ARRIVAL OF THE MAIL.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 4, 30 July 1874, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE MAIL.

Auckland, July 23. The Cyphrenes has arrived with the San Francisco mail. She left San Francisco on 2lst June.; Passengers; Rev. Hussard Hawkins; Messrs.: Ffengrove and Good man. Cargo : 3,347 sacks burlev, 6,380 sacks oafs.

The following are the leading items of news : —

The steamer Prince Alfred is totally wrecked. .

Mr Disraeli announced, in theCommone, 17 domestic Bills, and urges diligence, 'to avert a protracted session.

The Earl of Yarhorough, who had been missing, was discovered on Jersey Island. He left for London, in charge of his friends and a policeman. .

Mr. Gladstone has presented a petition, signed by 8,600 labourers, asking for assimilation of ihe county and borough franchise.

Forty deaths from cholera are reported from India.

Mr. Mosley 's cotton mills, near Manchester, have been burnt— loss L 50.000.

There have been extensive inundations in Hungary. Many villages are swept away.

Copies of the New York Herald, containing Rochefort's. letter, were seiz d in Paris, owing to its attack upon McMahon.

The Turkish steamer Kars, with 330 persons on board, was run into, in the Ssa of Marmora, by an Egyptian veseel. She was sunk, and 320 lives lost.

The Emperor of Austria has summoned an International Congress, lo consider sanitary measures for the prevention of cholera.

Despatches from Algeria state that the insurrection in Fez was extinguished by the Suitan bombarding the town. Ninety inhabitants were killed.

A letter from a China missionary, published in Paris, states there were 80,00. Christians in that country, but that 10,000 have been strangled, burned, or drowned, He adds be does not expect to escape from rnsrtyrdom.

The Pope, in answer to urgent solicitations from exalted political personages for reconciliation with tbe Italian Government eaid he would yeild nothing. The Spanish Government solicit a loan of fifty million reals.

A London special despatch from Berlin says that the Government of Germany in the interest of Servia and Roumania, con--fidentially inform the other European Powers that they have concluded an agreement to mutually protect their interestagainst tbe designs of Turkey. • Despatches to the Daily Telegraph, from Berlin, assert tbat the differences between the Khedive of Egypt and the Sublime Porte are serious, and intimate that grave complications in the East are probable. The Times Berlin correspondent says the Congress which assembles at Brussels next month, to consider the subject of international rights in time of war, will first codify the recognised usages of international law, which affect the actual conduct in war, and then enaef a new code in the form of an international treaty, which promises to become a first law common to the whole. A draft of the treaty has been made. It has 76 clauses, statting the rights and. obligafions and mutual claims of belligerent States, and individually specifying what arms may be legitimately used. They are making a regulation-for the treatment of prisoners.

A banquet was given in honour of the agricultural exhibitors. The Crown Prince Frederick William of Germany, in reply to toast of the Emperor William, expressed the hope that foreign exhibitors would, on their rt turn" home, convey the assurance to their countrymen that nowhere was the wish for peaceful continuance of labour and civilisation stronger than in.the re-united German Empire.

A London letter cays thafc a slave ship, with 275 negroes from Mozambique, bound for Madagascar, was captured by the Euglish man-of-war Daphne, in March. Fourteen slaves were put on board with only to days' provisions, and the voyage was prolonged to eight. Their sufferings are alleged to have beenjndescribable. Many died in agony.

India telegraphic reports * relative to growing crops arc favourable. A^special" to the Times says the Government continue to furnish assistance to 500,000 natives. There .can be no crop in Testool until December,and the; Government admits that some people may die before assistance reaches them.

The prospect/dfa settlement'of tbe. lookout in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire seems very distant. The Norfolk Farmers\Labour Defence Association contemplate an alteration in their rules.

A general meeting of ministers has been called to consider the course to be taken. The 'Post says : "The Public Worship. Regulation; Bill, now before which; is intended to. restrain ritualists,: threatehsV to - : lead to a coalecfiott of; the High Church Clergy and the Liberals, which may result in an attempt to replace the present members fqr Oxford University With, Gladstone; and Montagu Bernard.. Gladstone heads the oppositiouto'the Bill. '.'.--' ■' ';^ : x : 'AMERICA:;;;-';,;-'-:''. , ~ ;; -\ ; Therel^great dist|c^s,in consequence/ of - th c incessant; rains^^p) the disappearance ' 'of show. The fafa^fi have been;eating seedf grain. ,'Maiy^attle'have'-aiedi'";^FeWß' : ; of famine are entertained. - „-\ ( 1/ 4 SmalLpoj; „ is; very .prevalent ;^%- has broken gut iid- an" asylum- "con&ihing^ .patients.'-""'''';.- ; : - : a', "'•''> '< v^^^V^^r^v , ;> At Toronto; laides*; fairs and hailsphay^ been successfuly held inaid;qf the Louisiajaa^ sufferers v J; ; - -:XyL :^y-y^A yyyyryy y .Ah excursion traiu^with TOO. peojift ; (ran"' off t^in&kat were killed andtentaju^ Jsiljed/V--- ; ;.- ~ : x^L '^yxA^y&M'Xyyy^

Syre cuse. Thirty people were inj iired; by ' one car jumping oft the tracks - '-'-•■ : y'Jy y X ~ Thirty disguised men entered 1 the gaol 'at Louisiana, took, out two' murderer^ arid' > hung them in accordance with lynch f aw. Mrs. Moyer has beenreleased from the lunatic asylum. A year agofhe murdered her husband and three children iri '^shocking manner. She says she loved thenx< dearly, and wanted to send them to heaven" before herself. " ' '•■'"

There was an explosion in a Pennsylvania, mine, which killed -three miners; Seven men while fighting the fire were overcome with the gas, and carried home unconscious; In a. duel between' two editors; in the open street, in San Francisco, one of them was shot. ' " •.--'.-. .;.,-

m The smallpox is causing great distress in Canada. .

The sufferings by tbe Mississippi overflow continue; 200.000 rations are- daily issued. A hurricane at Kern peviile unroofed and demolished a number of houses, and injurei several persons.

There have been large fires in various* parts of the State. ■ - -