ARRIVAL OF MAIL STEAMER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2836, 1 March 1888, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF MAIL STEAMER.

"Railway" Maxwell a Passenger,

Wellington, March 1,

The Zealandia arrived at Auckland at 6.30 a.m. from San Francisco. Passengers for New Zealand—Miss ■Alma'E. Cyphers, Mr J. P. Maxwell and Mrs.Maxwell. A fine weather passage was experienced. Mr Maxwell goes to Wellington by the Wanaka to-day. He has spent a considerable time in the United States, especially studying Railway systems, and will report officially to the Government at an early date.

NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL.

Auckland, March 1. The English Mail News dates up to February 9th.

Court of Criminal Appeal.

It is expected a Bill will be passed by Parliament to establish a Court of Criminal Appeal. Tichborne Claimant again on the War Path. The Tichborne Claimant, who is now in New York, talks of re-opening his case.

Cholera,

Cholera continues to rage in Chili, and the death-rate is very high,

The Panama Canal,

The Nicaragua ('anal is proceeding very slowly, under great natural difficulties. Much of the work is in swampy ground, which the engineers have to go through, up to their waists in water, where the undergrowth is so thick that every foot of the way has to be cut,

Dying of Famine,

The Plague of Locusts.

The Secretary of the American Board of Foreign Missions received advices from Central and Eastern Turkey on February G, that people were dying of hunger and that the money of the mission was exhausted. 10,000 dollars at least is necessary to relieve tho distress in Central Turkey, where famine is the result of drought in Eastern Turkey. It comes from the .devastation of ten thousand square miles by locusts.