ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF ADELAIDE.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1840, 29 June 1874, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF ADELAIDE.

Auckland, June 27. The City of Adelaide arrived at ten o'clock last night with the San Francisco mail. The Mikado had not arrived at Kandavau until ten a.m. on the 21st. She was detained four days at San Francisco through the non-arrival of the Atlantic steamer, and then lost 51 hours between Honolulu and Kandavau, having been repairing tubes. For the last three days out she has been under easy steam. The City of Adelaide received the New Zealand portion of the mails, cargo, and left on the morniticr o f the 22nd. The Mikado was not expected to leave till the following evening, having to repair machinery. The Tartar with the outward mails left Kandavau for San Francisco on the 14th. She was full of passengers and cargo. The City of Adelaide brings over 4000 packages for Auckland 305 packages and 30 rams for the South. Passengers— For Auckland : Thomas Russell and 15 others ; for Wellington : Rev. Mr Elwyn, Mrs Elwyn, and Mr Foy ; for Port Chalmers : Mautland, Orgiall, Dr Crawford, and one steerage passenger. London, May 26. A violent thunderstorm, spreading over London and the midland counties, has caused loss of life and considerable damage to crops. ti>o otoamoiiiii oiaereayof London, for Maidera, is supposed to be lost, with all the crew and passengers. Ten persons have been arrested at Cork on supposed connection with the mysterious disappearance of arms and ammunition from the barracks. In the House of Lords on May 4, Lord John Russell, in view of the embittered feeling between France and Germany, moved for copies of all correspondence with those Powers, and asked what course the British Government would take in the event of a rupture between them. Lord Derby believed that peace for the immediate future was safe, and trusted that England, would do everything to maintain peace, short of entailing herself in the struggle.

. Additional strikes of miners are announced — coal and iron advanced in consequence. A famine is prevailing in Asia Minor; it is said that 100 deaths from starvation have occurred daily. There appears no prospect of a settlement with the strikers in Durham Colliery; 70,000 miners and laborers are now idle and great distress prevails. Many are emigrating. In a congregation meeting held at Cambridge, the Rev. Francia Hare, Governor Fergusson's secretary, was admitted to an M.A. degree. The correspondent of the Star writes that at the close of the Shipping Company's contract, the Agent-General charters five ships on his own account, and quite independent of any line, but since then arrangements have been made, and the Shipping Company will carry a portion of the passengers as before UDtil the Ist January. The Company will load on the Agent-General's account, the Carrisbrook Caatle, Zenobia, and Straithnaven. Shaw, Saville, and Co. will load one of the five mentioned, the Galbraith and others. It is certain that, if the Agent General's first instructions had been carried out, passengers could not have been landed in New Zealand under L2O per head. The fine composite ship Columbus arrived on the 20th April from Canterbury. She will be the next Auckland ship. Owing to the strike among the carpenters and joiners in the north of England, which commenced about Good Friday and ended on the 3rd May, the Shipping Company's new ship Waitangi will not be launched until the 14th June. Once more the working men have gained a victory over the masters ; the men have gone on at increased wages. It is reported that the British frigates Marcissus and Endymion are ashore at Palermo, as also the corvette Racoon at Bemuda. A fire took place in Paris, near the

castle ; 200 are rendered homeless, and several were killed. The Durham election is annulled on account of bribery. The Galloway election is also annulled, owing to intimidation. Oppenheim and Schrader, merchants, have failed ; the liabilities are L 750,000. The Czar of Russia has issued instructions granting permission to all exiled Poles to return home excepting those, guilty of assassination. There has been a collision between coal and passenger trains at Merthyrtydbille. Forty persons were seriously injured. President MacMahon, when receiving the German ambassador, expressed a hope that the present friendly relations betweeu France and Germany might long continue. . A reported bitterness has arisen between the Princes 3of Wales and the Duchess of Edinburgh regarding the question of rank. . The nephew of the Emperor of Russia has been arrested at St. Petersburgh, charged with stealing his mother's diamonds. The Czar ordered legal proceedings to take their course. A conspiracy has been discovered at Kehokau against Russia. Sixteen persons implicated have been executed. The appropriation of Church property for State purposes in Italy continues. Ecclesiastical property to the value of over twenty millions sterling have been sold and gone into the Public Treaenry. An additional miners' strike has caused a rise in coal. Sothern, the actor, is playing at Chicago. He goes to Australia under an engagement of eight weeks, at lOOOdol. per night. :