AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 101, 9 May 1885, Page 6

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

San Francisco, April 12. The Deakin Irrigation Commission, with Mr G. S. Cunningham, representative of the •' Argus," and Mr J. L. Dow, of the Melbourne "Age," leave by the steamer for Sydney at date Lateßfc despatches from New York say that General Grant is on the verge of death. His disease is cancer in the mouth. Ex-President Fisk, Grant's partner in the broken Marine Bank, was found guilty on April 12th of embezzling the funds of the concern, and is liable to imprisonment for from five to ten years. Ihe Secretary of State, Bayard, politely declines to interfere in the matter of Burton and Cunningham, the dynamiters now awaiting trial in London for connection with the recent explosions there. The request to interfere came from the Irish National League, New York. The New York "Financial Chronicle" says tho present views on the price of wheat are extravagant Without counting the California surplus and the good crops which now appear assured, the amount in sight in the United States and afloat for Europe is £2,000,000 more than last year. An attempt was made on April 10 to assassinate Governor Hadly, of Ohio, by a dynamite infernal machine. A few loyal subjects of the Queen in Victoria, 8.C., sent her Majesty, on March 29, a Fia/.er river salmon weighing ninety pounds. H.M.S. Swiftsure, Heroine, and two other war vessels have been ordered to Victoria, British Columbia, to increase the naval defence of the province in view of the possibility of war between Kussia and England. The Urugayan Government is arresting priests for preaching against the attitude of the authorities in regard to civil marriages. A rupture with the Vatican is imminent. A delegation of Chinese have arrived at the city of Mexico to treat with the Government for introducing their countrymen into that republic and making them full fledged Chinese citizens. Mrs Dudley's counsel has applied for a commission to be sent to England to take evidence of insanity. O'Donovan Kossa's paper advises the assassination of tho Prince of Wales in Ireland. An Anglo-Kussian company has started to compete in supplying England with fresh meat. Their abbatoirs are located in the centre of Libau, and the Company calculato on selling England JC(K)0,000 worth of meat yearly. Rival trans-Atlantic cublett are engaged in a war of rates. It opened with 6d a word. Phelps, of Vermont, is appointed Minister to the Court of St. James ; McLano, of Maryland, Minister to France ; Pendleton, of Ohio, Minister to Germany^ ; and Jackson, Georgia, Minister to Mexico. Professor William , Miller's challenge to meet Sullivan, the American stagger, in the ring in San Francisco, within I months, causes some excitement among the sporting men in that city. Sullivan is required to post 500dols at the " New York Clipper » office to pay Miller's expenses from Australia. The memorial cathedral erected by tho late A. T. Stewart, the New York millionaire merchant, at Garden City, Long Island, was informally opened on April 12. It is described as one of the finest and most costly ecclesiastical structures in America. The Land and Cattle Company's property- , embracing 60,000 head of cattle, and 50,000 acres of land near Fort Worth, Texas, was sold to an English syndicate, incorporated in London, on April 10 the price is stated at £3,500,000. The Baltimore police arrested all the spirit mediums and clairvoyants they could lay hands on on April 7th, and they wore fined $25 each The Woman Suffrage Bill has been thrown out of the Now York Legislature.

The report Is published that Patti, the singer, contemplates making California her future home, and to that end will realise on her Welsh property. The Mapleson Opera Company, of which she was prima donna, realised 150,000d015. and over for a four weeks season in San Francisco, and this, too, during Lent. Calitornia was awarded on April 4th, by the Committee of the New Orleans Exposition, the sweepstake gold medal against the world for the best varieties of citron fruits ; also two gold and 11 silver medals and 30 premiums. The drenuse of the Public Debt for March is announced at $483,000. I Ex-Secretary of State, Frelinghuysen, died at Newark, N. J., on April 6th. Hon. John J. Finerty, ex-member of Congress, and a strong Fenian, was pelted with rotten eggs at Chicago on April sth while attempting to address a rough political meeting. The New York " Dial," a two-cent evening paper, suspended on 26th March, after an existence of two years. The experiment sank $50,000. The New York Chinamen held a jubilee on the 31st March over the defeat of the French at Langson. A naturalise American named Robert Ireland was kidnapped in New York on March 25th by English officials. He was a piper in the English army in 1876, and deserted from Ayr, Scotland. Ireland was taken to Canada, and will be returned to England for trial. The case has been laid before the Secretary of State j at Washington. A largo Mormon emigration from Ucahi to Mexico is going on at present, under orders from the church. A professed spiritualist and medium named J. Harvey Matt came to grief in Kansas city on the 23rd. He had made a number of converts during the year, but was at length exposed at a materialising seance by a newspaper editor, who| threw a small jet of aniline solution on the face of the impostor

The Markets. San Francisco, April 11.— Flour is steady. Shipping superfine, $2.75 to $3.50 per brl. Wheat shows steady tone, but no great activity. The better grades of shipping are quoted at $1.37£ per cental. Barley is not a strong market. Choice, $1 per cental ; brewing, §1.05 to $1.15. ! Canned salmon, SI. 10,000 cases were sold for export at this rate. ; Freights : Wheat, to Cork, 36s 3d ; to J Liverpool, 355. ! Sydney pig tin had advanced to 20 cents. Quicksilver, 31 to 32 cents.

The Indian Revolt in Canada. | The half-breed revolt in Saekathcewan country, Canada, led by Kiel, is making considerable headway. There was an important fight at Crozier on March 20 between the rebels and mounted police and civilians. Forty rebels were killed. Al though Roil had at first not more than 500 fighting men, they were well armed and determined. News was soon received at Battleford that the Crees, an Indian tribe, had started on the war path, stimulated by Kiel's emissaries, and fears of a general uprising were Boon seen to be well founded, for all the Indians rapidly joined forces with the half breeds, plundering the forces at Battleford, killing the farm instructor, burning buildings belonging to the Hudson's Bay Co. and the Government. The Ottawa Government rapidly despatched troops to the scene. Great enthusiasm prevailed. Kiel is fight* ing to prevent the lands of Indians being taken for settlement by the immigrants flocking to the country. His force rapidly increased to 2,000. The crack Militia regiments of Ottawa have gone to the scene of hostilities, A complete battery of muzzle-loading ninepounders, with ammunition, has been shipped from London to Canada, to be used in suppressing the rebellion The Canadian Government believe the trouble will not last long, but many valuable lives will be sacrificed- The Teton Sioux Indians have swarmed across the American border, making serious trouble. An Ottawan despatch of April 7th says • — The war fever is increasing. The students of Manitoba College have formed a company. Several hundred of Six Nations Indians have been organised by the Government as scouts. The Indians at Long Lake killed t6n whites —among them throe priests. Thousands of recently arrived settlers refused to go West. Many havo gone to the United States.

The Revolution in Panama.- Aspimrall Burnt. Preston, tho rebel leader on the Isthmus, seized the P.M.S Colon, at Aspinwall, on March $0, and imprisoned the captain, puieer, agent of the Company, Consul Wright, and other Americans. fI.M.S. Lily, in nearing the wharf at Aspinwall, was fired on, and promptly returned the fire. American men-of-war have been ordered to Aspinwall. The rebels got possession of Panama on March 31. Aspimvall was burnt by the insurgents on March 31st, to escape capture by the Government troops. The Pacific Mail Dock, the property on the north end of the island, and the Canal property at Chrispol, are the only buildings saved. No loss among the shipping. Thousands are destitute, and v uu ""* "Wter. Great complaint is made of the English and American war-ships for not protecting foreign interests on the isthmus. Later advices say that Preston, the chief of tho insurrectionists, is a notorious criminal, and his party is made up of banditti from Peru, Chile, and Jamaica, with many negroes* They have no political principles, and aim only at plunder. The disturbance both in Panama and Aspinwall is entirely social. There is a serious loss of mail matter by the burning of Aspinwall. Tho entire mail for the South Pacific, the registered and ordinary paper mail for Aspinwall, despatched from New York on March 21, perished. Consul Adamson telegraphs on April 2 that the suffering at Aspinwall is awful, and asks aid for the houseless and starving people. The railway transit of the isthmus was closed on the Ist of April, but would be re-opened shortly. The United States Government despatched some 500 marines to the scene. The Governor of Cauca telegraphed oa Bth April that the revolutionists had taken possession of the city of Pauama.

The Latest The United States forces were guarding both ends of the railroad on April 11th, and a relief train was running. There was scarcely any business.

Barrios and tbe Central American Confederacy. A treaty of alliance, offensive and defensive was signed on March 25rh, at Salvador, by the Government of San Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, for mutual defence against Barrio?, Guatemala, and, his schemes of confederation. President Zalvidar, of Salvador, assumes chief command. News was received on March 31st of a battle between Barrios troops and' the -San Salvador forces, in which the former were defeated. The fight took place on the plains of Santa Anna, near the frontier. After ten hours' desperate fighting, in which quarter was neither asked for nor taken, the Guatemalans were completely routed, leaving about 1,500 dead upon

the field. Barrios retreated across the frontier. The Salvadoran force numbered 11,000; the Gautemalan 15,000. The opinion is that this battle has definitely settled the question of a Central American Union on the plan proposed by Barrios. Little sympathy is expressed for the defeated revolutionist?, and the disaster is regarded as good news by the mercantile community. According to a despatch from La Libestad, April 4th, hostilities between Guatemala and the allied Republics were suspended, and an armistice of one month's duration announced ; the Union decree of President Barrios was also annulled. The gold-hilted sword of Barrios was found on the battle-field of Chalchuapa, broken, and his death has been confirmed. The installation of his successor, General Manuel Lizandro Barrillos, one of two vicepresidents or desi(jnadoB % has taken place, and his presidency was acknowledged by the United States. The family of Barrios has left Guatemala for San Francisco.

The University Boat Race. The race between the Cambridge and Oxford crews came off on the morning of March 28. The river banks were lined with spectators, the water was smooth, and the conditions favoured the Oxford crew. Both boats got off well together, but Oxford soon took the lead, and maintained it to the end, winning by three lengths. The time of the race was 21 minutes 36 seconds, a trifling improvement over the time one year ago, when the record' was 21 minutes 39 seconds. The improvement is not as great as was anticipated, in view of the finer weather and smoother water.