San Francisco Mail News.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3078, 10 December 1888, Page 2

San Francisco Mail News.

' The E.M.S.. Alameda,arrived at Auoltland yesterday, at' 7 a,m,, ; and brings news from Europe up to date November 17th. : - '"■ ..-■. '^V'^ .There haveJg^ijflMMß ipPiimmß9rrHßVH building was.: wrecked; and'rnuou 1 other damage, done, • The Pope Las 'named -December 81st for tho special '.thanksgiving services in the Catbolio churohes throughout the world for grace during the year of the Papal Jubilee. A powerful American syndicate is about to bo formed for the purpose of buildings railroads in Siberia, ;■" -. Brothorton's cotton mill at Preston was destroyed by fire on Novem, berl7thi Cardinal Newman' was reported iu a critical condition on November Brd, but is now recovering, . " ■ Lord Tennyson bad an alarming relapse on the 2nd,after liis physician bad pronounced him convalescent. He is suffering from acute rheumatism. . ■ Higginbotliain'a ' spinning and weaving mill's at Glasgow were burned on November Ist.' Loss, £40,000. ".:.■;.";■:■■ ■■■.'-'■: ..::■■■ Russia is reported to be; buying largely of hay, other'farm provisions m Podolia and the district ofKieff,

In an address to the Birmingham Nationalists on November 4th, Gladstone said the Irish cause was no longer dependant on ono life. On the journey from Birmingham to. Wolverhampton, accompanied by Mrs Gladstone, theex-Premier was heartly cheered along the rows oxcept at Suowhill and at Oxford, where he was hooted.' -Tho crowd at the latter place was oomposed largely of undergraduates. The Norwegian barque Nor, from Now York to Stettin, with petroleum collided with the steamer Sauduiundham in the English channel on tho morning of November 4, The latter sank with 22 of thecrew. The barque was badly damaged, but was ablo fo proceed on her voyage, Captain Jouness, of the Nor, disclaims all responsibility, and says the steamer ran into him'while the weather was perfectly dear. Signals of distress were raado to the passing steamers but they declined to render assistance.

Spurgcon, the London Baptist preacher was reported dangerously ill on November 14th. He suffered from severe rheumatic gout, complicated with other disorders. The British steamer Black Watch foundered on November 12th in the Mediterranean.. The fate of the crew is unknown. The Russian Government, on the advice of the Commissioner, sent to England to enquire into the pork market, proposes to assist the importers of salt pork, In order to encourage trade. : At a meeting of the.Dominion Cabinet, held on the 10th'November, it was decided to invite Australia and New Zealand to send delegates to Ottawa at an early date to consider trade matters, and the proposed •Pacific cable from New Zealand to British Columbia. The design is to divert traffic and- travellers from Australia, who now go entirely to San Francisco, to Vancouver, British Columbia, and thence over the Cana-dian-Pacific Railroad, and open up a market for' Colonial manufactures, now possessed exclusively, so far > as the Aineriean continent is concerned, by. the United States,' ' Mr Joseph' Chamberlain; M. P., \ya's marriqd to Miss' Mary Endicoft; daughter of the Uiiitec} States SecreJary of War, at Washington I). 0., lon November 16th. The ceremony wasnuiet pi unostentatious.