SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1147, 18 December 1879, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

(fko.m our own correspondent.) Auckland, December 17.

The Evening Star's special correspondent in Loudon, in his Anglo-Colonial notes, says the English harvest prospects have much improved, especially in the North. Farmers are taking heart. Protests in the New Zealand papers against further immigration are being copied by the English Press, and will have the effect of making many small farmers, contemplating emigration, go to Canada. The dominion agents are very active. A special settlement, something like Mr. Yeaey Stewart's, would be snapped up eagerly. Hundreds of desirable families would go. It may bo yeare before so favorable a combination of circumstances for first-class emigration occura again. The Commission appointed to examine the defences of the colonies are instructed to pay special attention to means, both naval" and military, for protecting the principal seaports within colonial possessions and the stations established or reserved for coaling, re-fitting, or repairing the ships of the Navy ; to examine all plans and designs for the work of defence ; and to take the evidence of tho be3t military and naval authorities.

Sir Julius Yogel is doing his utmost to conciliate the Falmouth electors. Nearly all the emigrant ships bound for New Zealand stop there 011 the outward voyage, and Sir Julius Yogcl has persuaded Mr. Inman, of the great luman line, to pay the town a visit with a view of seeing whether it would not make an eligible port for the Atlantic steamers. Falmouth possesses a splendid harbor. Pauline Lucca has received an offer of 800,000 francs for an Australian tour. It is uncertain whether or not she will accept it.

At the theatrical supper in London to commemorate the hundredth night of "Drink," Mr. Wm. Riguold said his brother George would soon return to England. He had made a pot of 11101103-, and could retire whenever he desired. Mr. F. A. Weld, the Governor of Tasmania, will be knighted. The Loch ITre, for Auckland, took eight pure Lincoln rams from Mr. Kirkham, of Inglewood. She has also six splendid bulls fcr Mr. M'Lean, of Auckland, and four for the Loan and Mercantile Ayency Company. These shipments of stock are valued at LOOOO.

The London Truth, speaking of the New Zealand loan, says the Colony is going too far, and will probably collapse. Colonel Trimble has written a letter to Liverpool de-wining at length the recent Maori troubles. His epistle is not calculated to inspire intending emigrants with confidence, and wi;l do the Colony more harm than good.

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The Governor of Bombay travelled fifteen miles on a locomotive oil the railway through the l? >l.'.n Pass.

The Princess Clotiido is wintering in Paris, at the suggestion of the King of Italy, and her husband, Prince Napoleon, is surrounding himself by a complete diplomatic court, and putting on tho airs of a pretender. Kohuma is surrounded by Nngras. A garrison comprising three British officers and 538 natives, with two ladies and children, were reduced to extremity. A sufficient force has been left at Kohuma to protect it from attacks. The Minora'Assooiaiion of the United Kingdom have resolved to assist miners to emigrate. They have fixed their contribution as passage money to America at LG, and to Australia and New Zealand at Ll2.

There is irrent improvement in tho coal and other K- -i-ilid.

At the Guddiiait i'o'.icv Court. Edward solicitor, whose connection with the tsirf frauds will be remembered, was brought up on a charge of misappropriating to his own use LBO.OOO which had been entrusted to him as a trustee under a marriage settlement. One hundred thousand copies of a proscribed publication are reported to have been discovered in Moscow. These pamphlets had counterfeits of the permission of the censor.

A scheme has been formed to build a canal from the river Maine, at Frankfort, to the Rhine. Frankfort will give 125,000 marks for a harbor. The famine in Upper Silesia is assuming alarming proportions. A Copenhagen despatch reports that the police arrested a student upon a charge of writing to the Queen of Sweden demanding 20,000 crowns, and threatening, in case of refusal, to assassinate the Crown Prince of Sweden.

In consequence of the menacing attitude of the Abvssinians towards Egypt, the British gunboat Seagull has been ordered to Moscow to protect the property of British subjects. The St. Peiersburgh Oazette has been forbidden sale in the streets of the towns of Germany on account of several articles entitled " German Women," which are full of insults to the German nation. The French rovenuo for the ton months of the present year, ending October, exceeds the estimates of 123,000,000 francs. The Austrian budget has produced a bad impression. The deficit is nearly double the amount stated. The Finance Minister, being unable to cover the deficit by increased taxes, had recourse to street loans.

Prince Bismarck has requested the Russian Government to withdraw the, force of 20,000 cavalry from Poland, on the borders of German territory. Russian oflicers on leave of absence have been ordered to rejoin their regiments immediately. : L«jttera from Constantinople confirm, tho reports of the extremity of the distress in financial matters in Turkey. The pilgrimage to Mecca, which liaa hitherto been provisioned at tho expeuse of the Government, is unable to get any assist-1 ance—on event that never before occurred 1

since the establishment of the Ottoman Empire.

The Zorussia sailed from Liverpool on the 20th November for Orleans, with 65 farmers and their families, bound for Texas. They are mostly from Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Durham, with a few from Scotland and Ireland.

Alexo Pasha has visited Constantinople. He promises to report there annually the condition of Eastern Roumelia.

Political riots in Pegola, Italy, resulted in several deaths.

Ten persons were killed by a gas explosion in the city of Hamburg. 'Che French Government has sanctioned :i Intrprv of 200,000 francs arranged by a commi-rco of journalists, for the benefit of ui»* by .the floods in Murcia. Coi.si'i»»rable alarm is felt in Belgium at the for'itienrion which has been begun.