Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume VII, Number 40, 3 ʻOkakopa 1868 — FOREIGN NEWS. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN NEWS.

Tlic; Ai»j. Mnil Steon)er ' lilah»" nrrived i on the 26 ult. bringing fifty passengers, | omong whom we notice the return of sever- j al old residents, His Ex iMr. Harris and family, i)r. K. \V. Wood, iMessrs Waterhouse

ana Jones ana wives.—Uen. A. L.Hartweli i; the new first associate Judge of theSuj reme ■ Court arr\ved with this company. We loum by this mnil of the most terri!ic | and destructive earthquakes of «nodern tiines I along the \Vest coast of Bouth America on } the 13 of August, the wnves from whieh > renched these islands iu u lt»w hours, and i \vere observed also along the coast of Cali-j l'omia and even in the b.» v ol' San Fmncisco. | lt is stated that 32,000 lives were lost and j property valued nt $300,000,000 deslroyed,! a tid«l wave, forty feet high rolled with ter-l ritic roar on the shore, carrying ships f.irtherj on land than everkfore known. The Unit-! ed Stntes Steamer "VVateree" \vus carried i half a mile inland ( aiul left high and dry—j inany other vessels English, French aud | American were lost, and whole towns are in ruins. The dead were numerous thnt the survivi»g inhobit<»nts were !orced lo fly froin the putrifying bodies. The citizens of San Francisco were taking ineasures to send aid ; to the sutrerers. j The Electioneering Campnign in tlie U. j S., was t»ecomiug very active,'great earnest-! ness is inanifested on bothsides. Alass meet-' ings are b»ing constant!y heUt. j From Europe (Sept. 9,) advices are re-1 ceived that the Russi»n Ainbissador has, peremtorily deraanded of the Sublirne Porte j the immedinte cession of Crete to Greece. j Turkey is given only ten days to return ap j onswer to this decUred uitimatura of the j Czar. It is fe«red that war is inevitable be-1 tween these powersand whieh ifrisapprehend-! ed will lead to serious complication with other £aropeao powers. A Fennian has been &rrested in Switzer-I iand who made such statements as to leave ; no doubt that it was bis deliberate design to assasinate Queen \ r ictoria. He has been' committed to prs<on to await a re<juīs>tion trora the British authorities. , ■ \