AMERICA.
An American agency for Chinese emigration to the States has been established, and is working well in America. A collision took place on the Pacific railway, near San Francisco, 15 killed and 40 wounded. Spanish gunboats have been seized in New York when building. There is a serious schism among the Mormons. The new American Canadian treaty is being prepared. Gold 122 £ ; flouiy 5 dollars, 50 cents. The President's message recommends a return to specie payments ; expresses sympathy with tbe Cuban insurrectionists, although not yet, he says, entitled to recognition. He considers the foreign relations of the country to be satisfactory, and hopes for an early settlement of the Alabama question. He advocates a reduction of taxation, and the replacement of existing bonds, as they become due, by others at not more than 5^- per cent, interest. Shipping. — Sailed for Naw Zealand : — Mallard, Harvest Home, Alphmgdon, Liberia. Matoaka posted afc Lloyds as missing.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 14, Issue 1123, 1 February 1870, Page 3
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154AMERICA. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 14, Issue 1123, 1 February 1870, Page 3
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