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Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 30, 4 February 1875, Page 6

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" ': 7. . *_-: — : . The Mikado,' brihgingithe San Frqneiaco. mail, arrived at' Auckland on Satrircjay at, midnight. She left San Francisco at noon on the (Sthulto., Sari Franfeisco tin^e— on the 7th^aocordlnglto New Zealand! time. She, arrived at Honolulu, on January; I4th, ; and left on the following, morning, j Her London telegrams, are to the sth ultimo. Her cargo consists of flour,. sugar, preserved salmon, &c, chiefly, for Arickliand. : The mails were sent south by the . Lady j Bird, and the Mikado proceeded to Sydney. A conflagration atict|ie city of Teki.o,; Japans destroyed ,11«0 nouses. - : Paris news indicates ai certainty of -a dissolution of the Assembly after the; holi-, days. ' ] ' ' j Archbishop Manning will be made Cardinal. ■''.'] | A colliery explosion it North Staffordshire killed 20 miners. I News, has been receired from the Khedive of Esypt stating that the . Nile * x - ; Dloribef party j to surrey the country of Lake Nyanza to Guava, was attacked by four hundred native? in canoes. The expedition defeated the assailants, killing 32. The war against tb6 slave traders proceeds vigorously. ;.,Many. slavers have been captured with their cargoes. The Touches i Puacellet has signed a letter to the French Archbishop offering to kill Bisrriarck for 12,000 francs, and she now asserts that the alleged conspiracy was a joke, and that she signed the letter while intoxicated. '■ „ ' 'y-- -y . . The Grand Duke Nicholas, nephew, of the Emperor of Russia, who was- convicted of stealing his mother's diamonds is declared insane. " ' :< ■ Count Arnim has appealed from the late sentence. The Archbishop of- Cologne has been again fined 30,000 thalers, and will probably be again imprisoned. . . - • „, An explosion of fire- damp at a coal mine at Rotherham, Yorkshire, killed eight ac • cording to one despatch and ninety persons according to another telegram. . The Spanish fleet, ..consisting of three iron-clads, proceeded to Marseilles to escort King Alfonso to Barcelona. The rich yield from some silver lodes in California is creating great excitement and wild mining speculation in San Fran^ cisco. Several hostile Indian tribes have surrendered unconditionally. The Reciprocity Treaty with Hawaii has been submitted by the President to Congress. • , King Kalakali is at Washington, relative to the Treaty, and to arrange a million dollars loan, giving aa security Pearl RiverHarbor to be a perpetual naval , station iri the Pacific for the United States. • Two expeditions have left ISTew York to survey an inter- ocean canal across Central America. . ■ The Army and Navy Committee in Congress recommend a standing army of only 25,000 men, at a coat of 27,701,500 dollars. The cotton crop exceeds that of last year by 55.000 bales. ,".;.-.?: ... Serious complications have, arisen with Spain WtheVirginius; affair. , The American Government have made a peremptory demand, sinee the establishment of theSpjin- : ish monarchy, for a settlement of Americar claims in the same manner as the British claims were settled. ; The steamship Jap^n was burned off th« Coast of Japan. She ( was insured for 150.00 C dollars,. Peruvian advices state that the Government troops, after two days', hard, fighting, forced Pierola, the leader of the revolution; ists, to abandon his stronghold in the height! ot Tarato. . , , . , Pierola and his principal officers escaped into Bolivia, when the troops scattered ir all directions. The Louisiana difficulty between . th< rival Governors, of the State, creates grea excitement. General Sheridan and twc thousand troops, dispatched by the , Prep dent," are upholding Governor Kellogg'i adrriinistratiom The matter has been, referred to' Congress. The Beecher-Tilton suit is proceeding it New York. ...... The ship Hereford, from Lyttelton, ii loading at San Francisco 1700 tons of graii for Liverpool, „ Strikes are increasing in England ; 2c ship-yards are idle, and 12,200 shipwright! are on strike. Thousands of miners ar« out. Holders of Spanish Bonds are to be paic in full, and all persons in arms acknowledg ing allegiance tb the King will be grantee an amnesty. The King, also promises free dom of the Press anil pf worship. . Since the recent revolution in Spain the supporters of the Prince imperial hav< been less secret in their movements, and thi feeling iri favor oi the Bonapartist3 is in creasing. , . , Leidru Rolliri's funeral procession was at tended by hundreds of thousands. . The Pope's health is again occasionim anxiety. The physicians state that the slov and progressive decline of his vital powefi . is perceptible. ■■':..>.-.. '" A series of military manoeuvres by Frencl and 1 Gerinari armies, . announced , to tab place in the spring, ia creating uneasiness ; being considered as preliminary of war. ; A heavy rise in coal in England is caus irig great distress amongst the poor. Price have advanced 2s percent. ;; ' ",'-'-■ Garibaldi declines a national relief gram owing to the condition of Italian finance. \ . The Steamer Mongol, the Sari Francisci ; mail boat, struck a rock 20 miles from Horij Kong,. and is a total loss. The captain] . wife and 14 of the crew were drbwri"e,d. ' j l The French' vintage of 1874 is calculate; to be the most bounteous ever known, ani 1 will yield.l,aß7;6oi);oob';galt6nsV', '.. j '■ Thejriew lawrequiring'njihtary.dufy.fl 1 all' Citizens in'Ruseiavhas^cause^ilM^ 1 Emigration.; The 'Mohammedan jmhject i and/Tatars ,^ ;thei , homes by thousands until the; police stpppei , theifc ;^eape by stealth;, ani reach the'" Tnrkish, dpaririioris. v, ThS'Mo ' hammedaris on the; shores of -the 1 Caspiai 1 Sea are also movingrback from. the confine ' Of . cr^is^tiph^ta; 1 . d^fer^t agaui, whil » the Tuicbmahlof As^ leavinj t for the ., non? regulation province of Man 5 geshlak, where ; they r^.adt; % liabfe p j .tr^ttaj^'-aat^^ ,..*.;,' |- ; <yy'% • .r---v ; - ; l i y Seye w perspns who participated in |fl i d^waane^ m , Aibama have . M ■ deshk^ to- dentil r by the Turto^ • merit* „ i . y\ I -telegrftm? state l &# since th

■revohiition in 1 Spain 'the supporters jof the _Prince llmperial rhave-been-rless-secret in tbeir^ moyemehtEyand; feelings the favor of .the'Bonapartißii iricreasirig, the Legitimists in the, Aseemblyare ; evidently.determined, 1 if they cannot effect a; restoration, jof the , Monarchy, to embarras the 'Republic. ' At'the'funeral of -Ledra^ J no religious ceremony. Blanc, iVict or . Scboltcher, and Arago were present.; Upwards of 1100,000 people iwitnesseid the 1 burial and funeral. \ ] The affair is, regarded aa a formidable ( .Radical demonstration. ( . A iMadrid despatch ' says that ; King < Alfonso has issued an address to the people i of Spain, in which he promises . to 'exercise < •a liberal policy towafds'bis subjects in his i . administration of the affairs of the Iking- j dom. He states that boldeas of bonds will receive payment in full, aud that all persons now. iri arms against the country* who ' shall .acknowledge allegiance to, the Crown ' will be granted an. amnesty. He also '< promises liberty of free worship arid the ; ; freedom the Press. • , The Carlißts fired 2000 rounds on . the Gustave, a German vessel, and imprisoned | part of the crew. ; The Gustaye was endeavoring to enter San Sebastian Harbor. A London telegram says that , Alfred Rubery sued Baron Albert Grant and . Sampson, formerly commercial editor of the Lendon 'Times," for a libel, charging him with being a party to the great Californian diamond swindle; In the course of ; the trial it was testified that ..Grant ; . said to plaintiff that he could do what he lliked with the money articles in the 'Times ;' that he had Sampson under his thumb.