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Auckland Star, Volume XVI, Issue 3825, 13 November 1882, Page 2

LATEST AMERICAN ITEMS.

San Francisco, Oc'obcr 22-2 p.m. m "' The Australian cricketers leave by the. steamfh'p City pf Now York for Sydueyat ; - date. They hare been handsomely entertained durlog thtir short ?tay in this'city; and on Saturday played a *ma'ch at tbe ■; Union Kecreition Grounds, merely to show their style. Their opponents were officers selected from the different merchant ships '-'■ at present in tbe harbour. Heport says the it criokcters carry back with them orer ; .€II,OOO as the result of their several con« ■-■;' tests in fng'and, where they wereuearly always succer sful.

Itowell, the KngUsh pedestrian, has offered to bet £20,000 he will win tho coming fix day match in >ew York. The sanguine believe 640 milea will be made.

The Turkish Government baa made a formal dmiand upon the Providence (Rhode Mund) Tool Company for 48,617 riiles, wMi bayonets and prabbards, alleged to be in stores of tbe fo9l C.mpany, subject to the Government's order. A Bill was introduced into the Vermont House of Kepic entatives on the 18th mat., requiring prison suihoriliei to rander prisoners insensible before execution.

On tbc 18th October, the Secretary of State, Frelinghuysen, conveyed to Hairy Ueorge, the New York "Irish World's" correspondent, the "regret of Her Majesty's Government" f.r tbo treatment to which he had been subjected to in Ireland. Frauk Queen, proprietor of the New York "Clipper," the leading sporting paper of America, died on the afternoon ot the 18th, from paralysis of the btain. He was 63 years of age liev. Henry Ward Beecber's fa-ewell address, on rt tiling from tho Congregationalists, shows that, in efftct, he denies the inspiration of tho Scriptures, the orthodoxy of the doctrine of tbe fall and atonement, and, also, the doctrine of eternal punish-" inent, at whichhescoffs.

Ano'her distressing railtoad accident occurred in the Hoosac Tunnel, near .North Adams Massachusetts, October 21st. Tbo caboose containing labourers going to work collided with the Troy aod Boston engine. Eight were killed, ana thirty-three i»jnred.

Henry George, the te.uried coirespcnpondentof tbo New York "Irish World," was banqueted in New York, October2lst, by 150 citizens, Henry Ward Beechor responded to tho toast of " The Common People." The New York "Tribune" demands that tho reciprocity treaty between Hawaii and the United fctates should bo abrogated iv 1884. In an article, on the 20ih of I'ctober, that paper s\ys the treaty has created only a gigantic sugar monopoly.