ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1082, 3 May 1882, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

I The following is the San Francisco mail summary. The. mail arrived in Auckland yesterday. London, April 10. Forsrer has declined to release Dillon from Kilmainham, although he is represented to be much worse in health generally. It is beheved that De Long and his boats crew from the Jeajmette perished at the Northen River. Enquiries have been made of Melville, the survivor, and he has expressed his conviction; to that lefFect * --^A#-a-.--Advices from South America are to the effect that the Chilians are denuding the Peruvian railroads, and conveying the material to their own country. An Austrian polar expedition left Poland for the far north on Sunday, 3rd instant. Public feeling in England is increasingly hostile to the Channel project. Small-pox continues to make terrible havoc in Pennyslvania. It is spreading rapidly. A young Englishman named D. C. Owen was lynched at Topa in the Bay of Florida by being hanged to a shade tree in the Court House yard by a mob. He had attacked a young lady for some cause and stabbed her nearly to death. In personal appearance he was said to exactly resemble Guiteau. Boston land sharpers recently victimised Charles Francis Adams, an eminent politician to the tune of 20,000d015. The sharpers have since been arrested. Sergeant Mason, who attempted to shoot Guiteau in gaol, has been sentenced in commutation to five months imprisonment in the guard house, and forfeiture pay and dishonorable discharge. The "Times" editorally pooh poohs the idea of war between Austria and Russia, and also of Slavonic storm as about to break upon Germany. Bradlaugh has been urgently pressed by a committee of free thinkers at Rome to accept the Presidency of au Intercolonial Congress, which is proposed to be held in that place next autumn. Guiteau, it is Baid, exhibits much interest in reading accounts qf executions and remarks that felons die without showing fear. On one day he jjead accounts of seven hangings and afterwards said "I'll die without flinching too, if I am executed. Sec if I don't." Ho insists, however, that he will get a new trial. An appalling earthquake has occurred at Costa Rica. Pour towns were destroyed, and the loss of life was fearful. A thousand of inhabitants were swallowed up, and the scene of the calamity is now a nest of volcanoes.