NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Patea Mail, 16 October 1882, Page 2

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

[per press association.] SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4th. The Hon G. R. Reeves, late speaker of the Texas Haase of Representatives, has died from hydrophobia. Marshal law has been declared -in all places held by Chilians in Peru, and all outrages on troops by Peruvians are summaraly punished. Prisoners of war in future will be sent to San Juan Fernandez, All Montaneroswill.be shot when captured ; and Charillo’s congress and executive when captured will be sent to a penal settlement at Pnnta Arenas. Towns or villages giving Peruvian Guerrillas assistance will be burned. Heavy work in the inter-oceanic canal at Panama, was stopped on the Ist Sept. The rainy season so far is a very light one ; yet it is found that even a slight rainfall impedes all work, and on low ground entirely prevents it. Men who attempt to work, fall sick, and men in charge of gangs say that none of them can work more than three days a week, the rest being spent in bed with fever. There were two severe shocks of earthquake on the Isthmus on Sept. Bth and 9th. Traffic on the Panama railroad has been suspended for some time, as tlie bridges were thrown out of line. The island of Taboga suffered considerably. A new line of steamships is proposed between New York and' Liverpool. The company holds patents for a newlyinvented line of steamships which it is claimed will cross the Atlantic Ocean in five and a half days. The yacht Nellie, when a mile and a half out from Wolf burgs, New Hampshire, capsized, and fourteen young people were drowned. Alexander, of Louisville, Kentucky, has discharged all his negro farm hands, and employed Chinese in their place. Other Kentucky fanners intend following his lead. Fifty persons were killed by a railway disaster between Freidburg and Colemaun on September 3rd. Nineteen carriages were shot down an embankment, and the majority of persons were smothered in deep mud. There were 1200 passengers on the train. In accordance with the wish of her brother, the remains of Miss Parnell will rest in America. Blair Athol, the celebrated racehorse, is dead. The Corean throne has been seized by the uncle of the massacred king. Disastrous weather has inflicted hopeless injury on French crops. The vintage will be one of the worst on record in modern times. M. Diehard, editor of “Le Petit Corporal,” killed De Masses, editor of the “ Combat,” in a duel at Paris. On the 2nd September an attempt was made to destroy §enor Comacho, the Spanish Minister of Finance, with dynamite. The unsettled condition of affairs in Ireland is telling on business fearfully. Hotelkeepers there complain that their houses are empty, and no tourists visit the country. Edward R. Devolski, a London broker, has failed - for £IOO,OOO.

Jas, Alderson, physiciaft extraordinary to the Queen is dead. Balthasar Green, a German socialist, hung himself in prison at Berlin. A conflict of jurisdiction in Tunis be* tween France and Italy -Ttrr of a sentence’' ot~two" years imprisonment^ pronounced by the French Consul on an Italian who had struck a French soldier. The relations between the two countries in consequence are still more strained. Lord Kimberley has sent to the Queen presents of mats and greenstone meres brought to England by the Maori embassy, and She has acknowledged them. The Home News states that two impormeetiugs were held in the conference room of the House of Commons to consider a scheme for arresting the decay of the Maoris. The need for such scheme is said to exist, in fact that contrary to the policy of the chiefs, native lands were being rapidly alienated and the proceeds squandered. A scheme was proposed by means of an association to be originated in England, to which all Waste Lands may be transferred for the purpose of opening them up ; to invest by way of a sinking fund the prime value of the land as it is gradually sold at enhanced values to sellers, in permanent, inalienable annuities, to be granted by the New Zealand Government in favor of individual owners of the laud, or their heirs. The shareholders in the association are to share with- the natives any further profit on the improved values in the land. The quantity of land proposed to be dealt with is 10,000,000 acres, and it is estimated that in 18 years Native land owners will, be in the enjoyment of interest on £4,000,000, Taiwhanga and other chiefs at Home strongly advocate the plan. The movement has secured the approval of Earl •Shaftesbury, the Bishops of London, Liverpool, and St Asaph, gir Penrose Julyan, Alderman McArthur and others. Lieut, Stalehine and Capt. Prince Skaowski recently fought a duel at Pargarolow, a few miles from St, Petersburg. Skaowski fell at the first shot slightly wounded in the side, but the ball he fired in falling mortally wounded Stalehine. The Eight Rev. Edward Steer, Bishop of Central Africa, is dead. A hailstorm in Pesth on August 28th, destroyed vineyards, maize fields, and 50 houses. Many workmen were billed. A ,woman near Chentiers, County Donegal, was shot by a process server on the 18th, because she objected to the seizure of her cattle.

A Colonisation Society for the North West territory has been floated on the London market by the Rev. Bray, of Montreal, with a nominal capital of £1,000,000. A telegraphic cable is to be laid between Lisbon end the United States, touching at Azores.

A demented girl who was allowed to be at largo in Nashville, Tennessee, recently poisoned a whole family of six by putting strychnine in their coffee. A cablegram from Yokohama states that cholera is raging in Japan. There were 776 cases in two days of which 572 proved fatal. At Tokio there were 50 deaths daily from this cause. A horrible suicide took place at San Francisco on the 3rd by means of dynamite. A chemist of the Munder powder Co., named Lewis Kompt placed a number of cartridges in his mouth, lighted the fuse, and was blown to pieces.