AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 141, 13 February 1886, Page 4

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

San Francisco, Jan. 17. By the Mararoa, Mr Hallidie, President of the Californian Works, leares for Aus. tralia to promote the use of cable roads in colonial cities. Swindling immigration schemes have been exposed in California and Florida. Immigrants induced by land speculators to leave London were'£fleeced of their money, and then left to shift for themselves. The cold is so excessive in many Western States that many persons, particularly in Nebraska, have been frozen to death. The children innoculated for bites by mad dog have returned from Pasteur in Paris to New York in sound health. A bill has been introduced in Congress to annul the Hawaiian treaty. A conflict between President Cleveland and the Republican Majority Senate regarding appointments has commenced. Cleveland refused to show cause for suspending Republican officials, and the Majority rejected his nominations. The coast defences of leading American seaports will be commenced immediately. Mr Parnell, in a letter thanking the leader of the Parliamentary Aid Association, says that without the money received from America many seats in the late election would have been lo3t. The British steamer Hylton Castle, overloaded with corn for Rouen, foundered off Fire Island, New York, in a gale. The captain and nine of the crew in the boats were drowned ; the rest reached the land. The Roman Catholic and Episcopal Churches of America have pronounced against cremation. A cablegram, January 10, says : Mr Marshall, steel manufacturer, of Sheffield, employing 3,000 men, intends to remove his manufactory entirely to* America. Reports describe hundreds of American subjects in London living in absolute squallor. Fears are expressed for the safety of the British barque Alpheta, 117 days out from Adelaide to Portland. The " New York Commercial Bulletin's" 'review of the wheat markets shows that the price of wheat at the close of the year in London was lower than ever recorded, and stocks in the United States unsold are unprecedentedly large. A sharp advance has occurred in American iron and steel. An American man-of-war was despatched to Samoa in consequence of the receipt of official advices that Germany had annexed the islands. Important additional evidence for the prosecution has been procured in the case of Maxwell, accused of murdering Preller. M. DeLesseps remains at Panama a fortnight. He says the task of constructing the canal is far easier than at Suez. It will be completed in 18S8. The revolutionary movements in Peru are ended, and quiet is restored.