ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume V, Issue 980, 16 December 1884, Page 2

ARRIVA L OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

AUCKLAND. December 16. The Australia, Gap|4ra pbist, arrivid trom San Franoiseo atrasVtee o'clock yesterday afternoon. Sb»lßftßanFnQMseo on November 24. Tbe passage was nnsventinl. Passengers for Kew ZsaUnd— vr. .^ w-, T , nn , rt , thrt , Minn Mrs. A. B. Snow, Mrs. M. RrSnojr, Mrs. Theo T. Thrte, -Jits Galgsy.Misirs Polk (2), Mrs. H. W. Eweq 4 Mtsjrs. TFMer^rtfbTttrHii*nr R«ror<^n^, Lowry» Fresb,fifthJ,,:^inkJar^ Andtrson, oheeman, Rev. A. F. King, and ninsUtn flto «fi?:. '" f^.itV -r -_ : ... GENERAL SUMMARY. 1 (Enropeao tiaWi to Mod November.) The Prince of Wales entorUinsd E. J. HanbyfaEa Jesis' Calhnff,; insinbws c/ Parliament, and otbei adyaocad ßadjcaU, at his paßce^t aaldrraghani. ; The distress among the' English shipbuilding, wprkm.n is increafinf., At»b«, -Tyne, Clyde^ and MerseyliKroely T fourth of the DoteibU worlrip^ioio. and po-wor is. aot in effective operatiOD. a. Terdict of '210,000 ig«ia*r ■' Lord Garmoyle,.son ( ffjEarl Cairns, ha« temporarily retired nom tbe stager : A Bev«e ahock of s*rthquak«, acoom. pamed with a ternfio explosion and ra- - port, occurred on the night of the 14th November^ at^€littereo4y Ctii«bir«) 25 miles^ from Manchester. Tha 'shook threw' dowtfihorses^oh *%e f sJrestriind caused great. consternation and twitement among the inhabitants. - ' i Airobfahip^tvo thdosand mtr^ ineßWaß_ord«eidto *rocM. on Nov.o». .- : ber 10, from Portsmoutli to th.s I«1« of Skye, to assist tho poli« in riutorinf order among crofters. There is no abata* . -ment of the exta^td. foaling in/Skya, and, 'the crofters from ihe neignbodringishinds are flocking tbsra to awiat their brethrtn ,in maintaining their claims. Fully 2,500 croftsra 'met ;a cUtaohmenl of.polide oat Hheir arrival, on Novsmber 11, and c<m-| ducted tbema short dUtan« r »nd. tbm Remanded the object of |heir QODUng. ««' reqaesW:^»H'W--lea|e tfretf;sberesi' A dsTpatch on *ha* 16th .ays nWs bag bwo rsjsivsd tba4 crofters have molved to submit uoooaH$ Wf^i *? iWlaid^foe "goto- .- «pw*cr to' oar4cr/ tiay.-ftlie Irish r* party v determined to enforoe the T»quiry into Ear 1 Sp«nc«r*s acU. t*<* i^h-t 1 Tberßlue Book, published onNorasaber 43, says the Government have sane. . tioned % expenditore^olafi!W*,OOpi fa the^Bpeedy ;,mann*wtnre, ( of tbe.JaUai patterns of breech-loading brdinanoes, for the ! defenm of Aden, Oeyloni Bin«a. pore, Hong Kongy Simon's Bar; Sierra Leone, St/Hel^ti.,Maariti«., Jamaica, and St. Lncial.<^'Tte > principal expshdi* : tare is at Aden and St. Lnoia. The colonies themse)Tfe!coi)tribnt«.«33,*gf: towards the works, and £300,000 to waMS? the armamenU. ;,,;_; % -„ : Lord Tennyson. " Free4ohi " wUI not be issued till December. J I Th.Qneen retorn'sdU Windsor, from Balmoral,. on,the % lotb Novimbar.ja sx, '- It was officially Announced on tbe 13th of November tbali^ Wtsmtionallnter. ▼ention»ExbibiUon-willbaheldinLon. don in 1885, under Ufapafronage I of the Queen, and tb*^ prssideney bt tb« Prinea of Walsa, and the management of an, ex.; tensive of eminent EngUshmen. "> r Henry George', laniTagi«afer7a«ifißt vJ in London, on the 'StS. .He went from New York arfhrinvifaUoh' of the Scott tisb Land ReMoration Leagne, and in his public lectures will deal particularly with tbe croftera'f question. *. - \-u f x'fcr -< ><" Tbe election bf a Demoeratio President in tbe United States necessitates the retirement of James Lowell ai at the Court of St/ James, lit Uwid he will take up Ilia {Mrman^nt rendence at, Oit6rS..A^t, r il af( toVo)MemVGo^ip, H. W. Halb#rt, foMlerty <jf »h«N*w York World, will be Lowell's enfleessor. . ' Fred. Archerrtha jotikey,, who racsntiy lost Jjis wife, has left; England for the United States.