ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3517, 16 October 1882, Page 4

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

Auckland, October 16.

The mail steamer Australia, Captain Tulloch, arrived from San Francisco at 11 a.m. yesterday. She left on the 24th of September. Passengers for New Zealand —Mr and Mrs Murray-Ay nsley and daughter, Mr and Mrs Page and daughter, Miss Bealey, Miss Firth, Mrs Andrews, Messrs W. Firth, J. H. Upton, H. Elder, W. Stair, A. Storey, A. TherlkullJT. Warden, W. Western, O. Smith, F. Smith, Jas. Rattray, J. Elliott, Edwin Smith, H. Pritchell, J. Earl, J. M'Cormiek, and eight steerage. For Sydney—3s cabin and 20 in the steerage. The New Zealand cargo includes the following : 1565 boxes of apples, 425 boxes of onions, 45 cases of dried fruit, 825 cases of salmon, 81 cases of canned fruit, 92 packages of machinery and implements, 48 packages of instruments, 46 car wheels, 17 bales of hops, 104 packages of general merchandise. In transit for Sydney—2l,llo pad ages. Mr John Largan, the champion sculler of England, is among the passengers for Sydney. He is in good health, and hopes to try his strength in Sydney with the best scullers. The Bight Rev. the Bishop of Eallarat, the Rev. Patrick Murphy, and Mr F. Or. Sargood are also among the passengers for Sydney. GENERAL SUMMARY. Lord Kiinberley has sent to the Queen presents of mats and greenstone meres brought to England by the Maori embassy, and Her Majesty has acknowledged them. The Home News states that two important meetings were held in the conference room of the House of Commons to consider a scheme for airesting the decay of the Maoris. The need for such a scheme is said to exist in the fact that, contrary to the policy of the chiefs, native lands are rapidly alienated, and the proceeds squandered. The scheme proposed is by means of an association to be originated in England, to which all waste lands may be transferred for the purpose of opening up ; to invest by way of a sinking fund the prime value of the lands, as it is gradually sold at enhanced values to settlers ; in permanent inalienable annuities to be granted by the New Zealand Government in favor of individual owners of the land or their heirs, and sbareholdars in the association to share with the natives any further profit on the improved value in the land. The qiinntity of land proposed to be dealt with is 10,000,000 acres, and it is estimated that in eighteen years the native land owners will be in the enjoyment of interest on £4,000,000. Taiwhanga and the other chiefs at home strongly advecate this plan. The movement has secured the approval of Earl .Shaftesbury, the Bishops of London, Liverpool, and St. Asaph, Sir Penrose Julyan, Alderman McArthur, and others. Lieut. Stalshine and Captain Prince Skakowski recently fought a duel at Pargalow, a few miles from St. Petersburg. Skakowski fell at the first shot slightly wounded in the side, but the ball he fired in falling mortally wounded Stalshine. The Eight. Rev. Edward Steere, Bishop of Central Africa, is dead. A hailstorm in Perth on August 28 destroyed vineyards, maize fields, and fifty houses. Many workmen were killed. A woman near Chentres, County Donegal, was shot by a process server on the 18th because she objected to the seizure of her cattle.

A colonisation society for the North Territory has been floated in the L r udon market by the Eev. Mr Bray, of Montreal, ■with a nominal capital of £1,000,000. The Arizona Apaches are again on the war path, and are committing fearful depredations and outrages. A demented girl allowed at large at Nashville, Tennessee, recently poisoned a whole family of six by putting strychnine in the coffee.

A telegram from Yokohama states that the cholera is raging in Japan, and 775 cases occurred in two days, of which 572 proved fatal. At Tokio there were fifly deaths daily from this cause. A horrible suicide took place in San Francisco on the 3rd by means of dynamite. A chemist of the Murder Powder Company, manufacturers of high explosives, named Lewis Kompt, placed a number of cartridges in his mouth, lighted a fuse, and was blown to pieces.

Four officers of the United States coast survey service go by the mail steamer Australia to New Zealand to observe the transit of Venus. The party consists of Messrs Edwin ISmith, chief geographical surveyor ; H. G. Pritchell, professor of mathematics and astronomy, Washington University ; St. Louis, Anenofc Story, of Boston, photographer ; and Gustav Therlkull, of Washington, assistant. They will probably locate at Auckland. After finishing the transit observations the instruments will be sent to the United States in charge of the photographers, and Messrs Smith and Pritchell •will continue a series of pendulum, experiments at JS T ew Zealand, Sydney, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokia. The pendulums •which will be used are the property of the Royal Astronomical Society of England, and have been lent for this purpose to the (superintendent of the United States coast surrey. The ultimate result of these pen dulum observations is to discover the force of gravity, and from that arrive at a determination oZ the figure of the earth. The observrtions will be made under the direction of the United States Coast and Geodesic Survey Department, and in concord with observations by English scientists all over the world. Four German expeditions have left Hamburgh for Connecticut, South Carolina, Costa Rica, and the Straits of Magellan to observe the transit of Venus. The great mining firm of James G. Bands and Co. of New York, has failed. The members have disappeared. Large amounts are to be accounted for. Two ladies left £210,000 dollars in their hands. A serious railway accident occurred on the morning of September 22, in the Fourth Avenue tunnel, Eighty-sixth-street, New York. A Newhaven train telescoped a Haarlem local train. Five passengers were tilled and sixteen injured severely. The engineer of the Haarlem train has been arrested for criminal carelessness. Tho passengers of the latter train were mostly school girls on their way to the Normal College. The refugee Jews are returning to Russia from America in large numbers. Henry Scribner, brother of tho New York publisher, was knocked down and robbed by thugs, at Mesmancs, lowa, and died through the brutality inflicted upon him. Notwithstanding tho attempted enforcement of the law against polygamy, Mormon proselytes by thousands are Hocking into Utah.

A dreadful accident occurred on the Fouth Pacific Coast railway near Leando, California, through the sinking of the track. The train upset on a bridge over an estuary and upset the locomotive, jamming the fireman, who was drowned by the rising tide. The special train which brought the Marquis of Lome and the Princess Louise to San FrancißCo met with an accident at Port Costa, near £an Francisco. When leaving that station the train was run into by a switch engine. The special engine was badly broken up, and had to be removed. The Princess suffered an abrasion of the shoulder, and the collision threw tlio party in the train off their feet.

Mr Tilden, formerly a candidate for the Presidency of America, is attacked with softening of the brain. H.M.S. Phcenix was wrecked on East Point, Prince Edward Island. The crew were saved.

A number of Presbyterian missionaries arrived at San Francisco on the 21st of September, bound for Siam, Japan, and China, with their wivesjand -families. Martial law has been declared in all the places held by the Chilians in Peru, and all outrages o» the troops by Peruvians

aro summarily punished. Prisoners of war will in future bo sent to San Juan Fernandez. All Monlaneos will be shot when captured, and Chorillos will be sent to the penal settlement at Punta .Arenas. Towns or villages giving Peruvian Guerillas assistance will be burned. All heavy work in the inter-oceanic canal at Panama was stopped on the Ist of September. The rainy season so far has been a very light one, yet it is found that even a slight rainfall impedes all work, and on low ground entirely prevents it. The men who attempt to work fall sick, and the men in charge of gangs of laborers say that none of them can work more than three days a week, the rest being passed in bed with fever. There were two severe shocks of earthquake on the Isthmus on September 8(h and 9th, and half the population of the city for nights subsequently slept in or walked about the plaza, and many families camped on the plains. Traliic on the Panama railroad was suspended for some time, as the bridges were thrown out of line. At Colon, also, freight-housee were badly damaged, and the island of Taboza suffered considerably. A new line of steamships ia proposed between New York and Liverpool. The company hold a patent for a newly invented kind of steamship, which it is claimed will cross the Atlantic in only five and a half days. C. *D. Simborg, of the Sweedish navy, is the inventor oi the new ship, which is to have concave sines and two screws, and be able to attain 20 miles an hour, increasing even this in fair weather. A farmer in Kentucky discharged all his negro farm hands and employed Chinese in their stead. Other Kentucky farmers intend following his lead. As a sign of the times it is worthy of notice that a monument to the memory of Captain William Morgan by the Christian Association was unveiled at Batavia, New York, on the 14th of September, in the presence of 10,000 persons. Morgan was a Masonic renegade, who some forty or more years ago revealed the secrets of the Order, for which he was put out of the way by some of its emissaries. Particulars to hand respecting the burning of the mails on board the Alaska show that ten sacks of newspapers and two of letters were destroyed. A gold watch and two or three sovereigns having been found among the ashes it is believed that a portion of the registered mail was consumpd. As the mailroom is in the centre of the vessel, is lined with iron, and was moreover properly secured, it is believed that the fire was caused by combustible matter enclosed in letters. As the mail sacks from Australia for Great Britain are not opened in transit through the United States, the presence of "dangerous articles cannot be detected in America. Most of the injured mail matter was made up at Sydney. The purser of the Alaska informed the officers of the New York post office of the matter, and a full report of the facts will be made to the British postal authorities on the arrival of the vessel at Queenstown. Troops are being sent to Utali to provide against contingencies at the coming election under Edwards' anti-poligamy law. In accordance with the wish of., her brother, the remains of Miss Parnell will rest in America. The results of the international' rifle shooting at Creedmoor on the 14th of September were as follows : —2OO yards score; Americans, 331 ; British, 342. 500 yards score : Americans, 369 ; British, 378. 600 yards score : Americans, 343 ; British, 344. Aggregate scores, three ranges : Americans, 1043 ; British, 1069. The Wimbledon cup, 1000 yards, pi'esented by the National Eifle Association of Great Britain through the National Association of America, was won by W. Bridmore, the score being 135. Humphreys, one of the best shots in the British team, was coached by his wife. The shooting on the 15th of September was equally adverse to the American team. 800 yds. range score: Americans, 271; British, 313. 1000 yds : Americans, 236; British, 307. On the 18th of September William R. Carrol, of the Newport Artillery, won the match for the military championship with a score of 85 out of a possible 105. He fired with a rifle used by M'Villie of the British team in the international contest.. Colonel Stamford shot with Sir Henry Hereford's riile, and made 74 points. A telegraphic cable is to be laid between Lisbon and the United States, touching at the Azores. Patrick Walsh, who was hanged in Galway for the murder of Patrick Lytton, protested his innocence to the last. He said that a witness swore falsely. Mr Gladstone was one of the pall-bearers at the funeral of DrPu6ey. Cardinal Newman walked beside the coffin. The flags in Oxford was half-mast. Most of the dignataries of the University were present. A meeting convened by democrats was held in London on the 21st of September to discuss the proposed introduction of Chinese labor into Great Britain. A motion was carried calling on the Government to prevent it. One of the speakers said that if the Chinese came to Great Britain the British workmen might as well go and die. The last of the suspects lias been released. The failure is announced of George Reid and Co., Dublin, distillers, with liabilities amounting to £400,000. The New York Irish World is debarred from the Ecglish mails. Several bundles received by express in Liverpool were seized by the Custom authorities. The movement to give the Ameiucan poet, Longfellow, a bust in Westminster Abbey, has been joined by Mr Chamberlain, President of the Board of Trade, Wilkie Collins, and John Bright. Blair Athol, the celebrated racehorse, is dead. The unsettled condition of affairs in Ireland is telling- on business fearfully. The hotelkeepers there complain that their houses are empty, and no tourists visit the country. Edward R. Demolski, a London broker, has failed for £100,000. Dr James Alderson, physician extraordinary to the Q.ueen, is dead". Twenty-seven persons were wounded in Dublin on the 2nd and 3rd of September by bayonet thrusts, batons, and blows. The Times denounces the nationalisation of land theory enunciated by Davitt and others as only Socialism in disguise. On leaving Waterloo station, London, for the Cape, Cetewayo was cheered by the spectators. The Government gave him £2000 for the expense of the journey. The fact of a meeting of London Chinese merchants being held for the purpose of inviting Chinese labor to England has aroused great indignation among the working classes, and serious labor troubles will arise if the scheme is carried out. One of the buttresses of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, fell and completely beheaded four women. Clifford Lloyd's subscription to the Limerick races having been accepted, a number of boycotted owners of racers received letters stating that if their horses ran they would be killed. The India Office denies the prevalence of cholera at Aden, and that a cholera epidemic exists in India. At Sivinford, County Mayo, on September 19th, a thousand ejectment decrees viere posted at the Court-house, at the suit of Lord Dillon. No rent has been paid on Lord Dillon's estate since 1879. At the Berlin cavalry manoeuvres two French officers were arrested for making sketches of the ground. Mdcllc. Bertha de Rothschild, daughter of the head of the Frankfort branch of the family, was married on September 7th to Prince Alexander de Wagrnm. The bride received Christian baptism and formally abjured the Hebrew faith. Balthusor Green, a German Socialist, bung hi»seU io prison at Berlin.

A conflict of jurisdiction in Tunis between France and Italy is growing out of a sentence of two years' imprisonment by the French Consul on an Italian who had struck a French soldier. The relations between the two countries are in consequence still more strained.

An attempt has been made to destroy Senor Carmacho, the Sqanish Minister of Finance, by dynamite. Fifty persons were killed by a railroad disaster between Freiburg and Colemana on September 3rd. Nineteen carriages were shot down an embankment. The majority of the persons were smothered in deep mud. There were 1200 passengers on the train. The Corean throne has been seized by an uncle of the massacred king. The Siberian plague has appeared in most widely separated quarters of European Russia.

Permission to allow the remains of Charles Kickham, the Fenian, to remain in the cathedral or Thurles was refused. No priest attended the funeral ceremony. M. Dechard, editor of Le Petit Corporal, killed M. Demisses, editor of Le Combat, in a duel at Paris on September 2nd. A Nihilist named Overdank and twenty others drew lots to throw bombs at the Emperor of Austria during the recent reception at Trieste. A Russian at Kief prepared the bombs. Overdank and the others were arrested. The informer attempted suicide. The towns of Inniecher, Stillen, Tablot, and Wilsburg, on the Tyrol have been entirely destroyed by floods ; 26 bodies were recovered.

The leaders of the Albanian intrigue at Scutari resolved to massacre the richest Christians there, but were prevented by two of the hill tribes. The garrison at Scutari has been reinforced.

The Khedive has issued a manifesto declaring that England has great interests in Egypt, both in regard to the finances and the traffic through the Suez Canal. For the protection' of those interests she was compelled to interfere in the recent disturbances, but she has no intention to annex Egypt.