English Mail News.

Patea Mail, 11 January 1882, Page 3

English Mail News.

(per united press association.) Auckland, Jan. 10. It is said that Vanderbilt is about to retire from the active management of his properties, leaving their administration in the bands of Messrs Ratter and Cornelius Vanderbelt. The political situation in Germany is darker than ever. The controversy between Bismarck and Windhorst has put an end to all present hopes of a parliamentary coalition of the Conservatives and the Clericals. In a moment of fury an Italian gardener in San Francisco, named Gallais, killed hie brother, his cousin, and attempted to murder his sister and mother. The cousin was stabbed twenty-four times. A cast of Guiteau’s head has been taken by Theodore Mills, the sculptor. Ex-Senator Dawn, a sargeant of California, will probably be called to the Cabinet as Secretary of the Interior. The tea farm, sustained up to; date by the Government in South Carolina, has proved a failure. A heavy seizure of arms and several arrests have been made at a; house in Brabazon Row, Dublin. The parties concerned got into a drunken row, and the police were informed. It is reported that 4.00 people were drowned by the bursting of a dam at Pergouy in Algiers. ;It is rumored that a new lino of

steamers, built by capitalists in Canada, will be placed on the route between San Francisco, Japan, and China, calling at Victoria, 8.C., as an intermediate point. It is reported that the new steamship, City of Rome, built for the Inman Company, is a failure, and the company had refused to accept her from the builders. Fourteen persons were drcwnecl on the 15th by the upsetting of a boat between the Coast of Galway and the Arran Islands. Lord Dnfferin would not allow the Constantinople authorities to search a British vessel for explosives. Dr Carver, the American sharpshooter, beat Messrs Gordon and Hobson on the 16th under peculiar conditions. All were standing, Carver at 82yds, and Gordon and Hobson at 24yds, and both the latter used only one band in the match.

A typhoon in China, around Harfong and Tremor, had carried the waters of the sea four miles inland, washing away one town with 3,000 inhabitants. It is understood the Queen will open Parliament in person. Several persons have come to the front who have sworn to kill Guiteau, and relieve the jury of all responsibility. A package sent to him on the 16th contained a piece of rope. France is exciting Europe by its preparations lor war. Hotekiss works at St. Denis have been doubled. Nine hundred new cannon have been cast, and heavy appropriations for ordnance have passed the Chambers. The Germans are also making camion at Madgeburg. Twelve hundred pounds have been offered for the conviction of the thieves who stole the registered letters at the Hatton Garden Post office.