AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Francisco, February 16.

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AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Francisco, February 16.

The English mails were detained by heavy snowstorms. Eighteen violent maniacs were burned to death at the Blocksley Almshouse, Philadelphia. The Asylum was destroyed. The Socialistic Labour Party of New York have passed resolutions favouring the Irish dynamitists. George A. Sala was favourably received at San Francisco. He remains for a year in the colonies. There was a tremendous snowstorm in the Western States on February 10th. The snow at Chicago stopped railway traffic Hundreds of cattle were frozen or starved to death. Vigorous enforcement of the anti polygamy law in Utah hafe demoralised business, influential Mormons are removing elsewhere. The debts of the New Orleans Exposition already reach 360, < 00 dollars. Congress has been asked to make good the deficiency. Slade, the spiritualist, finished a series of manifestations before the Seybert Commission, New York, appointed under the will of Henry Seybert, who left 60,000 dollars to be expended in this kind of investigation. V\ hen Slade's manipulations were concluded, Keller, the magician, contracted with the Commission to duplicate all blade's feats, and prove that there was nothing supernatural in his performance. me directors of the U.S. Mint report, that the gold and silver product of the country in 1884 was greater than that of che year preceding. Chief Engineer Melville, of the Jeanette expedition, wants 0130,000 to reach the North Pole by Franz Josef Land. The Swedish brigantine Natal, which sailed from Boston to Brisbane, put into to New York on January 29. A terrible mutiny had occuired. The captain was attacked in his berth at night by the carpenter, who was armed with a broad-axe ; but, aided by the mate he beat him off, and also the steward, who joined the assailant. The captain, after staunching his wounds, sallied out with the mate and faced the carpentei, steward, and three sailors, who were armed with axes, sheath knives, and capstan-bars. A ferocious fight ensued. The captain and mate triumphed. The captain's son and the second mate had been murdered by the mutineers aud thrown overboard. Finally, when the mutineers submitted, the captain, having no leg irons or handcuffs to secure them, shot the steward and carpenter dead, and threw their bodies overboard. lh© seamen then agreed to obey orders Marshal law was proclaimed at Panama on February 11. The coast of Canea is in the hands of revolutionists, and all kinds of business have been stopped. Do Lesseps and party concluded their es>r amination of the Panama Canal on the 10th, and pronounced it a success.

resources of the field. H<> should have thought. 2s 6d would have been a sufficient charge. The Chairman said he thought Cookeon V letter vnry absurd, and it was generally thought that 3s Od would be an exre^sivejoharge for so short a distance. Cr Gould said there were two ways of looking at it. If all (40) th«» stampers were working, and they had j;ot to keep on a regular stuff of men, tho reduction to 2s Od meant a 10-s o\ -S a truck (saj even for tho supply to 10 stampers) to the coumy. He did not wisl^ to tti row any hindrance in the way oi n reduction, but let tho matter be looked at as it really was The Chairman moved, and Cr Maclean seconded, a That tor this trial erushini? of 100 tons the charge of transit over county tramway be reduced to 2s 6d." Carried. T'lij, of course, meant merely for conveyance, and did not include any loading. The advisability of holding a county meeting at Te Aroha was diseased. Possibly the second next meeting will be held here. A number of accounts were passed for pa) ment. The Clerk stated he had no funds to mei-t the second pay-sheet for tramway wajjes under the uew arrangement with the bank. The Clerk was instructed to write to Mie legal managers for the amounts due for transit of quarts for the different companies, and in t yet paid. It is probable the mmi 1 er of tramway hands will be reduced, pending the reply from Government re grant of £1200.