ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL

Waipawa Mail, Volume I, Issue 4, 25 September 1878, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL

AT AUCKLAND. (By Electric Telegraph.) Auckland, September 24. The City of Sydney arrived at Auckland this morning. The Hawea leaves with the Gisborne and Napier mails at 4 p.m. to-morrow. General Todleben has refused to embark more troops, the British fleet not having withdrawn from the island of Principois. Itally has promised Greece assistance at the present juncture. At the International Monetary Conference Mr Goschen, the English representative, said that England reserved her right to maintain a gold standard. A Russian army of 80,000 is stationed in Bessarabia. A thousand delegates of Christian Associations are holding a World’s Convention at Geneva. Cottam and Merton, West Indian merchants, have failed for £300,000. Judge Keogh, at Dublin, in a lit of temporary insanity, attacked his valet with a razor, and cut him severely. 500 Roman Catholic journalists participated in the Press Pilgimage on the anniversary of the Papal exhaltation. Mr La yard is pressing Asiatie reform on the Porte. Spain is issuing a live million colonial loan. The Fenian prisoners have heen liberated at the request of the United States Minister, but must remain outside Fnorbind durin*r sentence. typhoid fever is raging in Bristol. It is attributed to infected milk. In West Scotland the ironmasters have reduced wages ten per cent. The Times say England will never again guarantee a Turkish loan or help to raise Two-thirds of doctors at Cyprus have been stricken with fever. Sir Garnet Wolseley and staff have been compelled to live under canvas. Two thousand cotton operatives in Bristol have struck. A fanatic, who claimed to be Christ, was shot by the police at the head of a numerous following in Italy. He was only wounded. His adherents claim that his life was saved hy a miracle. Nobling, before death, appeared to be insane. He was watched by experts. It is believed that Cardinal Franehi was poisoned. Sir Colin Campbell, Liberal, has been elected for Argyleshire in the place of the Marquis of Lome. America. September 2. Troops were called out at Montreal to aid the civil power to take possession of the Montreal, Ottawa, and Occidental railroad. Times dull, Savings Banks being closed by Bank Commission. Twelve persons were killed and twenty wounded by a collision on Cincinnati railroad. There has been a general strike of shoemakers in Chicago. The masters talk of introducing Chinamen. Angell, secretary to the Pullman Palace Car Company has absconded with 120,000 dollars. O’Leary finished his walk of 400 miles in 120 1 lours. Gold has been discovered in the snow ranges of the Shashone Mountains. In four months one man realised three hundred pounds of gold. The Jesuits have been expelled from Eucador. In a fresh outbreak at Aeheen, great loss has been inflicted on the Dutch. Another revolution has taken place at San Domingo. Misery and anarchy prevail.