Additional Mail News.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1105, 25 July 1882, Page 2

Additional Mail News.

San Francisco, July 1. Bayliss and Piokersgill (the tormer manager of the Gaiety Theatre, Sydney) arrived In Ban Francisco by last steamer, seeking to form a Minstrel Company for the Colonies. Very good offers were made to Emerson, but as he is now lessee and manager of the Standard he declines the trip. Kansas, Missouri, and lowa have been again visited by tornados j the loss of life is heavy. The Washington Journal published a letter from Boston, warning President Arthur and Chas. H. Read of a plot to assassinate them. Most of the officers and all of the crew of an U.S. exploring ship burned recently in St. Laurence Bay, arrived at Sitka on June 3. C. J. Priestman Young, of San Francisco, who joined Rodgers, got separated from his guides in a snowstorm, and was lost. Seventy-five people have been poisoned, though not fatally, by cheese manufactured by a man in Michigan. Microscopic investigation showed the cheese to be full of unrecognised parasites.

Trevelyan, Chief Secretary for Ireland, has offered to release the American suspect, John Ginnigan, if he would leave Ireland. The offer was refused, and consequently he cannot now be released.

A land agitation has broken out in Prussia. A landowner of Liba was assassinated. Olsen Jakka was arrested for the crime and confessed he had been paid to commit it by agitators travelling about the country preaching that it was only by killing land owners that reform could be obtained.

James Thomson and Co., ship and insurance brokers, of Liverpool, failed for £100,000; Vaughan and Co., of same place, £2OO,(XX). Despatches from Copenhagen say that a movement for severance of Norway from Sweden, and for the establishment of a Republic, is assuming increased proportions. The British steamer P and O, foundered near Port of Santo, Madeira Island, in a moderate head sea. She cracked amidships, and the deck started up and she sank in two minutes, Four of the crew were drowned,

Herr Meling, one of the principal navigators of Germany, has been arrested at Kiel, charged with furnishing the Russian Government with copies and plans of German defences for which he was paid 150,000 roubles. He confessed his guilt and then com' mitted suicide.

The London police have renewed their precautions for the protection of Gladstone. Special police are guarding the premises of the London “Times," owing to the _ receipt of threatening letters purporting to come from Fenian assassins,

Threats of assassination are made against the Duke of Westminster, aud his servants are alarmed by a talk of blowing up his house. Personally, tho Duke attachos no importance to the threats.

pony of Liverpool. At the Consular Court inquiry a verdict was returned of loss through perils of the sea. Great dissatisfaction was expressed at the verdict being returned, as it will white-wash Captain Purvis, who has escaped, and is very jubilant over his prospects of going home. Serious riots occurred at Alexandria in Egypt on June 11, between the Natives and Europeans. The Arabs and Levantines were the agressors. It appears that the disturbance commenced simultaneously at three different points. The object of the rioters being pillage, in which Levantines as well as Arabs participated. The “ Times ” correspondent at Cairo laid the responsibility of the outrage on Arabi Pasha. The mob sacked the European shops; and Catherine des Sous, inhabited chiefly by Europeans, was completely wrecked. The assailed fired from their windows, killing many Arabs, while the assailants made havoc with the Europeans found in the streets. A letter from the Alexandria correspondent of Paris “ Temps,” says, “ The Europeans made a most desperate resistance, and succeeded in inflicting more heavy loss on their Arab assailants than they themselves suffered.

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