ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 39, 14 January 1884, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

! .•■ > ~ (UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.) I , Auckland, January 12. : Tlie steamer Australia arrived at 6.30 o'clock this morning. The passage ' was uneventful. Among the passengers for Australia, is Mr T. D. Macloiy, agent for the great overland route through America, now on a business tour through the colonies. The Australia leaving at date is thfe first departure under the re-arranged service. The City of New York steamer has been withdrawn and willbe placd m the China trade. , The New York Commercial Bulletin, of the 20th December, m reviewing the Bill introduced m Cougress to replace the old duty : on wool, advises .Ohio wool-growers to learn a lesson from California which now supplies the knit--goods manufacturer of Cohpes, ; New York,, shipping its wool so clean that it has "displaced the Aitstvalian product m their mills.' Cohoes is now the great qompetitor ©(-Nottingham, England. "A movement has been commenced against secret societies by the Christian League* embracing the leading divines of the United States. The movement for a separate Government is gaining ground in^ Manitoba, owing to the i«is-governmerit at Ottawa. A great convention was held at Win-! nipesj. ■'■■ ; . ' ' 1 Mrßreiinan, Hon.,, Secretary of Oiei Irish Lanid League, is m 3an Ji^mnciscoi For the purpose of raising money for the* League. , . , '•..,.; i tVillard, the proprietor and success-' t uL manageß rif the Northern. Pacific railroad,; has resigned the Presidency of the Company, owing to the pressure from -the discontented stockholders. His manipulation has almost beggared several leading men- of the country, while he is reported to be worth • ten million dollars. •••■'•. : . ; ' ! Mr "Wilson, curate of 'St. George's Cathedra!,' Kingston, Ontario, has been dismissed for attending a Salvation Army, meeting. , The Pope has, approved the proposal to" erect a memorial church to Daniel O'Connellat Calineeven| County Kerry. Archbishop ,Croke will ! lay the corner s&ne, ••• .: ■"" ■ ■ ; ; ■■' '■- The executrix of Dowager Lady . Lytton threatens to publish three hiindred letters of the late Lor<T unless his, flop^ /will do justice to the .'.memory of his mother. , The refusal of Mr Groechen to accept the Speakership of the Houae of Commons is said to be the result of his aspiration to succeed the Marquis of Ripon as Viceroy of India. ' : * Fourteen thousand cotton operatives are r idle m Lancashire. Hal£_ of. , the i Blackburn looms are stopped, and the men on strike. "*_ , The .Anglo-Egyptian bank, Alexandria, pffered the Egyptian Government,; ten millions sterling, to. construct a. canal parallel to the present Suez iCarial. ■..-. ;, ..<■.' i i. I The deficit m the Egyptian budget for 1883 is three million dollars. • Violent Ogales occurred throughout [Great Brittain on December 12, much jdamage being done m England and the jprbvihees. " ' ' r ' , " '. . ' ;l ; A twenty years' lawsuit ended m San Francisco on December the 13th, ;by a'pidneer of California and a millionaire, Charles McLaughlin^ being Assassinated m his office" by a railway contractor, Fitrtne Cofc, who had grown desparate by his protracted legaj diffijculties withy Mcßaughlin. Cox originally advanced money to the deceased to build' a railway between San Jose and fean 'Francisco. ; : The New York Commissioners are purifying : the Police Department. Five 003061*8 have been dismissed/ two permitted to resign, one placed on trial for murder, and others charged with drunkenness and obtaining money under ialse pretenccsii Seventy workmen, who were discharged from the Patterson locomotive' works, 'JSew Jersey, left for the Clyde to work on iron shipbuilding 1 , paying , their own passages. American Free Trade journals sayS that this augurs pad'.y for protection; \ The British and Chinese flags were publicly burnt by an assemblage of Irishmen m San Francisco on Sunday, December 9th. The cremation was preceded.By a resolution of sympathy for s'JD.onnell.^ / - ! Mr Brad laugh met with a cordial reception' : in i Paris, but lie studiously avoided the-Anavcnists. -„., " r ' ; There is a strike of engineers on the Canadian Pacific Railway, and business is at a standstill. The company was retiSfndSingr V f } ' : " Gerald <$fassey, who has' arrived m Ne^ York t<f deliver" a course of lectures, has .commenced an action against the llew York Times, with danoages at sOOodolß, for publishing a defamatory article. j The Bolivian Commissioners at Santo De Chili are rapidly completing peace negotiations between I'eru ariij Chili. ; The i London police have Wgiin to rai^ine fashion abl<» »arn!iling liouses. Onrthelsth they enti'ied tlio Baceret Club. '"Jinks Club, Park Club, and khers known as's weir liells, and warned the players and proprietors. I The, failures.are announced of Peytpn ans"T*eytb,fl, furniture manufacturers, Birmingham, for £iO,OOO, and AbboH, Page,and\Co., London, stockbrokers, forsi6s,ooQ,. I Cyoret, aLyons Anarchist, concerned m the explosion "of the theatre there, has'been sentenced to death. ' j^osa Boncheur is dangerously ill at the Fountainbleau. • ' 'Hremendotts floods m the Schieldt did great, dajmage. . Badinguet, who helped Napoleon l il to escape from tht> fortress of Ham, died"in Paris'fately. MAtaeifell, Governor ot Alsace and Loprainc, has4ssaed an order abolishing the us"c of the. French, language m debate, x - ; ' . , The stafi^oCLa Lanterne entertained Bra^Ja^gV at a. reception.