The Californian Mail.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1836, 20 November 1874, Page 2

The Californian Mail.

American, Hokitika, Thursday. The Californian news from America is to the 12th ultimo.

The American Government paid the British officials the full amount of the indemnity awarded by the mixed commission.

Brigliam Young is dangerously ill. Surdham and Co., extensive-i-suga^ merchants in New York, have failed.

A terrible riot occurred between the North and South of Ireland laborers, on the Delaware railway. Many were injured. ■■■'.. Government have arranged for a, trimonthly mail between California and China. ' . . •

William Mewarts is spoken of-as the most likely candidate for the Presidency. The American riflemen beat Rigby's Irish team.

Masked burglars robbed the Pensylvanian Bank of Philadelphia, and gagged the president and cashier. The Custcm-liouse and eight dwellings at Brazils were swept away by a tornado. The grand trunk railway of Canada has altered its guage from broad "to narrow.

Townshend and C 0.,, bankers, New. Haven, have failed for nearly three million dollars.

A second match, to decide the superiority for long distance breach and muzzle loaders, resulted in favor of the latter.

Both Til ton and Moulton have been indicted for- malicious libel on the Rev. Ward Beecher. ,

Mr Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald, offers to pay one-fourth of the entire cost of a new Arctic expedition.

39 medical students were arrested at Buffalo as resurrectionists.

Commercial credit at' New York is disturbed by the recent failures.