San Francisco Mail News.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2262, 5 April 1886, Page 2

San Francisco Mail News.

London, March 14. It i 3 officially announced that Sir Charles Warren will be appointed Com- ' mießioner of Police. The steamer Missouri, which went ashore at Holyhead during the recent gales, was lifted from her position and then plumped against the rocks. It is believed she will bo a total wreck,/ The Conservatives of Birmingham havo decided to contesb at the next election all the seven districts of the city, every ono of which are now represented by Liberals. In Bradford 20 persons have been bitten by a mad doe. It is feared they may bo attacked by hydrophobia. It is probable that two patients will proceed to Paris to receivo treatment from Dr Pasterio, The boy's orphanage at Boerda, in the province of Amieberg, has boon destroyed by fire, Five perished and thirty were injured. The station master, whose neglect caused the Monte Carlo Railway accident, committed suicide, It is expected the Powers will withdraw theit Representatives from Athens unless Greece disarms. King Milan of Servia and the Sultan of Turkey have ratified the Servian-Bulgar-ian treaty. LATEST AMERICAN NEWS. The upshot of the strike on the steamer Mariposa was that she sailed with a full crew of non-union men. Mayor Grace of New York vetoed on the 13th tho franchise of over seventy miles of streets in that city to the Cable Railroad Company for two and a-half per cent on earnings. American wool growers are asking tho Congress for a restoration of the tariff rates of 1867, which they say gave them fair profits. They now allege they cannpt grow wool in competion with English growers on Australian lands, A London cable states that the appointment of Mr Gladstone's son to a valuable rectorship was a compliment paid to the new Lord Chancellor without the knowledge of the Prime Minister. The latter objected, and the appointment was recalled, but not before the Pamellites had made it a basis of furious attacks .on the Premier.. . The London and North. Western railway have discharged 1,000 navvies, mostly Irishmen. The Officers of the Company explained the depression in the trade made the action necessary. Louise Hart, a rich princess in the west end of London, was committed to trial on March 9th, charged with providing young girls for a number of aristocrats. ' , A despatch from an official source indicates that the Queen has been persuaded to modify her determination to remain in private, She has promised to be present at' the public ceremony of laying the corner stone of the new' College of Physicians, the driving of tho first pile of the new Tower Bridgo, and opening of the Colonial Exhibition, She, however, decisively declined to hold a, court at Buckingham palace, even ■ for a short period, In the Spring. Adviceß from Zanzibar havo been received to the effect that the two men who returned to that place from Nyegana report that they saw Bishop Hannington, with fifty men of his expedition, taken out for execution, Sir Charles Dilke has decided to persevere in his policy of silence in regard to the serious disclosures made during the recent divorce case. He will make no explanation of his conduct to his Chelsea electors. He has gone to the south of France, whore he will remain for six •months, Mrs Crawford haß gone into seclusion in Italy. Californian wheat reached the lowest price on record on the 17th February, being sold at 3s od, Labouchere; during the afternoon of the debate on the Government estimates, 1 moved to reduce the grant on the esti. mates for the maintenance of the Royal parka, belonging to, or used conclusively for the Royalty. The motion caused a lively controversy, but it was' finally carried against the Government by 131 to 111