ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SAN FRANCISCO

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 2981, 14 January 1881, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SAN FRANCISCO

Auckland, January 14,

Arrived, P.M. s.s. City of New York. Mr Vesey Stewart is a passenger. She left 'Frisco on December 21st and experienced heavy S. and S.W. gales for five days, during which Arthur Simpson and David Silva were washed overboard and drowned. Passengers for New Zealand—A. Hutchison, Bull, Maurice, Stewart, Shier, Bromley, Grossbeck, Ferris, Baldwin, Smith and wife, Rutherford, Grant and wife, Mrs Wilsoa, Miss Wilson, Brady ; from Honolulu, Buckley, wife, and three children.

GENERAL SUMMARY,

San Francisco, December 21

President Hayes has submitted an unusually lengthy message to Congress, in which he intimated that more attention should hereafter be paid to the condition of the colored people in the exercise of their rights. He condemned Mormonism, and stated that the law should stamp it out. He advocated civil service reforms, and commends the Victorian exhibition. A treaty has been concluded with Cbina to check the immigration of Chinese. He takes strong ground against Mr Lesseps Panama canal, because it is not owned and controlled by the United States. He advocates subsidies to ocean mails.

Branches of the Irish Laud League have been established in California.

Wheat ships find difficulty in obtaining crews.

Sankey and Moody's success at 'Frisco is not great. Small-pox is decreasing. A larger area of wheat is to be sown this season than in any previous year.

Thirty people have been burned to death in a factory at Buffalo. General Grant favors the Nicaragua canal in opposition to Lesseps, and if a company is formed he will be president. Father Gavaggi is soliciting aid in New York for the free church of Italy. President Hayes is admitting Chinese vessels into the United States ports on the same footing as other nations.

Courtney the pseudo English Lord, is in gaol in New York. There is great business depression in the Eaßtern States, and numerous heavy failures.

Canada

Sir John Macdonald's project to complete the Pacific railway with a foreign Syndicate excites opposition. The bill surrenders part ot the line already constructed, with a Bubsidy of twenty-five million dollars, and twenty-eight million acres of land to the Syndicate. It is believed the bill will be carried.

An earthquake in British Columbia split the glaciers, which filled the creeks and rivers, changing their courses. The crew of the ship Cashmere, from Melbourne, mutinied in Victoria harbor. The ringleaders are awaiting trial.

South America. President Diaz has been inaugurated with a revolution.

A bi 1 has passed the Brazil Senate admittinj; Protestants to the same right as Catholics.

The Chilians have established them« selves at Piesco, after a desperate resistance. The Peravians are massing on the line to Lima. Tho Chilian army numbers 25,000 men, with 100 guns.

Great Britain. Mr Gladstone will probably propose a grant of £25,000 to General Roberts. The new Antarctic expedition will be undertaken by Dr. Allen Young.

It is rumored that Earl Dufferin is to be transferred to Constantinople. Kemplay, yarn agents in Manchester, have failed.

Caldwell, the railway contractor of London, has suspended payment. Many Irish refugees are flocking to London, and many are destitute. The League Courts are shutting out appeals to the ordinary tribunals. Business men fear to serve on juries and lawyers to act against the Leaguers for fear of assassination. Mr Farnell declares the Government too weak to crush the League. The Orange Grand Lodge have arranged a code of signals for men to assemble at any time of the night.

Continental

An explosion at Pen-y-graig colliery in the Rhonda Valley killed nearly one hunderd miners.

Two hundred and fifty persons have been lost by the sinking of a French steamer near Spezz ia. The Nihilists are reacting in St. Petersburg, and a stronger revolutionary movement is threatened.

The anti-Jewish crusade in Germany is increasing. Many Socialists have been arrested on charges of high treason. The Czar refuses to allow foreign intervention in China. China offers to refer the disputed questions to arbitration.