NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4163, 24 August 1881, Page 3

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

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(Per b.b. City of New York, vifl. Auckland.)

GENERAL SUMMARY.

Sak Fbaxoisco, July 30,

The latest news states that the troops have had to be called out in Wisconsin to oppose tho striking lumber men and the mill men. The latter assembled in mobs of 1000.

A collection of American histories, including Virginian and colonial records, and a number of autograph letters of General Washington, was sold by auction in London recently for 2215d015. Mr Guarrty, a noted bookseller, has purchased the Earl of Hardwick'a estate. A Bill to enable the bankrupt's trustee to pay that nobleman's debts having passed the House of Commons, it was ascertained that there had been forty-five insurances on his life, the whole amounting to nearly 1,000,000d015, the premiums reaching to ncarty 30,000d01s annually. Canada shows that her population has inoreased in ten years by 680,498. Geerge Hazel, the champion of England, defeated Charles Price, ths ex-champion, in a ten-mile race at the Pole grounds, New York. H»zel rar ten miles in 53min 23£ sec.

An i mense aerolite fell at San Francisco on t 1 dOth inst. It struck the waters of the bay .n the vicinity of Goat Island. Hartmann, the Nihilist, is now in New York. He proposes to lecture on Russia and her prospects. The Chinese Ministers, Chin Pin, Chan Lan Par, and Yong Wing, hare been recalled from the United States much against their wishes.

It is proposed to send Carl Shusz as Amerioan Minister to Berlin.

Tbe Alents natives of the Island of Alaska are dying in numbers from an epidemio of typhoid pneumonia fever. O' Donovan, who was conneoted with the Fenian movements some fifteen years ago, and who is now a prisoner at Mem, is writing letters from that place to the London Daily News that attract a great deal of attention. He is a son of Dr O'Donovan, the famous Celtic scholar, and since his banishment he has been a soldier of fortune.

Domingo Santa Maria has been elected President of Chili.

An alliance between Germany, Austria and Italy is spoken of as likely. No reply has yet been made by the United States to tbe representations of the British Government in regard to the incitement to outrages by the American Press.

France and Italy are negotiating a treaty of commerce.

It is reported from London tbat the well known Viotoria Woodhull is about to marry a rich banker ; and that the Baroness BurdettCoatts as well as tha prima donna, Mdlle Albani, will soon be under the necessity of retiring for a short time from publio life. Baron Yon Geyse, a young officer of much promise, has been Bhot dead at Berlin in a duel with a brother officer. George Barrow, atithor of " the Bible in Spain," is dead. The Buke of Argyle, ifc is said, will marry the widow of the late Hon Augustus Anson. The lady is a daughter of the Bishop of St Albans.

Further steps regarding the murder of Captain Elliott and of Magistrate Malcolm in the Transvaal will not bo taken.

The total number of petitions presented in the Houso of Commons, praying the House to reject any change in the law whioh may be proposed for admitting an Atheist ir.to Parliament is 1392, with 230,595 signatures, and the number praying for the alteration of the law is 673, with 15,541 signers. The Land Bill finally passed the House of Commons on July 29. Mr Parnell's amendment adding to clauso 44 a proviso that any aotion for rent pending at the same time as an application for the fixing of a judicial rent, shall be suspended until the latter is determined, was accepted. A majority of the Conservatives and aome Parnellites, inoluding Mr Parnell himself, abstained from voting on the Bill. Also Messrs Goschen, Henage, and some other Liberals.

The Prince of Wales has visited Don Oarlos in a friendly way

The Foreign Secretary has issued a notification that in future no more British subjeots captured by brigands will be ransomed by Government.

The two treaties between the United States and China have been formally ratified and oxohanged. Chinese students, numbering 100, are to be withdrawn from America and sent for education to France, England and Germany. Juit now theie is a mania for killing offioials in the United Slates. The Governors of Pittsburg &nd of Minnesota, aud Governor Connell, of New York, have had narrow escat.eß from murderous lunatics.

The United States has decided to join in the proposed general representation on the subject of the treatment; of Jews in Russia, on the ground that it has already instructed its Minister to Russia on the subject.

The infernal machines shipped to England from America have created quite a scare here, and almost equal excitement in the United States. The Secretary of the Treasury— Mr Windora — has addressed a communication to fche Collectors of New York and Boston, with instructions to use every means to find out the names of the consignors of the deadly packages. The representatives of steamship companies are especially agitated on the affair, and they havo deprived O'Donovßn Hossa of a subagency ho held in fche Allan line.

The city editor of the National Democrat, Plori, of Illinois, states that the infernal maohines were made in that city, and gives the name of the street ; besides, a reporter of the paper has been invited to an exhibition of the machine's destructive power. The New Tovk Tribune, replying to tho matter, says:— "lf the American authorities do thoir duty, the Irish revolutionists will nofc be long able to pirn their hellish schemes in America"

The Row York Times publishes a communicatiun from Elinha A*. Allen, the Haw*'ian Mini.t.r at Wa.h'nglon, dunying that King Kalakava wants to sell hu kingdom as reported ; such on idea, he says, wouid bo abhorrent to him.

In Abyssinia, a Catholio Missionary Station has been captured by tho natives, who burned a church and the mission houso. They robbed ten prisoners of their clothes, and sent them into tho interior.