ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1269, 2 June 1884, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

The City of Sydney arrived from San Francisco yesterday at 4p.m. She had fine weather save on the last two days, when there was a heavy gale. For Sydney there were 38 cabin and 31 steerage pas aengers. For Auckland—Cabin : Mrs fiaslett and daughter, Miss Duncan, Mrs Dart, Messrs Kennedy and 0. Lucian, Master Kennedy. Steerage : Messrs Friedlander, Hamberger, Jackson, Walsh, Anderson, Young, Aewby, Cruickshank, Gardiner, Rouse, Neil, Knox, Metcalfe, Doyle, Aldrich and Keelau. Summary of News. A cable despatch on April 21st on the situation of the mercantile marine of England says the depression amounts almost to a paralysis. The destitution and suffering of unemployed mm is on the increase, and public subscriptions are being organised at Newoastle-on-Tyne, Live-pool, Shields and Sunderland for the men. Mr Gladstone has announced his positive refusal io include a clause enfranchising women in the Franchise Bill. The authorities at Swansea are endeavoring to induce the Government to send Americans by way of Swansea instead of through Liverpool as at present. A London despatch of April 28ch says Sir George Chatwynd will raise in the Joctrey Club the question as to what the stewards propose to do in regard to the charge of collusion of the jockeys with bookmake s to sell a race. A suit has been decided against Sir William Harcourt for election expenses, tie defended it on the ground that the man ey claimed had been paid by hia political agents. Lord Randolph Churchill is preparing r with Lady Churchill to make a tour of the | ( United States. Lady Churchill was formerly Miss Jennie Jerome, daughter of Leonard W. Jerome, of New York. The proprietor of the Ship Tavern in [ the vicinity of the Strand, seiaed the

effects of an absconding lodger on tbe2t»d, ; ’ and discovered a box containing twelve pounds of dynamite cartridges and.gun cotton. The lodger is being hunted Iby the police, who, however,.attach but little important to .the discovery. The Cavalry barracks in tbe course of erection at Portsmouth suddenly fell on April 28th, and injured thirty convicts engaged on the building. Lord Falmouth's racehorses were sold on April 28th. Sir John Willoughby bought the three Harvester for L 8,600. The three-year-old filly Busybody was purchased by Lord Arlington for LB,BOO. The total realised by the sale was L 85,228. ‘ The Ceylon Company, London, failed on- Mav sth, owing the late Oriental Bank L 400.000.

Mr Henry Labonchere will visit the United States during the year. He was formerly attxchi to the British Legation at Washington. English railway companies, owing to the dapression in the trade, discharged 2,500 employeaon the 7th and reduced the salaries of clerks 10 percent. Ten women were blown to pieces, and two others wounded, by an explosion of dynamite at Nobel’s factory on May Bth. Herbert Spencer declines to visit Australia.

An English edition of the “Memoirs of Princess Alice” has been given to the public. The Government was defeated in the Commons on April 22nd in. an attempt to pass Dodson’s motion to restore the ‘ Cattle Bill- The defeat was due to' the fact that eighteen Parnellitea voted with the Opposition to display their power. The measure will probably be abandoned. Lord Colin Campbell, the youngest son of the Duke of Argyle, from-whem bis wife recently obtained a decree of divorce after private hearing, moved, on April 22 for a new trial.

The tunnel .under the Mersey to connect Birkenhead and Liverpool will be formally opened-on June 14th. The eldest daughter of the present Lord Lytton, aged 13 years, has finished, a storjr that gives evidence of literary ability. A proposition from Longman’s to publish it : was declined.

Lord Rowton, Beaconsfield’s ‘literary exaCutoiV'has found no memoirs amon| his effects, only a mass of parliamentary arranged rotes and letters, selections from which will be published in the autumn. It will take two years to prepare a memoir of the deceased Sari. i, (*T TELKGKAPH ) . , Auckland, To-day.. . The Pope is to issue an encycical let,-, ter against Fceethaaonary, alleging.that Freemasons are blind instruments for ob-. soure ends in the hand of their. chiefs, and that when their interests require it they do not ever shrink from crime. The damaged caused in Colchester by earthquake on - April 22nd, is considerable, and is estimated'at not less than L 10,000., The spire of the Lion. Walk Congregational Church, ilfiOft high, wps brought'to the ground, and there is scarcely a house that is not injured by falling chimnies. At Langents, 10 miles from Colchester, every farmhouse was damaged. The church, an ancient structure of stone, was shattered. Mr Rusden, in his new; “ History of Australia," advocates the' creation of an hereditary, order of hbbflity • in the colonies. Sir Henry Parkas, in a paper in the Nineteenth Century, favors the same idea. A. New York World's cable from London, May Bth, eays that the-Grand Duke Louis Fourth, of -.Hesse, whose reported Morgantic marriage has been the subject of so much gossip, has suddenly made hia appearance in England, without his bride, and was the guest of the Queen at Windsor, Castle. & t the date of the despatch the Queen haa settled L 20,000 on the bride of young Prince Louis of Battenburg, her grand daughter. . . . ... A despatch of IGth saya that the Duke of Edinburgh will take the channel and reserve squadrons on a sampler cruise in the Baltic, visiting Riga and Oronsbadt. The visit is designed to increase the friendship between Russia and England. The Standard of April 27, discussing the Greetley relief expedition,’ condemns the decision to place the Alert at Lyttelton Island. It believes the Greetley party,, if it reached Cape Sabine in boats, would remain there, and concludes that on the whole he is probably at 5 this moment safe and sound at -.ady, Franklin Bay, and p ’ssibly has even reached Upermavik. The article comes from a high Arctic authority. There is a sensation in political circle* caused by the withdrawal of Lord Randolph Churchill from the Conservative Union. It seems that Lord Randolph "Churchill, after becoming Chairman of the Union, ignored the Marquis of Salisbury’s central Conservative Committee. He claimed that the Council of the Union had the control of the entire Conservative party, and it had become a caucus. He appointed an Executive’Committee, consisting of Mr Gorst and Sir Henry Drummond Wolf, and that the. central Com ittee should work in i harmony. Lord R. Churchill looking I upon this as a vote of censure retired from the Association. The correspondence between the Marquis of Salisbury and Lord R. Churchill is so acrimonious that a reconciliation is improbable. Mr Gorst and Mr Henry Cecil Raikes have joined Sir R, Churchill, and they propose to form a new party. Prince Bismarck spoke on the Bth April in defence of the Anti-Socialist Bill. He stated that if the measure should he rejected the Government would discuss it with another Parliament. Should. this likewise eject the Bill the Government would be exonerated from all responsibility, and could regard the further development of the social democracy with a quiet conscience. Owing to the discovery of a plot at Moscow to assassinate the Czar, the festivities in honor of the coming of age of the Czarovitch will be held at St Petersburg. Arrests of persons known to be Nihilists, or suspected to be of connection with the Order, continue without abatement. On the sth of May a large number of artillery officers were arrested on a charge of being connected with the murder of the late Chief of Polios, General Sutenkien. The explanation of these arrests is that do Gaeriff, who assassinated General Sutenkeio, was himself at one time in the artillery service. Several more students were arrested at Moscow, and the first number of a paper published in the University there, the Cheski Ivoncol , has been seized. The Secretary of the Board of Justico and a mistress of the School for Women at St Petersburg have also been arrested. During the trial at St Petersburg of the Black Bank Nihilists, Dubelski and his daughter, the prisoners, stabbed themselves, the father fatally and the daughter dangerously. The steamser State of Florida, which left New York for Glasgow on April 12th with about 167 passengers and crew, foundered on the 18th after a collision with the barque Pomona, off Chatham, New Brunswick. Both ships went down almost instantaneously, aud out of the steamer’s passengers and crew only 44, including the stewardess, escaped in boats, and out of the barque’s crew of 15 only tlie captain and 2 seamen wore saved. The c dlision occurred at 11.30 p.m , about 120 miles off the Irish coast, and the night, though moonless, was olsar, with a sea as smooth as glass. Next morning the barque was observed bottom up._ The survivors, after being 35 hours in the boats without food or water, were rescued by a Norwegian barque, the Theresa of > Christiania, trout thud port bound to ( t

'Quebec. On the 22nd, 24 of them were ' transferred aboard the ship Louisa, from Cardiff for Quebec. It is believed thu t ISO lives were lost. A passenger named Jas. Bennett says the p*nio aboard the doomed steamship was rightful. Only four lady passengers were willing to go into the boats, and only one woman, the stewardess, was saved by the exertions of the chief engineer, who lost his life in doing so. The captain and crew were shippad at Glasgow, and the scene outside the steamship office was received, is described as heartrending- • ' " ‘ . •' ■v»~—