San Francisco Mail Items

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 83, 7 January 1890, Page 3

San Francisco Mail Items

There was much stone throwing at the procession which escorted Archbishop Walsh on his return to Toronto on 30th November At St. Michael's Cathedral a stone went through the Bishop's carriage and struck him on the arm, causing a «e.vere bruse. Heartrending tale's of destitution and suffering among the fishermen of Labrador had reached Ottawa on November 29. Near Point Esquimaux entire families • are on the verge of starvation, and are \ subsisting on the flesh of dogs. At aj number of fishing stations, anticipating a scarcity of food, the fishermen saved the reruse from the fish and salted it. This will be used to sustain life. The fishermen have been left without means to buy food. The St. James' Gazette of December 3 prints a sensational article on the disappearance of Mr Parnell, and says his followers are much corifcerned at his prolonged absence. For several weeks not a word has been heard from him, and he has failed to keep several engagements, the most important being for a meeting with Mr Gladstone. A despatch of December .9 says Mr Parnell is sick, and unable to take part in political arlairs at present. Barnum's largest elephant fatally gored his keeper on the morning of December 3. He repeatedly drove his tusks into the unfortunate man's neck and head. Professor Leydon, of Berlin, was summoned on December 8 to attend the Czar, sick with inflammation of the lungs. The action brought by Mrs John W. Mackay, wife of the Caufornian mining magnate, against the Manchester Examiner for libel in publishing an article to the effect that she was a washerwoman in Nevada prior to her marriage, was settled on December 5 by defendants apologising for the publication, paying costs and a certain sum *of money to a charitable institution, to be selected by Mrs Mackay, The J-s£e remarked to the defendants that they ought to feel grateful to the plaintiff for her leniency. Mr Gladstone, in an article in the Nineteenth Century for November, on election statistics, says he believes, if the elections were held* now, the country would return a Home Eule majority in Parliament of 100. Mr Balfour and Lord Asbbourne presented to a. committee of the Cabinet presided over by Lord Salisbury, the draft of a land scheme, which was submitted to the whole Cabinet on November 30. It is reported that the first demand is for from J;7,000,000 to £10,000,000 with which to deal with the disaffected portions of Ireland. Stanley, Ernin Pasha and Cassati were met by Major Wissman at Stoni, on the Kinghani Biver, on Tuesday, December •3. Major Wissman provided horses, and Stanley and Emm made their triumphal •entry into Baganioyo on the 4th. On November- 29th Stanley looked hearty, but his hair was white. He re.sr.ued Emii) Bey for £715 less than tne sum subscribed, which was .£20,000. Stanley has sold his coming book outright to yampson, Low and Co., Londou publishers, for £40,000. The tiole wilJ be "How. l Believed Ernin." In regard to the recent injuries received by Ernin Bey through a fall from an open window at Bagamayo, a despatch from Zanzibar says it is rumoured, according to. a despatch from Vienna of the same date, that Emm's injuries were caused by .an attempt at suicide, because of his remorse for having left his post of duty in the Equatorial provinces he had founded. All T;he physicians except Dr Parkes, an .English resident, abandoned every hope of Emm's recovery. The Queen sent a cable despatch to Stanley, on the 12th December, in which she says — " My thoughts are with you and your brave followers, whose hardships and dangers .are at an end. 1 again congratulate you all, in .-lading, the Z tu/i'iaris, \v iio displayed such devotion and fortitude during your 'marvellous expedition. i trust Enuin Pasha is making favourable progress." The Sultan has thanked Stanley's Zanzibaris. The Corporation of London has invited Stanle.y to accept the freedom of the City. The editor of the North London Press (Mr Parke). who has be proceeded against by the Earl of Euston for alleged libel in regard to the- London scandal, is an insignificant individual, but the Radical element, headed by Mr Labouchere, together with many Conservatives who are determined to push this investigation, have secured for him the best legal advice in London. The New York World's London correspondent cables as follows : — * g December I. Concerning this scandal I have seen a deposition made by persons who frequented the house for the purpos > -of crime, and who give the names of t c aristocratic clientele whom they regularly niet there. These persons selected the photographs of Lord Arthur Somerset and the Earl of Euston from others submitted to them, and most fearful revelations concerning these noblemen. Mr Gladstone, in a speech, inspired great enthusiasm with a definite expression of the Liberal policy. He said Ireland was the leading question of the day. The Tories would have been converted to the Liberal view of the subject by this time but for the dissentient Liberals. The split in the Liberal Party would not have occurred except for the personal ambition of some Tories and their allies, who desired more to form a social party than to do political justice. The Plan of Campaign was a necessary consequence of the the Government's refusal to grant proper relief for Ireland. There was less crime in Ireland than in England. The country had clearly expressed a desire that there should be a change in the administration of Ireland, and the Liberals might look to the future with confidence. He quoted recent speeches of Lord Salisbury and the Marquis of Hartington as evidence that the Unionist party is now forming plans in anticipation of ft deoinive defeat, and then the time wo.uld come for the Liberals to^aeal to the nation. The only reason for the existence of the dissidents as a party is an anti-Irish feeling ; it was the curse of their destiny. They were chained to the wheol; and must revolve or stop. He closed by giving thanks to the comrades who stood by him in the time of adversity. All hope of the recovery of the wife of General Booth has been abandoned. She is dying from cancer. Colonel Hughes- Hallett, ex-M.P., is on the point of- seeking a divorce from his American wife, Miss Chamberg, on the ground of adultery. The floor of a sugar warehouse at Prague with 15,000 tons of sugar fell in on December sth, killing eight men and injuring many others. The" Portuguese Government has sent a circular to the European Powers saying it is ready to prove unbroken occupation by Portugal of the African territory now c\- lined by England and further that she is determined to maintain her rights at iU hazards. •Qqxq Dillon, a once famous oarsman and former Australian souiler, was wept <£fc to sea from New York harbour, on December 11, and has not been . seen *?he oarsman Teamer will sail from Frisco fcr Australia on January Wtffc He pro|oWto meefr-B*ach and all-oomws;