SAN FRANCISCO MAIL ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 227, 1 August 1879, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL ITEMS.

ITALY. The waters of the Adda and the Po are still rising. Vesuvius is in in eruption, but Mount Etna is entirely quiet. In the district of Cavania rioters are resisting the collection of taxes. ! Continued shocks of earthquake had caused much damage. i..|

In the neighborhood of Messina eigb teen persons were killed in a recent riot.

The reason why Garibaldi sought to annul the marrirge with Madame Rannodi is that the pension of 50,000 francs annually, which lias been granted to his heirs, would otherwise go t r .'iie\hildr«n though ho is not their father, i«fc his own children would be all illegitimate, and would get nothing.

The wheat crop in the-north is reported to be in a deplorable state, but in Central Italy it promised better. In the South west and Cicily it is expected to bs better, and in the South-east and Sardinia the yield is anticipated excellent. GERMANY. The steam3rOrpheus'bound|co Koenings burgh, lying in the harbor of StellingA burst her boilers, killing and wounding | many persons. The bodies have been re-' covered. BELGIUM. Placards have been posted in Brussels threatening the King with death if ho ratifies the Bill passsd by the Belgian Parliament for depriving the clergy of the elementary education. SPAIN. The Insurgent-General Oontreves has been pardoned. Zorilla refuses a pardon and continues to conspired against the Kingdom. The inferior state of the wheat crop led the Government to make a reduction in the transportation rates on grain. Havana letters say that the Cuban Government proposes asking the Madris Government to distribute about 40,000 troops on the island as field hands among the sugar plantations, wages to be paid by the planters, under the supervision of their officers. This measure is expected to secure tranquility, and protect the estate during the period of gradual emancipation of the slaves. The soldiery will thus get accustomed to field work, and form a nucleus for free slavery on the day that slavery ceases. PORTUGAL. The Cortes has ratified the treaty with Great Britain, establishing Customs union between British and Portuguese Ea«£ Indies, and Custom houses between the two will be abolished. The Portuguese will adopt the British Indies tart if, excise, money, weights, and measusss, and extradition regulations. The British salt monoply will be extended to Portuguese territory in consideration of the ldemnity to the lattor of four lacs of rupees.

TURKEY. The Russisn commander of Eastern Roumelia \ra ordered to delay the completion of the evacuation till the end of July. Russia has presented Bulgaria with a portion of her flotilla on the Dannbt.

Servia has coded the disbuted frontier districts to Bulgaria, and Russian troops have assisted the Bulgarian authorities to take possession. The inhabitants are angry and dissatisfied. EGYPT. Tho Sultan has signed a firman, dsposing the Khedive, in favor of his son, Prince Mohimed Tewfik, Tewfik was proclaimed . Viceroy on the 2Gth ult. The ex-Khodivoji has left for Naples, where he will rcceirttH a pension of £500,000 per annum, i jHg| A Cairo correspondent learns ciid sources that the expenditure of the country had been reduced £2,000,000 since the departure of the Khodive. The European Ministers that the neir Khedive is appointing are excellent advisers. Ho has relinuiqshed half his civil i lists.