ADDITIONAL NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 657, 26 September 1884, Page 1 (Supplement)

ADDITIONAL NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

(united press association.) Auckland, September 22. The Pacific mail steamer Australia brought 2500 casea of fruit for New Zealand, the largest shipment of American fruit yet made. AMERICAN ITEMS. A Bill has passed Congress placing at the disposal of the American Postmaiter-General 90,000 dollars, for the conveyance of postal matter between the United States and the Australasian Colonies. It is not known how the vote will be applied. Mr Griffin, the American Consul, had a very successful mission to Washington, and during his stay there had a consultation with the President and the representatives of the Pacific Steam Company on the subject of a f ast mail service to tbe colonies. Ihe Pacific Mail Company have under consideration _ a project for replacing the present boats with faster ones, ... Mr G. A. Sala leaves for the colonies m January. The Queen has accepted a copy of Mr K. Nicholls’ work on the King Country. _ It is expected that the new composite corvette Caroline, 12 guns, 1420 tons, 950 fa.p., will shortly be commissioned for the Australian station. _ Sir J. Hall intends visiting Canada on his way to New Zealand. « Anglo-Australian,” writing to tbe European Mail on the Imperial Federation Convention, remarks: —“I do not wish for a moment to draw odious comparisons, but I am not alone in regretting, for instance, that New Zealand did not warmly and powerfully second the action of Queensland when that colony so boldly took the initiative in the New Guinea matter ; and

am well assured that had the Britain of the South moved with real energy on this occasion, the effect on the Home Government would have been proportionately great.”

Instances of race antagonism are increasing in the Southern States. At Syndiburg, on 25th August, a white man named Morris unintentionally killed a negress, and it was with difficulty the authorities could prevent the negroes from hanging him. At Macon, Ga., the negroes assembled in great force to prevent the hanging of one of their number who had been convicted of murder. The military had to be called out. .Religious troubles continue in Newfoundland, On 29th of August hundreds of Orangemen attacked the Roman Catholic Church yacht at Henly Harbor, and threatened the missionary (Father Lynch) with death. They tore down the Papal flag and smeared the vessel with tar.

John Maguire, a theatrical manager, wa3 formally excommunicated during high mass at Missonla, Montana territory, by Bishop Bromel, for the sin of arranging for a series of lectures in Montana by Bob Inger3oll. A circus car, containing sixty employes, was burned near Guiley, Colorado, on the 29tb, and ten of the occupants perished in the flamee, many more being fatally injured. A secret Chinese tribunal ha 3 been discovered in New York for the adjudication of all cases independent of the American courts. Trouble has arisen between the English bondholders of the Wabash Railroad and the directors of the company. Restriction of pig iron in the United States is to be caused by the banking up of all the furnaces in the country. 121 ironmasters have already reported in favor of the move. Adelina Patti has signed a contract with Mapleson to sing in the United States during the coming winter, and next summer in England. Sankey, Moody’s fellow-evangelist, is hopelessly broken down in health. Ben Butler, on August 6th, formally accepted the Presidential nomination tendered him by the Greenbaekers, Anti-Monopolists, and laboring men. It may be his candidacy will throw the election into Congress. A curiou3 case is reported from Damascus, Pennsylvania. A merchant named Conddeback, who had been lying helplessly paralysed for three months, wa3 cured in an instant by a stroke of lightning. He was hurled across the room by the shock, and immediately rose with hi 3 limbs strong and flexible. The Bartholdi Statue of Liberty will be shown at the world’s exposition at New Orleans a short time before being set up at Bedloes Island, New York. Great damage was caused to the crops in the Middle and New England States, oa August 25th, by a severe frost. A heavy frost in August in this section is unprecedented.

A woman named Kate Smotzy, at Fort Plain, New York, is at date in her 170th day of fasting. She takes no nourishment, and desires none. The Bartholdi Statne Committee make an earnest appeal for financial aid.! 125,000 dollars is required to complete the pedestal statue at Bedloes Island, New York. The Harbor Committee urge subscriptions, that the country may be saved from national disgrace and humiliation.

A destructive hurricane visited Evansville, Indiana, on August 29, demolishing houses and capsizing steamers in the Ohio River. Several lives were lost, and damage to property was enormous The centennial of the burial of Father Nompero Serra, at Carmel Mission Monastery, and the restoration of the Old Mission Church, was celebrated with great ecclesiastical and civic pomp on August 29. Serra was a pioneer Franciscan missionary to Upper California in 1870. The defenceless condition and non-combatant character of the United States is exciting general attention on the part of the Press. Recent speeches delivered in CoDgrees also emphasise the fact. They show most conclusively that Congress ha 3 been faithless to its trusts, and that the Republic will be fortunate indeed if some great national humiliation does not result from its neglected armament.

The Archbishop of Oregon is appealing to English Catholics to establish new missions in Alaska and Vancouver Island.

General U. S. Grant has become literary, and is now writing his recollections of the internecine American War for the Century Magazine. Bonner, a newspaper publisher, recently paid Vanderbilt 50,000d0l for the celebrated trotter Maud S. Her record is 2min 9fsec, and the new owner thinks he can reduce it to 2min 7sec.

The New York Grand Master of Oddfellows issued an address to the Order on August 19th, in which he recommended that funerals take place at night. Less money ought to be Bpent on the dead and more on the living. He also said Oddfellowship was so rapidly decreasing in New York that it was almost unknown in polite society there. A fatal disease is reported to have broken out in central Indiana which is believed to be a violent type of grey or bloody flux. Some of the physicians pronounced it cholera. The death rate is 1 in 4 of those attacked. In the test case between Lula Hurst, the socalled “ electric girl,” and the Japanese ■wrestler Wrakieti in New York on August 7th, the physical strength of the Japanese proved too much for the magnetic force of the girl. She was nothing in his hands. It being reported that the gold Ascot, cup, won by Mr J. Keen, and refused admission through the Customs without payment of heavy duties, would be sold by auction on 9th August, a great many bidders were on hand anxious to secure the trophy at almost any cost. The sale, however was postponed. The remains of J. A. McGahan, a European war correspondent of the New York Herald and the London Daily News, were lain in state in New York. CANADA. British Columbians are denouncing the Chinese Commission recently appointed by the Dominion Government, although, up to August 21, it had been sitting at Victoria but a short time, and sufficient is known to justify the assertion that it is merely a ruse to pacify the people of the province for a time. But nothing will come of it. Sir John McDonald is anxious to have the western section of the Canadian Pacific Railload built, and is disposed to bring on legisla-

tion to prevent the employment of Chinese, It is thought the British Columbians will petition the British Government to protect them froia the influx of such an undesirable class of settlers, or allow them to sever their connection with the Dominion and once more become a'Crown colony. The session of the British Association for the Advancement of Science was being held in Montreal on the 29th. Gold mining in Nova Beotia was under discussion. Lieutenant Greely, of the Arctic expedition, has chosen Montreal for the purpose of recovery. He continues weak. TROUBLE IN PERU. In ; Lima on the 27th August there was a storm of bullets for over six hours. A guerilla leader entered the city with his rabble, yelling and'firing. The night before all the Government ! troop 3 were withdrawn into the citadel and palace. The entry of Caceres, although not unexpected, was somewhat of a surprise. His men captured the citadel and churches of Saints Mercedes and Augustine, from which they kept up a fnsilade. They also attacked the Guadalupe railroad station. About 100 persons were killed in Mercedes and Badegones streets and near the palace square, where the fire was the hottest. Finally the Government troops made a sortie, and drove out the mob. Caceres was accompanied by about ninety horsemen. They appeared to have been travelling all night, and were not in a condition to fight troops well fed and fresh from their beds, and three hundred prisoners were taken, but Caceres escaped. All the telegraph wires were cut for miles out of the city, and no trains were run. The fight in the San Augustine Church was with closed doors Caceres is said to have 1300 troops in reserve, with whom he intends to attack Callao.

FRANCE AND CHINA. The Paris correspondent of the London Times on August 28th, says Ferry in a private interview complained with much vehemence of the strictures of the Times regarding Courbet's conduct at Foochow. The “ French Press,” he said, showed no such spirit when England bombarded Alexandria. The English Press by egging China on is siding against Europeans, The confidence it gives the Chinese may next be turned against England. Commercial nations are naturally uneasy at our action, but once resolved on redress we must deal blows that will tell.” Ferry disavowed a policy of colonial conquest. “My whole duty,” he declared, “is to finish an enterprise originally ill-con-ceivedand ill-managed. We want a peaceful occupation of Tonquin, and want to enforce on China the respect she owes to us. European interests need not be alarmed at this. We are acting for the civilised world.” The American papers generally condemn the French operations against China. The New York Tribune of August 29tb, quoting Ferry’s declaration, says the civilised world does not appear to relish yery much being acted for in this way. The Times remarks : “ Ferry had better remained silent than to have said this.” The Herald deprecates Admiral Courbet’s success, and says he may seize Foochow, but he is not likely to effect more thnn the allies effected in 1858 by seizing Canton. Naval officers, who have been interviewed, generally agree that, though the French may make short work with the sea coast, they cannot make much progress inland. Captains of vessels in the China trade report that the Chinese have been preparing for a long time against foreign invasion, and will make a stout resistance. They all unite in condemning the French aggression as causeless and brutal.