SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 13 December 1880, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

* Apckland, December 13. The Australia arrived from San Francisco with the mail. She left San Francisco wharf at 2.30 p.m. on November 21. Passengers for New Zealand—Messrs. Hayes, Pulleine, Mills and wife, Laroache, Gregory, Cit6tin, Williams,' Pearson, Paul, Brownlie (Dunedin); also 15 steerage. San Francisco, November 2. The Republicans "have carried every Northern State excepting Ne\f Jersey, Cali T forma, and Nevada. The democratic patty have elected Hapcock of Pennsylvania, and Win. J. English pf Indiana. Tlie republicans polled q, largely increased vote Ip every Stq,te of the Union, and are gaining enough members to the Lower House of Congress, to give them a working majority in the next House, The senate will ce democratic by one majority. The president elect is a tariff man but he believes that the system can be modified so as to bear less heavily uponcertain industries, He has stated that he "Will treat thg States justly, but allow them no favors. The Commissioners have concluded the new treaty with China on the immigration question, m the interests of America. The sugar crop in Louisanna has been spoiled. _ Counterfeit United States bonds are being circulated; only the best experts can distinguish them from the genuine bqnds, [ Edison claims to have discovered a plan by which electric lights can be divided indefinitely, Rugby Colony in Tennessee is expected to prove very successful. Before the presidential election a forged letter, with Mr. Garfield's signature, appeared in a New York paper, which lost the votes of three States to the Republicans, Two men were arrested and bound over.

Anxiety is felt the Arctiq ex> ploring ship Jeannette, fitted out by Mr. Bennett, of the New York Herald. A relief vessel is being sent out.

The Minnesota State Insane Asylum ha 3 been burnt. Between 20 and 50" lunatics were burnt to death. ' " : . . leprosy is spreading amongst the whites near Sari Francisco. Twenty cases have been discovered and traced to the Sandwich I Islands. ./ There is a small-pox epidemic in San Francisco. An influential San Francisco journal is advocating a reciprocating treaty between the United States and iS'ew Zealand and Australia. In Brazil 60 bandits concerned in the sacking of towns have been killed. _ Inundations in Santa Catherina have caused great loss of life and destruction to •property. In Peru, the Chinese employed by the Peruvians have joined the invaders. The Chilians have landed in force at Sari Lorinza. The attempted mediation by the United States and British has been abandoned. Neither Peru nor Chili would compromise, lu southern Chili, the Indians are plundering and massacring the whites. The Chilian Government is straining every_ nerve to effect the capture of Lima, hoping to end. the war.

• Forty-four miners were killed in a coal mine at Stellerton, Nova Scotia. It is stated that the Reform Club has raised L 270,000 for election purposes. It is reported that the Queen has asked Mr, Gladstone: to propose to Parliament a vote of L 40,000 to enable the Prince of Wales to pay his most pressing debts; and that the premier refused. . Fifty thousand delegates from all trades are to meet at Glamorganshire to take action with reference to the foreign tariff. Mr. Gladstone, at th'e Lord Mayor's banquet in London, said possibly the Government might have to ask for increased powers in regard to Ireland, but would not anticipate such a contingency. He said no progress had been made on the Greek question.

Cardinal Manning opposed the French Jesuits settling in England. Mr. Gladstone refuses to support the scheme for the Euphrates Valley railway. Eight thousand rifles have been received in Ireland from Italy. The Land Leaguers are tampering with the troops. Mr. Gladstone has denied that the distentions in the Cabinet werg Qri the Irish question. Mr, Parnell at a meeting expressed his oonviotion that Ireland would obtain an organisation from America if there was any chance of breaking the British yoke. Signal flashing by night is carried on by the land leaguers. The Grand Orange Lodge in Ireland lias passed a resolution to combat the agitation with all its power, Mr, Fo.ster favors an overwhelming display of power to everawe the- Irish League and people. The Pope condemns the agrarian movements in Ireland.

The London Sportsman says that Trickett was not well during his match with Hanlon, and that he was overtrained, relaxation, ensuing, but adds that he would never beat Hanlon; in his best form. The Marquis of Lome ' sent a despatch congratulating Hanlon.

In France the Panama Canal Company has the funds to make a beginning. The Russian Government is concentrating troops on the Chinese frontier-. The Czar is iji a state of mental and physical prostration. He has lost his popu« larity since his morganatic marriage. Another powerful Nihilist rising in Rus.sia is imminent. The Turkish Government is preparing to close the Dardanelles at. the shortest notice. The Greek Government has ordered the formation of 50 additional battalions of 250 men each. The Turks are sending arms and ammunition to the Greek frontier, and war is cert;aii} unless the Turks retire. The Chinese are making large purchases of war material.