San 'Frisco Mail Items

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 58, 16 November 1886, Page 3

San 'Frisco Mail Items

Auckland, November 14.'. . , The Alameda, with the San Francieco Mail, arrived last night. Prominent, scientists' in Pane and ' Loudon. urge the establishment of earthquake observation. stations' throughout the world. , \ Mr Giadßtbiie received a deputation of ladies at Hawarden uu October 4th, ' bearing a petition for Home Rule, • with the signatures of 500, 000 Irish women. . The coal-mine owners of, Fifeshire, Scotland, refused, ou.the 14th October . to give their men a 10 per cent rise in wages which was demanded. The result was that 35,000 miners throughout Scotland will suffer from the lockout. : : : The Royal Euniskillen Fusileera . stationed at Aldershot wont on a riot ou the night of the 6th October, in resistance to a draft being made for service in 'Africa. A savage fi>rht ensued. The Irishmen were only subdued after a number of police aud tioldiers had been wounded. Excessively warm wea,ther prevailed all over the Continent ou October oth. Thw Paris theatres are described as a veritable furnace, aud the attendance fell to one-half. In London the thur^ motueter stood at 80. Mr Para ell, with his mother and: ■ sister, will Haas the winter in the ( couth of France, aiid will not return to 1 England before the re-opening of . Parliament. According to the St James' Gazette of the 11th, enthusiastic Socialists ; declare that thousands of men regularly drill in London, and they are able to put 10,ttOO armed men into the streets. Moderate Socialists fear that . tbe enthusiasts' sedulous secret teaching, is telling dangerously in the East End where there is much poverty and ruffianism. Mrs Lender, wife of a butcher, doing business in Camberwell, London, after a quarrel with her husband on October 16, left her home, taking her children with her. She went to ( tho Thames and thew herself and five children into the water. All were drowned with the exception of one child. News of the escape from Siberia of the famous Nihilist conspirator Degariff is confirmed by a despatch of October 12. He is now in Geneva. Degariff planned and assisted in the murder of Lieutenant-Colonial Sudeken, chief of the Russian police, and oue> of his staff, three years ago. Since June, 20 Siberian prisoners have escaped, including- two .cavalry officers and several students. j There has been a hurricane on the I English coast. The gales which be- ' gan on the 1 3th on the English and Irish coasts, wore accompanied by floods, which extended a considerable: distance north-west and continued several days. In Ulster, railway traffic was impeded. The British ' • barque Ballapert was totally wrecked off Skelliug's Island,, on the southwest coast of Ireland, and all hands a perished. The British ship Teviotdale was wrecked on Carmathan bar with the loss of 17 lives. The British ship Mallanoy was wrecked in . Bristol Channel, and 20 persons drowned. The shore was strewn with the debris of vessels. Bodies washed to land were stripped of valuables by the wreckers. The Norwegian barque Fredericksland, from Musquash, N. 8., bound for Swansea, was wrecked off Padstow, and 19 lives were lost; also the Albiane, of the same place, four lives being lost. Furious storms ravaged the Mexican Gulf coast ou October 12, and Galveston, Texas, was again partly inundated. Tremendous damage has been done. In Louisiana the country was overflowed by the Gulf water in every direction. The storm was the most terrific since 1860. The town of Sabine Pass, Texas, was totally de« •troyed, the water of the Sabine River

rising and overwhelming the place, j

There are known to be 155 lives lost. Not a house was left in the whole country, and everything living there was drowned.