ARRIVAL OF THE CITY of NEW YORK WITH THE EUROPEAN & AMERICAN MAILS

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2951, 31 July 1878, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE CITY of NEW YORK WITH THE EUROPEAN & AMERICAN MAILS

VIA SAN FRANCaSCO.

(Peb Peess Agency.)

Auckland, This day 2.40. p m. Arrived: E.M.S. City of New Tork. Cabin passengers to Auckland: Messrs McKellar, Boole and wife, Mrs Darrock, Mr Bell, wife and child, Messrs Bramwell, Gardiner, Watchhous^, nephew and niece, Messrs Lewis, Percival, Dasson. For Wellington: Mr McDowell. For Lyttelton: Mr Boulker.

The ship Alexander McJeill and barque William Madgett have been, chartered at New York for IVew Zealand. An American crew were successful ft the Henley international regatta. " Tramps hare tdken possession of railway trains in lowa, and are becoming danjy-rous in town, disposing of all property. A return to specie payments will shortly be resumed by the United States Government.

Deaths from runsroke are frequent in New York.

Trouble is anticipated from the Monti. Bal Orange ren on 12! h JuW. Mrs Elizabeth Tiiion, of £eecher fame, has been expelled from Plymouth Church. 'lbe Indian hostilities are extending into Utah and JVevada. Eastern Oregon. The Socialists of New York, at a mass meetidg, repudiated the assassination policy. ! Ohio farmers are threatened with death by laboring men if they use labor-saying machinery.

JL famine prevails in Brazil. ▲ Russian, priest was found murdered in-the streets of San Francisco, The Great South Tunnel, four miles in length, has reached the workings of the Comstock mines. A resolution to restrict Chinese immigration has passed Congress.^ Vera Sassulitch escaped from St. Petersburg to Geneva. She received an ovation tnere. Wi 7so':, Middle Borough, and Eob9rts, Flint Borough, both Liberals, have been returned to 2?n "liament.

It is rumored thai; Princess Thyra of Denmark will marry the Prince Imperial, ard Princess Beatrice the new Duke of Cumberland. He vy failures in the South Staffordshire Iron Districts. Greece is massing large forces on her frontier for protection from Brigandage. Pope Leo and the German government cannot come to terms. The Crown Prince says the terms are inadmissible. The Duke of Cumberland insists on his right to the throne of Hanover. ' The Spanish government have borrowed twenty million francs in Paris. American steamers are arriving at Cronstadt with am s and ammunition for Russia. The Emperor of Germany, has fully recovered. The Liberals triumphed in Belgium. The Pope has recalled b> JSuncio. The Khedive of Egypt recently proposed to abdicate in favor of England. The offer was declined. Mr McGahan, special correspondent of the London Daily jSTe»TS, died at Constantinople of spotted typaus fever.

Mair and Sons, &raiu merchants of Glasgow, hare failed. i. heavy fall of snow in .Perthshire on : June 11. . The forced expenditure in Portsmouth .navy yard has been reduced.* Marshal McMahon has pardoned 800 communists in honor of the Exposition. Queen Mercedes of Spain is dead. The Eussians threatened to tear down the British flag over the Consulate at Dour gas. The work of the: peace congress is nearly completed.

The Dardanelles will remain closed to ships of wf.r. Batoum is ceded to Russia as a free port. Ilussia also gets returned that portion of .Bessarabia which was lost in in 'fifty-sis. The independence of Roumania and Monieaegro is recognised. Antivari is declared a neutral port, but open to AusL'ian men of war. Austria will occupy Turkish provinces.

The relations of Plenipotentiaries are excellent, and prospects of a happy termination of the congress hopeful.