THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Otago Witness, Issue 1449, 30 August 1879, Page 12

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

[By Telegraph.]

(from otto own correspondent.)

GENERAL SUMMARY. Auckland, August 27th. Lorillard and his friends lost L 5,000 on Parole for the Goodwood Cup, A Nottingham team of cricketers leave for America on August 8 th. The Rev. De Witt Talmage is kcturing in Glasgow to audienctts of 10,000. The Rsv. Dr Graham, formerly of Sydney, was drowned at Cape May. There have been heavy failures in trade, including Price and Drury, agents, for L 60,000 : Wall and Co., L 30,000. Irish grand juries are calling the attention of the Government to agrarian outrages, and the necessity of executive officers having increased powers. The court-martial with, reference to the loss of the Grosser Kurfurst, German ironclad, sentenced Admiral Bach to six months' imprisonment, Captain Claus to ono month, and other disgraced officers to be confined in a fortress for three years. On August 4th there was a great hailstorm in England, and thousands of pounds' worth of glass wa3 damaged in London. There were also Hoods in the country districts, damaging growing crops immensely. Cape news states that the chief Morse has submitted, thus ending the trouble with the Basutos. The Cape Government slates that the time is inopportune for confederation, but it will carry out the views of the Home Government when the war is over. Dissenters from the Greek Church in Russia have been given religious freedom. This affects 12,000,000 subjects. Oaman Pasha commands 140,000 men on the Greek frontier. Twenty officers and 400 men died of cholera on the march from Afghanistan. There are serious wages disturbances in Silesia. Yellow fever is raging in Tennessee, and several deaths occurred in New York, The fever was brought by ships from Cuba and Havanna. There has been a bloody revolution in Hay ti Forty deputies in the Assembly were shot. A rainstorm in Pennsylvania destroyed property worth half a million dollars. During a hurricane in the Adriatic 20 vessels were sunk. A transport from Odessa, with 700 Nihilists, lost 200 by disease, and landed 250 others in a dying condition. Incendiary fires in Russia are largely on the increase. De Lesseps estimates that shareholders in the Darien Canal would receive 11 per cent, returns. The American Government oppose the scheme. There have been inundations in Southern France. The International Bank of Germany has gone into liquidation. The capital of L700,0C0 was sunk in collapsed schemes. Republican plots in Rome are suppressed. General Franzim, of the Italian army, wa3 shot by a captain, who committed suicide. Weston and Sowell have signed articles for a competition for Sir John Astley's distance champion belr. Valparaiso advices report the wreck of the Pacific Mail Company's steamer Illumine. The crew were saved. Milton Farron, an American, won the Wimbledon prize. The entries for the Three-year-old Race in 1880 show numerous Ameiican nominations. Pierre Lorillard has six horses in, J. R. Keanefive, M. H. Hunford four for the Derby. Seven American fillies are nominated for the Oaks. Contracts for provisions in the Mediterranean stipulate that Constantinople, Gallipoli, and points in the Sea of Marmora should be the places of delivery. There are bix ironclads in Be&ika Bay. The Colorado beetle has appeared in Ireland. A clerical electiou-agent, Yon Hanee, was arrested at Brussels for posting a placara threatening the'life cf the king. The Danubian fortresses have been dismantled in accordance with the Berlin Treaty. Owing to complaints, the Danubian flotilla presented to Bulgaria has beer ordered to Odessa. Agrarian outrages have occurred in Poland. The Russian Government augured England that General LazemofT's expedition was not marching on Merv. General Wills chased Sitting Bull and 5090 Sioux Indians across the border. The German army has been increased by 23,000 recruits. A cannon burst on the German gunboat Renown, killing five and wounding 25 men. Tha Roumanian Chambers refused liberty to the Jews. The Ministry resigned. Twelve million 4 per cent. American bonds were sold by the First National Bank of New York to Moran and Co., London, at LlO 13s 4d. The Golden Oak, a six-ton boat, with two men, left Boston for Melbourne, via Cape Town. The Paris Chamber of Deputies, by 363 to 166, passed Ferrey's second Education Bill, which provides Icr the exclusion of religious elements from the Superior Council of Education. Tho N< rth German Gazette says a proposal has been made that Germany should pui chase some islands in the Southern Pacific. Telegrams received from Stockholm announce that the steamer Vega, with the Arotio explorers on board, had been freed from ice, and had safely paised Behring's Straits. A boiler explosion took place at the railroad

workshop, Sacramento, California. It killed one man and wounded several, besides destroying L3OOO worth of property. A firo in a coalmine at Centralia, Pennsylvania. destroyed much property. The mine was flooded, but the coal continued burning. On July 14th a skirmish took place between the American troops and hostile Sionx. The former lost three and an auxiliary killed, and two soldiers wounded. In a brush between Indians and cavalry at Montana, the Indians were routed. The Indians previously killed a scout and family of nine children. There are extensive strikes in the coal and iron trades in the East for an advance in wages. The ironworkers succeeded. Tbe working men of several large cities made a great demonstration in favour of the eighthour movement. _ Five tons giant powder exploded in a magazine at Bodie, California, killing three men and seriously wounding several others. A^ storm of wind, rain, and lightning, originating in Ontario, swept over Michigan and Pennsylvania, doing great damage on its tiack. lv less than 15 minutes the crops were destroyed where struck. A new Methodiat church at Port Keeron was blown down, and several churches elsewhere unroofed. Several persons were wounded. Ships arriving from Cuba and San Domingo at Philadelphia and New York, with yellow fever, are quarantined. The Negro exodua to the Norlh-West still continues successful. Candidates in the Canadian Military College are privileged to compete for commissions iv the Imperial Army. Bennett's Arctic Expedition was enthusiastically commended by the French Societe Geographique. On July 21at the NovaScotian ship St. Bernard was wrecked off the Banks of Newfoundland] on her voyage from New York to Antwerp. Some of her crew were drowned ; the remainder were rescued and landed in Europe. ' The British barque Beecherdass Abedass, from Shanghai to Victoria, British Calumbia, became a total wreck on a reef at the entrance of San Juan Delfugo, five miles south of Capo Del lighthouse. The crew were saved. Five ladies were drowned through the mismanagement of a steam-launch on the St. Lawrence River. The party consisted of 201 persons from New York. The Pennsylvania miners received a 4 per cent, increase of pay. A fire in Hamilton, Ontario, on Augu3t 2nd, destroyed nearly a million dollars' worth of property. Three lives were lost. The FroEch barque Delophere Mellena sailed on July 31st for Melbourne with 12,000 centals of Chevalier barley and 22,000 feet of timber. The schooner D. S. Williams is now loading timber at Humboldt Bay for Melbourne. The ship Templar arrived at San Francisco on July 31st, having lost 13 lives from yellow fever during the voyage cf 320 days from New York. The Mexican war vessel Liberator was carried off by mutineers from Vera Cruz. When at sea another mutiny occurred, and the ship returned to port. The crew submitted to the authorities. Several were loat. The Chilians deny that any land engagements took place as; reported last month. Peruvians report disabling five Chilian ships, and the blockading of Iquique by the Huascar, which was uninjured. The Transcontinental Railway, in Costa Rica, is being pußhed rapidly forward. The English screw-steamer Burgoa was lost in St. Mary's Bay during a dense fog, on her voyage from Montreal to Liverpool. Portions of her cargo were saved. On the 19th of July the steamer State of Virginia struck on a reef off Glendon Island, and became a total wreck. Four women and five children were drowned in the aurf. A Government steamer from Halifax rescued 79 survivors. The vessel sailed from New York for Liverpool on the 10th. Bennett's exploring ship Jeannatte sailed for tbe North Pole from San Francisco on June 10th. Ambrose Fortescue and William Bangor have been apprehended in London for endeavouring to pass an altered cheque on the Bank' of England. They are supposed to belong to a strong ganpr of American forgers operating in England. France, and America. A deposit of 750,000 francs is required to be made in London under the concession to the Isthmus Canal Company before the work can be formally proceeded with. It was definitely paid on the 17th instant to a banker appointed by the United States of Columbia to receive it. It has been determined to lay a new Atlantic cable next year, and to adopt a lower tariff. Three hundred engineers are on strike at Bradford, and are about to emigrate to tho United States and Canada. Thirteen hundred sheep from Boston, infected with foot-and-mouth disease, were slaughtered in Liverpool on July Bth. The month's failures are : — J. J. Tavlor and Co., dyers, Beerstall; liabilities, L 60,000. A. G. Fordyce, colliery proprietor, London; LIOO.OOO. Edward Wurtzburg and Co., woollen merchants, Leeds and Bradford ; L 500,000. H. R. David, diamond merchant, London and Birmingham ; L 53,000. Price, Bousterd, and Co., army agents and merchants, Craven street;, Straud, London ; L 600,000. Lees Broß., cotton spinners, Manchester; L 400,000. Tho International Bank at Hamburg in voluntary liquidation. Mathew Watson, cotton spinner, Brinley ; L 60.000. A large spinning company at Buloch, Cantou of Zurich, Switzeilaud, suspended payment. Geo. Will and Co , of London and Colombo, have failed for L 300,000.