AMERCIAN

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 255, 14 April 1888, Page 4

AMERCIAN

Tin California theatie building in ban Francisco, a leading place of amusement tor t\\onl> jears, ha.- been sold tor and will be converted into an hotel. William T. Coleman, a San .Francisco met chant of eminence, was nominated commissioner of the United States to the woildV exposition at Melbourne, in August next, but declined the office in a formal letter Walter Turnbull, a naturalised Canadian, is an applicant tor the position. Langtry, the London actress, now in New Voik, i» leported seriously ill from neu ralgia ot the heart. Maicus Claik's no-\el "' His Natural Lite, ' diaimtised by Trigo Tyrell, an Australian actor, has been produced in San. Francisco. It was uell received. The boy pianist, Josef Hotmann, has succumbed to the incessant demands upon hib strength, and gave up in New York on, February '20th. He refuses to play any more, and decline^ to visit San Francisco. Abbey, bis American impresario, who has contracts one for .^30,000 and more, will lose heavily by the boy's let-down. George Henry Corliss, eminent as au engineet and steam-engine manfacturer, tl'ed in Providence, R 1., February 21. He was the inventor of the well-known Corliss engine. A large number of the finest salmon rhers on the coast of Labrador have lecently been leased to American fishermen. Rev. T. J. Curtis, formerly of the Sydney (N.S.W.) Presbytery, in charge ot Regent;<treet Church, is about to become the pastor of Woodbridge Cimrch, San Fran Cisco. The h'sherios tready was under tire in the Dominion Legislature on February 24th. The general teelmg was. that Canada had thrown away the only lever by which leciprooal tiade with the United States could be secured. Reports aie rife to the effect that Chili, BoJhia and Ecuador hn\e entered into a coalition, the object of which is to absorb Peru. The Federal vevevmb ot Uie Republic oi Mexico, for the year ending June 30th, 18S7, i cached #32,1 26,509, an excess ot .53,357,443 o\er the previous yearly revenue ; the largest levenue yet received. The Argentine and Chilian Governments June agreed to hold a South American Congress in Montevideo, beginning July 18th,, 1888, the pimcipal object ot which is to* form a treaty which will determine questions ot international lights pending between South American nations. This Congress will be the iirst of its kind ever held iv South America.