AMERICAN NEWS. San Francisco, July 3rd.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 163, 31 July 1886, Page 8

AMERICAN NEWS. San Francisco, July 3rd.

£17,006 has been sent by the Treasurer ot the Irish-American Parliamentary fund to Parnell for the week ending July 3rd, or l,ooods. for each Irish member who voted with Parnell for the second reading of the Home 'Rule Bill. The town of Independence, Nevada, waa totally destroyed by fire, June 30th. The British barque Alliance (Captain ThoiriaB), from Melbourne, in ballast, capsized off Montgomery's Wharf, at Album, in the Willametti River, Oregon, on Juno 17th. The damage to the ewners, directv and indirect, will be about 5,000d5. Archibald Forbes, war correspondent, and Miss Lulu Meige, daughter of General Meigs, U.S. America, were married at Washington, June 19th, in the presence of a fashionable gathering. The happy couple left at once for England. Henry Ward Beecher left for Greats Britain on June 19th. He proposes to lecture through England and Scotland, and may go to Dublin. Advices received at Sun Francisco, June 9th, report the burning at sea, in 12deg. 41min. north, 158deg. 28min. west, of the Norwegian barque Joraalfarer. The vessel left Newcastle, New South Wales, March 29th, with coal for Honolulu. Mrs Yseult Dudley, the woman who shoo O'Donovan Roesa in February, 1885, was sent to England on June 16th, from the in> sane asylum at Auburn. Permission for her to go home had been obtained for some time, but her departure was delayed for want of means, until an unknown friend, but said to be of social prominence and rank in England, came forward and furnished them. The town of Vancouver, British Columbia, was totally destroyed by fire on June 13th. Twelve persons were burned to death, and several seriously injured. Loss in property, 1,000,000d015. Ihe burning was caused by forest fires. Richard A. Proctor, the English astronomer, has taken up his permanent residence in Missouri, U.S. Crop reports from all parts of the State of: California, up to June 18th, give promise of an abundant harvest.

SEAMEN'S ROW ON THE MARAROA. The row between the Union and nonunion men about working on the Mararoa, one af the Australian line of steamers, has brought to light the fact that Spreckles and Co., of San Francisco, the nominal owners of the line, are not really affected by the controversy. They have no interest in thqi Mararoa, Alameda or the Maripoaa further than being the agents of the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand. The name of Spreckle? doeß not occur in the mail contract of the New Zealand Government'with the Union Company. The Union Company merely chartered the Alameda and the Mariposa from Spreckles and Co., and appointed the firm as the agents of the Company in this city. Should the Mararoa be delayed, the New Zealand Government would claim a forfeit Of £50 from the Union Company for every twanty-foujp hours of such delay. The total popular majority vote for bo~ cession from Canada is about 12,000 out of about 60,000 votes polled. Hanlan and Hosmer rowed a race near Quebec, three miles with a turn, on June 25. Hosmer turned the stake fourteen seconds in the lead, but on the way home Hanlan passed him and easing up finished only half a length in front. Advices from Chile mention bloody election riots in that country on the occasion of the Presidential election. - On the firsfc day eleven persons were killed and several wounded, and on June 15th, forty moro were killed at Santiago, and the hospitals were filled with wounded. The*popular candidate, Dr. Balmacedu, was elected.

THE CANADIAN PACIFIC. The first through train of C.P.R.R, to Vancouver, British Columbia, left Montreal on Monday June 28th, at eight o'clock in the morning. The train, t6 is claimed, will traverse the 3,000 miles in 136 hours, reaching the Pacific oa the following Sunday morning, July 4th. This, the Canadian Pacific authorities claim, will beat the time between New York and San Francisco by twenty houra. When the road ia thoroughly ballasted, the distance will be covered in 110 hours, and, eventually, it is hoped, a further reduction to ninety hours will be made. Firakolaas passenger fare, $92 ; second-class, $59.50.

CANADIAN FISHERIES DISPUTE. The dispute over the seizure of American fishing vessels has been settled by thn Canadian Government receding from their position as to the purchase of baitt Americans will be allowed to buy bait andother supplies, and enjoy other commercial, privileges, but they must not remain ' longer, than twenty-four hours. It isjaul that the recent elections in Nova Scotia* v where the popular vote stood largely ]ia favour of secession from the dominion^ bjyol the 'effect of causing this change in policjv '