NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 294, 23 September 1880, Page 2

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

[Per s.«. City of New York at Auckland]

Dr Tanner, tha 40 days' faster seems so far none the worse for his experiment and is rapidly gaining flesh. His divorced wife, now in Paris, states that Tanner is a fraud, and takes nourishment in ••• liquid form. French papers laugh at the Americans for their credulity. The Italian Ambassadors at London and St. Petersburg: have been summoned to Rome.

A Spanish Royal Decree intimates if a son be born to the Queen, he will tak • the tit e of" Prince of the Asturias" ; f a daughter, the "Infant of Spain." Th ■ Opposition Press comment on this as a severe slight ou Qeen Christina.

The Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria and Emperor William m t at Ischel with great effusiveness. The German Emperor wore the' Austrian uniform, and the Austrian the German. Vienna papers interpret the meeting of the Emperors as an evidenc ■ of the consolida tion of the Austro-German alliance, and a bign of the maintenance of pence. The cattle plague appeared on the 15th cf August on the farms in Lancashire. Elliot offers to row either Gea. Homer (American), Blackmore, Boyd, or Laycock, over the Tyne course, for from LlootoL2oo aside. The Cnilians appear more determined than evn to capture Lim.i, arid have gathered » force of 30,0<r{Kmen about the city, which they propose to 45,000. The garrison - consists of >• 10.000 men. The Chilians, it is reported have 16.000 men in the northern department of leru destroying plantations, and sacking d fenceless towns. Five hnndr-d officers and men of the Royil Marines have been ordered to Ireland.

The New York Tribune's correspondent says that when T ord Lytteltoi* landed fr m India the Queen summoned him to Osborne, where he had a "bad quarter of an hour." It is now known he advised the declaration of war with Russia when Saljekoff went to Cabal. Boyd has accepted Eliott's challenge to rr,w over the Tyne course next February for Lloo, or L2oo a side. Lsoo is in hand in London to back

Trielcett in the match Against Hanlon. Messrs M. and V". Collinson, of London, offer to stake Lloo against a similar sum that Dr Tanner will not fast 4o days and 4o nights, the brothers colu'nson to watch bin.

Messrs Jones, Reid, and Co., of Liverpool, have suspended payment.

In the debate on the Irish Constabulary on Any ust 26, Mr R'chard U'Shannessey or Limerick, protested against the" us& of hul ets or buckshot, and urged thji use of small shot in firing on a mo™ The Secretary for Ireland si.il small shot was useless and only irritated. The French'Jesuits have m-de two M'ttlernents in Wales.

Harvesting is proceeding" rapidly in Ireland. Nearly one half of the land is cleared.