AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Francisco, July 5.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 113, 1 August 1885, Page 5

AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Francisco, July 5.

The Pacific mail steamship City of Tokio ran on a reef near Yokohama, and was totally wrecked. The City of Sydney, now on the Australian service, will probably be transferred to the China and Japan trade. Ernest Moon, insurance agent and special correspondent of the Australian "Sportsman," who has been in San Francisco some time, says he is authorised by Mr Deebles to match Beach against any American oarsman for £1,000 to £2,000. Moon has gone East. Adolph Spreckles was acquitted on the charge of attempting to assassinate De Young, of the '• San Francisco Chronicle." The tide of Chinese immigration from San Francisco to New York is increasing. Hanlan says ho intends visiting Australia again for another contest with Beach. Hanlan has invented a contrivance for walking on water. A syndicate of English capitalists is being formed to establish a fast steamship I line with the terminus at Fort Pond Bay, Long leland, connecting with the railway to New York, They will shorten the present fastest Atlantic voyage over a day and a- half. It is rumoured that Pollen Daggetfc, exAmerican Minister to Hawaii, who has recently gone to Washington, is charged with a secret mission for advancing the proposal to United States to purchase the Sandwich Islands. Mr Fish, late President of the Marine Bank and partner of General Grant, was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for corrupt financial practices. The New York tin market was greatly excited on June 7, over the purchase by Straues, of London, of all the Straits tin now in London. The pi-ice advanced in London nine pounds within one v eek, and in New York 2 cents per lb. The advance was confined to spot tin, futures not being effected. The Indian exhibit at New Orleans is to be presented to the French Government. Despite opposition, a street railroad has been laid in Broadway, and cars are runThe Pennsylvania iron mills aro resuming operations, and trade is improving. Aschooner sailed from Philadelphia for Vigo, Spain, to endeavour to raise Spanish treasure galleons, sunk at Vigo Bay in 1702. The Government granted a concession, on condition of receiving a quarter of all treasure recovered. Advices from Washington state that the President and Administration are entirely opposed to all acquisitions of territory, whether in Cuba, Mexico, or elsewhere. A French frigate bearing Bartholdi's collossal statue of " Liberty enlightening the world," a gift from France to the United States, arrived in New York June 17, and was received with great ceremony. Reports from Panama Canal state Belgium furnishes the most machinery. The labourers are largely composed of Jamacia negroes— between 15,000 and 20,000 are employed on the Canal. A strong opinion is expressed that De Lessepps's expectation that the Canal will be finished in 1890 cannot be realised. Hanlan has arranged five races between himself and Teemor, the first to be rowed in August A terrible storm occurred at Newfoundland on June 7, and an enormous amount of shipping was destroyed and many lives lost. It a*as the worst storm in 40 years. The Dominion Parliament passed a Eelief Bill for the Canadian Pacific Railway. The line will be finished within a few months. , Detective Hoffey captured S. W. Green, alias Sproude, a forger fugitive from Australia, at Wilmington, California. Green defrauded the Waltham Watch Company, at Sydney, of upwards of £679. Papers for extradition, forwarded by the Znalandia, arrived before the barque Estille, from Newcastle, by which Green was a passenger, reached California. The fugitive was arrested immediately he landed When being conveyed to San Francisco he attempted suioide by stabbing himself in the neck with a penknife. The wound is not dangerous. Latest despatches from Mexico represent the financial affairs in a deplorable state. Many leading houses are on the verge of bankruptcy. Affairs in Central America have settled down quietly. The steamer Italia foundered near Lomas, off the coast of Peru, Out of 13,4 passengers and orewj 65 were drowned. The disaster was due to wrong orders given by the third officer, who suicided after the wreck.

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