ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA. SAN FRANCISCO. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH SPECIAL OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1414, 26 July 1881, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA. SAN FRANCISCO. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH SPECIAL OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Auckland, Last Night. The P.M.S.S. Australia, with the English mail, arrived at 7 o'clock this morning.

Mail Summary. Sir Duncan McGregor, X.C.8., is'dead Nicoliui, the tenor, will, it is said, take Mdme. Patti to the United States on his own account. She demanded 2,000,000 francs from agents for her services, and declined terms. Lord Houghton's eldest daughter, Miss Amelia Milnea, was married on June 11, at S. Peter's, London, to Sir G. M. Fitzgerald, CM.G. The Beaconsfield fund makes slow progress. The second subscription list falls short of £500. One hundred persons were killed and sixty injured by an earthquake recently in Pachalic, Vanarmania. In Algeria General Detric defeated a body of insurgents killing 50. The French had two wounded. The French troops are leaving Tunis en route for Home. The Governor of Algeria has by decree prohibited natives from possessing arms. Satarapauloa, Greek Minister of Finance, has resigned on account of frauds in the Treasury. The Italian Chamber of Deputies rejected universal suffrage by a vote of 314 to 39, Signor Fabie favored female suffrage. An escape is reported from Siberia, being the second instance on record. The Jews have been invited to Upan from Germany, and 60,000 are expected to emigrate there. M. Jules Ferry says the problem of the coming elections iv France is to prevent Monarchists aud Radicals from being strong enough to upset the Ministry of the Republicans. The Italian Government iutends to resume specie payments. Prince Leopold has taken his seat in the House of Lords as Duke of Albany. Furious encounters are continued between the French and Italians. At Marseilles many persons were killed and wounded. 123 rioters were arrested. A telephone company is about to be , started at Brussels with 10,000,000 francs capital, under Belgian, English, American and French auspices. The House of Commons, on the night of June 14th, passed by a vote of 196 to 154, Lawsons resolution to the effect "that it is desirable to give legislative effect to the former resolution which affirmed justice to local communities being entrusted with power to protect themselves from the operation of the liquor traffic." Gladstone voted with the minority. Forster, Bright, Goschen, and Dr Playfair voted against. William Perm's relatives in England will not permit the removal of his remains to Pennsylvania as proposed by the Americans. The European Powers are conferring with a view of securing the complete neutrality of the Panama canal. Sir William James, Lord Chief Justice of Appeals is dead. The £100 foot race, known as the Sheffield and Whitsuntide handicap, was won by Smith, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Theatre Royal, Belfast, Ireland, was burned on the Bth. Ihe Panama railruads having been purchased by the French, it has practically crowded all American interests off the Isthmus. Pere Hyacinthe leaves Paris for the United States in. September. Hia wife, Mdme. Loyson, accompanies him. They go to raise funds for the new Galilean Church, which is represented by Pere Hyacinthe. Two returned Communists have been arrested in Paris for blowing up Threes' statue. According to the present census just completed, the entire population of the United Kingdom wiil be above 35,000,000. 1 The increise in the decade is a little over 4,( 00,000. Messages to the New York Irish World from Quinn, secretary of the Land League, have been refused by the directors of the United States Cable Company. Ruptures between French and Italians have been taking 1 place all over the Continent. A frreat many llaluns have left Marseilles' and were on the Parin Bourse. The Italians have great difficulty in transacting business, owing to the national animosity. Yellow fever and small pox are prevalent in Havanna. An English paper in Constantinople has been suppressed for publishing- news in regard to state trials. Louis De Crissagnac- (brother of Paul) haa fought a duel with Captain Harrisout near Paris. De Cassagnae wai slightly' hurt, am Harrisout was wounded in the shoulder.