ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2486, 9 March 1881, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

[By Telegraph.] [Per Citj'- of Sydney at Auckland.] Auckland, March. 9. The City of Sydney with the ‘Frisco mail has arrived. Passengers for New Zealand —Auckland ; Omerod, E. Lawrence, Lr Niess, Burns, Mr and Mrs Fill, Mr and Mrs Anderson, Ward, Munkliouse, Goodridge. Kobe, Wearon (2), Ives, and Lennard. San Francisco, Feb. 15. A story is current in London that the Government have interfered with the Land League correspondence and opened many of its letters. It is understood that Parnell will sail direct from Paris for the United Slates, as a document found on Davitt just before he was arrested at Dublin criminates him .and many important persons in the present agitation. There is strong talk about Parnell continued absence in Paris, The Irish party in Parliament is now numerically disorganised. Kelly and Barry have not been in the House for a week and their whereabouts is unknown There is a disposition in the leading Leaguers to leave for America, but the Irish Press implore them not to desert their cause. A great anti-coercion meeting was held in Hyde Park. Afterwards the procession halted in front of the guards at the Carlton Reform Club groaning the members. Precautions were taken by the Government but no display of force was made.

General Colley’s first defeat by the Boers was a crushing one. The Boers might have annihilated him had they pushed their advantage. Colley left all his wounded at their mercy.

A steel and iron company at Liverpool have gone into liquidation liabilities £35,800. Lent. Percy Eoper E. E. was found murdered in Brompton barrncks, on Feb. i. It is believed he was killed by fenians. A convention at Eome, with Garibaldi as president, adopted a resolution demanding universal suffrage in Italy. The Eussian Government have consented to the occupation of an astronomical station .at Valadiorstock by the United States. The distress is so great among the Ural tribes in Eussia that parents arc selling their male offspring for grain, and leaving the females to perish. The Land League have decided to invest in the United States the £OOO,OOO now in Europe. Three steamers have been chartered to convey troops to Natal. A mass meeting of Socialists has been held in New York to arrango an efllc ient political organisation, The attendance was principally German. Captain Eades’ (Nicaragua) ship railway Bill has been laid on the table by Congress. Ex-President Jefferson Davis is about publishing a “ History of the rise and fall of the Confederate Government.” A full meeting of the Executive Committee of the Land League was held on Eeb, U. Parnell presiding, at which it was resolved to carry on the League in all eventualities.

The steamship mail subsidy has been defeated in the U. S. Senate. London. Feb. 15. It is rumored in Cork that the Fenians in America and the United Kingdom are aiding the Boers with men and money. It is also said that 500 American adventurers have gone to the seat of war. Large bodies of Boers are reporlcd to be moving south of Newcastle apparently to attack the reinforcements. 100 seamen are ordered to the Transvaal from Sheerness to form a naval brigade.

The “ Times ’’ says that at a meeting of executive officers of the Land League in Paris, on Sunday, Parnell stated that the funding of £70,000 of the League’s money had finally been arranged. A manifesto would then be issued explaining everything that had been done in regard to tire members of the League, and this would be published soon after his return to Ireland. Parnell said it was also intended, immediately after the passage of the Coercion Bill, that the Irish members should hold a conference in Dublin, and they would thus place themselves at the head of the people, and meet the blow the Government is timing at their organisation.