ARRIVAL OF THE P.S. 'NEBRASKA,’ WITH THE ENGLISH MAIL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume 1, Issue 8, 23 November 1872, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE P.S. 'NEBRASKA,’ WITH THE ENGLISH MAIL.

ENGLAND. London, October 8. —The elections in America are waited for anxiously. —The Queen of Holland is expected to visit England in a few days. -—Mr. Schenck, the American Minister, has returned to London. —The ‘ Hilda,’ of Liverpool, was wrecked off South Shields and all on board lost.—The price of coal has again advanced. The mining companies of Belgium are unable to fill the orders to send coal here in consequenae of the scarcity of miners there. —A Birmingham firm has contracted to furnish the Prussian Government with 150,000 rifles of an improved pattern. — The Czarovitch race was won by Salvanos, Sylvia second, and Enfield third. Princess Beatrice is betrothed to the Marquis of Stafford. — Incendiarisms are prevalent in England.—Cholera and rinderpest are spreading in Europe. —Prussia is to contruct a canal from the North Sea to the Baltic.—Several agrarian outrages have occurred in Ireland, various landlords being shot. — Sixty thousand emigrants have left England for America.—English crops arc a failure. The wheat deficiency in England is estimated at 30,000,000 bushels, with 70s. a quarter. — Mr. Isaac Butt, Home Rule M.P., advocates a federal rule for the United Kingd >m. He makes moderate demands for Ireland. He referred to the declarations of Russell, Hartington, and Montague. His plans are kept secret. In London subscriptions have been invited by Messrs. Baring, Brothers, and Co., for a Boston city loan of £lOO,OOO in sterling 5 per cent, bonds, at 971, with dividend from October 1 next, redeemable on October 1, 1902. The instalments extend to January 10th next. SPAIN. Madrid, October B.—ln the Cortes the President decided that the debate on the motion to amend the address to the King, by inserting a paragraph asking the abolition of slavery, was out of order. —There was another demonstration of shop-keepers last evening, who assaulted the police with clubs and stones. The army is being reorganized, and conscription is to be abolished. —The Cuban insurrection is to be promptly quelled, and troops have been eent there for that purpose. Spain is to submit the justice of her claims against America to other powers. A Paris special from Madrid says: “ Last evening, while King Amadeus was walking in Plaza Del Oriente, two men concealed behind a statue threw several large stones at him, crying, ‘Viva la Republica.’ The desperadoes fled, pursued by a number of policemen, but escaped. The King was unhurt, but the occurrence causes great excitement in Madrid.” FRANCE. Strasburg, October 8. —The official statement made of the result of the option given shows that, of the natives of the new German provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, 164,633 have declared in favor of retaining French citizenship. Of this number, 38,800 declarat’ons have become valid through emigration to France, and in addition to it 12,000 domiciled Frenchmen have left the provinces. • AMERICA. Baltimore, October B.—Yesterday afternoon the Front-street Theatre was struck by lightning during the rehearsal of “The French Spy.” The roof was torn into fragments. The lightning passed down the gas pipe into the building, and along the footlights. Several actors were slightly stunned, but none seriously hurt. New Orleans, October 8. —A Shreveport despatch of the 7th says:—“ R. J. Wright, Clerk < f the District Court and brother of W. N. Wiight, Deputy Sheriff, was killed this morning by Chief of Police Sherrard and policeofficer Shepherd. The friends of Wright armed themselves with shotguns, found and killed Shepherd, and are searching in every direction for Sherrard. All concerned belong to the same political party.” PERU. The Municipality of Lima has forbidden the popular amusement called “ Masque Balls,” as being indecent and immoral. —The crew of the British ship Galloway, forced Captain Mall, who commanded, to take the ship back to Callao, as being unseaworthy. The ship was in lat. '33' 30 S., and long. 89’30 W., when she was headed for Callao on the 21st ultimo, and arrived at the latter port on the 2nd instant. The crew were put in prison on shore for the case to be examined into. — The Peruvian ship Camilo Cavour, arrived at this port on the evening of the 30th ultimo, having on board 593 coolies, being the remainder of 650 whom she took on board at Macao. She has lost consequently 57 on the voyage. One of the men on board named Scott, an Englishman, lost his life on the 28th of July, by falling from one of the yards. —By the upsetting of a launch at the port of Eton on the 21st ultimo, seven women, one man. and two children lost their lives. Captain Burgess, of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company’s steamer Talca, and Captain Berry, of the English ship Frankfort Hall, where also in the launch, and were the only two that saved themselves by swimming. There was exhibited in the exhibition of Lima a clock, made by Mr. Ruiz, a Peruvian, which was 55ft. 7in. in height, and 49ft. 2in. wide. It marks the weeks, the seasons, years, and centuries; it shows the courses of the sun and

moon, hoists up and lowers daily the flag of Peru, and presents pictures commemorative of the great events in the history of Peru. It strikes the hours and quarters of hours, and plays certain tunes at stated periods. CHILE. A quarrel has taken place between Chile and Bolivia.—Senor Reyy Riesco, formerly Consul of Chile in Africa, has been assassinated by a half-idiotic servant. —On the 30th ult. there were 84 sick with small-pox in the lazaretto of Valparaiso.—Charles D. Gibbs and Co. propose to light the streets of Valparaiso with oxyhydrogen gas. SHOWERS OF SAND. With regard to the showers of sand and volcanic eruptions in the south of Chile, the llevinta del Sur says that persons just arrived from the frontiers further state that the shower of sand that fell on the 3rd of July last was so heavy in Araucaria that it covered up all the planted fields of the Indians, and obliged them to take refuge on the north side of the Cautin. The Llaima, from which the eruption must have come, is very near these valleys.