SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1094, 21 October 1879, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Auckland, October 21. The mail steamer City of New York arrived from San Erancisco at noon. She sailed on September 27tli from San Francisco, with a large number of passengers and Chiarini's Italian circus troupe. GENERAL NEWS. General Grant and wife arrived from Japan on the 30th September, and received a great ovation in San Francisco and the surrounding country. A six-days' walking match in Jl'jw York was won by Barnett, who covered 530 miles. Merritt did 515 ; Hazel, 450 ; Hart, 482 i ; Guyon, 471 ; Weston, 445 ; Muir, 450^-; Khrone, 450 A-; Taylor, 250. Vast crowds attended, and the enthusiasm was intense. Nearly half a million dollars changed hands in bets. The yellow fever continues in Memphis. Specie imports from Europe at New York continue large, 33,552,G2S dollars having arrived during August. London, September 1. Field-Marshal Baron Yon Monteufell has been assigned the Governorship of Alsace and Lorraine. Archbishop M'Kenna, of Nova Scotia, is dead. September 28. The British ship Langdall, Captain Jenkinson, which sailed from San Francisco on June 14, was wrecked near Carnsore Point, Webeford. The captain, wife, and three children and the crew were drowned. The Republic Francaise publishes the following under the reserve : —" Lord Salisbury during his recent interview with Mr. Waddington, assured him that. England would endeavor to obtain the uncondional cession of Janaui to Greece." A Constantinople correspondent telegraphs that it is thought that an understanding between Greece and Turkey is impossible. Warlike preparations are progressing on both sides. The opinion in Constantinople is that Austria is obstructing the efforts for an understanding, and that in the event of hostilities she would immediately occupy Macedonia. Prince Lobanoff is the bearer of a project for an alliance between Russia and Turkey. It i.s rumored that Russia is willing to renounce 800,000,000 francs of the war indemnity, and give back some of the former provinces of Turkey and Asia. it is reported from Herat that there has been a fight at Maewara, between the Ameer's Cabul forces and the Herat insurgents. The former were beaten. Advices from Titpoza, Bolivia, to August 31st, state that the vanguard of General Compos' army has forced tho Chilians to evacuate Calama, and defeated the corps of Colonel Ruiz. The Peruvian and Bolivian armies are marching 011 San Pedro de Atieama. A Constantinople despatch says the insurrection in Kurdistan has not been quelled. Two powerful tribes have joined Abdullak with 12.000 men. The commanders of Erzerouin and Bagdad have been ordered to send all the available troops to Mosoul. It is feared that Persian Turcomans will join the insurgents. The Amestain publishes a letter from Kier describing a terrible tiro which occurred in that city 011 the 3rd ult. While a furious storm was raging a tire broke out in seven different places. A Roumelian endeavored to force himself into the palace of the Sultan at Constantinople, with a view of assassinating him. He was killed by the soldiers. He wounded three men. The Albanians are flocking into Janina, determined to prevent its cession to Greece. The Board of Trade has suspended for six months the certificate of Captain Cunard, of the steamer Brest, recently run ashore. The Newmarket October Handicap was won by Fortitude, with Lord Clive 2nd, and Thurio 3rd. Eight horses ran. Conflicting reports arrive from Burmah, but all agree that a reign of terror prevails, and that the drunken King has made up his mind to fidget England. The town of Dead wood, containing 80,000 people, has been burned down. The loss was three million dollars. Thora was little insurance. This was the raining camp in the Black Hills, Dakota territory. Major Cavagarini was stabbed in several places, and the bodies of the dead were mutilated. Mr. Jenkyns is presumed to j be alive, having escaped with natives. ! Prince Jerome visits the Empress j Eugene at Chislehurst. Ten persons were killed in an affray on the Danube between Austrian smugglers and Servian Custom officers. The Turkomans are asking the Merv people to aid them in repulsing the Russians. The Emperor William was coolly received at Metz. The French closed their houses. Germany has quarrelled with Japan. Swedish emigration to Canada is taking place. The Indians are raiding in New Mexico and Texas. The troops were repulsed. The Dominion Exhibition was opened by the Marquis of Lome and the Princess | Louise. It was a grand success. Earl Beaconsfield is contemplating summoning Parliament in November. Parnell, Heme Ruler and M.P. for Meath, has advised the farmers not to pay rent till the rents are reduced. At the meeting between the Czar of Russia and the Emperor of Germany excessive precautions were taken against assassination. The floor of the Synagogue at Cynolk, Hungary, fell, killing eighteen persons, Tho American Government has demanded compensation on the Egytian Commission. Mitchell, M.P. for Galway, said if the Government left the people without relief, they would hold them liable for the repetition of the Irish famine.