THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 75, 18 July 1876, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

,=r= »' . ■'■— ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS. (From the " Daily Times'" Auckland Correspondent.) Poole, the celebrated London tailor, is dead. The ship M'Mears struck the sands off Winterton, and was abandoned by the crew, who landed at Yarmouth. In the meantime the ship got afloat, but the crew wereunable to recover her. The lifeboat succeeded in boarding and saving the ship. It is officially announced that the Board of Trade has awarded to Captain Gifford, of the American trader Young Phoenix, a cup, in acknowledgment of his kindness to the survivors of the Strathmore. The sentence of the Court Martial at Salonica, condemning the Governor of that city to one year's suspension from office, and other Turkish officers to fortyfive days' imprisonment, has been set aside as insufficient on the representation of France and Germany. The parties are to be tried again at Constantinople. A fire at Moscow destroyed over fifty houses. No precise particulars of the damage have been received, but the loss is believed to be enormous. The weekly statement of the Imperial Bank of Germany shows an increase of 2,833,000 marks. The Ministers of the Sultan differ amongst themselves. The question of creating a National Assembly and a new Constitution, which was promised, will probably be indefinitely postponed. An explosion of coal gas occurred on •board the ship Atlanta, laden with coal for Hong Kong, while that vessel was tying in Perth Docks at Cardiff. Six men were killed, and several injured. The vessel was seriously injured. Christian Klentz, aged seventeen, murdered Almira Street, also seventeen, the i daughter of Ids employer, residing near Claremont Mills, confessing his crime, was taken to a neighbouring tree and hauled up; but being cut down, asked for a gun to shoot himself. It was sug- I gested that he might as well hang himself, ■when lie immediately climbed the tree,. placed the rope round his neck, bade the" company good-bye, and dropped. _ .5.' Anti-clerical manifestatitions have beertf renewed at. Ghent, and some between the police and people have ac*f curred. Several arrests have been made, the gendarmes charged on the crowd without previously calling on the people to disperse. The windows of the hotels were broken, and several private houses damaged. Numerous bands of rioters afterwards paraded the streets, uttering shouts, but the police prevented further trouble. The Budget Committee of the Spanish Cortez have decided to reduce the salaries of the civil servants fifteen per cent., the fund for the redemption jofjihe floating debt ten per cent., and endowment to clergy 14,000,000 dol. „ l : "f^..-~ The Czar accepted the onVtta&dh for an interview with the and Count Andrassyis expected to accompany Francis Joseph. >

Some scandal by the news that Washington has of the German Conniiis&onjto VhMi, Exhibition with corrupt practices quested-their immediate removal.' A fire atyQuebee. burned I}(X)q1 } (X)q i and rendered hundreds homeless. The Paris correspondent of the! • " Times" of June 19th, in a fctt? viewing the present attitude of theEal question, concludes as follows:— Jw yesterday, in taking leave of a R wished him a good journey, replirf' undisguised satisfaction : "I hope]' spend more tranquil days at SugJ than those I have passed at Ems," t a remark as this is tantamount to ah, promise, and it may be inferred tW European Powers are determined t main spectators of what passes k Turkey and her subjects and» This does not mean that the pacifia of Turkey is an accomplished fact a we are on the eve of its being eft The insurgents do not seem dim*

lay down their arms, nor Montfinea Servia to abandon their preteni annexing—one Herzegovina and ftj ( Bosnia—with the consent of Turkej self ; but what is known to-day l to indicate that none of the ftf

Powers will-support the insurgesi their neighbours, though. none ij deavour to-thwart then* "designs, J insurgents and Porto come face to| and Europe is seen to. remain a sped this insurrection will perhaps finiajj without why. At, the everybody, particularly the'six. ft are convinced that peace will not { turbed beyond the frontier of Turk