MAIL ITEMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1054, 30 June 1882, Page 3

MAIL ITEMS.

By the San Francisco Hail.

A number of prominent persons have mys terimHy disappeared in San Francisco lately. The fact has given rise to much speculation as to the cause. Brennan, secretary of the Irish Land League at Kilkenny, attacked Mr. Bright, Mr. Gladstone, and Mr Chamberlain with great acrimony. He asserted that Michael Davitt was the real ruler of Ireland.

The land agitation in the Isle of Skye is again assuming a serious aspect.

In the suit brought by the Municipality of Marseilles to recover the chateau given to the ex-Empress of France during her regency, the verdict was in favour of the ex-Empress, and the municipality was saddled with costs.

Johnson and Ready, proprietors of the Mooriield ironworks at Stockton, have failed ; liabilities, £120,0 t).

The tanning works at Galashiels, Scotland have been burnt down, the total loss amounting to £IOO,OOO. Three hundred and twenty Hereford farmers have left England for Canada.

In addition to the mutilation of Jews at Odessa, the Russians tortured them by nouring petroleum into their wounds. One hundred and twenty-five were so served, and are now in tbe hospital. 'The Hessian Press have been ordered not to report the massacres of Jews, and not to discuss the question.

The Irish Republican Brotherhood of Dublin calls upon “all our brethren, in America particularly, to advance the Nationalists cause, and to'aid by every means in their power those who have carried out this execution (Cavendish and Burke’s ansa nation), and we hereby further declare that they deserve well of their country.” Chinese immigration to California will be legally stopped after August, ISB2. A new printing press has just come into use which inserts and pastes suplements of two to four pages, and delivers complete papers of 10 or 12 folios, at the rate of 24,1100 conies an hour.

•lau.es Van Heise, the hangman for the Stateof New Jersey', has been asked to superintend the execution of Guiteau. He is said to he an expert, but considers the price of 200 10l offered for the service too small.

A Dublin telegram says crape has been affixed to the door of Cardinal M'Cahe’s residence, and a piece of paper with a representation of a coffin on it was left on his doorstep. Cardinal M'Cahe has visited the pew Viceroy. An anti-assassination meeting was held by the Irish residents of New York. Trouble was feared from the O'Donovan Kossa faction, hut it did not occur. Rossa himself was present. Mayor Grace presided. Mr Painell appeared on the platform, and Richard O'Gormaii spoke in favour of Parnell’s policy. Towards the close of the meeting 'here were cries of “ Three cheers for the assassins!” and it nql journed amidst shouts of “ Dublin cut Cavendish and we’ll cut Forster.”

Th« Freeman's Journal publishes an eightcolumn story, anonymously sent, and bearing the London postmark, professing to be the confession of one of the assassins. It intimates that the crime was conceived, as an answer to the appointment of Lord Frederick Cavendish, by the Irish Assassination Society, which has branches throughout the Kingdom. Over twenty persons aie said to be implicated in the crime, all of whon> have now escaped to England in various disguises. The writer says they attended the funeral of (heir victims. The story created a sensation, but is considered a hoax.

Great activity now prevals in the English arsenals and dockyards, owing to the naval and military preparations necessitated by the state of affairs in Egypt.