SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 883, 13 February 1879, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Aff KJ.ASH, February 13. The mail steamer Australia arrived at half-past nine o'clock. The Australia was detained at Han Francisco 3<> hours, owing t« the non-arrival of the English mails. GENERAL nI'HMARY. Kniignutfs to Australia are given Ll4 each by the N>rth Wales Miners' Association and North Wales State Union, they j being members of these Societies. By a colliery explosion .it Phondca Valley, near Pronty Pridd, 00 perished. Sir M. 31. Hayter lias been drowned. The suspension of the Cornish Bank caused great distress. The Marquis of Twcedale is dead. Tlte Town Council of Cork refuses to receive General Grant for his anti-Catholic sentiments. In Dublin he was presented with the freedom of the city, and was in Belfast and the North generally, j Dean Stanley announces hjs intention • to return t>? America. The Oldham cotton strike is over, j The American steamer Bulgarian has j been totally wrecked on the west mouth jof Lough Lonne, Ireland.

The distress in England is increasing. 6500 persons are daily relieved in Manchester alone.

Sir James Stephen has been appointed Judge of the High, x Court, vice Sir Anthony Cleasly, resigned. Five thousand English immigrants sailed for New Zealand recently.

The Oxford Boat.-Club declines to. row the Amencair Harvard C6llege CJltfb. * The Dokie of Edinburgh is; to be-ap-pointed. Admiral of the. North American station, and the rumcr is revived that the :J>oke of Cqntought isyto v be Viceroy pf Ireland. s .y j V ' ■

Ward, a London artist, has committed suicide.

Heavy floods have occurred in England and Scotland.

The Thames was filled with floating ice, and traffic in some parts was suspended. The Princess Caroline of Hesse is dead. Lord Beaconsfield has fully recovered. The troops of the Peshawur and Khurah column, Afghanistan, have settled down for the winter. .

An imposing durbar was held at Jellalabad on the Ist inst. by Sir S. Brown. The feeling of the chiefs was friendly. The health of the troops is good. Stewart's command bad camped 011 the Ahuznee road, after marching through Candahar. It is reported that Yakoob Khan had fled Cabul, leaving the army disorganised. Prince Bismarck is preparing a Bill authorising the opening of all letters on the frontier.

The German Government inend to send a naval force to Samoa to demand alleged rights. Russia is interfering to prolong her time of occupation. Switzerland lias voted in favor of a subscription to the St. Gothard and other Alpine railways. A heavy run 011 the London and County Bank was caused by a mob assembling in front to listen to a dispute between a cabman and a passenger. The reserves of the Bank were not affected. Twenty persons were recently killed by collision 011 the Warsaw railway. 2045 Communists have been pardoned by Marshal MacMahon. " 31. Convasa it Co., Loudon, merchants, have failed for LSO,OOO. AMERICAN SUMMARY. Sax Fkaxcisco, January 21. A second vessel full}' laden has left Is ew York for Sydney with American articles for exhibition at the August Exhibition. The minstrel Sign or Abecco, known in the colonies, died in Chicago 011 the 4th inst. A delegation of Chicago merchants has gone to the City of Mexico for the purpose of extending trade. A severe earthquake was recently felt in Flinda. Mrs. Anderson, an Englishwoman, has walked 2700 (juarter-miles in as many hours at Brooklyn. Scarlet fever has broken out in Zsew York. European steamers are delayed in New York harbor by the ice. Archbishop Parkell, of Cincinatti, a prominent Roman Catholic prelate, has become a bankrupt, and resigned. Special payments were resumed by the United States Government 011 January 1. Paper monev is generally preferred to gold. The Grant Powder Works, San Francisco, have exploded. Three persons were killed. The loss was 5000 dols. W. H. Vanderberg is about starting a line of eight steamers between New York and Liverpool. A fire on Broadway, Xew \ork, involved a loss of 2.000,000 dols., and a second one 011 Ninth street, occasioned a loss of •J.i 100.000 do:.-. ADDITIONAL ITEMS. Mr. Gladstone was presented with a silver axe 011 his UOtli birthday. The English papers are filled with the trial of the City of Glasgow Bank directors, and a proposal has been seriously entertained to raise a lottery 011 a gigantic scale, to yield nine millions. The scheme will take the form of a company, in which the public will be invited to take shares. The leading Glasgow citizens promote a relief committee, and soup kitchens are b.-ing formed in all the large manufacj luring towns in Scotland. ' Houses have been embedded in the ; mio'.v storms, which are the heaviest known in this generation. At Cork a father and three children were suffocated through an escape of gas, which penetrated their room at night while they were asleep.