SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2005, 2 June 1885, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

(UNITED PRESS.ASSOOUTION.)

Auokund, this day, Small-pox prevails in Montreal.

The British Columbians, at amass meetingh held at Victoria on May 2nd, passed resolutions looking to extreme and extralegal means of getting rid of the Chinese as a public nuisance, and that the Government and judges of tho Supremo Court should, and must, be held responsible for the consequences that unfortunately might attend a general uprising of white citizens against their common onemies.

The Chinese box given to President MonroebytheMikadoof Japan in 1823, and which has laid in an out-of-the-way nook in the Treasury vaults at Washington ever since, was opened on May sth, and found to contain a bottle of diamonds, a bottle of pearls, a bottle of attar of roses, and a lump of gold. A murderous maniac named Martin Neilson ran a-muck at Santa Fe, New Mexico, on May 6th. and killed eight people before he himself was shot. Peter Duryea, of New York, offers a purse of 6000 dollars, open to all, for a rowing race of five miles over the Lactone course, provided Beach, Hanlan, and Wallace Ross enter. Tho Russian man-of-war Strolok is cruising on the Atlantic seaboard, and followed from port to port by H.M.S, frigate Garnet.