ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 791, 13 November 1882, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

[by telegraph.] Auckland, To-day. Arrived—P.M. s.s. City New York, with the San Francisco mail. New Zealand passengers Geo. Wilson, A. Heather, H. Heather, Fi Smith, Mr and Mrs Gilchrist, F. Mason, W. J. Offer, F. Datley, W. A. Leech, G. W.; Tucker, Mr and Mrs B. Thornton, Mr and Mrs Hosking and son, Mr and Mrs Brocksmith. W. A. Lockley, F. Milner, Miss Ida Fleming, J. S. Browne, and fourteen steerage. The Australian cricketers are on board en route for Sydney. General Summary. The'Horse Guards returned from Egypt on the 20th. Their reception along the whole route after landing was' Enthusiastic to a remarkable extent. Reports have reached London that the Danish and Dutch Arctic expeditions are in danger, being beset by ice in the Kara Sea, about eighty miles from the continent. The German ship Constantia, Captain Kuohlkir, came into collision with the steamer City of Antwerp, fourteen miles off Eddystone, on the 17th October, and both vessels were sunk. Fourteen of the crew of the steamer were drowned. Barry Sullivan, the actor, has consented to be nominated to Parliament by an Irish constituency on Home Rule principles. The Lord Leiutenant has commuted the death sentence of Walsh, convicted as an accessory to the murder of Constable Kavauagh, to penal servitude for life. A thick fog, smelling of burning turf, covered the whole of St. Petersburg on the 26th and 21st October. ' A vast circle of incendiary fires, extending from Finland to the Baltic, is said to surround the capital, and to include within its circumference Gatschina, where the Emperor now is. The fires are in the woods, under which are turf pits, and they may last for a long time. They are attributed to the Nihilists. Overdank, the man arrested in ’Frisco some time since while manufacturing bombs, was sentenced to death on the 19th inst. 1

The Australian Cricketers have been handsomely entertained during their short stay in San Francisco, and on Saturday they played a match, merely to show their style. The cricketers carry back with them over LII,OOO. Rowell, the English pedestrian, has offered to bet L 20,000 that ha. trill win the coming six days’ match in New York, and he is sanguine that 640 miles will be covered.

The British ship Bremin, of Liverpool, went ashore in a fog on Oct. 16th, near San Francisco harbor, and is a total wreck.

A Bill was introduced in the Vermont House of Representatives on the 18th inst., requiring the prison authorities to render prisoners insensible before execution. ’

On the 16th of October the Secretary of State conveyed to Harry George, the New York Irish World correspondent, the regret of Her Majesty’s Government for the treatment to which he had been subjected in Ireland.

The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher’s farewell address on returning from the congregation shows that in effect he denies

the inspiration of the scriptures, the orthodoxy of the doctrine of the fall and atonement, and also the doctrine of eternal punishment at wh;ch he scoffed. Major O’Connor, worth 10,000,000d015, was killed in a street fight in Tennesee. The light-keeper at Lonely Island, Canada, has been arrested for robbing, drowned persona washed on shore. A. and J. C. Hope, iron importers, of Montreal, failed on October 16th for 20,000d015. A cyclone visited the Kilka Abago tobacco region (Cuba), on October 16, and wrought so much damage to property and loss of life to individuals, that the Captain General is compelled to appeal for aid to the Spanish Ministers. Acts by Peruvians at Arequipo, show their cause to be desperate, and according to a despatch of the 21at October, “ They are marching headlong to destruction.” Professor Blackie, of Glasgow, and others are about to start a fresh land agi-,

tation in the Highlands. The movement is wholly independent .of the Land League. A despatch from Dublin on' October 4, says the police believe that the murderers of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Undersecretary Burke numbered ten, and are still in Ireland, but that unless the aid of some informer can be secured the crime cannot be brought home to the guilty parties. The weapons used in the commission of the murder were found some. days ago concealed in the rafters of the stables in the rear of a house belonging to a man recently sentenced to penal servitude for intimidation. It is alleged a man named Denny was driver of the cart in which the murderers rode. The weapons found were four knives nine inches long, with blades three quarters of an inch wide. They are quite new and very sharp, and evidently surgical dissecting knives. The blades were discolored by, as proved by chemical analysis, human blood. The authorities maintain the strictest silence. Three London detectives arrived at Dublin on the 15th October with three of the' crew of the Gladstone, one of whom was Westgage, the self-accused assassin who, as mentioned before, had sailed for the West Indies. The sailors were subjected to a searching examination, and the authorities are thoroughly determined to sift Westgage’s assertions, in order to quiet the public mind. The police firmly adhere to the belief that Westgage is crazy, and that his assertions are un* worthy of belief.