NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2441, 14 January 1881, Page 3

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Auckland, Jan. 14. Arrived —City of Now York. She left' on Dec. 21, experienced heavy S. and S.W. gales. On the fifth day out Arthur Simpson and David Silvia were washed overboard and drowned. The following are passengers for New Zealand: —A. Hutchin Bull, Maurice Stewart, Bromley, Grosseback, Fergus, Baldwin, Smith and wife, Mrs Wilson, Miss Wilson, Bradbury; from Honolulu—Buckley wife and three children.

AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Francisco, Dec. 21.

President Hayes submitted an unusually lengthy message to Congress. He intimated that more attention should hereafter be paid to the condition, of colored people in the exercise of their rights. He condemned Mormonism and ■aid the law should stamp it out. He advocates Civil Service reform, and commends the Victorian Exhibition. The address refers to the treaty concluded with China to check the immigration of Chinese; takes a second ground of objection against De Lessep’s panama canal, because it is not owned or controlled by America ; and advocates subsidies to the Ocean Mail Service. Branches' of the Irish Land League have been established in California, The wheat ships find a difficulty in obtaining crews. Sankey and Moody’s success at 1 nsco is not great. Small pox is decreasing. A rain storm was felt throughout California on Dec. 15. A larger area of wheat will be sown on tins season than on any previous year. Thirty people were burnt in a factory at Buffalo.

General Grant favors a Nicaragua Canal, in opposition to Lessep’s, and if a company is formed he will be president.

Father Garagge is soliciting aid in New York for a Free Church of Italy.

President Hayes is admitting Chinese vessels into the United States, on the same fooling as those of other nations. Courtney, a pseudo English lord, is in gaol in New York. There is much business depression in the Eastern States and numerous heavy failures. CANADA. Sir John McDonald’s project to complete the Pacific Railway with a foreign syndicate excites opposition. The Bill surrenders the part already constructed with a subsidy of twenty-five million dollars and 28 million acres of land to the syndicate. It is believed the Bill will be carried. An earthquake in British Columbia split the glaciers, and filled the creeks and rivers, changing their courses. The crew of the ship Cashmere from Melbourne mutinied in Victoria Harbor. The ringleaders are awaiting their trial. President Diazfhas heen installed without any revolution. A Bill has been passed by the Brazil Sen ate ad mitting Protestants to the same rights as Catholics. The Chilians established themselves at Piescoe, after a desperate resistance from the Peruvians, who are now massing on the line to Lima. The Chilian army numbers 20,000 men. with 100 guns.

GREAT BRITAIN,

Gladstone will probably propose to grant £25,000 to General Roberts. The new Antarctic expedition will be undertaken by Er Allen Young. It is rumored that Earl Dutferin is to be transferred to Constantinople.

Iveneplay, yarn agents, of Manchester, have failed/ Caldwell, railway contractor, of London, has suspended. Many Irish refugees are flocking to London, many being destitute. The League Courts are shutting out appeals to the ordinary tribunals. Business men are afraid to serve on the juries, and lawyers refuse to against the leaguers for fear of assassination. Parnell declares the Government is too weak to crush the league. The Orange Grand Lodge has arranged a code of signals to enable the members to assemble at any time of the night. Subscriptions are opened for the defence fund. An explosion at Rhonda Valley killed nearly a hundred miners. Two hundred and fifty persons were lost by the sinking of a French steamer near Spezzia. Nihilists are again agitating in St. Petersburg, and a strong revolutionary movement is threatened. The anti Jewish crusade in Germany is increasing. Many Socialists have been arrested on charges of high treason. The Czar refuses to allow foreign intervention in regard to China, but offers to refer all questions to arbitration.

The notorious Butler and two other crimi. nals passed through Timaru by express train this afternoon, on their way north, where they arc to serve the remainder of their respective terms of imprisonment. A meeting of residents was held on Tuesday, at the Geraldine Hotel, to consider the advisability of holding a monthly fair. Jt appeared to be the general opinion of the meeting that a fair should be held ; and a number of the leading farmers of the district and several business men were proposed as a Committee to biing forward a report at the next meeting, lobe held at the Geraldine Hotel, on Jan. 19. From the great interest manifested towards the project by those present, it augurs well to be a great success, as Geraldine is in the centre of one of the best farming districts in Canterbury. The farmers around Geraldine commenced harvesting on Monday last, and if fine weather continues it should he finished about the middle of February. The yield promises to be very heavy. Shearing is all but finished, and there are very few sheep left to be shorn, with the exception of stragglers. Building operations seem to have a fresh impetus, as there are several new buildings in course of erection, notably that of Mr Mundell, on the site of the late fire. The new building for the Bank of New Zealand is finished, and the staff have moved into it. It is a very great improvement on the old building. A Murimotu correspondent gives the following additional particulars respecting the manner of Moffat’s death “When the Natives called out to him to turn back or he would be shot, Moffat answered he was not aware of the restriction, and would return. Almost before he had finished speaking a bullet struck him in the arm. He then held up his hands deprccatingly, and shouted out, ‘ All right, I am going back,’ when anolber shot was fired, striking him in the body, producing, it is supposed, fatal effects; at any rate the Natives shortly proceeded tn make sure of their job by cutting him up and taking his heart out. The murderers have since removed with their effects to another place, where they are engaged in building a strong fortification.” The correspondent adds that the Natives say the Government are afraid to take hold of the murderers, as the Kingites are too strong for them, and the consequence is they are growing more insolent and dangerous day. A number of resolutions that arc tolerably rough on the South Canterbury Education Board were passed at a meeting of the Waimate School Committee on Tuesday. They were as follows ;—That this Committee protest against the proposed appointment of, Mr G. Barclay, as second teacher, and adheres to its resolution passed at the meeting held on Dec. 23, recommending Miss Cooper.” “ That this

Committee begs to draw the attention of the Minister for Education, in persistently over-riding the Act and ignoring the resolution of the Committee,theexercise of the Committee's functions has become a farce, and the Committee think that an amendment to the Act is urgently required more clearly defining the duties of Boards and Committees.” “ That the Board be asked to use its influence with the Inspector, Mr Hammond, so that his official report of the school may be expected within a reasonable lime, and not left for a year or two as heretofore. ’, It was decided to defer the nomination of two members for the vacancies on the Education Board till after the annual meeting. An announcement lias been made that the Earl of Bessborough, the brother of the Duke of Portland, has joined the Land League. He 0wn535,000 acres in Carlow, Waterford, and Tipperary.