GENERAL SUMMARY VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

Otago Witness, Issue 1422, 22 February 1879, Page 6

GENERAL SUMMARY VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

(Per Peess Association Special Wire.) Auckland, February 13fch. The mail steamer Australia arrived at 9.30 &.m. She was detained at San Francisco for 36 hours, owing to the non-arrival of the Eng lisa. mail. The following is a general summary of the newa up to January 21st :— Emigrants to Australia are given Ll4each by the North Wales Miners' Association and North Wales State Union, they being members of these societies. In a colliery explosion at Phondea Valley, near Prontypredd, 60 perMied. Sir M. M. Hayter has been drowned. The Marquis of Tweeddale is dead. The Town Council of Cork refuses to invite GeDeral Grant because of his anti-Catholic sentiments. In Dublin he was presented with the freedom of the city, and was magnificently feted in Belfast and the North generally. . . Dean Stanley announces his intention to return to America. The Oldham cotton strike is over. The American Bteamer Bulgarian was totally wrecked to the west of the mouth of Loch Lonne, Ireland. Distress in England is increasing. 6500 persons are daily relieved in Manchester alone. Sir James Stephenson has been appointed Judge of the High Court of Justiciary, vice Sir Anthony Cleasby, resigned. Mr Gladstone proposes to contest the Midlothian election. Five thousand English immigrants sailed for New Zealand recently. The Oxford Boat Club declines to row the American Harvard College Club. t The Duke of Edinburgh is to be appointed Admiral for the North American Station, and the rumour is revived that the Duke of Concaught is to be Viceroy of Ireland. Mr Ward, the London artist, has committed suicide. Heavy floods have occurred in Imglana and Scotland. The Thames is filled with floating ice, and traffic in various parts suspended. The Princess Caroline of Hesse is dead. Lord Beaconsfield has fully recovered. The troops of the Peshawur and Khuraw column are in Afghanistan, and have settled down for winter. An imposing Durbar was held at Jellelabad on the Ist instant by; Sir S. Brown. The feeling of the chiefs is friendly, and the health of the troops good. The troops under General Stewart's command had camped on the Ahuznel road after marching through Candahar. It was reported that Yakoob Khan, had fled from .Cabul, leaving his army disorganised. Russia is interfering to prolong the time of occupation. The German Government intend to Fend a naval force to Samoa to demand alleged rights. The directprs of the City of Glasgow Bank are on trial 'for " theft, fraud, and etnbezzlewenfc." ' There ib a heavy run on the London and County Bank. It was caused by a mob assembling in front of the building to listen to a dispute between a cabman and his fare. The reserves of the bank are not affected. Twenty persons were recently killed by a collision on the Warsaw railway. Two thousand and foity-five Communists hare been pardoned by Marshal MacMahon. M. Convasa and Co,, London merchants, have failed for LBO.OOO. AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Francisco, January 21st. A second vessel, fully laden, bas left New York for Sydney with American articles for the Exhibition in August. A minstrel named Abecco, known in the Colonies, had died in Chicago. January 24th. A delegation of Chicago merchants has gone to the city of Mexico for the purpose of extending trade. A severe earthquake has been felt in Florida. . Mrs Anderson, an Englishwoman, walked 1700 quarter miles in as many hours, at Brooklyn. Caleb Cushing is dead. Scarlet fever has broken out in New York. The European Bteamships are delayed in New York haibour by the ice. Archbißhop P&rkell, of Cincinnati, a prominent Roman Catholic prelate, has become bankrupt, and reeigned his charge. Specie payments were resumed by the United States Government on January Ist, though paper is now generally preferred to gold. The Grant powder-mills, San Francisco, have exploded. Three persons were killed. The loss is estimated at 5000 dollars. W. H. Vanderbilt is about starting a line of eight steamers between New York and Liverpool. A fire on Broadway, New York, involved a losb of 2,200.000 dollars ; and a second one, in Ninth street, a further loss of 2,600,000 dollar?. . Mr Gladstone was presented with a silver axe on hia 69th birthday. The English papers are filled with the trial of the City of Glasgow Bank directors. A proposal has been seriously entertained to raise a lottery on a gigantic scale, which will yield £9,000,000. The scheme will take the fprm of a company, in which the public will be invited to take shares. Leading Glasgow citizens will assist the relief committee. Soup kitchens are being formed in the large manufacturing towns in Scotland. Several houses have been imbedded in the Bnow-stormß, which are the heaviest known during this generation. At Cork, a father and three children were Buffoc&ted through an escape of gas, which penetrated their room at night when they were asleep.