SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1166, 12 January 1880, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

The Australia made the passage from San Francisco-to Auckland in 19 days 7- hours and 26.. minutes, including all stoppages. She' leaves for Sydney at midnight. The passengers for New Zealand are—Six sisters of the Sacred Heart, Mesdames. Boudre and Chas. Johnstone, Mr. and Mrs. A.. B- Martin, Mr. and Mrs. Pond, Mr. arid.! Mrs. Cook,- Mrs. Coombs ; and 7 in the steerage. GENERAL NEWS.

San Francisco, December. 23. Six ladies from the Sacred Heart' Convent, Chicago, go to New Zealand to found an order there by the Australia. Over two millions of white ; fish eggs, forwarded by Mr. Creighton per the Australia for the.; Government, .were shipped in prime condition, and packed in mountain ice brought from' the' Sierra Nevada Ranges.

Cardinal Manning appeals for supscriptions for the relief of the distress in Ireland, where, during the coming winter, •hunger and want are expected, such as have never been known since 1847. Baker Pasha has started on his first visit to Aleppo. He has no executive authority, but his powers enable him to make a thorough investigation of all branches of the administration and to report directly to the Sultan. An explosion of firerdamp occurred in a coal mine neap Chemnitz, and 80 persons were killed.

At a meeting of Irish sympathisers, held in Glasgow, a resolution was passed calling for the impeachment of Earls Beaconsfield and Salisbury. A tenant who was evicted by Lord Fermoy struck him with a cudgel on the steps of the Limerick Club, and felled him to the earth, where he lay insensible for some time. His assailant received five years penal servitude. Jn the north of Ireland the landlords generally are reducing rents by ten to twenty per cent, War is progressing between the tribes of the West Coast of Africa, and the British naval force has consequently been in> creased in those parts. The British oxpedition up the Digea destroyed two towns and will return to Bonny. Sixty Mahommedan refugees were starved to death at Sophia. Heavy (loods have occurred at the IsthintiH of Panama' and submerged the railroad for almost its entire length, flooding out the Natives along the line and destroy r ing much property. The passengers from tho steamer could not land, as the Aspinwall steamer went to sea to escape the hurricane which wrecked several vessels

I in the harbor and destroyed a portion of the Pacific Mail Co's. wharf. Three hundred passengers and freight were delayed.' London, Dec. 21. A Calcutta despatch says that executions continue in the palaceat Mandalay. Five princesses, were recently, "murdered. The Burmese embassadors are stillest, the Emyo. , ■' " 1 £"• Press-prosecutions and rioting have prevailed at Madrid. j 'The floods .in Hungary, arid ;TransyliVania have-done .great t'A severe. |m>st alone - prevented Gross'everdeen and' sharing sthe fate . of Temorar, Arad, and several Transylvanian towns, which were suddenly inundated, many houses falling in the level country which was submerged. The distress is extreme. Thousands s of Inhabitants are: fugitives, and -many perished.* " A famine extends,io four Provinces of SilesiaT _ " . f: Bre'ad rio'ts have occurred in Revenna. The Rev. Arthur Wagner, of St. Paul's Churchf Brighton, has joined the Church of Rome. - .. The_ Assassin who fired at Viceroy Lytton in Calcutta was a native of Bengal, aiid has a grievance against the Government. He was recently discharged from the Allahabad Lunatic Asylum. The Irish agitatibtf continues unabated. ParnelL delivered a highly inflammatory speech" at Liverpool'"amounting to a challenge to the Government to arrest him, but no notice was taken of' it. . A grand jury a Carrick-on-Suir found an indictment against thie accused agitators, who will be tried at : Dublin, Excited meetings are being held all over the country, at which pikemen paraded in strong force. No overt act'lias'been comniitted, however. "Evictions of tenants continue. * A considerable- amount of money is, ;being: raised. ; About 40,000 people attended the Hyde Park Sunday demonstration in favor of Ireland." ; Wesley's Memorial Chapel, London, has been seriously damaged by fire. _ The frescoed ceiling was irreparably injured. Wesley's pulpit was saved.. ' The' London branch of the firm of Godefroy and. of Hamburg, has failed, with. liabilities amounting to LBO,OOO. The firm offers all the Samoan property to Germany, on'coridition of receiving an Imperial guarantee and , an equivalent in money. The Princ? Imperial favors the project, and talk of arinexiiig Samoa is prevalent in. Berlin, owing to the advantage England acquired by Sir Arthur Gordon's treaty. • j. Contracts have been let for three sections of, the Canadian-Pa,cific:B.ailroad in British Columbia. The line will be pushed forward "vigorously at both ends. •; Three transcontinental roads in the United States are progressing at the rate of two miles, a day. The Northern, Pacific will have its terriiinus. in .Oregon, and the other lines dn San Francisco, j ACalifornian colony is being established sit Hawii for sugar cultivation. : Several families have already left the state for the islands. . " . I , De Lesseps has sailed for Aspinwall. The Government will accept the presidency of the Nicaragua Canal Company when formed./ He will yisit Nicaragua during his West Indian and Central Americon tour. • Ignateiff's appointment as Russian Ambassador at Rome created great, excitement in Vienna Court circles. The new Spanish Government adopt the Cobah Reform Bill of their predecessors, which will pass without amendment. The political situation is very critical in Madrid. = The steamship El Dorado, with ninetyfive passengers and a crew of sixty Lascars, gut into Plymouth for the repair of damages owing to a storm in the Bay of Biscay.' The crew, paralysed with fear, abandoned duty, and the male passengers worked thirty hours, and saved the ship. The Winter Palace at St. Petersburgh lias been illuminated by electric light. Several military officers have been arrested for complicity in the attempts on the Czar's life at Moscow when his baggage train was blown up. j The police are powerless against the Nihilists, who are found in the highest social circles of the empire. The Czar has appointed .a commission to consider What reforms are practicable. _ : British funds are being applied to the relief of the starving Mussulmans in Eastern Roumelia. I The Rhine has been frozen, and people crossed the river on the ice at Bized. The Seine was also frozen. A motion has been made before the Lords Justice on appeal for the release of the Tichborne claimant, seven years having expired of the first sentence. He claimed that the other sentence of seven years should run concurrently. The ruling of the New York Supreme Court on the Tweed trial regarding cumulative indictments was accepted by the Lords Justice as a precedent for opening the case. This shows the gintimate relations of English and American jurisprudence. ; Gordon Pasha is still detained in Abyssinia. j A Catholic vicar apostolic has been imprisoned .by . King John, but he was released on the representation of the Pope. • ' Active preparations for a war are going forward between Egypt and Abyssinia. ■ The .French Chamber , have appointed a committee to inquire into the disciplinary punishments of New Caledonia, i Twenty-six'peasants recently tried at itieff for forcibly occupying land not belonging to them were sentenced to periods of imprisonment ranging from fourteen years down to four years. Baker Pasha has fixed the Turkish force in Asia Minor at 60,000, which will be used as a reserve in time of war, The ( plan has been approved. I Irish.relief meetings have been held in the large " centres of population of the TJnited States, Canada, and San Francisco, organising powerful-committees. Parnell was well, received at. a public oration in N.Y. 'Resolutions denunciatory of the land system of Ireland, expressing sympathy with the Irish people, and requesting the President to'represent the wish .of the American people in favor of peasant'proprietary to the British Governmentj have been "introduced into Congress.: They would.authorise the resumption of a hundred millions of-acres of forfeited railroad which will then be opbn for settlement aiid homesteads entirely. !• One-'thousand pikemeii surrounded' the platform at an anti-tent meeting in County- Mayo recently, at ! which Daly the agitator was present. The. Catholic clergymen took part,in the proceedings. • An Exhibition Will be held in Rome in 1882. : The Puchess of Marlborough has written to the Times appealing to England for funds towards the relief of: the distress inithe west of: Ireland." The;rTimes warmly supports the .appeal. . , ; r, The Presbyterian Synod of Long Island by two-thirds'sustained the Rev. de Witt .Talmage-by dismissing the appeal from the decision ofthe Presbytery in his case. He will not secede. The Vatican has congratulated the Irish clergy on their attitute with reference to the political agitatiQn in Jrpl^nd. The Government has granted a pension of LgOO to the "widow q,nd LIOO to the mother of Sir Louis Gavagriari, murdered at Cabul. An Englishman won the seven days' bicycle race in Chicago, allowing an American a handicap of 100 miles. Three men were killed and several wounded by a boiler explosion an board H.M.S. Pelican. Humbert, a returned states that torture fs practiced in New Caledonia. The funeral of Dowager Countess De Montys was celebrated with much splendour in Madrid, The Imperial Government are forming

a reserve of 10,000 men in Canada, composed of dominion militia, for service at home or abroad. A brigade of pioneers and surveyors has left France to prepare a. cutting for the Panama Canal. .1 ■

The New Bedford whaling barque Mercury wa3 broken in and abandoned in latitude 71 and longitude 172, on October 21st. The-crew were brought to San Francisco by a whaler. A severe Arctic wniter has set in,'and fears are > entertained for the entire whaling fleet of 1879, which consisted of thirty, fishing;, vessels belonging to Gloucester) > Massachusetts, with 240 lives. Relief contributions have been made for the widows and orphans. The General Council of Switzerland have been memorialised to take steps_ to repress Mormonism, but decline, in view of a promise that the American Government will suppress polygamy in Utah. •; Agents - in~ England - are severely censured for thtf deceit practised by them in sending immigrants. Fifteen men of this class are objects of charity,in Montreal.