SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 201, 20 November 1879, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

(Per 5.3. Zealandia, via Auckland.) The following items are up to date, October 27 : - The protocol of the Treaty of Berlin has been accepted by Greece and Turkey, on the basis of negotiating the boundary of their respective States. Spain has negotiated a temporary loan in Pans for the purpose of freeing the Cuba customs from any liability for war charges, thereby enabling the administration of the Island to carry out reforms. One English railroad company has sold for American account, 30,000 tons of old iron rails at L 4 per ton, which was about the same price of new rails two months ago. In consequence of the outrages of roving bands of Ribbon men in Ireland, the Government have ordered two squadrons of cavalry and one company of infantry to be stationed at Ballinrobe and Castlebar. China,is preparing for war with Japan. The British Resident at Mandalay and his escort of Madras Guards walked unmolested to the steamer through the main streets'of the city on Oct. 8, and embarked. The Burmese officials sent all his luggage on board. Mr Mapleson is reported to have been engaged for a season of Italian opera in Australia. A portion of his company will leave at the close of the winter term. It is stated that 30,000 dollars has already been paid as the forfeit money in case of the non-fulfilment of the contract by the Australian managers. The Head Constable of Liverpool has issued a notice, warning all proselytes to Mormonism contemplating emigration to America, that they would subject themselves to fine and imprisonment through the practice of polygamy. Large numbers are leaving England for Salt Luke City. The Count de Paris writes to (he Count de Chambord that fie adheres to the statement that he recognises tiro latter as the head of. the House of Orleans.

Earthquakes have been of fr. quoin occurrence in Southern. Hungary and Austria. Russia demands immediate satisfaction for the insult to the Consul-General at S-ilpnica. Lord Salisbury, at Manchester, favored the appointment of a Minister of Commerce. lie thought the United States would yet adopt free trade as the policy of the country. < Ho . condemned the Canadian protective tariff. The Italian Government’s attention has been called to the fact.-that an association of foreigners is acquiring the control of Italian newspapers by purchase, and are seeking to obtain the control of the Telegraph Agency. The dan-crons monopoly thus evidently contemplated will probably be prevented. The Pope contributes 6000 francs to the Spanish Flood Relief Fund. : General Cialdini, the Italian Ambassador to France has resigned. The Prussian Minister erf Ecclesiastical Affairs lias been forced to resign, owing to an attempt to introduce religion into the schools. Tiie Russian journals have taken great umbrage at Lord Salisbury’s speed).; They fix the capture of Merv to take place in 1880. The Standard Insurance Company of New Zealand loses LIOOO on the missing ship Naturalist, from Calcutta for San Francisco. In order to retain only a small part of Kuldja, Russia has undertaken to protect the Chinese merchantmen against the, Japanese men-of-vvar in any war that may break o.U at any time between those two countries. Kossuth says that a Franco-Russian alliance is inevitable, Germany would then have her hands full on the Rhine, and the whole of Prussia left to bear the brunt of a Sclav onslaught. Some Nihilists were captured, after a sharp resistance, near Kief. During October, 500 tenants of the Marquis of Sligo and Earl Lugan, near Westport, County Mayo, solemnly pledged themselves not to pay rent until a reduction was made propor'ionate to the great fall io prices of agricultural produce. Notice has been posted at Warren Point, County Down, that any man coming to the couutrv and agreeing to pay more than a pound per acre for rent should bring his coffin with I dm. An expedition to explore the channel of the Oxus has been abandoned, owing to insurmountable natural difficulties. Mr Levi Lawson, editor of tie London Telegraph, thrashed Mr Labouchere, editor of the London Truth. The cause was an attack in Truth on the family of Mr Lawson. Subsequently Mr Lawson brought an action against Mr Labouchere for statements in the Truth growing out of the affair.: A party of armed masked men attacked two land agents named Smith, father and son, near Castlebar, Ireland, Several shots were fired, and young Smith shot dead one of the attacking party. The body was found in a bog hole, and was recognised as amulitia man. The Lords have given instructions to male a handsome piece of furniture, as a present for Mrs Grimmell, widow of Henry Grimmell, of Boston, from the timbers of the exploring ship Resolution. Grimmell fitted out two expeditions in search of Franklin. The cot lon operatives at Wigan have resumed work at 5 per cent reduction. A meeting of delegates of all the counties, and S'-veral boroughs in Ireland, was held at Dublin on Oct. 23, and organised an Irish Lind League, for the reduction of rack rents and to facilitate the transfer cf ownership. Mr Parnell was appointed President. The meeting repudiated the charge of terrorism, deploring the fact that threatening notices had been issued. The land leagues will defend tenants threatened with executions. Major o’<lot-man wrote to the effect that the Irish had more cause for violence than the French in 1789. Count Munster, the German ambassador at London, has had several interviews with the Marquis of Salisbury, explaining the political situation on the Continent. England is strongly favourable to an Austro-Germanic alliance. Prince Bismarck is anxious that England should join. The shipwrights at Grimsby, in England, have struck against a resolution of employ rs to extend the' working time from 54 t< 58£ hours weekly. Sir Francis Wyatt Truscott has been elected Lord Mayor of London. The time.system will be continued by the Oldham mill-owners for another month. A boiler explosion at Halifax, in England, killed three persons. Cyfortha iron works, the largest in Wales, are about to be re-opened. Seven persons were killed in the hoisting works of the Alexandra colliery, Lancashire. The Empress Eugenie intends sailing in February for Africa to pray on the spot where the Prince Imperial fell. Dion.Boucicault is ill with paralysis. The failures are reported, of James Barbour, Son and Co., bankers* and merchants, London, liabilities L 50,000.; Hall Company Polesworth Tomlinson, cotton brokers, Liverpool. General Roberts and his. staff visited the British Residency on rbaohing Cabuli The greater part was standing, though completely looted. Search was made for the bodies of Colonel Cavagnari and Dr Kelly,but they have not yet been found. Colonel Catagnari’s visiting diary was found at the Ameer’s palace. q The Governor-General of India has transmitted a plan for the future Government of Afghanistan to the Home Government, which has been considered in the Cabinet, and highly thought of. It contemplates placing the Ameer in a relation, to the Indim Government similar to the Nizam’s. The Queen’s army will be officered exclusively fay British and a large military force would also occupy the country. The Ameer will bo guided, entirely by the British Residents.) Count Schauvoloff proposed to the Marquis of Salisbury that Russia should have jurisdiction over western Afghanistan, while England should take possession of the eastern part as far as the Hindoo Koosh. Lord Salisbury declined in the most emphatic terms, saying that England would not allow Russia to meddle in any way whatever in the matter. He said that the future of Afghanistan has to be settled by England exclusively. Count Schouvaloff persisted advocating the plans suggested by bis Government, and seeing that Lord Salisbury was stubborn, he proposed various other plans of settling the Central Asiatic difficulty, bub Lord Salisbury refused to consider these propositions.