SAN FRANCISCO MAIL ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 736, 6 April 1881, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL ITEMS.

I: A cartridge manufactory with American machinery, turning out 300,000 per day, i has been put into operation in Oonatanli-; j nople. '■•..• .v..-. ".; Entries for the pigeon shooting match, i in London,fdr-'the' championship of the.; world and ohallenge.cup, include, 80 far, ■'. I)r Carver, Messrs Payne and Septt. A John W., Mackay, the Bonanza has made a bid for the collection turea belonging' to Prince Borne, ~ l^k . . A mass meeting in, sympathy with tnM Boers ,was : . held, in .Chicago.;, j There' uine thousand Duch.nien in; that city. /* The policy, of educating the, young Indians, instead of fighting the old ones, ia now proposed by the United. States Government; • '■■' •'■'•'■ ;i1 ■■■■ , "' A case of poisoning, from eating canned Balmon has occurred in Chicago, ending fatally. Corrosion of the" can .caused the poisoning..''■''.'. '.■'.'..' "\ , The Royal, Spanish Academy, has decided to open' a.poetical 'competition in ~• London to, celebrate' the!; forthcoming X second centennial anniversary of the po''' A Calderon de la Barca. Contributions to be in the ; English language. -'TheArchNr bishop of Dublin 1: and James Russell Lowell are appointed 'jurors, The successful competitor is to receive a gold medal of the Academy and' a diploma. There was a collapse in the silver market in London on March Bth j produced by an announcement that the India Office would offer on the following day £50,000 more than the usual amount.

The Boers, by an order from Joubert, have dispossessed all the inhabitants of Utrecht loypl to the British/; and ordered their homesteads to be burnt.J.

Queen Caroline, widow <jf King Christian Xm., of Sweden, is dead. Sir Henry Jackson, recently appointed Judge of.the High Court of Justice, is dead. v'■'.';.

Fred. Douglas, a colored man, and well known as a speaker, is spoken of for a diplomatic appointment for Brazil. Portugal has adopted'the Marquez Treaty with England, which gives the latter country the right of way'for military .; and commercial purposes, but makes no concession of territory. ■;.,;.,.,. It is the tJhion Pacifio i (overland) Railway will go on the London ; market for a loan of 40,000,000 dollars, with which to pay the United State Go- .■ ve'rnment 'the whole sum due to it from i tho road. .

A 60,000 dollar relief fund for Michael Davitt has been started in San Francisco, and contributions are limited to 25 centß.

A prohibitsry duty of lis 3d.por ton has been imposed on English coal in Callao while coal from Chili is admitted free.

The steam whaler Mary and Helen has been purchased by the United States Governmont,and will beifitted out to go in . search of, the. missing Aretio exploring vessel Jeannelte. j. It is reported that the oldest private banker in Marseilles has suspended payment. '•■ i , ■■ ■:"•-: , An attempt to hold a Home Rule meeting in Coventry, under the auspices of Arthur O'Connor and Mr -Finnegan, led to a free fight. ;'<[, , : Harry Genet, one of the>bld New York Tweed ring, hasV been convicted, and sentenced to the'v Penitentiary for six months; also to pay-a fine of 9G04 dollars. The International Tramp in New York came to an end on March 12, O'Leary retired with 450 miles, - Later, Fansjian • withdrew after having completedy46r miles. The affair was almost negltcted by the public. '..,„. \ Rogues, an amnestied Oo'mmuniatJ|ias been eleoted deputy from St. Dennis'. • v . The people of the Southern states did not expect to be represented in Garfield's Cabinet, but the leaders are of opinion he will fully consider the needs of the South in his executive capacity.

Wealthy men from San Francisop are buying real estate largely in New York, L. 0. Mil's, o! the bank of California; recently paid. 1,250,000 dollars for property on Wall and Broad streets and Exchange-Place. ,'

A Catholic orphanage, at Hyde Park, Scruhton, Pa, was burnt down. Seventeen children were lost—fourteen boys and three girls.

Edmund Yates is about to start a now daily afternoon n,e\jrapaper in Londqn."'' Lord Odo lluasel has been raised to the peerage, with the title of Baron Umpthill, " James Lyall and Co.; East India merchants, of London, have failed. In the House of Commons, Mundella, Vice-President of the Council, said the Government did not atpresent intend to prohibit importation of pork from the United States. He added that the yearly consumption of pork, bacon, and hams from the United States, Canada, Germany, and Donmark was now more than 201b weight per head for the whole population of the United Kingdom, and its value exceeded £8,500,000; exclusive of live swine. To cut'off this enormous supply of food would inflict great hardship's on the poor.

Chinese have been refused naturalisation as American citizens in the United States Circuits Courts; Action of Courts is denounced by the Press. American smuggling vessels, chiefly from San Francisco, having become so numerous on'the coast of Eastern Siberia that the Governor-General asks' for a Russian naval force to'suppress them:

Veto of the Funding Bill by President Hayes, l;as produced, extraordinary aptivih in American Bgouritjcß jn'EngiaiKJ, The French Government has embargoed at Dunkirk munitions of war intended for Greece General Ney, Duo deEjchingen, grandson of Marshal Key, committed suicide at Ohatillon, by shooting himself through the head. Russia and France show signs of commencing a row on a trival question." The approaching marriage of Whitelaw Reed, editor of the Now York Tribune, and Jennie Mills, daughter .of 1). O. Mills, the Californian millionare, is announced. • ' ' • ■ W. D.' Howells, editor of Atlantio Monthly in Boston, is offered the post of Minister to Switzerland. Politicians complain of the President's partiality for literary men. J General Gran); positively refused an inJ vitation to attend the Garfield inaugural tion ceremony at Washington, March 41 General Haucook aaceptecj, ,•/• M