AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 133, 19 December 1885, Page 3

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

San Francisco, November^.- * ■ The agents of the Zealaodia claimed the right to carry English mails to tbe'coJonies, alleging that the New York contract had not expired. The a«ent of the New Zealand Government at -an Francisco notified the postal authorities to place the mails aboard the Alameda. This was done, the agent of the Zealandia formally protesting and threatening to hold the New Zealand Government responsible for damages. . The Chinese Ambassador denies that the Chinese Government granted any concessions for making railroads. Senator Sharon, Californian millionaire, is dead. He left 100,000 dollars to charities, and made a solemn affidavit on his deathbed that marital re'ations never existed between himself and Sarah Alfchea Hill, plaintiff iv the celebrated case acainst him. . William! Heath, a leading New York broker, who recently failed for several millions, has been arrested. A tremendous fire at Galveston. Texas, destroyed 58 blocks. Loss, two millions ; insurances, one million, mostly in' foreign companies. Governor Stanford, California, endowed univeraity at Palo Alto with landed estate valued 5,000,000 dollars. ' Minister Carter, of Hawaiin Islands,' has left (or Europe to propose a plan to England, France, and Germany to secure the neutrality of Pacific Islands, centralising authority in the Sandwich islands, with integrity guaranteed by the Po wers. Mrs Parnell, mother of the agitator, is stumping the United States in favour of Parliamentaryfunds. Ferdinard Ward, Grant's partner, has been entenced to ten yeara* imprisonment. John Sutllvan, pugilist, starts for Australia in April. A crusade against the liquor business in the United State?, under Catbolo auspices, is chreatened by taer Pope's endorsement of the anti-liquor decree of the American Plenary Council. There has been a great revival in the American iron trade, the mills being active. John Bowman, ex-Mayor of St. Louis, was aacassinated witbin a few feet of his own door. It is believed by a political opponent. Hannah Masierson has obtained a divorce at San Francisco from Joseph Ma&terson, athlete, of Australia, on the grounds of oruelty. The Free I rade Conference at Chicago was largely attended . Beeoher denounced protection as "juggling ut the Devil " Rodrigues, who accompanied De Lessens to Panama, has published a book at New York making damaging criticisms regarding the canal. He rit Clares that the scheme has already sunk £20,000,0000 sterling, and is doomed aa inevitable failure. The ''Economist Frangaise" warns its countrymen that the whole concern is on the verge of probable bankruptcy, and that the- collapse will be the most terrible of the nineteenth century. The Canadian Pacific Railway Company Parted their first through train from Montreal to the Rooky Mountains on Nov. 3, but it is understood there will be no regular through service to the Pacific coast till next spring In a great storm off the coast of Lebrador, eighty fiabing vessels were wreoked, and 70 men lost their lives. Opposition to vaccination continues at Montreal and Toronto, and small-pox continues its ravages. . The disease has also spread to Prince Edwards Island. 1 41 cases are reported at harlottetown. — Sir John Macdonald has left Ottawa for England to confer with the Imperial authorities re Amerioan fishery rights. A conflagration at Iquique, Peru, caused loss of a million do lars ; insurance 375,000 dollars, in British companies. Civil war still continues to rage in Pern.