NEWS BY SAN FRANCISCO MAIL

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5424, 3 July 1879, Page 2

NEWS BY SAN FRANCISCO MAIL

; The P6pe has dissolved' th 6 miirriage; between Prinoe Monaco arid his wife, the daughter' of t%£ late Duke of Hamilton. The lady is about to marry. Oounfc Tasailo Testitici, of Austria. Mr Stanley, the African explorer, was at Zanzibar at latest .advices, engaging parties for a journey into the interior on behalf of the Belgium section of the African International Association. „' '■•: .

' Three English' sailors we're killed in a diatarbance with; the Russian patrol at' Ismail. •i '• '■' ■" i . ' j In heaving the" anchor on the transport] steamer China ■ in Simon's. Bay two men were killed and nineteen wounded. ; .The Porte has! abandoned negotiations with; the Ottdmah Bank for a laan. of £2,000,00(5, and, intends resuming, his project for the unification of the general debt under the auspices of a French syndicate. r . _. .< ," r ...... „v r 4 , The British, ironclad •IronDute/.whicjhL went ashore at Shanghai,' has been floated.' Garibaldi will.hencefbrth reside permaT-. nently in Rome. ,» „ ... ~,j i: i c >r

; InjjHun«ary «recent floods: destroyed 3000 houses in the town of Rottari; i t

: The Frenoh Minister of War intends to introduce a bill reducing the term of compulsory service in the army to three years.

i The German Government has decided jto addressee other .Eurppean. jWera on jbhe subjefc6 ; of arid iiitiuman jnanner in which the war in South America is being carried on by Chili and Peru, and to suggest a joint, ference. '■•''■ ' " ■■'■■'''- ■\ ' -j- ! ? "' A strike of workmen in the timber trade at Sumdswall, Sweden, at the end of May, extended to .all the leading! ports, and some 10,000; men were' idle. "The Government is taking precautionary measures against, acts of .violences ■. •„

In consequence of the growth of the ■Russian and French armies, .and. in f view, of an increase 'of revenue by taxation, the German Government is considering the advisability of increasing the army, for 'which purpose ;the Government; ask a perpetual grant from Parliament

• The British '.Consuls in Egypt, have been ordered to report on- the condition of the country and the alleged oppression of the people.

The German • Government demanded

that Switzerland should renhounce her right to give asylum to foreign refugees. Switzerland .refused,' and Germany referred the question ;to. the other Powers, who refused to co-operate with her.

The Darien .Canal Jpongreaa >: have adopted the M. Le'asep's.soheme, estimated to cost £42,000,000. M. : Lesseps has issued a prospectus for a company, and goes out. to • Panama -to start the works. The Americans are disappointed at the rejection of the Nicaragua scheme.

The North G.erman Gazette says i that Germany, by a recent treaty, is enabled to make all changes in the affairs of Samoa dependent upon her consent, and has by it and other ;treat.ies ..with .South Sea groups secured a, wide field where German enterprise- can establish a trade unfettered by the competition ;;of , other nations. Another German r man-of-war was ordered to Samba' on May 14th.' ' '- ' J "* '

» A daughter, of the Princess Boyal of England was delivered of a son. William Henry Purchard, a partner in the engineering firm of Clark and Purchard, London, who were connected with Baron Grant in floating the Lisbon Tr,amway Company,* has 'failed 1 ; 1 his liabilities" are - £900,000. Edwin , /Clark,,^another • member of the firm, also 'foiled in the early part of April for £766,tK)0, David Stuart and > Co.y merohaifis, J Liverpool, hay faileas ; £i'Qo,p6o; The firm' t is ; largely '.indebted to the Presbyterian Missibhary 'Agency in America, for 'which theyVwere agents. ; . '". The .Sovitli Staffordshire Mines Drainage .'.Commissioners ahnouiicp that, 1 owing ,tp a'debt'of £i6,060in llje. jipt'on. district, all pumping engines will be stopped. The ! efre6t;idf rthis'fwould be the- fldpding' of hundreds of collieries for miles around, and South: Staffordshire fc would never recover from the disaster. A meeting of colliery owners has been called to consider the situation./ V >„■:.;

;The O'dbnnor Don has introduced a bill iuto the House of Commons providing for the" establishment' of a University of St. Patrick in Dublin", endowing it from the' lrish disestablished Church fund.

The NortK German Gazette states that tHe; German Foreign Office have received confirmation of the report pf the destruction of the German mission station in Nktal, and the illtreatment of the missionary by the British. „ Communications, are still' proceeding with the British Government on the ,subject. " ' '" J l ■';'?''

The triai of Alexander SbloreifF, for the attempted assassination of the .Czar,' ended inj a Bpeedy^ cqnyict jon. t . ;Th_e;. Court pronounced him i guilty/ and after depriving him of , all civil fights < sentenced :.liim to death, tha. execution to take place at five o'clock 'the' same afternoon; A slight tremor • passed ' through r the prisoner's frame . when o the hour;. of hiado.om was pronounced, n .but.' otherwise he remained unnjoyed during :the. trying ordeal. . [' ', An attempt to, blow up;theiGourt where the .Military Tribunal is \sitting"in Keiff was discoyered and frustrated. „ . . n , The sentences on several' Kieff. female Nihilists- have been modified to.penalties of i h,ard labor in the Siberian mines. Four revolutionists named Eudlemann, Ospimiki, Brandimer, and a man name unknown, were' hanged at Kieff. 1 • •. C

A ukase has been issued instructing the Russian Minister of Finance to isaue a five per cent loan at 92J, to cover the expenses of the late war. • ■■■•••

The Russian towns of Walmeke and Guayez, and -four large villages in various districts, have been burned; Thousands of peasants have been reduced tp ; beggary. The death sentence of Sophia, Hertzfeld has been commuted to banishment . for life to Siberia. , Several female Nihilists are soon to be executed in Kieff.

Political murders in Russia are confined to the. provinces, the repressive measures having cowed the conspirators in St. Petersburg. The Czar has decreed that all . political • prisoners must bo acquitted or doomed within 24 hours after arrest, and shot 24 hours after conviction.

The Rotterdam Trading Co. has failed. The total liabilities are about £750,000. The company has some London connections, but the losses are mostly in Holland. Messrs Baner and Co,,. the London agents of the company, have suspended. One of the directors of ,the company tried to commit suicide at Antwerp, and he is now under .surveillance in hospital. Another pi the' directors fl^d. to Spaip, with his

family; The latter, whose immt^^HH| Gsf&f a^ ,wa? a man bf, gjfeat cprnmeK^^^^Bj influence^ |He wai' a menH^^H W^ %* Chamber aud ona of the^HH of ithe Liberal bartM^ l^^^l