VERY LATEST.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3168, 24 August 1881, Page 3

VERY LATEST.

San Francisco, July 30. George Hazel, the champion of England defeated Charles Prioe, ex-champion in a ten mile race at the Pob grounds, New York. Hazel ran the ten miles in 53mins. 23. sees. An immense aerolite fell at San Francisco on the 30th instant, and struck the waters of the bay in the vicinity of Goat Island. Hartmann, the Nihilist, who is now in New York, proposes to lecture on Russia and her prospects. The Chinese ministers Hin San Gin lav Rai and Yong Wing have been recalled from the United States much against their wishes The Foreign Secretary has issued a notification that in future no more British subjects captured by brigands will be ransomed by the Government. Two treaties between the United States and China have been formally notified and exchanged. Chinese students, numbering 100, are to be withdrawn from America, and sent for their education to France, England, and Germany. George Barrows, the author of " The Bible in Spain," is dead. The Duke of Argyle, it is said, will marry the widow of the late Hon. Augustus Anson. The lady is a daughter of the Bishop of St. Albans. France and Italy are negotiating, a treaty of commerce. In Abyssinia the Catholic mission station has been captured by the natives, who burned tho church and mission house, robbed their prisoners of their clothes, and sent them into the interior. Ifc is denied that tho King of Hawaii wishes to sell his kingdom. The United States Government is taking every means to discover the shippers of the infernal machines to Liverpool. A Democrat paper in Peru states that they were made there, and that a reporter was invited to an exhibition of their destructive effects. The shipping companies are greatly excited, O'Donovan Rossa has been dismissed from a sub-agency he held for the Allen line. It is proposed to send Carl Schuz as American Minister afc Berlin. Domingo Santa Maria has been, elected President of Chili. An alliance between Germany, Austria, and Italy is spoken of as likely. Tho total number of petitions presented in the House of Commons praying tho House to reject any change in the laws which may be proposed for admitting an atheist into Parliament is 1392, with 230,595 signatures, and the member praying for the alteration of tho law is 673, ■with 15,541 signatures. The Prince of Wales has visited Don Carlos in a friendly way. {For continuation of news see fourth page.)