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Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7360, 12 July 1889, Page 5

Gekat Earthquake at Manila.—Advices from Manila report that a terrible earthquake visited that city at 2 a.m. on Sunday, May 2t>th, considerably surpassing in duration and violence the great one of IHBO, but, fortunately, without doing anything like so much damage. It occurred, of course, without giving the slightest warning, and shook all the houses in a most appalling way. The inmates rushed into tne streets, shrieking and praying, a correspondent saying that the scene passed description. The ships in the harbor seemed to be violently struck, but probably this was the vibration of the cables. Both ashore and afloat many people were turned quite sick with the undulating motion. The wave lasted 80sec— lOsec longer than the disastrous trerhblement de terre referred to—but the oscillation was all one way, and comparatively few houses fell. The extent of injury is not stated. The San Francisco Mail|Skevick. —In the course of a recent interview Mr J. D. Spreckles, referring to the renewal of the mail contract for one year with the colony of New South Wales, said—" It may be that the New Zealand Parliament will decide to again become a party to the contract when it meets. If not, the service will be continued as before, with the exception that the steamers will probably run direct between Honolulu and Sydney without calling at Auckland. If the Sydney Government bears the whole expense it is hardly likely that it will agree to the steamers stopping "at New Zealand. Our arrangements with the United States are not yet perfected, but in view of the recent events transpiring at Samoa it is thought possible that our Government may be willing to pay a small additional sum, say 30,000 dois. per year, for the steamers to call at Apia instead of Tutnila, where communication is so doubtful and uncertain. The colonies would make no objection to this change, but it can't be arranged unless the United States is prepared to be a little liberal.-*