NEWS BY THE SAM" FRANCISCO MAIL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 3550, 27 August 1879, Page 2

NEWS BY THE SAM" FRANCISCO MAIL.

[By Telegeaph.j (Per 8.8. City of Sydney via Auckland). Mr Lorillard and hie friends lo3fc £5000 on Parole for the Goodwood Cup. A Nottingham team of cricketers leave for America on August 8. Talmage lias been lecturing at Glasgow to 10,000 people. The Hoy Or Graham, formerly of Sydney, wa9 drowned at the Capo in May last. There have been heavy failures in trade. Messrs Price and Drury, agents, haro gone for £60,000, and Messrs Walland and Co. for £30,000. The Western District Bank will borrow in Inverness £40,000. Irish grand juries are calling the attention of the Government to the agrarian outrages, and to the necessity of executive officers having increased powers. The Court Martial upon the losses of the Grosser Kiivfursfc, tho German iron-ckd, hare sentenced Admiral Bach to six months imprisonment, and Captain Claua to one month. The other disgraced officers are to be confined in a fortress for three years. August 4. There has been a great hailstorm in England. £1000 worth of glasa has been damaged. The floods in the country districts have been very damaging to the growing oropß. The rainfall has been 70 tons to the acre. Cape news states that the chief Morse has submitted, thus ending the trouble with tho Basutas. The Capo Government is of opinion that the timo is inopportune for any plan of confederation, but they will carry out tho viows of the Home Government when the war is over. Dissenters from tho Greek Church in Eussia are given religious freedom. This affects over 12,000,000 subjects. Oaman Pasha now commands 140,000 men on tho Greek frontier. Tho Porte refuses the offices of Noland in the frontier question. Twenty officers and 400 men died of cholera on tho march from Afghanistan. Serious wages disturbances have arisen in Sileeia. Yellow fever is raging in Tennessee, and thore havo been several deaths in New York. It was brought by ships from Cuba and Havanna. There has been a bloody revolution in Hayti. Forty deputies in tho Assembly have been shot. A rain storm in Pennsylvania destroyed property to the value of half a million dollars During a hurricane in the Adriatic 20 yes' sels were sunk. A transport from Odessa, with 700 nihilists, loßt 200 by disease, and landed 250 others in a dying condition. ' ■ Tho incendiary fires in Russia are largely on tho increase. M. DoLcsseps estimates that shareholders in the Darien Canal Company would receive 11 per cent, returns. The American Government oppose the scheme. There havo been great inundations in Southern France. The International Bank of Germany has gone into liquidation. The capital, consisting of £700,000, hai been sunk in collapsed schemes. - The Republican plots in Borne have been suppressed, and persona have been named to suppress any demonstration by the Italia Irrederta. - General Franzin, of the Italian Army, has been shot by a Captain, who committed suicide. . _ - Weston and Bowell have signed articles for competition at Sir John .Astley's distance for tho champion belt. From Valparaiso come advices reporting the wreck of the Pacific Mail Company's steamer Illumine, tho crew having been saved. Milton Farron, the American, won tho Wimbledon prize. Entrance for three quarters old races for 1880 show numerous American nominations. Pierre Lorillard has six horses, B. Keane fire, and M. H. Huntford four,

entered for the Derby. Seven American fillies have been nominated for the Oaks. Contracts for provisions to be supplied in the Mediterranean, stipulate that Constantinople, Gallipoli, and points on the coast Of the Sea of Marmora, as places for delivery to the six ironclads now in Besika Bay. The Colorada beetle has appeared in Ireland. The clerical election agent, Von Hause, has been arrested at Brussels for posting a placard threatening the life of the King. j The Dan ubian fortress has been dismantled J in accordance with the Berlin Treaty. Tho Danubian flotilla, presented to Bulgaria, has been ordered to Odessa. There have' been agrarian outrages in Poland. Tho Russian Government have assured England that tho Lazemffs expedition is not marching on Merv. The successful oiudidates in the Canadian Military College havo the privilege of competing for the Imporial Commission. General Wills has chased Sitting Bull and 5000 Sioux Indians across the border. The German army has heen increased by an additional 23,000 recruits. A cannon burst on- tlie German gunboat Renown ; killed five, and wounded 25. The voters pence exceeded provious halfyear by £28,000. The Roumanian Chambers have refused to grant liberty to tho Jews. The Ministry have resigned. Twelve million 4 per cent American bonds havo been sold by the First National Bank of New York to Moran and Co., London, at £10 13s 4d. The Golden Date, a six-ton boat, with two men, has left Boston for Melbourne via Capo Town. The Paris Chamber of Deputies, by 363 to 166, passed M. Kerrey's second Education! Bill, which provides for the exclusion of reli \ gious elements from tho Suporior Council oi Education. Tho North German Gazette enys that s proposal has been made that Germany sboulc purchaso somo islands in the Southern Ocean. Telegrams recoived from Stockholm announce that the steamer Viga, with the Arctic '■ explorers, Norden and Skjold, on board, has been freed from tho ice, and has safely passed! Bchring's Straits. 1