AMERICAN.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1188, 7 December 1894, Page 34

AMERICAN.

Washington, November 28. It is reported that Lieutenant Perry’s Arctic expedition has been wrecked, and that all perished. Washingto -ir, November 29. Six millions will be spent on the American Navy in 1895. Washington, November 30. The American Bimetallic Conference at St. Louis has resolved not to vote for any candidate for public office unless he favours the free coinage of gold and silver in a ratio of 16 to 1. Washington, December 4. The President, in his messago to Congress, advises that America should withdraw from Samoa on reasonable terms and without prejudice to .her rights. This course he suggests because of the fact that the present arrangement' has not stimulated American trade or corrected the evils of administration The message is favourable to currency reform in the Hinted States, based on the Baltimore plan. ' . San Francisco, November 30. A startling subsidence has taken place at Incoma, a flourishing settlement in Puget Sound. Six hundred feet of docks disappeared beneath the waters of the bay. Two steamers were .sunk, and the whole of the Railway Company’s building collapsed. Ottawa, December 3. Mr Clark, who represented Canada at the World’s Fair in Chicago, leaves Vancouver for Sydney ou the 16th inst. on behalf of the Dominion in connection with the extension of trade with the colonies.