SAN FRANCISCO MAIL ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 620, 16 November 1880, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL ITEMS.

Sir Charles Dilke ; takes the place of ,W.: P, Adams on the Board of Publio Works, and I/G/)i)3V(l Courtney, M.P. forLisk'ard, .takes JirJobarlea^Eßi»!s l -4ila®9.i.inf.thft Foreign Office. The firm of Henry Brittain, jun., doing business in Birmingham, Bombay and Calcutta, lias failed, liabilities £160,000/'' Arcjibiqhop McOabe, of Dublin', has' written a pastoral letter, deploring the silence of the Irish lpadera i|i whose, presence] threats of violence to landlords have been made,

A fearful gale raged on the Cornwall coast on October 7th. Harbor prlfs and quays were damaged, and many email yachts and boats destroyed, Worth, the man milliner, ha? given opinion that American silk is now superior to French, and many French ladios are supplying themselves in the markets of the United States,

Arms are largely imported into Ireland, and freely boyghfc in many places. The manager of an establishment in Dublin boasts that he has sold 14(j0 rifles in a short period. In Belfast, breech-loaders are advertised at 15s, and there is a brisk trade in rifles in all the small country towns. ...v.;, ■■ ■

The Parnell demonstration at Cork, on the 3rd, was an ipiposing affair. The Mayor and. Corporation presented an address j:o j-he agitator, and. t)ie ' city .and. shipping;' were ' covered bjjnting; 50,000 of the public , were present VMf.' .Parneil declared that landlordism- ihfld-i created for maintaining English rule' ■in Ireland,and must fall. Voices cned out, " As Lord Mountmoiriq fell." A meeting of 500 Orangemen, in Gilford, County Down, passed a resolution' calling on the Government to suspend trial by,jury, and deolanng that citizens Qf the United Stales and .foreigners. were •abusing tho hospitality of til? country by denouncing institutions of the United H Kihgdon)j and should be expelled on; tip 00$}w< , u t, ' Mr /Parnell®»addresse4j}ia^m^tiDg^;ofi i-iUinn rrffltnW.

of Parliament and 50 priests were present, lie announced that when; sufficient information had been collected, the Land League .would organise, in great strength against paying rent on'the estato of every renting landlord- >1 : / .

Members of the Landlord's Association ;pitedon impressed upon him the necessity for imnied iato; steps ttfba foi? t'^ion 7 of life and property. , , : The barracks &t Athlone, Oarlow, and Siigo and.other places in the West of Ireland, are to be prepared for the full complement of troops the buildings are capable of accommodating.. : .

In view of 'the: abortive proceedings against Davitt, Baill<iy 'and. Keller, the .Government abandoned • • proceeding by' summons orfarrest, and determine on the second to move in the Queen's Bench ; division for a con<Htr6nat"orderfor crimh nal information against the Land League. The parties proceeded' against will be the members of the local branches, who participated in preventing the, bidding in sale of farm leasos from which tenants have been ejected. : George Ooull, the sailor who steered the ■ Shannon, in action with the Chesapeake, off Bostonharbor in 1813, is dead; aged 95.. He was buried with military honors. The imports of Great 1 Britain for. September last were in-value £6,50.0,000 greater than last year, and the exports greater:by £2y600.000 for the same time. A- process server was murdered on the Ist.

John M. Harvey,-one of the.principal members of Tweed's New York Municipal ring, has died in London. The race between. Joe Cannon and Harby Thomas, for LIOO aside, a bet'of LIOO to LBO, was' rowed on the 4th, over the Thames champion ship course, four miles and a quarter. Time, 24min. 21sec. It was a tame affair. Hanlon and Trickett were present.

Lieut; Schwaka's discoveries in Arctic and Polar matters generally are yet discussed by the London press./' Among the. latest Contributions to litrature on the subject is a letter from ; Commander Cheyne, in reply to an article in the Standard. "It was not the arctic regions," he says, " that sent Franklin's men to the next world.; they were murdered by the contractor who supplied them. The labelled beef and mutton, which contained nothing but offal."

Captain Foreman, of the British ship Adieu, on arriving at Ban Francisco from Newcastle, New South Wales, on October 9th, reported that on Sept. 15th he passed Christmas Island, said to be uninhabited, and from the deck discovered the wreck of a vessel well up on the sand in SouthEast Bay. Close to the wreck he "made OU N) small hut, but there were no indications of life about it. Owing to the very/; rough weather he was unable to land, so the wreck and hut remain a mystery, f Califorman salmon are being exported to Europe in large quantities. Ex-Senator Pelig Sprague, of Massachussets,]isdead. The Journal of Trade, October 9th, estimates from the wheat-growing returns to hand to the' 25th September, that this year's total return of American wheat will riot exceed 465,601.000 bushels, and probablfiflay prove 10,000,000 bushels less. Th's Cdlifornian and Oregon out-turn is estimated at 38,000,000 bushels. The requirement for h'ome consumption from this season's crop are placed at 261,000,000 bushels. ' California and Oregon are credited with 28,000,000 surplus for export. California is'importing four Normanby stallions, valued at 1600 to 20,000 dollars a piece.

A passenger train on the Indianopolis and St Louis road recently ran through an open switch at Nokomis, Illinois, and collided; with a freight train, which was entirely .consumed. The passengers escaped safely.

.' A- a pe™l train of cars with the Septem;be(r Australasian mail chased the regular' train arid caught it at Omaha, gaining 24 hours, and enabling connection with the steamer at New York to be made. The mail will thus reach England in 40 dava from Sydney. A. colony of Catholic Conneiharra peasants has been settled by the Rev Father Nugent, in Minnesota. Eaoli family has 160 acres, a horse and a cow. Many of these colonists left Ireland last spring shoeless, ; A mercantile convocation haßbeen held in New iork. Among other matters discussed waf the revision of navigation laws and adoption of some plan of improvement of the neglected shipping interest of the United States'.

While drinking in a saloon in San Francisco, a sudden madness seized a man named Barrington, who killed his friend named McDonald on the spot, shooting him three times. Both men were connected with respectable business houses. Jay Gould has purchased the New York World, paying .'400,000 dollars for it, The Secretary of the National Woollen Growers' Association, William G-. Markham, has, in. obedience to an order, shipped two rams and two ewes to Australia: They were sent by the London route to avoid'frequent changes in the railroad trip' to Sao Francisco. Mr Markham sentMiree car loads of sheep some time ago to Japan, where the Government is striving to develop the best wool and carcass-producing animals. ' Messrs lloody and Sankey, the revivalists, are in San Francisco holding religious meetings, ■ ' ,

Tom Hughes, of Loudon, who has founded a colony at Rugby, on the Cincinatti southern railroad: line, on October 9th, made an eloquent arid thoughtful address, ; <:'■

Work on the great,j'Santro Tunnel, hot abandoned.

• The Gulnari of, the IJorogato Arctic exploring expedition, has returned {o St John's, Newfoundland, having lost one boat and all her deck load in a gale. . - 11l feeling is growing between members of the Chinese embassy and the people of New York. The Chinese treat' those -brought in contact with thera as inferior, and they in return ridicule the dress and' . manners of the Celestial, diplomats. When occasion serves they are frequently assaulted//'"" A frightful accident has occurred on the Penoylvania'Central railroad, In a collision between trains, 24 passengers were killed and 80 or 40 wounded. A mistake in signals was the cause. The Chicago citizens celebrated the ninth anniversary of their great fire by a grand military parade. £he floating battery has been sold to the Oolbmbian Qovernmejit and will; be immediately puV In, cVwission. The battery cost 2,000,000 dols, and was sold for 55,000 dolai ;■

-News fromthe Jeanetto,- the Bennett Arctic exploring vessel, has been received up to August 29, ■ 1879, and published in the .Herald, The letter; was 'dated Cape Strudez'aman, and cam? officially through iilie Charge de Affairs. It was • written when trie 'vessel- ps on the point •of sitjhng for tJrangel, and and men were all,well. • The Panama panal'Syndicate <Jias not jefi beep perfected, and rjo definite progress has been^ade-toward that end...... , :By :the election of Jqhn :Taylor, First .President of the Mormon Church, vice Brigham -Young, control is given to thoEnglish saints The statue of Robert Burns, in the -Hall, Central Park, New York, opposite that of Sir Waltir>scott, was unveiled on (OpiotteF2, t'4 4, V

Brooklyn, and Jersey city,: Tlisrp are about 8,000 animal invalids. The disease has also appeared in Chicago. Neal Dow attributes the 1 Republic defeat in Maine to its leaders catering to their own selfish interest and the Republio officials neglecting to enforce the prohibitory law. ,

Theodore Glancey, editor of the Santa Barbara' (California) Press, : was shot, on the Ist by Clarence Gray, and killed for stating in his paper that Gray was unfit for an office to which he had -been nominated.

James .Thomas Evans, of Sydney, recently, in the omploy of the New South Wales. Government, .und whose duty it wus to draw cheques for the payment of Government officials, was charged on a warrant for forgery, and taken from the ship Cambrian Monarch, immediately on arrival in .port on September 7th. The detective had anticipated the arrival of the ship by taking passage in the R.M.S.S. Zealandia from Sydney on August 12th. As soon ps the fugitive saw the detective he recognised him, and submitted quietly to arrest by San Francisco officers, and turned over the balance, about LSO, of the proceeds of his. forgery. He is said to be very respectably connected, He was taken before Judge Ferral, t and application was made for his .return, to the colony under the Extradition Act of 1842. -The Admiral of the British fleet in Pacifio waters has been ordered to proceed immediately to Callao, Peru, and protect British interests there. '

General Murray of the Territory, in Mb report to the Secretary of the Interior just made,-, advises the abolition of all antiMormon laws, else their immediate and rigid enforcement, The present policy of vacillation has brought the Govern-, ment into contempt. . Cole's American circus .and menagerie sailed by the City of Sydney. It is the. largest of the kind that has ever visited the colonies. The outfit embraces 50 thorough bred horses and performing animals, twenty-five cages of animals, elephants, camels and zological wonders The company numbers 70 people, a troupe of American Indians also aucoupanies it.