THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 74, 17 July 1876, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

[FEB JTIESW AUKNCY.] —, ■> Avcklavd, July 15. The City of New York has arrived from Kandavao. She left there on the 11th, where she had been waiting five days for | the City of Sydney, the through boat, j which came on the due date, and sailed for Sydney the same day. As the City of New York left for Auckland, the City of San Francisco, with the outward mails, arrived at Kandavau on the 7th. GENERAL NEWS. Mr. Schotfietd, member of the Honse of Commons, for Pembrokeshire, is dead. A Vienna correspondent reports that one of the last decrees signed by the late Sultan was a secret order for the invasion of Serri», and the Austrian anibassadorsucceeded ] tn having the order withdrawn. The Mexican Government have leased the mines of San Louis, Pottosi, Guanagnato>, and Zacatecaa, to an English Company, at £IOO,OOO per annum. Trade is prostrated, and the Government is unable tt> pay its employees. The Spanish police have discovered two depots of cartridges at San Sebastian. A torchlight procession took place in Dublin in celebration of the escape of the Fenian convicts from Australia, and Disraeli was burned in cftigy. The King of Dahomey will pay the fine imposed on him by (Commander Hewitt for maltreating a British subject. Wi.ns.low Borton, the forger, is discharged. An exploring expedition to north-western Africa has left England. Its main object is to ascertain the feasibility of admitting ttte waters of the Atlantic to a portion of the desert of Sahara. A fire broke out to-day in the carpet manufacturing and woollen works at Ayr, belonging to'Jas. Temjdeton, caused by the friction of the machinery. The fire spread to all parts of the building. The operators TvtTsr at work at the time, and it is believed that all the men escaped ; but a number of women rushed out, saying there were others inside unable to escape. Soon afterwards the roof fell in, and twenty-four women were buried in the ruins and perished. One woman, who leaped from the upper window, was so badly injured that she died soon after being taken to the Hospital. It is reported that an overseer named Barr, locked the door of the room in which the female operatives were working. Barr himself perished in the {lamps, and it is impossible to learn the truth of the report ; but as the women had time to escape, it is otherwise mexfdteabte. The works are entirely destroyed. A despatch from Calcutta reports an alarming outbreak of cholera in Gnlwood, a village on the Bombay and Baroda Railway. Of 200 inhabitants, 100 died in three days. AMERICAN NEWS. A fire at St. Johns, Canada, destroyed the entire business part of the town, a mite long and six hundred yards wide. Two hundred families are rendered homeless, many barely escaping with their lives. The Indians in Nebraska made a descent on the settlers, killing 100 within one week. A Protestant church in Mexico has been burned by fanatics. Thirty thousand people daily attend the Centennial Exhibition. Foot and mouth disease has broken out amongst hogs, in some parts of Canada. People are slaying hundreds.