Frisco Mail News.

Patea Mail, 24 July 1882, Page 3

Frisco Mail News.

The City of New York arrived at 6 p.m. on Sunday. She left San Francisco on the Ist July. The cargo for New Zealand is 147 tons, among which are 603 cases of canned fruit, 1650 cases salmon, 307 sacks wheat ; also eleven horses. The Duke of Edinburgh narrowly escaped drowning at Bayonne, France, on the 29th, while with a fishing 1 party- He was carried under at first, and after half-an-hour’s struggling reached the shore. Mrs Langtry will play an engagement in America next season.

An express train leaving Long Branch on the morning of the 29th ran over a bridge crossing a branch of the Shrewsbury river, and six cars dropped on their sides in about four feet of water. The cars were full of passengers, and about one hundred were more or less injured. William Garrison, son of C. Garrison, is not'expected to live. Chas. W. Guiteau, Garfield’s assassin, was hanged very quietly. He dropped shouting “ The heavy fine of 11,150 dollars was imposed on Captain Fenwick, of the British barque Strathardy, by the United States District Court at ’Frisco, for bringing an excess of Coolie passengers. The London Standard's correspondent at Paris says that De Lesscps’ report to the shareholders announces that the obstacles to the. construction of the Panama Canal will not bo so serious as was at first anticipated. The shareholders will be asked to issue obligations to the amount of £25,000 for the purchase of the Panama railroad.

Mr Parnell was banquetted by the Irish M.P.’s in London on the 29th. Justin McCarthy presided. A contract has been made by a combination of cigar merchant in the Eastern States with companies of San Francisco for ten hundred Chinese to he employed in New York and throughout the East in the manufacture of cigars.