Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-09-24
Late Foreign News.

Tie following items Of foreign news to Septem.
Der LIST are from san Francisco papers received q,
kahului by the Pos,o,, and forwarded to this
place.
SAN FRtScrsoo, September lst.-On August 8ls,
. rnscally attempt at wholesale murder and rob
berry was made on the Central Pacific Railway
near Cape Horn at Mills station. five miles above
ColfS, by shifting the rails throw the train off
the track. As soon as the locomotive ef; the track
the engineer stopped the train with the air brakes
The train was delayed eight hours bnt the robbers
failed to secure any booty.
Rewards amounting to S12 900 have been offered
Tor the capture of these niscreants and it is sup
posed that the temptation will probably make one
OF the gang turn states evidence. ]. generally
believed that the main reason for stopping the
train was 10 obtain possession of the person of
coi. FAIR who was passenger and TO play
the ransom game of the Italian and Greek bricands
LoSDoN. Aug. Sl.-A dispatch from Cape Town
states that the steamer IeHf0H having on board
IA passengers and crew Of eighty persons, has
been wrecked. The vessel struck rock. but
hoaied OF and was in the act of putting back TO
port vheh she sank A majority of those on board
perished. All the officers were drowned. cor
respondent al Cape Town says that three boats
We're lowered, one of which foundered alongside
the steamer and the other two have arrived al
SIMON Town, containing twenty-three Of the crew
and four passengers. The Union Mail Steamer
Company states that twelve of the passengers were
saved.
Another dispatch from Cape Town says The
femoH's boats which arrived at Simon Town lay
seen, and it is feared that the third boat with if
teen women and children on board, is lost The
captain struggled in the water for some time, but
finally sank.
The British corvette Dido has proceeded to the
scene of the wreck The T.Kfoh arrived at Care
Town from England on Monday She landed
some aud embarked other passengers, and pro-
ceeded on her voyage TO Algoa bay and other
ports. Quoin Point is near Algoa bay and is the
scene of the previous wreck of n Union Mail
steamer.
PARIS, Aug. 31.-The expenses of the French
campaign have already reached 100000 francs
One of the French columns. 1900 strong. has
arrived at Hanmamet. The Arabs have sur
rounded the French camp, but are kept at a dis
TANGO by the gunboats lying off Hammamet
These have thrown sixty shells among the in
vaders.
LONDON, Aug 3l.-At a large meeting of tenant
farmers and Others. in County Down. yesterday,
they expressed great satisfaction with the Land
Bill. Two imprisoned suspects" were released
ON signing documents pledging themselves TO alb
stain from assault violence.
After speaking at Strabane, yesterday. Parnell
proceeded to Derry. where, shortly before the COM
mencement of the proceedings Captain Beersford,
Aid-de-Camp to the Duke of Aberdeen. when the
Duke was Niceroy of Ireland, assembled the plat
form and began to denounce the agita,ors. Cap
tam Beersford was soon attacked by his listeners
and had TO be rescued by the police.
NEw YORK, Aug. 3l.-A dispatch from London
says: The low-lying land in Lancashire was food
ed by heavy rains yesterday. Similar reports
come from Cheshire. where almost the entire crop
is still ON the ground. The rainfall around Oar
teen hours. In East Riding. Yorkshire, oats and
barley sheaves are still standing in pools of water.
The same accounts continue to come from nearly
all parts of the country.