SAN FRANCISCO MAIL ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 669, 17 January 1881, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL ITEMS.

, '.f .;, ... g , It is.rqmored that Earl Dufferin till be ft transferred to, Constantinople, , ,f e , m P] ft y. f af'm agents, Manchester have e? failed. Odldwell, railway wntaotor-Lon.- hi don has also suspended payment., d( :, A number.of Irish refugees are flooking h< to London, many of them being destitute Yi The; League" Courts are shutting out fo

appeals to the ordinory tribunals. Business inen fear to serve on juries, .and lawyers to act against' the, Leagueis for fear of assassination. Parnell e lares the Government are too weak to crush/the League, r ; ;.■,■■•' ■ Orange Grand Lodge hap arranged a code of signals for the men to assemble at any time of night..' An explosion at I'llw-y-Qraig colliery, Rhojidda, Valley, killed nearly a hundred miners. "■ •' • •. Two hundred and fifty persons lost thei*lives by the sinking of a : French steamer near Speggia,,. ."■".: j ' A Nihilist re-action has set in St. Peter?! burg. A stronger revolutionary movement is'threatened. ■•;" The admission of-French ■monks into Spain has.been restricted. The anti-Jewise crusade in Germany is increasing. Many Socialists have been arreasted on charges of high treason, The Czar refuses to.iallow foreign intervention ill regard to China. China offers •to' refer the questions at issue to; arbitration. :...;">. - : :- : ■■ ';;'. . Sir!Alexander : oookbuni, Chief Justice of the-Queeh's BenohV'died suddenly on .NpvembefjSOth."; the' Royal Family at-" te'nded.hivf uneral: ,Lord Coleridge* Chief Justice of G6jhmbn : .Pk»s, . ; sijLbesn appointed to fillthe.The Times discussing the high price of consols, says the possibility, of the compulsory conversion/of three per cents, to two anda half per cents.; is fairly in view during the next few years, r ' The Meat bhips find..difficulty In obtaining'crpwsj .' MesßrsSank'ey.and Moody's success in 'Frisco, is not grest. . .. ' v Tjiirty people have been burnt to death in'a factory at Buffalo.. '. General; Grant favors the Nicaragua Canal in opposition to Lesseps' scheme, and if a company be formed he will be tto president. ' . Father Gavvage is soliciting aid in New York for the Free Church,.'., PresidentHayeS; is admitting Chinese vesselU into United States' porta on the same footing as those of other nations, Sir John McDonald's project to complete the Pacifio Railway,with a foreign, syndicate : excites opposition in Canada, The Bill surrenders the part already con T struoted with a subsidy of 25,000,000 dollars (upwards of £6,000,000) and twenty-eight million acres' of land to the syndicate. It is believed the Bill willlje oirried. : An earthquake.in British Columbia split glaciers, filled creeks and rivers, changing their courses. • The crew of,the ship Cashmere, from Melbourne,"mutiiieered in Victoria Harbor, The ringleaders, are now awaiting trial, '■..•■;■•. President Diaz has been inaugurated without a revolution,.' ■' '< A Bill haspaßsed the Brazil Senate, admitting .Protestants to the same rights as Catholics, The Chilians have established 7 themselves at Pje«coj' - afte'r' a desperate resistance, the Peruvians massing in line to. "Lima. TheChiliaij'ATmynumbers26ooo with guns. , .The Princess of Wales had a narrow escape from a severe injury, if'not death, on December 14th. ■ While following the hounds at Norfolk, Ker' horse shied, and almost threw her,' but.Sir Dighton Proby fortunately "oaught Her, Royal Highness before Bhe could fall, :.'; The Revs. Dale and'Enraight, Ritualists have been released .from gaol on the ■ understanding that they will not do anything contrary to LordPenzances's moni- ' tion. . The situation in Ireland ja causing much anxiety; aiid it is feared that a bloody collision between' the Leaguers and the Government forces may <ensue at any moment. The Government are largely •reinforcing the troops in Ireland, and the number !b now est"fmat'ed at 30,000. Many Irish families, well off a few months ago, are now in actual poverty, and the situation is rapidly nearing the point where something will have to be done by the Goverament, or the Land Leaguers, Fenians, and Home Rulers will have arrayed against the Administration the population of nearly the entire island. An immense anti-league. meeting was held at Monaghan on December 16, Lord Roßwore presiding. Resolutions were passed declaring that an equitable settlement of the land question was absolutely ' necessary,.suoh'settlement giving the landlords fair. rent,.and the tenants protection from rock- rents and capricious evictions, ' " - ■ "Boycotting," inflexibly imposed in-'q disafleoted districts, is driving even wellmeaning people', andmany Protestants, into open affiliation with the Leaguers. Numerous instances' are given where, even with police protection, proscribed individuals could obtain' nothing in the v?ay.oHabor r food, or-lodging fron the inhabitants. ■ In Dublin, the. merohants and other citizons declare.they;will not serve on juries in the State trials, for fear of injury to their business or murder. Local attorneys refuse'{observe eviction papers, and in one instance, where one diSt serve such papers, heinarrowly escaped with his life, although he apologised and promised not to repeat the aotibn/_ . Sir Theodore Martin , r the bioerapher of Prince Albert,' Has-been elected Lord Rector of St Andrews. .University. The new Antarctic exploring expedition to be undertaken under the command of Dr Allen Young/leaves for Capetown (1) this winter, where.he will make his preparations. - . . Rumors are current, touching changes in-the diplomatic service; 'lt ia said Sir Edward-Thornton is tobe raised to the rank-of Ambassador,.and sent to succeed Earl Dufferin at St;' Petersburg, and the Hon. Francis Clare .to Be promoted and lentto Washington toH'uccefid Sir Edward. rhor'riton. Winter has set in., with severity, and nuch suffering exists among laborers on iccount of the scarcity of work, the Lea;ue taking- -cawrof only those who are irdered to quit employment, and are narked .meh. In' some cases the League ms ordered large-landholders to put on nen to improve their, property, which in o'me. caseß has been done, the Earl of iligo being one of those who obeyed the uandate.of theleajue. Small pox still continues in San FranIsco, though, the number of cases is defeasing. It is fortunately of mild shape, he jieaths.not exceeding 8 per cent of the lases.... The Southßrn-Pacifipvßailroad has now eached withinfprty;miles of the junction /ith Atchisoii-road at El : Arainitorli-set Tin December 15, nd has cpntjn.ued with slight intervals iiicej and extended all through Califoria.; It is of tbe"utmdst benefit to the irme'rs. A larger area, of .land will be sown with 'heat this season than ever before in the tate, and the present prospects are exsilent for a good crop.. An'.Englishman,'' styling himself Lord 'ourtney,"and asserting that he is a ephew of Lord Durham, has been roamig through the country for two years, - ving off the fat of the land, being enterlined by the beat society wherever he ent, and victimising people everywhere. [e came to grief jn New York city, and is pw in gaol. /., .". Business depression now exists in forgoistern cities, several heavy failure* iving ocourred iaNew York Bnd Phila. )lphia.latelyr Two of.the largest coffoe )uses in the country have failed in New ork city, one for a million and the otbe r a million and a half dollars,

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