Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-02-27

Prosperity in New Zealand.
The steamer City of New Y ork arrived
at San Francisco Saturday from Sydney,
January Goth, Auckland, January 3lst, and
Honolulu, February 10th
AUSTRALIA.
The Sydney Mail of January 23d saws :
We have again to look to the neighbcripg
Colonies for the heaviest items in the week s
record of small. pox. In the Melbourne
quarantine ground matters are reported as
unequivocally bad. The disease has made
progress, selecting several more victims ;
one case has proved fatal. The detained
passengers have become downhearted,
owing to the proved fatality of the dis
ease and the lack of necessary comforts.
In Adelaide, also, other cases have oc-
CURED, but none at present have resulted
in death. The guard around the quaran.
tine-grouud has been strengthened, and
every precaution taken to prevent the
spread of the disease.
Reports from all parts of Victoria refer
to the immense damage done by the recent
gales to farms and orchards. Bush fires
are also prevalent.
Albury has been shocked by deplorable
accident. January 23d three sisters
Eliza, aged %, Mary Ann, aged 10, and
Catherine Pestorella, aged l3-all living in
Albury, the two elder being dressmakers,
went to battle in the Murray and were
drowned.
Heavy gales have occurred at Port Oar.
win, in the Northern Territory. The Eng.
fish and Scottish Bank, in course of cree.
ton, was blown down, and other local
damage done. Many buildings were com.
pletely demolished.
NEW ZEALAND.
The Auckland Herald says: The Colony
is undoubtedly in solid position, and is
advancing rapidly in prosperity. The
Custom returns and all the other induces OF
revenue are favorable capital is plentiful,
and the investments safe, while employ
ment is plentiful and well remunerated.
The harvest promises well throughout the
Colony, and has been specially favorable
in Walkato.
Harvesting is in full operation through.
out the Colony. The yield in the North
Island is generally satisfactory, but in
North Otago and South Canterbury it is
greatly below the usual average, owing to
the drought.
The improvement in the City OF Auck.
land is still continued, and substantial
buildings are being erected in all direc-
tions.
The most important political event of re-
cent times for NewZsaland is that Mawhiao,
''the Maori King" who has maintained an
independent state since the war, who has
prevented all Europeans from coming into
his country, and who has been constant
menace to the peace of the Waikato dis.
trict, has come to Auckland with his prin-
cipal chiefs, and has been entertained by
the citizens with profuse hospitality, and
has cordially reciprocated the sentiments
of peace and good will expressed toward
him.
January 29th, catastrophe happened
at West Eyreton by which farmer
named Henry Simpson was deprived of his
whole family. Simpson was temporarily
absent from his home, and returned to find
it complete wreck from fire. The family
being missing, search was made among the
ashes, aud the bodies of his wife and six
children found. To show to what state
the bodies had been reduced, the whole
seven were laid on sack and covered over
with another.
A fire occurred at Queenstown, Lake
Wakatipu, January 26th, and destroyed
seven or eight business places. The loss
is f3 900, half of which is covered by in.
surance.
The ship City of Cashmere, loading grain
aud wool at TImaru, was wrecked on the
rocks January 2Sth.