AMERICA.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 189, 21 September 1871, Page 4

AMERICA.

San Francisco, August 16th.

The Industrial Exhibition was opened on the Btli. The specimen plants sent by Colonel ITaultain were favourably commented on. Eope and specimens of flax, oats, gum, find a pyramid representing the amount • of gold obtained from the Thames, were the only Ne- Zealand exhibits.-

Intelligence from Para, Brazil, states that cholera in a malignant form is raging ther_\ The British Consul and nearly every stranger died. Eiots have taken place in the Amader mines, California. The secretary was brutally .murdered, Order is restored.

A great storm has taken place on the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. It destroyed 325 fishing smacks, 23 dwellings, 40 stores, in all 300,000d015. worth of property.

The Sfaten Island ferry boat was crowded with passengers when the boiler exploded. The concussion was terrific, shattering the fore part of the boat,

and scalding over a 100 people. The cries of the poor half-boiled victims wore heartrendering. Some of them were deilrious from pain. There were many children on board, some of whose little legs had the cooked muscles laid bare, and their bodies scalded, some beyond recognition. Intelligence has been received of the destruction of the city of Pont a Paetre, on the Island of Guadaloupe, in the "West Indies. 30,000 people have been rendered homeless.