ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4163, 24 July 1874, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Auckland, Thursday. The Cyphrenes has arrived with the San Francisco mail. She left San Francisco on June 21. Passengers—Rev. Mr. Hassard, Messrs. Hawkins, Frengrove, and Goodman. Cargo—33-17 sacks of barley and 6380 sacks of oats. The following are the chief headings of news : The steamer Prince Alfred was totally wrecked. , A duel has taken place between two editors in the open street in San Francisco ; one was shot. The small pox is causing great distress in Canada. The steamer Tartar grounded on the Cal. drew Beef. They lightened the ship, and got her off the reef without injury. On leaving Honolulu on June 22, she had been set forty miles to eastward by the current. GREAT BRITAIN. Mr. Disraeli announced in the House of Commons seventeen domestic Bills. He urged diligence, to avert a protracted session. Earl Yarborough, who had been missing, was discovered in the island of Jersey. He had left London in charge of friends and policemen. Mr. Gladstone presented a petition, signed by 8,600 laborers, asking for an assimilation of the County and Borough franchise. Moslere’s cotton mills, near Manchester, have been burnt. The loss is £30,000. CONTINENTAL. Extensive inundations have occurred in Hungary. Many villages were swept away. Copies of the New Yorlc Herald, containing Rochefort’s letter, were seized in Paris, owing to its attack on MacMahon. , The Turkish steamer Kars, with 336 persons on board, was run into on the Sea of Marmora, by an Egyptian vessel, and was sunk. 320 lives were lost. The Emperor of Austria has summoned an international congress to consider sanitary measures for the prevention of cholera. Despatches from Algeria state that the insurrection at Fez has been extinguished by the Sultan bombarding the town. Ninety inhabitants -were killed. Despatches from India announce that in a famine riot at Darjeeling the troops fired on the rioters, when several were killed. A letter from a China missionary, published in Paris, states that there were 80,000 Christians in that country, but that 10,000 had been strangled, burnt, or drowned. He adds that he does not expect to escape martyrdom. The Pope, in answer to urgent solicitations from exalted political personages for his reconciliation udth the Italian Government, said he would yield nothing. The Spanish Government solicit a loan of thirty million reals. A special despatch from Berlin to London says that the Governments of Germany, Servia, and Roumania, confidentially inform other European powers that they have concluded an agreement to mutually protect their interests against the designs of Turkey. Despatches to the Daily Telegraph from Berlin assert that the differences between the Khedive of Egypt and the Sublime Porte are serious, and intimate that grave complications in the East are probable. The Berlin correspondent of The Times says that the Congress which assembles at Brussels next month to consider the subject of international rights in time of war, will first codify the international laws which affect the actual conduct of war, and then enact a new code, in the form of an international treaty, which promises to become the first law common to the whole. The draft of the treaty, which has been made, has seventy-six clauses, stating the rights, obligations, and mutual claims of belligerent States and individuals, and specifying what arms may be legitimately used. Regulations for the treatment of prisoners are being 'made.

At a banquest given in honor of agricultural exhibitors, the Crown Prince, Frederick William, of Germany, in reply to the toast of the health of the Emperor William, expressed the hope that foreign exhibitors would, on their return home, convey the assurance to their countrymen that nowhere was the wish for a peaceful continuance of labor and civilisation stronger than in the rehabilitated German Empire. AMERICA. There is great distress at Ragusnaz, in Canada. There have been incessant rains since the disappearance of the snow. The farmers have been eating seed grain. Cattle were dying, and fear.-: of a famine were entertained. Small-pox is very prevalent, and has broken out in an asylum containing six hundred patients. Ladies’ fairs and balls have been successfully held in aid of the Louisiana sufferers. An excursion train, with seven hundred people, ran off the track at Lysville. Three negroes were killed, and ten injured. Ten whites were killed. In another accident at Syracuse, thirty persons were injured by one car jumping off the track. Thirty disguised men entered the gaol at Louisiana, took out two murderers, and hanged them, in accordance with Lynch law. Mrs. Doyer, who was released from a lunatic asylum a year ago, cured, has murdered her husband and three children, in a shocking manner. She says she loved them dearly, and wanted to send them to heaven before herself. An explosion in a Pennsylvanian mine killed three miners. Seven men, while fighting the fire, were overcome by the gas, and were carried home unconscious. Sufferings by the Mississippi overflow con-

tinue. Twenty thousand rations are daily issued. A hurricane at Kempeville unroofed and demolished a number of houses, and injured several persons. Large fires have occurred in various parts of the States. ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS. A London letter says that a slave ship, with 275 Negroes, from Mozambique, bound for Madagascar, was captured by the English man-of-war Daphne, on March 14. The slaves were put on board with only two days’ provisions, and the voyage was prolonged to eight. Them sufferings are alleged to be indescribable. Many died. ’ The Yiceroy of India telegraphs that the reports relative to the growing crops are favorable. A special telegram to The Times says that the Government continues to furnish assistance to 3,500,000 Natives, that there can be no crops in Terhool until December, and the Government admits that some people may die before assistance reaches them. The prospect of a settlement of the lockout in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire seems very distant. The Norfolk Farmers’ Labor Defence Association contemplate alterations in their rules, so that, instead of a lock-out being adopted, a general meeting of members be called to consider the course to be taken. The Post says that the Public Worship Regulations Bill now before Parliament, which is intended to restrain the ritualists, threatens to lead to a coalition of the High Church clergy and the Liberals, which may result in an attempt to replace the present members for Oxford University by Gladstone and Montague Bernard. Gladstone heads the opposition to the Bill. It is said that a special commission appointed by the Russian Society of Manufacture and Trade, has reported in favor of the construction of a line of railway from Russia to Pekin, through Siberia. The line, with its ramifications, would traverse a thickly populated country, and open up immense cattle and wool-growing districts now isolated from the commercial world. The line would be made in sections, commencing at one of the fortified towns in Western Russia, and ending at Pekin. News from Japan states that eighteen Japanese ships were wrecked on the Corean coast, and that the crews were beheaded “ because they were Japanese.” A fire in the town of Hamanatsyu destroyed 1358 houses. Two men and a woman were burnt to death. COMMERCIAL. London, June 2. Helmuth Schwartze reports the wool market firm. Faulty fleece meets more regular competition ; prices are in favor of sellers. Excellent demand for pieces. Greasy wool firm, without change. Foreign purchases comprise two-thirds of the total' sold. On 27th May New Zealand washed realised 10|d to Is. 2d. ; greasy skins, Bd. to lljd. Jaoomb and Son report'the New Zealand wool offered mostly in heavier condition than last year. Clothing parcels did not show much improvement. Lambs’ wool and coarse halfbred fleece improved towards the middle of the month, but now duller. Flax very dull. The following marks were disposed of ;—Celestial Queen, sound D. and S. over K.K., at £2O ; Sam Mendell, D.L., £lB to £l9 ; Halcione, Logan and Nicholson, £23 to £24 ; Wild Duck, Ashley 'and George, £l6 10s. ; Excelsior, sound and damaged C.R. and Co., £lO ; Jessie Readman, R. and Co. in diamond, £l2 10s. ; various marks, sound and damaged, £9 10s. Tallow—sheep, fine, in tanks, 395. 9d. to 40s. 3d. ; slightly veiny, 395. ; veiny, 38s. 9d. Hides—light average, 5Jd. ; third class, 4d. Leather shows a decline of j-d. San Francisco. Flour market quiet. Extra, $5 250. to $5 75c. ; wheat, $1 65c. to §1 72c. per 2S4lbs. barley, seed, SI 150. to $1 20c. ; oats quiet,SI 70c. Liverpool wheat, quotations on June 20th, 12s. 4d. to 12s. 7d. for average per cental. New York. Wool—fine, 25c. to 26c. Weston woo market firm. SHIPPING. Arrived—May 30.—Ceheno, from Wellington. Sailed—For Lyttelton, Carisbrook Castle, May 31; St. Lawrence, May 22. For Otago— Colombo and Corona, June 22. Loading : For Canterbury—Cathcart and Merope. For Napier and Poverty Bay— Queen Bee. For Nelson—Celestial Queen, and Pasithea. For Otago—Cordelia, Haddon Hall Otago, and Tweed. For Wellington—StLeonard’s, Strathnaver, and Douglas. TheAuckland Star’s correspondent -writes that the Tweed was to sail for Otago on the 10th of June. The Columbus takes fourteen rams for Mr. T. Russell, twenty rams and eleven ewes for Sir Cracroft Wilson. The third ship of the Shipping Company, the Waitangi, was launched on the Ist June, by John Blinner and Co., Sunderland. Her tonnage is 1143 register. She sails for Canterbury in August.