THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 343, 18 December 1879, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF SYDNEY

AT AUCKLAND,

(rat rituss agency.) AUCKLAND.

Tuesday, The City of Sydney left Sail Francisco on November 24th, and Honolulu on December 2nd. Variable winds were experienced till the 11th, Whon off Tonga a heavy gale sprang up from N.N.E., and S.K, with a high sea, which lasted thirty' hours. Passengers for New Zealand Mrs W. J. Collins, Miss E. Morton, Rer J. Coffey, Mr and Mrs Dunn, Mr and Mrs Gear, Mr and Mrs T. Haslara and child, Messrs G. Wilson, J. P, Soienson, N. S Smith, -T. E. Barstow, H. B. Morton, W. J. Gammon, J. G. ."Ramsey, T. A, Belfield, and D. McLennan.

ENGLISH SUMMARY. London, November 22. An Irish National Land League has been formed, witli a central committee in London.

Sir Michael Hicks Beach pronounces the agitation in Ireland as a most dangerous one, which assumes an agrarian character of the worst type, Cardinal Manning has gone to Rome to endeavour to win the assent of the Vatican to his long-cherished scheme, which,

by admitting certain changes in the external organization of the Catholic Church in England, will facilitate the return to Catholicism of an important group of English Protestants, The' crew of tho British ship Oorringa were arrostod at Antwerp for mutiny. One man was killed in ondeavoring to restore subordination. The Sheffield iron trade continues to improve. By the fall of a gallery in Dewabury, in Yorkshire, two persons were killed, and upwards of twenty seriously injured, on the occasion of a Liberal political meet-