NEWA BY THE MAIL.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 1, 9 July 1874, Page 3

NEWA BY THE MAIL.

( Tht? City of Adelaide arrived at Auckland on Friday, evening with the San ■Francisw mail, a week late. She had, been detained four days at San Francisco, through, the nbn arrival of tbe Atlantic steamer • then lost ; 51 hours between Honolulu and Kanda-au re pairing tubes. The following U a summary of the news :— A viol nt thunderstorm passed over London and the Midland Counties, and caused loss ol life and great dam <ge. The troop steamship Siberia; from London for Madeira, is snppoed to be lo»r, with all crew and passengers. Ten persons arrested at Cork in connection with the mysterious disappeara cc of arms and ammunition f om the barracks. It is reported that the Briti-h frigates Narcissus and Endymion are ashore at Palermo ; also the corvette Racoon, at Bermuda. Fire in Paris. 200 persons rendered homeless, and several killed. •• . The Durham election has been annulled on account oi bribery. The Galway election annulled o *ing to intimidation. Opeaheim and Schrarter, merchants, have /ailed ; liabilities, L750.0Q0. The Czar of Russia has. issued instructions grant rg permission' to all exiled Poles to return home, ezce-4 those guilty of assass natioa, A colisiom of coal and Passenger trains occurred at Merthyr Sydvil, and seri.usly injured forty persms. „,^r,esidenti..M*M[ahon, when receiving the Geirrnan Ambassador, exiressei a hope that the present fr-eadly relations between France | and Germany might long be continued. ' Reported bitterness has arisen between the Princess ot Wa'es *rid the Duchess of if dinburgh regardiog the question of rank. The nephew of the Empeor of Russia has been arrested at bt. Petersburg!! for stealing his mother's diamond*. The] Czar ordered legal proceedings to take their course. A conspiracy has been disco ered at Kedokau, Russia, a d sixteen persons implicated have been executed. Tne appropriation of church property^'for State purposes in It«Jy continues., Ecclesiastical property, valued at over L 20,000, has been • old, nd the prccetdß have gooe into he pub ie treasury. In te House of Lords on. May 4, Lord John »- uspel, in view of an embittered feeling between France and Germany, moved for copies of all correspondence w t!i those Powers, and asked what course the Bri ish Gpvernmei t would take in the event of a rupture between them. Lord Derby believed that peace for the immediate future was safe. He trusted England would do everything to maintain peace short of embroiling herse f in a struggle Additional strikes of miners are announced. A famine is prevailing in Asia Minor. It is su> that 100 deaths from starvation occur daily. In the Durham collie* ies 70 000 minei-s and labourers are now i lie. Great di ,tress prevails. Ma y are emigrating. A Russian squadron will shortly vieit Austra ia and New Zealand. The AgeDt-General for New Zealand has completed arrange Tent* with Me srs Shaw and Thomson and Moore's ironworks for 1000 tons of rails lor sh pmeT t. , v During the year, the report of the Otago and Southland Invesment Company shows an available total of £6,156, including £410 brought from last accoun's, and recommends a dividend at the rate of 10 per cc t. per annum, and an appropration of £500 as a reserve. The Wool Importers' C- mmittee decided that- the third series of the silcs shall commence on August 18. A pamphlet, entitled ' Hand yside's Improved M thod of Onrcomina- G/aoients on Hail way a," has been written by H- % Hanayeid *, late Provincial Engineer to the Government of Nel on. A great number of reop'e, described as the very bone and sinew of the Island'- popu ation, are preparing to leave skye for frJew Zealand. The Rev. Newman Hall's petition for divorce h«s fceea withdrawn, he paying tha costs* Cbo'era lages in S »mar a ng, Souradaya, and Batavia. French laborers have been offlcia ly warned against delusive representations intended to dec •> them as emigrants t » Ameri*a, The steamer Liber ia, bound for the African coast, is believed to be lost, wreckage having been found. The Emperor of Chna has been on a journey to the Western Tombs. Should the annexation of Fiji be decided upon, the governorship wi 1 probably be offeree to Capt'in Glover A seri u<* accident has oceurpd at the Alexanfr* Paloce. One rain was > illei and eight injured by the foil of a » or nice The Prince of Wales held a levee on behalf of the Queeu o i the eveuing of April 27. The Prince of Wales presi 'cd'a r . th-* annual festival of the R*yal Society of Mut>i ians. Mr Justice Keating s decisi n for the re- , movalofimag-s from the Worcester Cathedral riredo-i is to be appea ed ugainst. Liberals o* the City of London are about to from a I iberal club wi h affiliaed brm he* 'in the chief provincial to*ns. The Grand Duke Alexander is likely \a vis t Australia next j ear with the Russian squadron. On May 9 the Queen and Princess Be trice visited the Empress Eugenic at Ch'se.hurst. Dr Livingstone's Af-i an artend/nt, "acob Waingerhardc. has been presented to the Queen at Windsor The Rev W, Jones, vicar of Sumrhertow-s has been nominated to the bishopric of CapeTown. At the annual granb,l**hge of English Freemasons, the Marquis of Ripon was installed Grand Master.