ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 41, 17 January 1879, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

[Herald Special— By Telegraph.] AUCKLAND. Thursday, 5.5 pjn. The mail stoinier City of Sydney arrived this morning. She made the fastest passage on record from Honolulu, but when within 460 miles of Auokland, the after crank-pin broke, and she was three days under sail. The pin was scoured temporarily, and she came on at rate of five knots. Up till the accident, the steamer average^ 301 miles per day — -considered unparalleled. LATEST NEWS. The Biahop of Durham has rcsig&od. Alexandria, a seaport of North Syria, has beeu cedod by Turkey to Eugland. The Derby Cotton Mill, Bolton, has been burned down ; loss £28,000. Isaac Butt has been denounced by John Power a3 a traitor to tiie Home Rulers.' Ti.e steamer l'otnerania collided with tho "Welsh collier off Folkestone. Ninetyfour pt-eple drowned All would have boou saved but for the sailors rushing the boats. Gladstone candidate at Midlothian. Captain Wuyfca Melville, the novelist, broke his necii while in the hunting field. 1 Failures — Preaton Loan Mercantile Co;, £611,000 : H. Tajlor, Glasgow, £1,300,000 i Fen ton Sons, private bankers, Rochdulo, aud lieywood James Ramsay, Dundee, £80,000 ; Mackean, Libbey, & Co., UtjlCL' ford, £B'i,Ooo. It is proposed to reconstruct tho West of England and South Wales Dank by asscajing individual stockholders. The Odessa Commercial Bank has gone into liquidation An American swindler, Griffis, alias Lord Ashburton, has boon arrested for extensive forgeries on the Union Bank, London. Wcston proposes to walk 512 miles in 144 hours. Harvard Boat Club challenged English Universities for an night oared race. ' Robert Heller, the renowned magician and conjuror, is dead. Chinamen are being naturalised in New York. General Grant returns home via Australia. Preparations are made for introducing electric light. 'Frisso gas stock fallen in consequence.