ARRIVAL OF SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1086, 30 May 1882, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

San Francisco, May 8. President Arthur signed the amended Anti-Immigration Bill to-day. I ho time is limited to twelve years. iiib town of Uridine, in Wisconsin, was initially destroyed by Are on May stli. ■flie lo!,s reached 350,000 dollars, borne eighty editors from Texas aro on - visit in San Francisco, Tliey are perScully investigating the Gliineoe question 'iiiil the eflect of coolio immigration on th;i Pacific Coast.' Mios Eiiiile Melville, the prima Donna, ■ : a passenger for ihe colonies by the i •ainei'. At date the ludy lias just filled • .i goetl engagement in the Eastern States, and has tempting offers for Londou, but •■:ie prefers Jo gratify a long-cherished ite.-.iro to re-visit Australia, whero she was ■ " well received and kindly treated >forc.

The Marquis of Lome and the Princess L'ltiis prosposo a vitit to Pacific-Canadian i':oi!iicos in September next, providing l hi) Civil Service Bill now pending before thifXuw Dominion Parliament is passed. A 1 filty-five year-old Bible has beoti s'i'lim from the United States Senate i liambei'-oy .relic hunters, but was afterwards returned. i lie United' States exploring ship ledgers has been*burned, and sunk near Cuijo iServize, in tho Arctic. Tho steamer Aregtiois, now at Mare Island, will be despatched for the relief of the officers and men

-i arrihle cyclone occurred in Alabama on the !Mth April. Everything in its conr.se was literally blown to pieces The width of it course was about twelre miles. , ihe Electric Light Company, of Massachusetts (Colonel Fred. Grant, President) !w collapsed, owing 150,000 dollars, with no assets. There are charges of fraud in the management, and the matter will be brought before the Courts.

Iho question of the Canadian independence was debated in the New Dominiou Parliament oil the 21st ultimo. Sir John .McDonald, the|Premier, contended for the present system of Government, because if "we made .treaties we would not have power to enforce them, Whereas the i-iiities we are interested in are enforced l>v ihe power of England." He believed the resolutions pending were bad, and really meant independence of and separation from the Mother Country. The most serious outbreak ever known in Arizona has taken place amon" the Apache Indian?. They are robbing and ■ murdering in all directions. Over 50 whito persons had been butchered in ft i'.'iv days, and the United States troops tire so few as to be powerless against the 'sivages, •

_ The Mayor of Long Island City, New ) "i k has been arrested for the roboing of 11 1,009 dols of the municipal funds. Charles Lind, School Treasurer of iMleville, Illinois, has disappeared with 12,000d015.

has withdrawn from tho Guite nt case, _ because his client, in his "pinion, did not receive fair judicial iiv:itiiioiit.

A horrilile.cise of trichinosis lias no.t i.rjil at Clyde, Kansas, where a whole . hiii.i.lv lias died from eatin* the flesh of a hit-' killed a short time before. Tho i!iovement3 of trichina in the raw pork C'HiM be observed with the naked eye. -'.'i nt'einpt has been made on the lives <>: William H. Vauderbilt and Cyrus W. I't'lil, by sending an explosive parcel to ,!u 's addresses, through tho li' tyi,..- Fortunately, the one addressed to iin.lerbilt w;is exploded by a jolt of the null cart, and when the half-burnt mail ™ examined, the Field package was cM' jverod intact and plunged into water I" ,;'|uril against consequences. The ex-!."-.k>ll- >toolc place at the corner of the K '.any.and Third Avenue, New York. ■ ioniser Melville, of the Jeannette, i ' ;r!s to the American Government I ho was the discoveror of De Long : J-iih boat's crew, starved lo death and 1. zerK Ho found the papers and books. Cijiops boiit patty is also believed to have T •• A aon« tho dead was Jerome • ''i o New York Herald's corres-