THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 984, 2 July 1883, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

[by telegraph.] Auckland, To-day. The s.s. City of New York left San Francisco on June 10, having been detained—first until June 6th by the nonarrival of the English mails, due to the City of Brussels breaking her shaft, necessitating a return to Queenstown, where the mails were transhipped to the Panvonia, which arrived at New York on May 30 ; and secondly, by unexpected repairs being required to the machinery of the City of IS'ew York. Arrived’at Honolulu on June 17, and at Auckland at 9 30 today. Passengers : Messrs vv. J. Weaver, C. B. Lowe ; Rev and, Mrs L. H. Burton; Miss Austin. i Latest News. London, June 9. The "Vatican has so little misgivings about the late manifesto that the Papal propagandists are preparing to reprint five Acts of the present pontificate relative to Ireland for circulation among the Irish by the Pope and clergy. A Dublin despatch of June 7 says that the Lord Lieutenant has refused to reprieve Kelly, one of the Phoenix Park murderers. Pole, already arrested, is charged with the murder of Kennedy in Seville Palace, Dublin, years ago. James Carey, the informer, on June 6, protested against bein.» kept in confinement, and he also writes daily that he still declines to leave Ireland, and says that if compelled to go he will return. The truth of the story about the poisoning by the Invincibles in Dublin of a number of persons obnoxious to them is doubted. Eight, men were arrested in Dublin on June 6 for conspiring to murder a constable. A girl testified that the murder of the constable was derided upon at a regular meeting, at which was one of the the prisoners, and they actually appointed the murderer, who w.is a c.irman. A London cable of June 2 says that Queen Victoria is living in quiet retirement at Balmoral, and seldom goes out. i-'he is still suffering from low spirits. Her nervous system is shattered. A large monument of grey granite is being placed over the grave of John Brown in Orathie churchyard, also a monumental brass in the Prince Consort’s mausoleum at Frogmore, and a tablet in the nave of St George’s Chapel at Windsor. Regarding the appointment of a Governor-General of Canada to succeed the Marquis of Lome, the Queen was anxious that her sou should have the position. Mr Gladstone refused, feeling that the appointment would be a special favor to royalty, besides, sending the Queen’s son to Canada would be to invite some desparate action on the part of the Irish Fenians in America. The appointment of the Marquis of Landsdone to the position was bitterly opposed by nearly all the Radicals in the Cabinet. At one

time the Opposition brought on a and Sir Charles Dilke then proposed to relieve the party by sending the Hon W. E. Forster to fill the position. Mr Gladstone opposed this strongly, as extremely inexpedient upon the ground that Mr Forster’s presence in Canada as GovernorGeneral would act upon a large proportion of the citizens of the United States as a constant irritant, and perhaps affect the frieidly relation between the American Government and Great Britain. . Mr Parnell has at last m ade an official utterance in the form of an open letter to a Paris journalist concurring with the, Pope’s circular. He considers the effect will ha the divorcing of Irish ■ politics from the domination of the -religious bodies altogether, and is pleased with the situation. The Irish national league is preparing on account of the extraordinary* energy of the Pope, to increase the number of the Parnell party in Parliament from thirty to sixty. Prince George of Wales enters the warship Canada during the present month.; The Vatican has expressed thanks to the British Government for their aid extended to Catholic missionaries in London, ! ’ Lord Rosebery, bee otning piqued at some remarks made by Sir Willidm Har-i court in a debate on sth June, to the effect that Lord Rosebery in the capacity o Under-Secretary for the Home Department was specially charged with Scotch interests merely as a temporary plan intended to propitiate Scotch members, has resigned the office, and Mr John Tomlinson Halbert succeeds him, Lord Dufferin has been decorated with the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath.

Edward Barrington and Edward Cary, editor and proprietor of the Dublin Standard, were on June 6th sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, for .publishing placards inviting persons to join the Invincibles and to attend meetings. Two: compositors, for assisting in the publication, got two months jeach. . Despatches of June 2nd say that the labor market in London is extremely lively. Buildings ara- going up in all parts of the metropolis, and skilled workmen are in great demand at the principal shops, Shi p-building is. active;- most of! the yards doing full work. In the engine: shops, especially in the north of England,; there is a “ boom.” Colliery districts are, unsettled, and the Sheffield cutlery works are languid. At Leicester, Nottingham,; and Manchester there are plenty of orders in textile fabrics, but at unpaying rates. At Leeds the hat and cap makers are busy. Lord Dufferin recommends that the proposals for Irish immigration to Canada be refused; '

The Channel tunnel scheme is emerging from its long slumber. The great majority of the scientific engineers who have, given testimony before the Committee ofInvestigation are in favor of it, and opposed to the opinion of the military authorities; General Adye, SurveyorGeneral of the Ordnance, and General Clarke, Inspector of Fortifications, agree with the engineers. ! American Items. San Francisco, J une 9. Hanlon, the oarsman, is expected to visit San Francisco in September next with Trickett and Laycock. There was exceptionally hot weather in San Francisco on J une sth and 6th. The thermometer indicated 92 deg in the shade and 103 in the sun. Mr William Stuart Gladstone, nephew of the Premier, is visiting the Western States with a view to business and pleasure. Sheahy, one of Guiteau’s jurors, became insane through remorse. Ho believed the assassin to have been a lunatic, but dared not vote so in face of public clamour. The death rate is increasing in New York as mercury rises in the thermometer. On June 6 th»re were fifteen cases of sunstroke, the temperature being 92 deg.