SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 931, 10 April 1879, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

(rr.K STE.tMEO AT ACCKLAN'P.) Mr. Lavard has left Constantinople for London. " An address was presented, with a bouquet to Lady Lavard, in the name of the Turkish refugees, who thanked her for her ctforts to relieve ttieir distress. A marriage is arrange bet wean the Rtd.t Hon. Iliisrh K. Childers, M.l\,and the Hon. Mrs. Elliott. ! Lord Napier, of Magdela, is conferring with the Government as to the future frontier of Afghanistan. . Official papers relating to South Africa have been published, from which it appenrs that the Government have been of opinion that the dispute between Cctewayo and the Colonial Government might have been settled without an appeal to arms, and were confident that an amicable arrangement would be come to up to the last month. It is unclcrtoocl that the shares in the New Zealand Agricultural Land Company have alt been subscribed for, and that debenture bonds, boariug intercsfc-at ok and 6 per cent., are now being ! The other Scotch Banks liaY(£agreed to j allow the Caledonian Bspkjjgjf Company I to resume business, on vjjh.qjpnt'eholders ! subscribing £150,000' t&jajeure iliem i against any Io3S they maJMßpain by the Ipavment of the notes (anil draft*. A grcsrt.psSjpthe required ' amount has been i Kobett of Ayr, i has bequeflthed an Jtthtfrirf.'the value of 1 £10,000,000, subject' to aKK interest of ; his three sisters, to rebuild the eld bridge popularly known as "Auld .Bridge of j Ayr " and rendered famous by Burns. i Mr. Gardner, of West Boiirne terraco, died and bequeathed £;{30,000 for various i Uiwl institutions countiy. : Hi* daughter, to whom he leaves a large fortune, intend* disputing the (validity of the bequest. • In the Divorce Gotirt, Goloiiol serving in the Ottoman gendarmerie. i under Baker Pasha, obtained a decree nisi, on account of Ids wife's misconduct Swith Lord Grantley, petitioner's first . cousin. . ! A young man was found dead hanging !to a tree in the County of Kent. The deI'vGaatd ivwk given evidence that his brother, Thomas Pcrryman, had murdered their mother, who had been found strangled.

■ Mr. Broadhead, the noted Trades Union leader for Sheffield, is dead. In the House of Commons, on March loth, a scene occurred in consequence of the announcement by Lord Northcote that the Government did not intend to remove Lord Chelmsford from his command. Mr. Jenkins, despite repeated interruption from the Speaker, attacked Chelmsford, declaring that his advancement vas due to occult influence.

Mexico has commenced negotiations for diplomatic relations with England, in order to conciliate English bondholders. She'will offer to pay a slight interest on international debentures.

.Affairs in Mandalay cause grave anxiety. All the garrisons in British Burmah have been doubled. The Burmese intercepted the telegraph line between Eangoon and Mandalay station in Upper Burmah. This is regarded as serious for European residents. It is stated that the recent massacre of the King at Oustance was attended by every possible atrocity. Women were shockingly and shamefully abused. Royal princes were reserved to the last, and made to witness the torture and death of their families.

In the House of Commons, Sir Stafford Northcote said that the Government had decided not to deal with the Irish University Question. The Russiam Ambassador, Hocanoff, protested against the hypothecation of Turkish Revenue for the new loan, declaring that the war indemnity has prior claims upon thorn. The Porte denies the validity of this claim, basing their argument upon the protocol of the Berlin Congress. The King of Sweden has undertaken to act as mediator in the North Schleswig Question. The Roval Castle of Oroneron has been destroycd'by fire. The Ex-empress Carlotta, widow of the late Emperor Maximilian, resided in the castle. She was safely removed, and is at the Royal Palace at Lucerne, near Brussels. The Berlin Reichstag rejected a motion in favor of an European Congress to arrange for a general disarmament. The Ultramontane Socialists and Herr Sonneman were the only supporters of the motion. At a Parliamentary soiree, the Chancellor said that partial disarmament was impossible. Germany had to show a frontier in four directions, and could trust none of her neighbors. Madame La Chapelleit Chigo completed her task of walking 2700 J-miles in as inanv consecutive J-hours. She immediately started out to walk 300 additional j -miles in consecutive 10-minutes stretches. She was in a very bad condition, and her feet have been repeatedly lanced.

The widow of Charles Dickens is dangerously ill. Brett Harte has been elected an hon. member of the Reform Club, London. Imbert, formerly Communist engineer, condemned in Contumacion, and who, on the accession of Grevy to the Presidency, announced in the papers that he was residing in Paris and had amnested himself, has been sentenced by a court martial to five years' imprisonment. Louis Blanche, Clemencan, and other Radical deputies, have submitted a proposal for indemnifying victims conp d' ,1.,t of 1552.

The French Government have chartered a steamer to fetch 000 amnestied Communists from New Caledonia. Eleven more public prosecutions have been dismissed, and others transferred. The following order of the day has been passed by a large majority in the French Chamber :—" The Due "do Broglie and Rochcfort. members of the Chamber, having by iheir culpable schemes betrayed the Government they should have served, ihe Chamber accordingly delivers them over to the judgment of the nation, and orders that the foregoing resolution be placarded in every Commune in France."