Mail News.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 949, 14 December 1881, Page 2

Mail News.

ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL ■AT AUCKLAND,.

(UNITED FItSBS ASSOCIATION,) ' .

THE JEWS TAKING REFUGE IN AMERICA.

THE IRISH QUESTION.

BILLIARD TOURNAMENT.

ANNIHILATION OF A VILLAGE IMMINENT,

5000 DYING DAILY FROM CHOLERA.

COST OF TUNISIAN 1 EXPEDITION

TO FRANCE.

BERLIN PRESS RIDICULES GAMBETTA.

EXPLOSION ON BOARD STEAMER.

SIX PERSONS BURNED TO ASHES.

SHPI BURNT AT SEA,

GREAT STORMS.

BIG TURF WINNINGS.

EDITOR MURDERED.

THE GERMAN EMPEROR'S SPEECH

Auckland, December 14.

The City of New York arrived at 0 this morning with the San Francisco mail, Her departure/from 'Frisco was delayed on aocountof snoty-bound trains, The Jews are fleeing from Russian and German persecution to America,

The Pope and Cardinals have had the Irish question under consideration, Morris defeated Hosier by 200. to 182 in the Cushion Cannon Billiard Championship tournament, held at New York.. The complete annihilation of the village of Elm, Canton Glaros, appears to be only a question of time and bad weather. The summit of the peak nearest the village is now moving. A despatch from Constantinople, dated Nov. 16, says:—s,ooo people dying daily in Mecca from cholera. Steamers at D'Giddoh refuse to embark pilgrims. The cost of the Tunisian expedition, so far, to Prance is 6,600,000 francs, Berlin Press covers Gambetta's new Ministry with ridicule and scorn, A barrel of Naptlia oil burst on board the steamer Severn, in Kingston harbor, and caught fire at a stove in the steerage. The result was five sailors and one passenger were burned to ashes, and the steamer was nearly destroyed before the flames were quenched. The ship ICilmarder, coal laden, from Glasgow to 'Frisco, was burnt at sea off the coast of Chili. ' Violent Btgrms have occurred at Man. zanillo, which destroyed the town and several vessels which were in port.