’Frisco Mail News.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 813, 30 August 1879, Page 2

’Frisco Mail News.

[By Telegiup,h.] Auckland, August 28. , „The City of Sydney h’bfi arrived San -Franbjsco Mail. Sh& landed Rir Aithite Gordorh at Samoa. ‘‘He -Was ’ received by ’ Cormorant. Among Jtho passengers for'Sydney are Dr. Cdx, American Commissioner, and Mr Kietronski, Japanese Commissioner, to the Sydney Exhibition.

• - SUMMARY OF NEWS. All *the Indian troopships are ordered to be ready- for six-months’ continuous service; .with n. rvipAy of- bringing home the _ troops from South Africa. . The. Colorado .beetle hub made its appearance’in Cdiu/ty Cork, Ireland. • _ The court - martial relative to the ironclad Grosser Kurflcrst has condemned several officers to two years) arrest in fortress and to be dismissed from the service. , dia.Ve been ordered to Kissing for the protection of Prince Bismarck. General Frauzini, of the Italian army, has been shot by a captain in his command. The officer killed.himself subsequently. . : Twenty officers and 400 men died of cho- • leva anil other diseases on the rctuni match from‘the Afghan campaign: /Only 1000 were killed in action. A torpedo-boat attached to Admiral Lazareff’s frigate at'Cronstadt whSblown lip while at practice. Five men were killed and fourteen wotindedi ' ! ; ‘ 1 ■: ( The dissenters from the orthodox Greek Church in Russia/ hitherto by the State, arp /oi hayc entire (liberty o|wof- A Ship. This affects 12,000,000 Russian subjects.’i/’ H * j, r -i > The 12th of July celebration in Ireland was attended with some.ribtihgj 7 ThUfGQri Vernment had taken extra precaution to serve the peace. The day gassed quietly in" Canada.'::’ ‘ • :-. f ■ Twenty to thirty thousand persons attended Talmage’s lectures at the Qrysthl Palace,' presided over by the Marquis of Townsend. The yzVwrt/i Gazette says; a pro- < posal jasJ>ijps &ad£sat purchase some islands in the Southern Pacinc ocean. . . jit 1 I Ships arriving from Cuba and San Domingo at Philadelphia and New York with yellow* fever are quarantined. Several deaths from the disease have taken place at New York hospital'. q j The Negro exodus to the North-west stilh continues. _ , ’ Weston and Rowell have sighed the next competition for Stir John’Astlby’s lohgrdistance dhammOn toalt.- j I f i *Miltori Farrow (Amcrich.fi/ woil thd Alberti Frize at Wimbledon. The I'aces of 1881, just published, show numerous. Amerrcqn npminations. 1 jn Lmi®n on August j 4th jtlje, stityn f<Jf years>ffagsl. during the iiiglit, at:* tedded by a fall of ImilstofiesrsomeAf’winch ‘ were five inches in,circumference. damage to glass thou- 1 bands of pounds’Sterling. — i ,I(i-r a< great part, of* Bedfordshire half Abe waslcoifiplptely swept awajHnd h d'(4it number-of eattie wertj uroWncd.Newmarket neighborhood were flqqcjcd. The rainfall, in Buckinghamshire ..is £§tiixfeed at per acre.