ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SAN FRANCISCO IN AUCKLAND. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT )

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1333, 15 January 1881, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SAN FRANCISCO IN AUCKLAND. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT )

Auckland, Last Night. The City of New Yovk has arrived. Mr Ve&ey .Stewart is a passenger. She left Scan Francisco on the 21st December, and experienced heavy S. and S. W. gales for five days. Arthur Simpson and David Silva were washed overboard and drowned. Passengers for New Zealand :— A. Hutclnnson, Bull, Maurice, Stewait, Shier, Bromley, Groesback, Ferris, Baldwin, Smith, Hurfe, Rutherford, Grant and wife, Mrs Wilson, Miss Wilson, Brady. From Honolulu : Mr Buckley, wife, and tluoe children.

GENERAL SUMMARY. San Francisco, Dec. 21. President Hayessubmitted an unusually lengthy message to Congress. He intimated that more attention should hereafter be paid to the condition of the coloured people in the exercise of their rights. He condemned Mormoni&m, and stated that the law should stamp it out. He advocated Civil Service refoims, and commended the Victorian Exhibition. A treaty has been concluded with China to check the immigration of Chinese. It takes strong ground against Lesscp's Panama Canal, because it is not owned or conti oiled by the United States, and advocates subsidies to ocean mails. Branches ot the Irieh Land League have been established in California. Wlic.it bhips find a difficulty in obtaining i rews. Sankey and Moody's success in San Fuincisco has not been gieat. Small pox is dcci easing. Rain stoims have occurred throughout California since the Lsth. A larger area of wheat has been .sown tins season than any previous year. Thirty people weie burned to death in a factory in Buffalo. General Grant favours Nicaragua Canal in opposition to Lessep*, and if the company is formed he will be president. Feather Gavn^/i is bohcitmg- aid in New Yoik for the Free Chinch of Italy. Picsident Hayes is admitting Chinese vessels inlo the United States ports on the same footing as other nation-*. Courtncj', a pseudo-English Loid, ibm f. r aol m New Yoik. Biusineis is depres-ed m the Eastern States. Numcious hea\ y failui es have occurred.

CANADA. .Sir J. ilacdonald's piojcct to complete the Ptiuiio Kailway with foieign syndicate has excited opposition. The Bill lias been surrendered in pait tihcridy iclative to the construction, with a subsidy of twenty-five million dollars, and twenty-eight million acies to .syndicate. It is believed the Bill will be carried. An earthquake has occurred in British Columbia, which split glaciers, filled cieeks and rivers, changing their oouim). The cew of the ship Cashmere, from Melbourne, mutinied in Victoria Harbour. The ringleader is awaiting trial. President Diaz was inaugurated without a i evolution. A Bill has been passed in the Brazil Spimte admitting Piotestunts to the same rights aR Catholics. The Chilians have established themselves at Pisco, after a desperate resistance. The Peruvians are massing on the line to Lima. Twenty-five thousand Chilians hau 1 ainved, with 100gum>.

(IRE AT BRITAIN. Mr Gladstone will probably piopose a giant of £23,000 to General Roberts. A new Aiotic cvpedition is to be undertaken by Dr Allan louny. It is liunoured that Earl Dufferin ■will be tiansfeired to ( onstantinople. Kemplay, yarn agent, of Manchester, has failed. Caldwell, railway contractor, London, has suspended payment. Numbers of Irish refugees are flocking into London. Many of them are destitute. League Courts are shutting out appeals to ordinary tribunals. Business men fear to serve on juries, and lawyers to act against leaguers, for fear of assassination. Parnell declares the Government is too weak to crush the League. The Orange Grand Lodge has arranged a code of signals for men to assemble at any time of night. Subscriptions have been opened for a defence fund, An explosion took place at Pen-y-Craig Colliery, Khoncla Valley, which killed nearly a hundred miners. Two hundred and fifty persons have been lost by the sinking of the French steamer Tear Spezzia. A Nihilists' re-action has taken place at St. Petersburg. A stronger revolutionary movement has been threatened. The admission of French monks into Spain has beeu restricted. The anti-Irish crusadein Germany is increasing. Many Socialists have been arrested on charges of high treason. The Czar refuses to allow Foreign intervention in China.

A number of visitors who, in September last, imprudently approached the crater of Mount Vesuvius too' closely, were struck by a shower of fiery projectiles, and much injured. They were carried to the hospital by the guides. A Russian journal points out that if all | the Eussian people are to be educated there will be 1000 new schools wanted in the St. Petersburg government, 2600 in that of Novgorod, and not io mention other instances, as many as. 50C# in thafc oi Charkow.