ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 49, 17 June 1876, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

LATER ENSjLBSH M£WS. . [PER. PRESS AGENCY.] -v ' ■■ " ' i ■■■l- . ♦ ' Auckland,, "SatunW The City of San Francisco arrived morning. She connected with the Zealand! at Kandavau on the 13th. The latter M 'Frisco on the 25tli. , MAIL NEWS.' The "Levant Herald" reports, .the plague increasing at Bfigdaid.- ; Ther p-\ave bees thirty new cases and ten ~ A despatch . from "Calcutta reports tie Punjaub frontier: quiet. There is reasonable hope of the disturbance having completely ended.

Cholera is raging fearfully in Madlj among a great number of people, who an erecting earthworks for the King of Burmah It is rumored that a plt.gue has appeared at Muskat. The authorities of Bombay and other Indian ports have established stringent quarantine for vessels coming from Muskat. The Reichstag of Berlin states that the investigation of Salonica has not afforded, any trustworthy explanation of the real cause of the assassination of the Consuls, but it is certain that the murders had no connection 'with the alleged forcible conversion_of a Christian girl. Sir Edwin Buckley, M.P., is declared bankrupt. He transacted business .in Manchester and elsewhere. Liabilities, §6,500,000. The liabilities of W. and A. Faircase, Liverpool cotton dealers, whose suspension was announced, are over §600,000. The barque Casswell arrived at Queen? town in tow of the gunboat Goshawk. The mutineers killed Captain Best, who belonged to London ; the second mate and the steward were both from Glasgow. One of the set men killed two of the mutineers, both of whom were Greeks. Another Greek sailor was badly cut by a carpenter's axe, hit he survived, and was landed a prisoner Queenstown. Captain Best was shockingly mutilated, and the two mates were shot stabbed;. The steward was shot while coming up the companion ladder. England has dissented from the proposal! agreed to by the Northern Continents powers for reform in Turkey. The Channel fleet has been ordered to 1* in readiness -to proceed to the Mediterranean Two vessels have already been despatch" there.

Germany has' ordered five ironclads to the Mediterranean. Count , Andassy, at the latest date, polished „a : note asserting that the peace of, Europe \roiild remain undisturbed.