SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2252, 14 October 1889, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS

2he eleotive franohla* for women wm made part of the constitution of the iJtato of Wyoming on September 19, The Protestant Aliianoe has rasolved to a<r«DUoQ6ly oppose the Government's proposal to es &b\i*\ a O*thol'o University m Ireland.

The Duke of Sutherland and tbt English syndicate with whloh be wm oonneoted loHt 2 OOO.OOOdoI by the »b»ndonmoot of the Great Bears JNeit goldmine m Alaska

Some missionaries rooently retained from Ohlna have managed to got dp ft mild eoate by giving out that Ohlna intends to Invade the United States oak of rev.n^e for the Hixolasioa Aot.

Tbe village of Floronoe, Wisconsin, wat visited by an earthquake on Sandayi Sept. 8 The earth's crate cracked-open three Inches wide. The machinery of a grent paper mill was also thrown oak of line, and the shafts bent.

At a baseball game played m Darling* ton, New York, on Sept. 4, the Umpire, William Marshall, was Instantly killed by Lmls Dargan for making what^he oonsidered a wrong decision. He itnpoked Marshall's brains out by ft blow' T wlth a heavy bat. r '.' A patty of workmen" have tiaen Imprisoned by water In tbe AUeghaony oohlmluc, Ootrberland, Maryland, On August 30 one of Ihe number, Michael Bradey volunteered to take the news of his oompanionti safety to the surfaoe. To do this he had to divo down about 20 feet . and tben swim through an incline under water 50 feat lopg before hn ooold reach the jaoath of the shaft, The men were •II nnved

Mr Joseph Chamberlain, ia a epeeoh at Birmingham, on Sopt. 2, advised the Government, before introducing an Irish Land Bid, to submit t j Parliament a resolution deolarlog Ireland, cqailly with England and Scotland, entttlod to national endowments for eduohtlonal purposes. In reference to this subject Mr Aflohtel Davl t writes to tbe " Pall Mall Gssstte " denouncing the abandonment of a single plank of the Home Rule platform for a, m»» of Catholic University pottage* He declares that tbe stand taken npon the question, together with the vote cf tho Irish members on the Royal grants, la it sorry exhibition of Parliamentary opportunism.

The English Admirals made their roport on the recent mfttceuvres of the British floet on Sopt. 13. They find that the machinery of thole bout vessels and of the torpedo boa 1 a was constantly Id need of repair, and fcho rate of opeed attained wee far below what Is considered neoosssrjr for cffeotlvu work. Almost all the fast ora!sbro failed to steam np to ihelr nominal speed, or to maintain tho pressure Then It was reaohed In winding op their orltlolsm on tbe machinery trial, the A3m!r»lß say that fn view of the failure of the ordinary boilers «fc high steam pressure, the experiments as to the practical employment of tabular or 001 l high pressure boilers will be followed with tnoratsod Interest.