THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 109, 15 March 1879, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

; (Pbr City of New York.) . _ Auckland, Friday. I The City of New lias arrived with the | San Francisco mails;' Passengers for ': Auckland—Cabin: Messrs Wood, Doug- < las, Rammage and wife, .A. Everett, ; Jessath, Yates and wife ai)d child, Nans- ; bury and Ellis, Captain Andrews (mail ; agent), and Mr Morton (assistant mail ! agent). For Port Chalmers; Messrs ) Sheath and Clay. The Liverpool strike, at one time numbering 60,000 laborers, seamen, and firemen, has practically collapsed. The sailors continued to" hold out, but ablebodied men from workhouses were freely employed. Lord Bcaconsfield is confined to his bed ; with influenza, i Six thousand weavers are out of employment at Macclesfield, j Dr Newman lias, declined tho Cardinal's iliat offered him. j In the House of Commons on the 17th 'Sir Stafford Northcote. ; declaved that he ;Was not a\varo of any intention to establish A )*oyal residence in Ireland,, or. to appoitiipe Duke of Connaught.Viceroy there, j A boat race for £IOO and the champion•®l hntl Elliott, on the Tyne, was won by ■ Elliott, who beat Higgins by three lengths, i ■f]. el ] r °-pueumoniai is .spreading amor)*' iattle nv the nffrtkeapt' of; Yorkslittoi 1 9 - • j Another famine is feared in India.' The :; plague kspeadinf rapidly: 1 Russia and . tliej neighboring a.re,..' i mking the strictest measures' against iti"' -rho infected districts oh the Yolga are in A horrible condition.-''Russia has asked Jfngland.andFrance to teilifihyslb'laiiS'td rpport on -the 'epidemiip l '*' s Six hundred agricultural laborers, left Plymouth for New Zealand, and'Mo fc'clL Mia on'the29th.'til&. " v ' V: i j P«el; a, iamovia turfra fowl! .'

The Theatre Royal (jwhich one) London, has been destroyed by fire, .h v-nrt .-.i .i'."L9noox; Ffibvviavy"2 : '• ' vy+iio Ministerial }ottMl3%tifaftte-%t the Government will not attempt ;to" pus's tho Irish Univemty "Bill. Tlieiv programme will bo confined to matters of lntemal-i.iiiiomt;' the principal points being the reftfvtu.'.6f lbcalgbvernment and or tho criminal . ® IC Privy Coui'icil has prohibited" tl)e lmportatioii of Anipriaj) cattle, on acdout °4 disease. ...Canada is excepted froin this prohibition ,• ■ ■ . . Eovrioll, the Cambridgo athlete, lis left for New York, for the purpose of conO'Lewy l '' an c ' iam P' ons hil| with i A motionin favor of the assimilation of Bdr6«|i franchises with Itlmse WScptlnn.a was. introduced by Mr. Meldoij ,m the House of Commons 1iy.250 ttf-187. ' ) , ■ 0 announces that the Go--1 •fn'mentw.hntrddnee-aCopyriglit'liill PMMooU dition of quitting the country, i .ftS? v^rou Albert Gran " for The- light sentence"on. "the Citv nf Biirpuse, but Mr Justice Moncrieff; in ■pMrag sentence, said he had considered . not falsified the accounts for their own ■; .personal benefit but in the mistaken idea . Jlwt rtwas for .the public good. , ' , ' V'V aa . Su ,?"ing-Hio/Government Yakoob •" 5 d MvWm det T ninutin § to ' Ilol(1 VVI ri 'Mulmmed has' arrived at ollalabacl, seeking British 'suppoi-t : for his claim to .the throne. - ; Harvest prospects in India-are glooiiiv. h anley again explores-Africa, ilio Home News says Vogol has 'arranged to send thveo thousand hop pichers to the colony from Kent, witl: SGods'Aud cuttings. A lire, devastated the favorite tourisi mort Zeynngcn Geneva. It destroyer the hamlets of Hansons tein and Eisen ' hm&J*- 10 " Sand POt - 9 - 3 m rendol^ '■ • nfJiL ■ °- Z!ur( \'< W IwliM Louise, ihe wete saved, ■ ■ „ is reporteel that tic black plague has made its appearance m tho province of i' b-ii ? lvo , ( ' octoi,s ™e sent .there, n4s' Je «' s ' ms , passo j It must, .Mill para the Great Skuptschina, ; ' , n A S" t ,? ( Pk»P in Russia are of tag.factor. Of 2000 persons stacked ni.&hero ICjQQ perished. ' .