AMERICAN NEWS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 73, 19 September 1874, Page 10

AMERICAN NEWS.

Political riots with firearms have occurred in South Carolina among negro factions which were struggling for control of the State. A baud of negroes in Mississipi were repulsed by the white residents, with several killed. Military assistance was sent for. Two railway accidents, with loss of life, have occurred. Extensive fires have occurred in various parts of the States. » l ' "■ A fire broke out on a Cincinnati steamer. Thirty-five lives were Aost. , " Great scandal is created in Montreal, owing to the discovery of the exchange, by three members of the Cabinet, of a piece of Government land worth 230.000d015. for a piece of. private property worth ouly 40,000. The Cubans attacked and destroyed plantations, and are arming, emancipated iiegroes. The Pacific mail steamer Guatemala was wrecked. No lives lost. By the Otago, which an ived at the Bluff on Wednesday, our English intelligence is supplemented by the folio wiug items of intelligence. The latest Cable dates are to the Bth September. Sir George Berkely has been appointed to the governorship of Western Australia, as successor to Governor Weld, appointed toTasmania. The ship Suffolk,, from London to Brisbane, is at Mauritius refitting. Tallerman's meat preserving company has declare a dividend of 10 per cent. The Austrian Arctic Polar explorers have arrived at Norway, after abandoning the expedition. Tegretsoff reports travelling in sledges over mountain ridges beyond latitude 80 degs. The Great Eastern has completed laying the new Atlantic cable. The Marquis of Uipon has adopted Catholicism, and has resigned the Grand Mastership of Freemasons. At the wool sales 116,000 bales were sold principally to the Hometrade. Tone of the market is now weaker. Balme and Co., woolbrokers, report of series that advance. Superior scoured fleece is Id lower; scoured, l£d to 2J ; washed half-breds, Id to l&d; greasy half-bred Ad to Id ; greasy merino, \A. Wheat steady at decline. Adelaide, 55a to 58. Flour 37s to 439 per 2Solbs. On tho 4th September, a disturbance occurred in the department of Meuse. The Gensd'armerie intervened. One rioter wa* killed and nineteen wounded. Slight demonstrations also occurred in other places, and at Lyons several arrests were made. The Zabala Cabinet have resigned, and a new ministry ha* been formed, with Don Sagasta us Premier ; Minister of Interior,, Signor Begayr ; Ministerial Offices, Fiuunoj, Colonies, and Foreign Aff.iir.3remain unchanged. The Carlists have abandoned Puigeerda. The Carlists at G-uteria, in the North, fired upon a German gun* boat, which replied, sending twenty-four shells into the to»n. An extensive conflagration at Meiningen, in Prussia, which destroyed half the town, and 3000 persons were rendered homeless. MELBor/asE, Sept.vlO. The Albion arrived this morning with tne supplementary English. I mail, but was dotained owing to damage done to her rudder.