SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1296, 2 June 1880, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Auckland, June 2. Exeter Hall lias been purchased by the Young Men's Christian Association for L 25,000. A ship employed transporting fresh meat from South America to France has been sold to an English company for 111,000 francs. Numbers 80 to 84 Gray's Inn Road and 5 Port Pool Lane, London, were burnt on the" 7th. Fourteen persons are missing. Tha steamer American, belonging io the Union Company was lost near the Equator on April 28. She foundered. Several passengers were saved by the boats.

The recently discovered deficit in the Indian Budget amounts to L 400,000. The press openly charges deception in the matter on the part of the Government authorities.

Mr. Edward Stanhope, Under-Secretary for India, writes to ihe Standard denying that tlie late Government had received a telegram concerning the Indian deficit on the morning after the debate on Fawcett's motion in Parliament in favor of Engr land's contribution of a portion of the African war expenses. He heavily deprecates Mr. Fawcett's action in making the statement before ascertaining the facts. Mr. Fawcett writps to the Standard recalling his statement, and expressing regret that he had been misinformed, The Princess of Wales visited and congratulated the Right Hon. Mr. Gladstone on the Liberal victory rind on his appointment as Premier. The incident occasioned some surprise. The British steamer, Alnwick Castle, bound for Venezuela, entered the riyer Elbe qu the The from the

nature of her cargo, attracted the attention of the Peruvian Consul. She hada large Quantity bf war material, and intended to take in 100 toil's of- powder :at Hamburg and then proceed to Valparaiso.. When at port she touk fire and was scuttled to prevent the explosion of the ship and cargo, which.included a-number of Krupp <nins. She . was insured in London and Hamburg for L 137,000. The Peruvian consul is about to proceed against the owners of the vessel. 'The "Eoiidon "World- 'says the Queen's" health and spirits.are ipost unsatisfactory. She suffers from constant headache.* Miller, idias Maxwell; whowas: arrested at Liverpool on two charges of forgery on the. Bank of England and other banks, is said to be wanted for forgeries committed in America.

Earl Scarborough was fatally injured on April 19 by being thrown from a drag. The Eight Hon. John Bright says he wishes to enter the Ministry because he has work to perform with reference to the Irish land question. Mr. Bright, who was recently elected to Parliament for Nottingham, fell dead at an educational meeting at Birmingham. His death is a considerable loss to the Liberal interests.

The English crop reports are generally satisfactory, though the wheat is said to be losing color on the heavy lands, and is by no means promising in a few districts.

: The Shaw-Parnell feud has grown into such importance that'the Catholic bishops have been appealed to to heal the breach. The Land Conference at Dublin has been a failure.

In County Sligo the po'lice seized a number of army rifles, swords, and bayonets. At Tubbercory the manifesto of the Land League proposed the establishment of a department to bijy land and create a proprietory peasantry by advancing purchase money, charging 5 per cent, per annum for twenty-five years, and suspending all ejectments for non-payment of debts for two years. The Catholic Archbishop of Dublin has issued a pastoral warning the people against the present agitation in Ireland, and the destructive doctrines laid dc>wu by some public speakers on the first principles of morals. The Lord Mayor of Dublin stated in a recent address that the distress in Ireland was as great as ever, and feared that during the next three months it would prove most severe ; this, too, in the face of failing subscriptions. Kilrude, in the county Galway, is suffering fearfully. Hundreds of people will die if food is not supplied. Mr. Poster, Chief Secretary for Ireland, has devoted a week in Dublin to a careful examination of the condition of Ireland, and to deciding whether to continue the Peace Preservation Act or allow it to expire. 3VI. De Lesseps declares that New York subscribes 3.000,000 dollars to the Panama Canal scheme.

The German Samoan Islands Assistance Bill has been rejected, and consequently the German South Sea Islands Company resolves to wind up its affairs. Prince Bismarck wag inpensed at the rejection. In Russia poisoned food has been found on the Czar's dining table. Congratulatory addresses have been forwarded to Mr. Gladstone by several prominent Russians expressing public welcome of the Liberal victory, because Mr. Gladstone's Cabinet is a guarantee of desired peace. The Government issue a new railroad scheme of 150,000,000. The Czar, advised thereto by General Melikoff, as an act of clemency, has pardoned three students of Karkoff University for political offences, and the act has made a deep impression upon their fellows. It is said that over 20.000 other political prisoners were at Moscow, Nijiiie Isovg'C'm, and Sanavrion on the 17-h ult., en roure to Siberia. The province of Orensburg has been visited by unprecedented snow storms, in which several persons perished. Many villages are without food. According to the Moscow Gazette, the reasons upon whicli China refuses to agree to the Kuldja treaty are that the mountain passes would remain in the possession of Russia and that 500,000 roubles might be expended by China in military preparations. The same paper warns the Russian . Government not to undervalue the Chinese warlike strength. The Golos discusses Siberia's strategetical strength in case of a row with China, which is now considered certain, Plague and famine are ravaging parts of Russia. The twin calamities are passing from the villages in the Don district. All the granaries are empty, and there appears an absolute dearth of money.

Sheyithch, th.e missing workman who lodged in the casement of tl>e Winter Palace before and up to the time of tlie explosion, has been discovered and arrested. He confesses himself guilty of the attempt on the Czar ? s life. He is a Lithuanian by birth, and fhas ail uncle a governor of the* province of Oalonga, All Jews of foreign birth have been ordered away from St. Petersburgh. The feeling amongst this class is daily becoming more bitter.