AMERICAN NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 61, 2 August 1884, Page 6

AMERICAN NEWS.

San Francisco, July 6. Tiik amended Chinese Restriction Bill passed the Senate by 43 to 12. Amos, of Learner, New York, has been appointed American Consul at Sydney. Several counties of California are threatened with the grasshopper plague. Tho gardens and grain fields in Mariposa aro already stripped. A colliery explosion has occurred at the South Wellington mine, Victoria, Br. Columbia. Twenty-three lives were lost. A new Cunarder of 12,500 horse-power has been launched. It is intended to cross the Atlantic in less than six days. Mrs Langtry cleared lS,ooodols. by a two weeks engagement in San Francisco. The echoes of the late financial crisis in New York are still heard. Bank failures have occurred in all parts of the country. Cornelius Gai'rison, a New York capitalist, has failed for a million dollars. A very stringent measure entitled, " The Utah Bill," designed to control Mormonism, has passed Congress. It makes adultery a crime, abolishes female suffrage, changes tho rule of evidence in polgamy cases, and requires marriages to be recorded. An interview with ex-Colloctor Uriker, of Florida, in which he indicated that Blaino's foreign policy, if elected, would be the purchase of Cuba by the United States, has considerably stirred up the Spanish authorities. It is understood that Spain is willing to sell, but a doubt is expressed regarding the propriety of purchase at so high a price as Colonel Uriker reports Blame to have put upon the island, viz., five hundred million dollars.^ Many, however, declare that even then it tv ould be cheap. Minister Castilo states that Spain has no intention of selling Cuba. The Spanish Cortes unanimously passed a motion on July 2nd declaring that the Senate protests with indignation against any project for the separation of Cuba from Spain,

Orange riots, attended with several outrages and an assault on a Catholic Church, havo occurred at St. John's, Newfoundland. Kichard Lalor, once associated with Meagher, the Irish citizen, has died at New York.