MAIL NEWS VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4061, 28 July 1884, Page 3

MAIL NE W S VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

Mr J. Redmond has brought under the notice of tho House of Commons the alleged seizure and sale by Messrs McArthur and Co., of Auckland, of 250,000 acres of land in Samoa belonging partly to Frank Cornwall and partly to the native Princess Maud Ma and tho Sanioan people, and asked as to what docision had been arrived at by the Government in the matter. Mr Ashley said that tho case was ono in which the complainant was left to his legal remedy, and not one in which the Government could interfere. __ .... Paymaster Henry Wyatt, R.N., who was present at tho attack on Rangiriri, is dead. The capital of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company has been increased by £500,000 iv 20,000 shares, 10,000 of which will be offered in Australia, and the remainder allocated amongst the existing shareholders. Sir Labouchere, the editor of Truth, is being sued by the American mind reader Bishop for'libel. Truth asserted that Bishop was a common swindler, and had robbed the Victoria Hospital of £30, the proceeds of one of his entertainments given ostensibly for the benefit of the hospital. It is said that many members of the aristocracy are assisting Bishop with money and advice. The demand for the Queen's Book has almost ceased. The librarians are offering it now for four shillngs. ■ _ , Lord Edward Fitzmaurice announced in. the House of Commons on July 4th that the whereabouts of Sheldon, an Englishman who was captured by outlaws in Kansas, and held for ransom, had not been discovered. : The Irish Catholic Bishops„,have asked the British Government to intervene for. tho preservation .of the rights of British subjects, which they claim are threatened' by the proposed spoliation of the Propaganda. '" ' .The Court of Appeal at London has given a decision in the Park Clnb baccarat case. The proprietors, and the members of the governing.committee have been fined £500 and tho players £100, "arid the.Court; of Appeal has affirmed the judgment against the .proprietors and'the committee, , but quashed the conviction against the players... The.small-pox epidemic was reported on Juno' 23rd' as spreading in London. Already .there have been .170.0 , : cases,_ and the daily reports, showed a rate of 75 per week.

Patrick Joyce was arrested-on the steamship Illinois .at London, on June 21st, having in his possession an infernal, machine of a new and ingenious pattern.. It resembled a wooden log, but .was found to be hollow, a hole having' been .'pierced through, it, leading to a chamber containing a liquid supposed to be explosive. There ( was an outer wooden'casing 16 inches long and 4 inches thick, into-which a brass tube was inserted. On removing the .metal ,cap the liquid was found. Except by careful examination it was impossible to suppose the article to be anything but a log of wood. Moody, the revivalist, took afarewell of England at Exeter Hall, on June 25th. There were.'4,ooo converts' present. A proposition to form open air volunteer male choirs for Evangelistic purposes as a memorial of Moody's work was responded to by hundreds of converts. .Thoy will be known as the " Exeter 'Hall male choirs."

' An Irishman, hailing from' Brooklyn, New York, applied at the police station, Plymouth, ou June" 26th, for protection from the f'lnvincibles,". by w'tioin lie asserted he was tracked/'/He was detained for examination. '"':'" .-'"*' ' r

The'-'British sloop of war Pegasus has been ordered to proceed from" Singapore To Acheen with provisions arid clothes for the crew of the Dutch steamer Nisero, who were wrecked in December last off the Acheen coast, and are still held ; in captivity: by the Rajah. Measure's will soon be takenby England and Holland to csmpol the release of these men. ;■'"■•■:

The London World of July Ist says that the Fortescue-Garmoyle breach of promise easels withdrawn, Earl Cairns,. Lord ; Gar-, movie's father having paid the plaintiff a heavy consideration.; Miss iFortescue (Miss Finney) denies this, and declares that she never will compromise, " I have been," she says, '' sufficiently compromised already by Lord Cairns' family to allow them* to further embarrass me by inducing me for money to stop this action. I have brought a suit for £40,000. My reputation requires vindication,, which the trial .will' give me, and I think more of my reputation than of all the money in the world." .-.■•■••'. The Armagh, Orangemen resolved that the Orangemen of the whole country should attend the anniversary meeting at Newry on July 12th. The London Standard of July; Ist says that some influential Irish-Americans have urged Mr Parnell to issue' an address to the' Irish voters of America requesting them to support Blame in the Presidential contest, inthe hope that his election would result in fomenting difficulties between England ■ aud tho United States, and that Mr Parnelldeclined to accede to the request. : ■ •'

The Orangemen of Newry oelebrated on July Ist the 194 th anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne. Bonfires blazed on the hills and in various parts of tho town. A procession, preceded by brass bands, marched through tho streets carrying an e&gy marked "The traitor Lundy." which was aftewards burned. The pp. Hop. dispersed a crowd of Nationalists 'who had assembled. '

. A tremendous riot occurred at the.recent elections at Cape de. Verde Islands, in which several persons were killed and a considerable number wei-o -wounded. • ■ , ,

Gerald ; Massey, *'- an English ' poet and scholar, who has been delivering"alarmist political and-free-thought lectures in, San Francisco; > leaves here by the Zealandia- 'to make a tour of the' Australian colonies. General George 'A. Sheridan,' an American orator, and a leading member of the : grand army of the American- Republic, who is making a tour of the. world,- is also a passenger by the same steamer T - ' "; J The araendpd /Chinese .Ruination Bill passed t.ie United'SiefteV Swfttb. pn . July 3rd' by '4d, Yq.es'..q, 12. ; Two. days were devoted to.its deliberation. : ; • >.; *- : -;; -;,. The' .American national anniversary this year *was. -observed ; - on both July 4th ;and sth. ' The procession- in ' S*}n' Francisco,especialiy in' its n.iliti.ry -~eagres, w.as a grand a/ffa,ir; /By way! of.fun on the 4th of July, miixe miners, of the ;Swan City, Colarado, put giant-powder under the pdstofticej and blew it out of sight.. Luckily no one was hurt

Monsignor Capol is making many con-, verts to the Catholic Church among ■ the. Americans. Colonel Briss, of _ New;Yprk,_ a prominent man hi; polities','' is' |he ; late|t* ; bne received into.t&? |0,1a.j .-"•■■"•_- ""i* ■ ■-"■ •<• : ,TJmi B^V' T %cepfid-;ott,Juiie 17.th.t)ie-' k4u-i.iQi.QP.My and-':Greenback nominations for' President,'. His letter: ofacceptance;:' ho'wover, 'is- looked upon, ;as, a.maryel "pL an.bigi.ify."' "' o* : '' ' "' ' 'J. Off H 1 The spread, of cholera-.!. Sari' Francisco is ba.if.ing great alarm. -f ' -:•'.:- ---' The Rev. J.'Bleesdale,.,_D.D., formerly, ofthediocose of Melbourne, disdain .San Francisco' at the- "Gerinari"*-Hospital..,after much suffering.-* He-was* compelled to eke

out a meagre subsistence by newspaper work, which he did chiefly. on Marriott's News Letter,. He/was 72 years of age at his death. Some scientific friends paid all his expenses, in a reserved' room at the hospital, and gave his remains respectable interment. ...''.' "

Bartholde's Statue of Liberty has been turned over by the Franco-American committee in Paris to United States Minister Morton, and will be shipped to New/ York late in July. It will be erected oh Bedloe's Island in the harbor.

The New York Sun of July 3rd, referring to Lieut. Brown's report to Secretary Chandler.on the Panama Canal, says, "No one was prepared to learn that the original estimate would be exceeded by 840,000,000 dols." He states that the work now completed at a cost of 60,000,000 dols, is but one-thirteenth of the cost of the whole estimate. . The Panama Star says that 59,000,000 dols in gold have been spent i>i tickling the surface. A despatch from St. John's, Newfoundland, dated June 30th, reported two Orange outrages from the northward at Twillington. Sixteen loaded guns were fired into the house of Captain . Urey, and the wiudows were smashed with huge stones. The Ureys are one of only three Catholic families in Twillingate. At Green's Pond Harbor four Southern vessels took refuge from a south-west gale and a floating field of ice. A number of Orangemen attacked the crews when on shore, maimed them brutally, and pursued them to their vessels, smashing with large ballast stones the companion doors, skylights, cabin stoves, and furniture, breaking the bulworks and forcing, the vessels to push out into the storm and ice. An outrage was also perpetrated on June 27th by the crew of the barque Lady Elibank. They broke into the Catholic Church in St. Mary's Bay, and demolished the furniture and appointments of the snactuary, destroyed the tabernacle, abstracted the chalice and other sacred vessels, smashed the candelehra, and strewed the debris about the streets, and in various ways desecrated the church. Five of the men were arrested. So soon as a knowlcdo-o of the desecration of the church spread among the Catholic population not less than 500 boats were manned for the purpose _ of firing and scuttling the vessel, but the influence of the parish priest and of the merchants prevented the revenge.