ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2604, 26 July 1881, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

The s.s. Australia, with the San Francisco Mail on hoax’d arrived at Auckland yesterday morning. GENERAL S MM MARY. San Fran cisco. July 3. In Spain, free traders and protectionists are holding large meetings. The former cite with approval the example of America. The master ship-builders, of London,

have yielded to the demands of the men, and a strike was averted. Thirty thousand Staffordshire nail makers have struck for 30 per cent, more wages. A letter has been received, according to a despatch from Liverpool, threatening to blow up the Duke of Westminster’s residence.

Mr Gladstone says that Parnell crosses the Atlantic to avoid making speeches that would land him in gaol. The American Consuls throughout Ireland have been instructed to report carefully to Washington concerning the character and extent of the disaffection, particularly relative to the prevalence and conduct of the Irish-American element.

Ex-Alderman Clancy, of Ottawa, Canada, exhibited a flying machine on June 20, at an average heighth of 12 feet. He made a flight of a quarter of a mile. The machine is the result of 30 years’ thought and’labor. The wheat crop of the United States is estimated at 460,000,000 bushels. Sir Duncan McGregor, K.C.8., is dead.

Lewis Potter, who was imprisoned in connection with the Glasgow Bank frauds, died on June 17. The European Powers are conferring with a view to secure the complete, neutrality of the Panama Canal. The New York “ Herald ” puts forth as a solution of the Irish problem, the establishment of a Grand Imperial Parliament, including representation from Australia, Canada, the Cape, Ireland, and Scotland. The walking match in London for the Championship ofthe World was virtually ended by Weston’s sickness. He became lightheaded, and was put to bed. Dwyer, of New York, has offered to match Rowell, Weston’s opponent, against any three men in the world for 12,000 dols. The “ Morning Post,” London, has appeared as a penny paper. The Panama railroad having been purchased by the French practically crowds out all American interests in the Isthmus.

Two returned Communists have been arrested in Paris for blowing up the Thiers' statue.

The Italian Chamber of Deputies have rejected universal suffrage by 314 votes to 39. Signor Faleri favored female suffrage. The Great Eastern, steamship, will be offered by public auction on Oct. 1 next.

The New York “ Times ’’ publishes a story that the remains of William Morgan, a man who fifty-five years ago disclosed the secrets of Freemasonry and was' made away with, have, it is said, been discovered at Batavia. Several members of the French and Spanish legations in Washington are to be dismissed for taking advantage of'a young lady high in social position. Professor King intends making a balloon trip from Ireland to the American seaboard.

Sir William Thomson, a scientist of Glasgow, has discovered a means of storing and transporting electric power. He lately took from Paris to Glasgow a battery supposed to contain power to the amount of one million pounds to the square inch. Trickett the oarsman arrived in Now York on June 11 with Kelly, his trainer. He expects to remain in the United States three or four months, and offers to row any man except Hanlan. A laborer in the hospital at Winnipeg, Maniotoba, who was fatally wounded on the Canada Pacific Railway on June 13, claimed to be the. lost Sir Roger Tichborne.

A sensation lias been caused among astronomers by the unannounced appearance in the north-west heavens of a large comet. It is a stranger, and is said to be its lirst appearance.