American.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4635, 12 November 1883, Page 2

American.

San FbAncisco, October 20.

The steamship Zealandia, before learing for Sydney, was completely overhauled, re-sparred, and re-fitted. A Melbourne merchant, named Foye, doing business in Flinders Lane, is at present lying hopelessly ill at the Palace Hotel, 'Frisco.

Weston, an American pedestrian, par* poses to tramp orer the highways of England and Wales, 50 miles every 12 hours, for a hundred consecutive days^ Ambrose Choquette, treasurer and con* fidential clerk of Father Faboiqui's Church, Notre Dame, Montreal, decamped, on the sfch October, with. 10,000 dollars of church money. He had been dealing in stocks. Choquette was overhauled at Worcester, Mass.

The Canadian sugar refiners are urging Government to grant them a bounty on all refined sugar exported for Canada.

Chinese are being smuggled; into the Pacific States and Territories in such large numbers from Victoria, 8.C., that the restriction law has become virtually a dead letter. The Chinese themselves look upon Victoria merely as an open gateway to the United States. . •■ :■

| JChicago sent the Parnell Committee dm the 4th October £1629. It is expected that it will realise a total of £4>O,CZO.

Pere Hyacinthe arrived at New York on October 7th.