ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Patea Mail, Volume 1, Issue 14, 29 May 1875, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

AUCKLAND. May 28. The Mikado Las arrived with the San Francisco mail. She left ’Frisco on the Ist May, and on the 25th experienced a heavy gale ; she lay to for fifty hours. The mails arrived at ’Frisco eight days late, owing to the. floods having- washed away part of the railway in the neighbourhood of Green liiver, Wyoming. TI ic floods were caused by the meeting of the snow. Line was repaired with great activity. General Summary. Lord Hobart, Governor of Madras, and Sir Gill cry Pigott, Baron of English Court of Exchequer, are both dead. Legal proceedings have been commenced by the Prussian Government for the removal of the Bishop of Breslau for violation of ecclesiastical laws. jumperor William lias signed a bill abolishing monastries in Germany. The police authorities in Berlin notified that all ursulino sisters in the district not natives of Germany, must leave the country within two months. German Government has addressed a circular to the European powers, renouncing the jirospcct of regulating by an Intei-natioual Conference the position of Europe. Wuldeek, famous artist, died at Paris at the advanced ago of 110. Thousand guineas has been won by Lord Falmouth’s Spinaway. Dr William Selwyn, chaplain to the Queen, is dead. Capt Boyton makes another attempt to swim the English Channel on the 27th May. Twenty horses started for the Grand International Steeplechase. Goldfinder, 1; La veine, 2; liavauhoe, 3. The Paris “ Universe ” publishes letters of sympathy from the Catholic Bishops of Great Britain to Bishops'of Germany and Switzerland. , l The Marquis of Tavistock lias been elected for Bedfordshire. The Cospatrlek relief fund, amounting to £3,050, has been distributed. Dr Featherstou was present at the meeting of the distributing committee.