AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 277, 30 June 1888, Page 3

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Liou tenant Adolph Marix, or Marx, of the United Status Navy, selected by the iSecret'u} of the Navy, Whitney, to act as Seciotary'of the United State? Commission at Melbourne, for the approaching Exposition, will leave for his post of duty at date, June 2nd. A conference of San Francisco merchants w as held on May 9th, in relation to the exposition, at which Hugh Craig presided and Chief Commissioner McCoppin was present. A lettei M"a.- received from >Spreckels Bros., offering to make a i eduction of 50 per cent, in the freight charge on all goods intended for the Exposition shipped by the Oceanic steamships from San Franciaco. A circular vv a& ordered to be prepared tor distribution among the business men of California. A goud deal of interest is manifested, and the exhibits from America will probably be numerous am! intei eating. Chief Connm-ssionei- McCoppin had gone to Wa&hington for the purpose of inducing the Secretary of the Navy to put a United States -war \essel at his disposition to convey himself and his deputy commissioners as well as the American exhibits to Melbourne. It is doubtful if the Government indulge him in this parade, a.s war \essels are scarce with the Department just now. A meeting ol the Executive Committee was held on May 29th, but only live out of the 15 membcifc- appeared. It was an)J nounced that everything possible had been done by the Commissioners to excite interest in the Exposition ; but, so far, they had succeeded in enlisting only twenty exhibitors from California, comprising machinery, flour, mining, leather, -wine and canned goods' interests. The Chairman, Hugh Craig, opoke in strong terms of the apathy in regaid to the matter which he and his 1 associates had encounteted. Assistant Commissioner Thos. B. Merry will probably leave for Melbourne by the steamer at date. Chief Commissioner McCoppin will not go forward till next month.

CANADA. The complaints of the Canadian press against the introduction of pauper immigrants have created a stir among the London poor-law guardians, with the probable effect ot making them send an increased number of paupers at early date so ab to anticipate any prohibitory legislation on the part of the Canadians, On the 22nd May the Canadian Minister of Agriculture announced to the House of Comnione that the Government would thereafter send back to Great Britain all immigrants likely to become public charges;, also imposing heavy iinet on the steamship companies bringing them out. A syndicate headed by J. .1 . G. Abbott, a member of the Dominion Ministry commanding British capital to the extent of 8100,000,000, has been formed to undertake railway workb in Brazil. The syndicate is composed oi leading New York capitalists. Lord Lan&downe left Ottawa, May 23rd, for England en route, to India, where he will assume the Viceroyship in (September. 10,000 people attended the farewell demon- \ stration, arranged by the civil authorities, on Parliament Hill. The French Catfiolic societies, though invited, did not j>articipate in the proceedings. Sir Charles Tupper has gone to England with instructionb to urge the Imperial and colonial Governments to proceed with negotiations to establish a system of commercial reciprocity between British and American provinces, the West India possessions and the Australian dependencies. His son, Colonel Tupper, M.P.P. for Picton, N.S., is now Minister of Marine and Fisheries for Canada. Information received at Washington, May 25th, confirms the rumours of an extensive uprising in Hayti, and leaves little room to doubt that a revolutibn is imminent. United States war-vessels have been ordered to Port au Prince to protect American interests. The Oceanic Railway Company has been organised in London, with a capital of £2,000,000, to build a railway from Acapuleo, on the Mexican Pacific Coast to Vera Cruz on the Atlantic. The first section to be built will be from the City of Mexico to Vera Cruz. The line will materially interfere with travel via iho Isthmus of Panama.

Since July lsb. a Washington correspondent estimates that Mr* Cleveland has shaken fully 100,000 hands, and the President twice as many.