ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1292, 28 June 1884, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

[BT XELEQKAPft ] Auckland, To-day. The mail steamer Australia arrived from San Francisco via Honolulu to-day. She left San Francisco on June 7th, and Honolulu on June 14th. She passed the Zealandia outward bound on the 11th. Passengers for New Zealand—Messrs Colbock, Campbell, Atwood, Mr and Mrs Nathan, Mr and Mrs Whyte, Messrs R. Wood, Oaddington, Aluntead, Frebarit, Mr and Mrs Oliphant. Summary of News. The aqmrium of Bishopsgate, London, was burned down on June 4th with several lions, bears, and other specimens of natural history. Sir Julius Benedict, the composer, has decided to visit the United States next fall, and lecture upon his half century of musical experience. Earl Granville has transmitted a Note to Washington in relation to the collection of conspiracy funds within the jurisdiction of the United Slates. Mr George Hudson, M.P., bequeaths L 200,000 for the education and maintenance of orphans in Sunderland. A Papal encyclical was read on Sunday the Ist inst. in the Catholic churches of England, warning people against joining secret societies, under the pain of excommunication. The letter says that Freemasonry at its inception was probably merely a society, but if so, it asks, whore was the necessity for blind obedience to the demands of its votaries? The Earl of Euston is about to apply for a divorce on the ground of adultery, The Countess’s friends say that no evidence can be procured against her, and that the Earl wishes a divoroe to enable him td marry an heiress. ]

Moody and Sankey (vbo is ill and bai quite lost his voice) closed their English mission at Croydon on May 26th and sailed for America on the sch.

The present drought throughout England is almost unexampled, and snob a dry season has not been known for fifteen years. Lord St Leonards was convicted on May 23rd for an indecent assanlt on a servant girl named Cole. The Opart reserved its decision till the Jdae Assizes.

'the Duke of Marlborough made an offer to the Directors of the National Gallery of the eleven best pictures in his collection at Blenheim Palace for L 36.750.

There was intense exCitemsnt in London on May 24th, ove.r the poisoning of several people from eating what is known as “Chicago brawn,” imported from America. One person died, and three more are reported dying.On the 24th the British Admiral ordered a torpedo flotilla at Chatham and Portsmouth to prepare for service. A fire which took place in a coal pit at Portobello, Scotland, on May 22nd caused the suffocation of nine men.

Advices from. Great Britain say that'the number of visitors from that country this season to the United States and Canada promises to be unprecedented. One thousand savants alone, including one hundred members of Parliament, have already applied for and secured tickets for attendance at the meeting of the * British Association at Montreal. A large number of these visitors,' it is said, purpose to make American investments. At a recent meeting of watch and clockmakers in London, Sir John Behneitt, an eminent man in the tiade, acknowledged that unless something efleotivewas soon done to counteract American and Swiss competition the British article would be extinct in a very few years. The business of making time-keepers in Englapd was in a most desparate state of declines Mrs Leffley, who poisoned her husband last fall, was hanged at Lincoln on May 26th. The circumstances attending the execution, according to a despatch from London, are shocking. The hangman Binns was unnecessarily and barbarously brutal in his treatment of the unhappy womaiu_An.oyeJwUMß«j|tates he knocked her down in the pinioniug-room . and choked her till her face was livid, in order to stop her screaming. The London papers generally condemn the exclusion of tha press, and aay that thia disgraceful scene furnishes another and qnlte sufficient reason for the' dismissal of .the drunken brute Binns from his-office of hangman. r ' When the news of {the Scotland Yard dynamite explosion and damage waareceived in Ne,w York, O’Donovan Rossa' said— (< We've got England ak last.' It will not be very long before she will be on her knees. Last night’s explosion Is only the beginning of her -trouble.” Patrick Joyce, Secretary of tha Irish -Revolutionary Brotherhood, said—" Last night’s work ought to convince England that we are in earnest. You need not be surprised to hear of a greater explosion before many days. Gladstone had better mind himself.” A London despatch of May 31st, states that four of the dyna-

miters had b«en captured. One effect of the latter outrages will be doubtless to secure the conviction and long terms of imprisonment for Daly, Egan and O'Donnell, how on trial at Birmingham for' trhasoa and felony in connection with O'Dohovan Kossa’a arrest, altheugh many people believe thrt the explosions, were not the doings of the Irish Americans, bat of Anglo-Irishthen, which makes the situation all the more serious for the Irishmen in London.

Patriots Delaney, an Invincible informer, testified at the Sligo .investigation on May 23rd that his only object in giving information was to save innocent lives and prevent others from being trapped. Ho Was duped into' assisting the Phoe nix Park murderers and was not giving evidence for money or liberty! He expected to recurn to- a life of penal servitude. *

Timothy Harrigan, secretary of the Land League, reported on May 29th that two or three years ago from LI,OOO to L 2.000 was received weekly from the American League, but now they -are obliged to depend almost exclusively on the funds contributed in Ireland. There has been a marked increase in the number of agrarian crimes and out-

rages in Ireland within t{ie few days preceding, and people are beginning to. trace a connection between this fast and the dynamite explosions in London in the preceding week, Mdlle. Oolombter has heed sentenced to three months’ imprisonment and ; a fine for her indecent brochure (Sarah Bac-

num). France wants a Cardinal, and the Vatican will consent to appoint one on condition that the French Government restore the grants to the churches which were suppressed last year. In Germany Duke Louis persists inhis demand for a legal separation from Mdme. Yon Kolemni.

Emperor William of Germany conducted the annual spring reviews in person on horseback.

Prince William of Prussia was present

at the marriage of the Princess Elizabeth of Hesse to Prince Leopold, heir to the throne, on May 26th. Dr Strougsberg,. the well-known finan-

oier of Berlin, is dead. France is supported by Italy in her demands for international control; of Egypt, while one section of the Italian Liber 4 press is strongly opposed. to the French demands. A iroaw amaated at TmoHi, Hungary, on June 4th, who confessed to haying poisoned four husbands and hundreds of women during the past two years. A number of accomplices were also arrested. A London Catholic priest arrived At Cairo from the Soudan on the 28th. He reports that seven Catholic priests and four sisters of mercy were murdered at El Obeid. He also reports that three priests were exposed, naked to the eon lor four days, and died from the effects of their exposure.

American Summary* . San Fbasoisoo, Jane 7The total earninga of the Pacific Mail Company last year were Passengers, 1,309,367 dols ; freight, 3,083,682 dojs. Of this the Australian branch of the service contributed Passengers, 234,500 dola; freight, 134,778 dola. It is proposed to hold a World’s Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1892, to commemorate the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus. Bribery of the Massachusetts Ltgisla* ture this session on the subject of the Gas Bills has been so general as to jm condemned by force of public opinion. Mormon families are mastering courage to sue the estate of Brigham Young for property gobbled up by the prophet during his lifetime. Benjamin Buller has the nomination of the anti-monopoly organi« sation for President of the United States. Buller Is generally considered to be an important unit in the fight, especially, by the younger Democrats.

iha Post Office Committee of the Houm of Representatives, acting on the recommendation Of Postmaster Gresham, have prepared a mhasure providing for the continuation of the subsidy of 40,000d01s pei annum. ‘ .