interest that of his friends. ~ Bankers. sa^ ; i& will not afreet banking.business greatly. There are various rumours as to the instability of the 'Pacific Mail Company. At a meeting of' the directors resolutions were passed, authorising the directors to -issue two million dollars, or ten year seven per cent, currency bonds. The Company lias; issued-, a. circular,'* showing; that the earnings-for the past year amount to $11,000,050,> T , ~, , ; T ■AS.-Marah iheL

dam of the reservoir gave 7(50 million gallons of water,<, KJ „ out in a solid mass, twenty feeit an swept the raving arid country with fearfu As s liavoc, demolishing houses and properfc W to ari' enormous extent. The streai V< ptnmid down for nine miles. Alnass meeting is being held in 'Frisco wj to protest against increasing the imniigra tion of Chinese. The steamship Great Western, frou 10 3 Mediterranean ports, went ashore neai Anntyville, Long Island, and became a total wreck. .