THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 377, 29 July 1874, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Auckland, July 22. The Cynhrenes has arrived with the San Francisco mail. She left San Francisco on the 21st Juue. Passengers : Rev. Mr Hussard, Messrs Hawkins, Frengrore, and Goodman. Cargo : 3,347 sacks barley, 6,380 de oats. The steamer Prince Alfred has been totally wrecked. A duel between two editor* took plaoe in an open street in Sail Francisco, and one of them was shot. Small-pox is causing great distress in Canada. * The steamer Tartar grounded on Caldron Reef, but was lightered and got off without injury. Leaving Honolulu on the 22nd J»ne, •he had been set forty mil? a to the eastward by the current.

Loxdojh, June 20. Mr Disraeli has announced, in the House of Commons, seventeen domestic Bills, and urges diligence, t© avert a protraoted session. The Earl of Yarboreugh, who had been missing, was discovered on Jersey Island. Ho has left for London, in charge of his friends and a policeman. Mr Gladstone hai presented a petition, signed by 8,602 laborer*, asking for assimilation of «h« county *nd borough fr&notis».

Forty deaths from cholera are reported from India. Mr Mosloy a cotton mills, near Manchester, have been burnt— loss, L 50.000. It is stated that a slave ship, with 275 negroes from Mozambique, bound for Aladagasear, was captured by the English man-of-war Daphne, in March. Fourteen slaves were put on board with only two days' provisions, and the voyage was prolonged to eight. Their sufferings are alleged to have been indescribable, and many died in great agony. Indian telegraphic reports relativo to growing crops are favorable. A "special" to tbe ' Times ' says tho Government continue to. furnish assistance to 500,000 natives. There can be no crop in Testool until December, and the Government admits that some people may die before assistance reaches them. The prospect of a settlement of the lock-out in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire seems very distant. The Norfolk Farmers' Laber Defence Association contemplate an alteration in their rules. A general meeting of Ministers has been called to consider the course to bo taken. The • Post ' says : " The Public Worship Regulation Bill, now before Parliament, which is intended to restrain ritualist*, threatens to lead it a coalition of the High Church Clergy and the 1 Liberate, which may result in an attempt to replace the present members for Oxford University with Gladstone and Montagu Bernard. Gladstone hoads the opposition to the Biil."