ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL STEAMER. SMALL-POX ON BOARD.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume III, Issue 196, 11 January 1882, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL STEAMER. SMALL-POX ON BOARD.

AUCKLAND, This Day.

The Zealandia arrived yesterday, flying the yellow flag. The health officer (in the Customs' launch) visited her, returning last night.

Two cases of small-pox on board broke out on the 3rd and 7th, after leaving Honolulu — both patients being steerage passengers. They are doing well. A passenger named Kerr, for Adelaide, died yesterday morning, of consumption. The Auckland cargo of the steamer is being transhipped to a schooner, which was sent down to her with coal, and the Auckland passengers were sent to tho quarantine station. The Zoalaudia leaves lor Sydney to-day.

LATEST NEWS.

Reports from Panama as to tho reconstruction of tho canal are encouraging, as, owing to tho natnro of tho soil, tho oxpense of excavating is lesseucul considerably. The ißtlmuiH is to bo attacked at three points simultaneously. A typhoon in China, around Uarfong and Froiuoy, carried the waters of tho sea four miles inland, washing away tlio town, with 8000 inhabitants.

An American circus rider was ordered out of St. Petersburg recently bocauao she was a Jew.

The publio clobt of tho United States has decreased soveu milliou dollars. France is exciting Europe by its preparations for war. Holekkiss works at St. Denis have been doubled. Nino hundred new camion huve bi on oast, and heavy appropriations for orduanoo havo passed the Chambers,

The Germans ure also making cannon at Magdeburg.

It iR understood the Queen will open Parliament in person. Mr. Fowler's steam plough works at Leedp have been burned, involving a loss of L 60.000

Princess Louise has gono to the South of France.

The Queen contributed £2,200 to the relief of the Irish laborers.

The Mirfew, the first of a regular line of steamerß under the Chinese flag, has arrived in the Thames with 8,000 tons of tea.

The London police believe that the Hattou Garden Post Office robbers were Americans.

Bismark is uneaßy on account of the cordial relations between France and England re Egyptian Government. Mrs, Laugtry made her first appearance on the stage at the Hayinarkot as Miss

Hardcastle in " S-e Stoops w Conquer." The Times says the lady was eminently successful.

There was a heavy seizure of arms and several arrests made at a house in Dublin. The parties concerned got into a drunken row, and the police were consequently informed.

The Bnrdett-Coutts litigation is averted by tho baroness resigning her half-share in the bank and securing a small annual allowance as compensation. All the counsel considered she had violated the terms of Duchess St. Albans will by her marriage.

Lord Cowper takes a gloomy view of the situation in Ireland. At a banquet at Belfast he reiterated bis intention to retire, and spoke of deep and settled ill feeling and dissatisfaction in the country.

The Bishop of Manchester is preaching in opposition to Moody and Saukey's mission.

Boyd has accepted a challenge from Haulan to row a race over the Thames championship course for the championship and stake of £25 to .£IOO a side. The maiming and killing of cattle of landlords in Ireland is increasing, and 200 animals wore found mutilated at Corrongill. Lord Dorraill's entire flock of sheep have been battered to death, and he discharged all laborers on the estate, owing to the non-dißcovery of the perpetrators. It is reported that the new steamship City of Home, built for the Inman Company, is a failure, and the company had refused to accept her from the builders. Lord Dufferin would not allow the Constantinople authorities to search a British vessel for explosives. Lord Lome intends to remain in Canada his full term, three years longer.

The Government have decided to withdraw warships from Tunisian waters.

Sir James Paget, tbe eminent surgeon, is in serious danger from blood-poisoning, attributed to vaccination.

The Times remarks of the details of Guiteau's trial, and judicial style of American Courts of Justice, that it shocks and astonishes English readers.

The Land Leaguers in Paris are striving to promote anti-English feelings.