ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1274, 26 June 1886, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

GENERAL SUMMARY. Auckland, Juno 26. The R.M.SS. Matiposa from Sa Francisco arrived at half past one o'clock this morning with the English and Ame’ican mails. Sholeft San Francisco m s\h J«n», at 5.58 p.m., ar.lved Honolulu 12-h at 645 am., left acaln on 13th at 2. SO p,m., stopped ofl' Tututla st 12 50 p.m. on 20th, left again at 1 3 p.m., and received Auckl»nd pilot at 12 26 am last night. Fine weather and moo f h sea prevailed nntil the morning of the 24 inst, thence to arrival fresh westerly gales. About SO pm on 24th M.C. Hall, i seen i a dock apparently in good heal'h and i xoa'.hnt spirits. At! a.ra yesterday mornin.' Hall was missed and •’tbongh a ciligent search was Instituted throughout the ship nothing oonld be seen <i the gentlemen. As at the time a heavy westerly gale was blowing with heavy sea running, It is presumed he was washed overboard. On May 24 The House of Lords by a vete of 149 to li7 rejected the second reading of the Bill to legalise raarrisge with a deceased wife's sister. The Prince of Wales supported the Bill, and the L nko of Connaught, who was n«.*t in favor, paired. Fifteen Bishops voted vith the majority. The British Government has appropriated a large sum of money for a diy docks and general fortifications at Esquimau!! and Vioto.i*, British Colombia, and proposes to make them important military stations of the Empire. Thunderstorms in Germany during the after w ek in May killed many persons and hundreds of cattle. A Spanish revenue cutter was captured on May 28 and fatten into Gibralter for firing upon and seizing three trading i bca's in English water. Artillery fire from the rock was opened on her Yellow fever is reported as epidemic on the Isthmus rf Panama. The average dally deaths is 40 Fishery troubles'are increasing between the Canadian authorities and the United States. The British war vessel Bellerophon has been ordered tu St Johns and 4000

troops to Halifax The US. American North Atlantic ;(juadfcn has also been ordered to ata.

Allington line steamer Siberian was ont ten days on June 4;h from Halifax for St Johns N F.

It is reported <he State Department at Washington is d.ssatisfied with Consol Gieensbraumat Apia, Sam- a, forexceedlng < ffilrlpowers in pr claiminga pt 'tectorato over the Is’auda and imoriaorlng Americans.

G >ld has been discovered in Missouri ear the town of Louisiana.

A Paris cablegram of May 22 says the

Panana canal ques ion was considered on the preceding day at length in the Cabinet Council, which finally decided to authorise the Company to isane a loan of 60,000 CCO francs in shares, provided It be fully shown this sum woo'd be sufficient to complete the canal. A discovery of dynamite, rifles, cartridges, and other explosives placed under various buildings, was made in Chicago. The belief is gaining ground that the Anarchist Socialists bad a scheme to burn the town.

Maxwell’s confession of the St. Louis murder was made to Detective McCullough, who gained his confidence in the character of a fellow prisoner. Maxwell said that after Preller joined him at St. Louis he told him it would be impossible for him (Droller) to pay Maxwell’s way to Auckland whither they had arranged to go together, and this, said defendant to witness, angered him greatly, and ho determined to •* fix” Preller for his m

leanness. On the following night he and PreUer were sitting in the former’s room, when the latter complained of seyere pains in his side. Maxwell said, “Oh, I can fix that all right; I have treated such cases before.” He then in-

jectod hypodermically to his friend’s arm a sufficient quantiiy of morphine to render him unconscious After he had been in that condition for i ome time he bound a cloth completely saturated with chloroform about the victim’s head, and this ended the business. He then took Preller’s money (,800 dollars) and personal effects, and made his escape.