SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 21 September 1880, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION'.)

GENERAL SUMMARY. The French Jesuits have made two settlements in Wales. Harvest proceedings are going on rapidly in Ireland ; nearly one-half of the land is cleared. The strike of the nailmakers in Worcestershire has been abandoned, from want of co-operation. Dr. Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury, is reported as being about to marry a well-: known society lady.

Miss Adelaide Scillion has left the bulk of her fortune (L 40,000) to Rear-Admiral Carr-Glynne, to whom she was engaged to be married, with a bequest of LIOOO to Edward Eempton. A scene of confusion,. almost a riot, took place among the crowd at the grave. The Ex-Empress Euginie intends to quit Chiselhurst,.and take the remains of the late Prince Imperial with her. The Dublin steamer Lawfora, and the steamer Baltic, for New York, collided in the Mersey. The Lawford sunk, but the passengers and crew were saved. The Baltic put back for repairs. At the Home Rule demonstration in Glasgow a serious riot took place. , While the prooession was passing the Orange Lodge, the police were overpowered and two were badly injured, and are not expected to live.

In the debate on the Irish Constabulary on August 26, Mr. Richard O'Shannassy, of Limerick, protested against the use of bullets or buck-shot, and urged the use of small shot in firing on a mob. The Chief Secretary for Ireland said small shot was useless and only irritated. Emigration returns from Liverpool show an increase of 5000 compared with July, 1579. Thirteen thousand emigrants went to America during the month. Herbert Spencer, writer on political economy and philosophy, will make a, tour of the world next year. The cattle plague appeared on the 15th in farms 151 Xtanoashire.

AMERICA. The United States Consul at Geneva, Switzerland, writes that the American beef and live stock trade has penetrated as far as that region, and sensibly diminished the price of beef raised for Paris and the French markets, Preserved meats and fruits, buttev, and cheese also find extensive sale, Chinese workmen in Massachusetts are striking for higher wages, and are forming trades unions to gain their ends. They are more inflexible in their demands than the white workmen, and more cunning in compassing them. Spanish .fe'ecr has hsoken out among Tex<vs cattle, and fears are entertained that it will spread to the stock farms in other States. Precautions are being taken in England. The Department of Agriculture says the total crop is 98 against 100 for the previous year up to Ist August, The New York Tribune, in an article on the commercial marine of the United States, says :—" While England employs 424 first-class steamers in the foreign trade of the United States, we employ only about 61 ourselves, and leaving out the Cubian and i£er;ca« trade, only 15 or 16. The figures are startling, and the outlook is discouraging. A convention has been oalled to discuss this question, and will meet at Bostpn on 6th October. It is estimated that 200,000 Americans who have gone abroad this season have spent and left in England ten million dollars.