ARRIVAL OF THE SAN BRANCISCO MAIL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1075, 16 October 1883, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN BRANCISCO MAIL.

[by telegraph.] Auckland, To-day. Arrived, at ten o’clock this morning— City of New York, with the English mail. Passengers-—Messrs Ledger, McKinnon, A. Rundie, Carruthera and wife, Gibbs, Loveti, Major and Mrs George, Holmes, Thomas, Pillow, Morrin, wife and infant, Gogan, Forbes, Misses Morrin, Gordon, and Mrs Miller. ' Mail News. London, Sept. 21. A death from cholera is reportel in the Sligo County Hospital on the 20th. Mr Parnell has selected Mr McMahon as the candidate of the Home Rulers. Elkin and Co., London merchants, failed on September 21st for LIOO,OOO, Professor Nordenkfoldt’s Greenland party were heard from via Thurso, in Scotland. They had reached a distance of 360 kilometres inland, and attained a height of 7,000 feet above the sea. The whole region is proved to be a desert, Germany interprets Mr Gladstone’s visit to Denmark in a most unfriendly way. . Miss Mary Anderson, the American actress, is reported on the 16th aS playing to very meagre houses at the London Lyceum. The Duke and Duchess of Teck have left England and gone into retirement in Germany ’ to economise. Their apartments in Kensington (Palace have been placed at the disposal of the Princess Louise and the Marquis of Lome. The testimonial to Mr Martin Tupper is progressing favorably. Tennyson, Lord Ly tton and all the leading publishers are subscribing liberally. | k

A movement is on foot ic London to erect a monument to Charles Dickens. The British Treasury Department baa cancelled L 75,000,000 of various stock, representing a portion of the national debt, and issued terminable annuities therefor. At the Trades Union Congress held at Birmingham, on September 12, Mr J. Arch offered a resolution that, considering the large amount of waste lands in the kingdom capable of cultivation, radical changes in the land system of the country are required, in order that land may “fie put under productive cultivation for the benefit of the community, thereby offering a check to excessive emigration. An amendment was offered calling upon the Government to declare such land Government property, and with this addition the entire resolution was adopted. Moody, the evangelist, goes to Ireland in October, not, however, (as he say a ‘.'to convert Catholics, but only to preach the Gospel.” The striking weavers of Ashton-under-Lyne held a mass meeting on September 17th,fat which a resolution was adopted rejecting the masters’ proposals and deciding that they will remain out - for another month pending the preparing of new terms. Lord Duncarne, future Lord Faveraham, is shortly to be married to a.professional named Nellie Letnar, who with her sister Kate has been the reigning star for some time at one of the leading variety shows. She attracted'the attention of the Prince of Wales by her singing of the song “ Go and inform your Father,” and since that time she- has been advertised as the “ royal favorite.’* A movement is on foot to erect a monument to the late Captain Webb ofr the banks of the Severn, the spot where he first a saved life. . • The spread of the cattle f disease; in every portion of Eng and causes the greatest uneasiness. In some seoUqns only American beef is now attainable. The Lancashire Cotton Spiinen’ Society passed resolutions declaring that the depressed state of the cotton, goods trade demands a reduction in both spinning and weaving departments. ~ At a meeting of the supporters of .Mr Bradlaugh on the 16th, it was resolved' that the next session of Parliamealj’ the House of Comm ms should'be given no rest until Mr Bradlaugh be admitted to his seat, or his legal disqualification finally determined. , M r--Miss Mary Anderson, the American actress, now in London, recently declined the honor of being presented to the Prince of Wales. She desired, she said, to avoid scandal. * f ' . The Queen subscribed L2OO for thi <e* lief of the distress in Egyptp caused cholera. ■ V' The Queen offered the ez-Bmpteil Eugenie the autumn tenancy of Aber* geldie Castle, which was cpmjteodaly declined. The London night police are to be armed.- Tw * or three recent burglaries in which firearms played a loadingpart have changed public opinion .on- the;subject, and the general feeling,, is that,. the officers should be armed at oqce. . 1 The uncollected writings of Thackeray are announced as included in: the new Smith, and Elder edition, which will contain his earlier contributions to Punch 1 and other magazines. The Prince of Wales had A pleasant

time at Berlin on the Bth, wbere.be attended a fancy ball. He, LordCbarle* Beresford, and other members .of the Royal party were attired as nooks v and chambermaids, etc. The Princess was absent. Matwood, the London hangman, died in September. An inquest was ordered, as it was said the Invincible* caused hla death. It is announced that Princess Beatrice will go to the north of Italy for the winter. An impression has gone abroad that the Queen has practically disgraced the new Duke of Marlborough by refusing to admit him to her presence to deliver up the insignia of the garter which his father wore, and which his successor,, according to custom, delivers to the Sovereign. Ho has been told he must leave the, things with the Lord Chamberlain. t . The progress of distinguished foreign tourists in America is watched! in London with great interest, and in place' : of parliamentary proceedings the newspapers are full of American affairs, emigration, natural resources, scenery and social conditions, The Yicar of Stratford-on-;4T on haa signified his willingness to allow the remains of Shakespeare to : be exhumed. The object is to compare tha skull of the poet with the bust and portrait of him. "ome of the members of the town.council however, oppose the opening'of-the tomb as desecration, and threaten to throw any one attempting the act into the river Avon* i I Her Majesty has given Tennyson:-« commission to write some beautiful versea about the late John Brown, which jthe will have engraved on some numerous memorial brasses and monuments: which are being prepared by her prder, • Sir Theodore Martin will also write > biography of Brown. The same despatch adds that the poet Laureate’s income from his works is no longer what it- was. Publishers used to guarantee him L3OOO ayear, but can do this no longer, as he has bean wasting his time writing rubbish for the stage. Mr John Morley has retired permanently from the Pall Mall Oazttte.