San Francisco-Mail News.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2547, 12 March 1887, Page 2

San Francisco-Mail News.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) CHOLEEA IN CHILI.

Great excitement prevails throughout Chili at the appearance of cholera on the boundaries. Strict quarantine was enforced against vessels coming from suspected ports, and the Andean passes on the Argentine frontier we closed, but the disease, according to the latest despatches, had .surmounted all barriers, and reached the' Pacific shore. A correspondent, writing fromChili, says" Time and space would fail me .were I to attempt to discourse upon the clouds of decrees relative to the preservation of public health which have lately been issued. FromVtho Argentine Republic telegraphio news for some days past has been of an exceeding' alarming character, 1 and in: Mendoza, at the foot oftheCordorillas. on the other Bide, and in its neighbor-' hood, no fewer than: 40 cases haye been reported in one day; They speak of bodies unburied, of houses abandoned, and of ohildren attacked by the disease and left to perish on the roadside by their relatives, who were fleeing southward for „ v safety. v-v-'The Argentine Government has all along endeavored to suppress the true state of affairs; and .- the official telegrams' have differed fidely from those' sent to the Chilian press and private individuals. The brief andunsatisfactorycomments which appear in the Argentine press bear abundant testimony of official supervision, all of whiolf things have a tendency to, make us imagine' here jfchat matters .are worse than .they actually are. The plague in Mendoza was equal in horror to anything that came before, Marseilles' while cholera was there. : The poorer classes were swept away, and victims perished after six hours of- most fearful suffering; The Lazaretto was more .crowded with corpses' than : with patients. .7The streets were noisy" with hearses and car&ladeii-with dead bodies, which passed and re,-passed the whole day. The sight would driven man mad.- On one day there were sixty cases, twenty six proving fatal immediately. Half the population will probably be wiped out. No inducement, no reward could secure the services of even one man to bury the dead. Corpses remain outside every crowded cemetery unburied. In despair.the Government threw open the'doors of the Penitentiary,- promising the criminal ' inmates a pardon on condition that they buried the dead. The steamship Gayanvotte. which sailed from New York to Norfolk on the afternoon] of .the 31st January, returned to port the same , night, having been damaged by an explosion of dynamite secreted on board when off Long Branch. , A hole about 15ft square had been made in the main and hurricane decks, and much, damage done to the saloon and outside joiner's* work. The affair was evidently an incident of the coalheavers' and 'longshore men's strike., . A reward of •10;0Q0 dollars has been offered for the arrest of the party who secreted'the infernal machine on board the vessel. Although the great strike of'longshore men and coal handlers is practically over, desperate men, who wererefused to be taken back, are committing many and grievous assaults. - Steamship, and pier proprietors express great- apprehension of trouble to come. V '

The champion boxer, John L. Sullivan, was worsted by Patsy Cardiff, at Minneapolis, on 18 th January, in a battle of six: rounds, Cardiff- weighed 1851b against Sullivan's 2181b... • Massowah, repprts that General Boretti, who is in command at Satti, oh 25 January, at 11 a.m„ saw the heights occupied by a thousand -Abyssinians, who disappeared on the firing of some shells;' ' ■ sent.*- out a party under Lieutenant Como,; ;wlio surprised • and engaged' ! the 1 enemy. The latter - intrepidly on all ; sides ! ' within 800 yards" ofthe Italian position, and there was desperate fighting until s,o'clock,: when the enemy ,was, defeated. Boretti applied for .reinforcements, and' a column under Colonel De Christoforos was sent. ; ' > r J?lip colunm-Was - delayed by . difficlilties 1 .'-in'' tranaportation. Ooldnel: De I Oliristofoifog . asked for more men and .guns, and while the latter reiiiforceinenta "yvere on. the way' itjwas.ilearned that.De .column had been massacred, after'] forming asquare' ; and deMdm| themr

Tlie ielief patfcy fo,und the bodies lying' where tlioy had fought. The Abvsaynians, ;befor6" retiring, mutilated