ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1451, 9 February 1885, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Auckland, Yesterday. The City of Sydney arrived at tea this forenoon. She left San Francisco on the afternoon of January 18th and bad pleasant weather. The last forty-eight hours strong S.E. winds and rough sea.

AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Fbancmco, January I*. George Augustus Sala lectured in Boston on “ Sketches from all Countries,” on January 7th and 9th. He is engaged to iecture in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania,, and New Zealand, under the management of Frank Bowden. Wright Levoi, a lawyer, was hanged in San Francisco on January 16th for the murder of Nicholas Skerritt, a capitalist. He strangled his victim to death. Congress refused a pension of 30dols. a month to the widow of Commander Delong of the Jeannette fame. i-'culyer Colfax, Vice-President of the United States with Grant during his first term of Presidency, died suddenly at Manikato, Manniato. Captain Phelan, dynamiter, one of O’Donovan Rosas’s- gang, was stabbed in the latter’s office in New fork on January 9th by Richard Stuart. Phelan was severely bnt not fatally hurt. He be* lieves he was deliberately entrapped into the office to be murdered, because it was thought he blabbed too much to newspaper reporters in the country. Phelan was in Hull in 1883, and the police there were notified by those of Newcastle . of. his arrival. He was carefully watched. He there met Carey and other Irishmen of the same dynamite stripe as himself. The espionage, however, was so close that he had to leave without accomplishing anything. He had the audacity to visit the chief constable of Hull and complain of the surveillance, and threatened to complain to Sir Vernon Harconrt unless it was removed. Papers in his possession would show Phelan to have been an officer in the United States Volunteer force, and also a New York police officer. A New York despatch of 17th says,, although Phelan is improved he is not out of danger. His wife and daughter are at either side of his cot to minister to his wants. He. is very weak, and not permitted to talk for any length of time. Mrs Phelan says be will make a statement to the public as soon ss he is well which will strike terror to’ the hearts of Rossa and his constituents.' . Lord Garmoyle, defendant in the Forfescue breach of promise case, arrived in San Francisco on January 6th, from China. He met with an accident on the trip, and was temporarily crippled. A few San Francisco papers had been exceedingly discourteous in alluding to Garmoylo.

An improbable story was set afloat by despatches on January 7th, to the effect that English detectives have obtained evidence that a powerful society of dynamiters exists within the boundaries of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and that the society is directly responsible for the recent explosions and assassinations ip Great Britain. While Irish-Americans scoff at the idea, a Greensburg correspondent says it is certain there has been something in the wind in this county for some time past of an unusually exciting nature. Mrs Herman Adler, better known as Lenora Simonson, the prima donna, died in San Francisco, December 27th, of peritonitis. Her father, M. Simonaen, arrived in San Francisco the day before bis daughter’s death. He is quite wild with grief.

A schema was matured by certain Irish* Americans whereby 20,000 responsible persons in the United States will agrep to pay Sdols per annum each towards a fond for the payment for the Irish members of Parliament so long as constitutional me* thods, as conducted by Parnell, are main? tained. Moody, the reyivallpt, opened services in Richmond, Va., on January 0. Some hostility was felt towards him, because he was charged ' with the aspersions of the names of Lee and Jackson, Confederate generals. He published a card in denial, and declared he always looked upon the generals named as the highest types of Christians and soldiers. Lord Randolph Churchill will return to England from India via ’Frisco. The papers are full of General Grant’s affairs, owing to his trouble through bor* rowing 160,000d01s from Vanderbilt. Grace Harding Hammond, the daughter of Belle Boyd, known daring the Confederate ?aS a rebel spy, was married ip Texas to Bay Charteris, a young Englishman who claims to be the Earl of Linwood. ‘ British business men are complaining almut the Australian-Amerioan mall service. During December seven steamers were slow, the steamers taking the mails to New York were beaten by other vessels sailing on the same day. Lengthy depositions are being taken in the libel case of Sarah Althea Hill venae the ’Frisco Alta, growing oat of a divorce case. Wm. Neilson appears to be the principal deponent. In reply to lawyer Sonderback, before Notary Knox on the 17th January, the witness gave an elaborate narration of bis life, to the effect that no finding was ever found against him in a court of last resort, but there was a finding against him in a lower court, which was reversed by a higher court. The circumstances connected with bis prosecution in Victoria, Australia, for forgery, were related by the witness with much emotien*

GENERAL SUMMARY. London, January 17. Tbo announcement that the British representative at the Berlin Congress has teen instructed to accept the F.ench proposal re freedom of trade on the C»ngo, causes gieat excitement in Loudon nuroantile circles. ~. . The Duke of Edinburgh will puolish a collection of poems, dedicated to the Duchess of Edinburgh, entitled Love songs of a violinist.” A mass meeting of unemployed, attended by fully 10.000, was held in front of the Royal Exchange, London. Henry George, Helen Taylor, and other wellknown Radicals wore speakers. Radical pamphlets were sold ,in large numbers. Some were headed, in bold type, “Blood, Ballets and Bayonets,” and made appeals to the half-starved, herring-gutted, poverty stricken pariah inhabitants of a disunited kingdom. Edmond Yates, editor of the London World , will rank during his confinement as % first-class misdemeanant. After the Court pronounced its decision, Yates surrendered to the offioet s, and was removed from the Court and placed In custody. He refused to further appeal to the House of Lords. . .. The Queen and Princess Beatrice go to Germany in March, and remain on the Continent three weeks. At Birmingham 5,000 persons are out of employment. They adopted a resolution asking the Corporation to furnish employment. A procession of unemployed marched through the streets and halted before a bakery, and shouts of “ Break in ” were heard. An artizan stole a loaf of bread and was promptly ' arrested. ’ Violence among the working classes is feared.

The Duke of Marlborough’s overtures to bis divorced wife for a re marriage have been rejected. On the 9th January the Mayor of London refused the use of the Guildhall for a meeting, at which Henry George was announced to deliver an address on the subject of trade depression. The Government have decided to create a Minister of Education, and it is propable Lyon Playfair will receive the apE ointment as the new Minister, and will ave a seat in the Cabinet.

The Bank of England has notified to various banking houses throughout the country that there are in circulation perfect imitations of its notes in denominations from Lsto LI 500. A number of LSO notes are in circulation on the Continent and the United States. The bogus notes are supposed to be the work of American counterfeiters.

President Grevy sent his personal congratulations to the Princess Beatrice on her approaching marriage with Prince Battenburg. In December the British imports decreased L 795,161, compared with December last year; and the exports decreased L 1,130,999. Referring to the death of the Bishop of London, which occurred on the £th, a London journal says it is generally believed the' catastrophe was hastened by an unpleasant episode on the Sunday previous. The Bishop preached in St Paul’s Cathedral, and daring a momentary pause in the discourse a wild looking individual jumped from a chair, and pointing his finger towards the, pulpit, yelled “ You worship idols, while you scorn to save souls ; woe unto you.” The Bishop was quite moved by the occurrence. Nordenskold’s proposed expedition to the South Pole is postponed until 1887. Earl Granville has ordered the British Minister at Tangier to remonstrate with (be Sultan of Morocco about the treatment of the Jews at Demnat. where they have been d-iven from their homes, imprisoned in foetid and their warehouses robbed.

-The Grand Vizier charges the Jews with fomenting rebellion.

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS. [by telegraph.] * Auckland, To-day. Commander Knerr, of the German squadron, has had an affray off the West Coast of Africa. The corvettes Olga and Bismarck arrived at Cameron’s on December 17th, and landed 330 men and four guns,because the natives' of Hickorytown sod Fosse town bad expelled King Bell. The expedition entered Hickorytown with but very little resistance and then attacked Belltown to rescue the German agent,*Herr Patami. One man was killed and several wounded In the attack. When support arrived they stormed and burned Belltown. The natives in the meantime murdered Herr Patami. No further outbreak occurred. A Bill has been introduced into the Tennessee Legislature to punish those teaching the doctrines of polygamy by a firm of 500 dollars and imprisonment for two or three years at the discretion of the Court, This is directed at the Mormon missionaries who have been infesting iha State of late, and two of whom were recently massacred. An army chest containing gold to the amount of several hundred thousand dollara was unearthed on January 10th at Braddocks, near the scene of General Braddock’s defeat daring the first American war. The authorities of lowa confess that the prohibition law in that Hate is a failure In the cities. The total number of saloons had increased 39*over the previous six months, and drunkenness was more prevalant than ever before. The Tiohborne claimant has made arrangements for a lecture tour in America. Mormons high in the councils of the Church, have made a conditional treaty with the Gaqni Indians of Mexico and the General Government for lands near Ooncessoinora, near the Gulf of California, and a charter like the Manyoo charter. The plan is to make a rendezvous for Mormons liable to be prosecuted for polygamy under the Edmunds law, and also to form the peoclus for a future empire. A party passed Dallas, Texas, on the 11th eu route fpr the new location. The colony will be palled Mount St Toung, after the late prophet. 1 H.M.S. Euby has been ordered on active foreign service. On January 13tb a division of the Chan nel Squadron, comprising the ironcladi Northumberland, Aohiallea and Agin court, were ordered to immediately pre pare for foreign service. It Is stated that France has de dared its readiness to agree to tin American neutralities scheme regarding the Congo as soon as the boundaries o the territory of the African Internationa Association shall have been defined ii barmoqy, with the claims of France in th Commistion cm the slavery question. 'lt was stated the cost of the railwa, from Stanleypool, on the Congo, would b L 1,250,000, and that It would require th carrying of one hundred tons of freigl daily to pay four per cent on the cost. Th kcheme was regarded’as outside the| scop of the Conference. .