MAIL NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2564, 27 June 1882, Page 3

MAIL NEWS.

A portion of the news by the San Francisco mail was given in our issue of yesterday. The following are additional items : At the statutory meeting of the New Zealand Grain Agency and Mercantile Company, Limited, Mr O. T, Ritchie, M.P., chairman, said that applications for shares were of the most satisfactory character. The number applied for in the United Kingdom was 52,374, while the number available for allotment was only 33,334. In New Z?oland the total number of shares reserved for the colony was 16 666, while the applications amounted to 39,599. Debentures, ho stated, wore to be issued bearing interest at 5 per cent., and were to be secured by mortgage on freehold and leasehold property, and also by the unpaid up capital of the company He likewise stated debenture money,: would be invested under the supervision of an advising Board, and be kept entirely apart from the ordinary mercantile transactions of the company. A case of revolting psrrioide is reported in Indians, Two girls and a brother conspired to murder their father, a man named MeKonnow. The brother did the deed, with the understanding that the youngest sister should confess to it and escape punishment from her extreme youth, being only fifteen. A deficiency of 19,000 dollars was discovered in the accounts of John Brown, city chamberlain of Sandon, Ontario. He shot himself from a sense of disgrace. He had held the office for twenty-five yean. George L. Conley, the well-known opera singer, and Herman Rebell, the pianist—both connected with Kollogu’e company—wore drowned in Lake Bponford, New Hampshire, while fishing, Jane McKellar and Frances McNair, inspired by jealousy, fought a duel near Lamberton, South Carolina. The tigresslike con-flict-.was ended by McNair stabbing McKellar to the heart with a bowie knife. The victress swooned at the sight of the blood.

Colonel Sir Andrew Clark, E B ,K.O M.G., has been appointed to the important office of Inspector-General of Fortifications. Sir Andrew served in Now Zealand and Australia from 1817 to 1858, The death is announced of Sir Edwin Hare Darswood, of West Wigoombe, Backs, the premier baronet of England. He leaves issue, and is succeeded in tho title by his eldest son, Edwin Aberoromby Darswood, who was born at Nelson, New Zealand, in October, 1854,

Some of those colonial friends whom Aiderman McArthur, M.P., entertained so handsomely during his mayoralty last year, subscribed for a handsome testimonial to the popular member for Lambeth, and it is arranged that this should be presented to him at the Mansion House. The testimonial takes the form of a silver centrepiece. Colonel B. L. Forster, E A,, who served with great distinction throughout the Maori war in 1860 61, is appointed Assistant Quartermaster-General for the Dublin district, in succession to Colonel D. Smith, who vacates the post. The proposal to have a magnificent winter and summer garden in Brighton has found general approval. The construction will be shortly commenced of a tunnel between Tilbury and Gravesend. It will cost half a million. In view of the fact that tho West India Dock Company is about to erect some new docks and warehouses near Tilbury, this proposed tunnel will prove very serviceable. A statement has appeared in a St. Petersburg paper speaking in jubilant terms of the fact that the well known mercantile firm of Carl Grap has chartered two foreign sailing vessels to carry sawn timber from Oronstadt direct to Australia. The event is considered to be the more important, as the vessels will be the first to sail direct from Cronstadt to Australia. The St. Petersburg “Herald” regards this as of enormous importance to tho commercial world.

Woods, a notorious English pickpocket, was arrested in New York while plying his profession, and his working partner was a young handsome woman, who screened his operations by the dexterous handling of her shawl. At the time of his arrest he was in possession of large amounts of stolen money. An anti-assassination meeting was hold by the Irish residents of New York. Trouble waa feared from the O’Donovan Boesa faction, but it did not occur. Eoasa himself wes present. Mayor Grace presided, and Mr Parnell appeared on the platform, and Mr Bichard O’Qorman spoke in favor of Mr Parnell’s policy. Towards the close of the meeting there were cries of “ Three cheers for the assassins," and it adjourned amidst shouts of “ Dublin cub Cayendisb, and will cut Forster.”

Helen M. Slooum, a well-known speaker and leader of women’s suffrages, is dead. The Dublin “ Freeman's Journal ” publishes eight columns of a story anonymously sent and bearing tho London postmark, professing to bathe confession of one of the assassins. It intimates that the crime was conceived as an answer to tho appointment of Lord Frederick Cavendish, by the Irish Assassination Society, having branches throughout the kingdom. Over twenty persons are said to be implicated in the crime, all of whom have now escaped to England in various disguises. The writer says they attended the funerals of their victims. Tho story created a sensation, but it is considered a hoax.

The health of Prince Bismarck is very precarious.

Upwards of 350,000 dollars worth of property was destroyed in Tombeton, Alta California, on May 26th, by fire. Among the insurance losses the South British and the National lose £75,000.

The run of salmon in Columbia is much bettor this season than last.

A tribal fight occurred at a place on the line of the new Mexican and Arizona railroad. Some drunken American laborers sought to compel the Mexican residents to give up thc-ir women, and on resistance cutting and shooting began. Seven Mexicans and three Americans were killed. Many were severely wounded. An important suit for accounting has been brought against Stanford, Crocker, and Huntington—Pacific Railroad magnates—by the widow of General David O. Oalton, who in life was a prominent member of the Corporation. Tho widow asserts that ehe was soarsd out of her husband’s property after his death by Crocker, who in his answer denies this in toto, alleging further that hia former associate was guilty of fraud and embezzlement to an amount that all the property ho left was not able to make good. There are likely to be some remarkable developments. The most destructive cyclone on reoord occurred near M'Alister, Indian territory, and 120 persona were killed and a number of others injured. All the buildings wore levelled. Railroad trains were blown off the tracks.

Lucian Young, master of the U. 3 Navy, has offered his services in the Arctic expedition.

The raoe for the Manchester Cup on June Ist, was won by an American horse Wallenstein, Fortissimo second and Essayer third. Fifteen horses started. Jamra B. Keen shipped to Eogland from New York the two-year-old thoroughbreds Crown Point, Potoai, Blue Grass and Bolers. Among the last are the brother and sister of Foxall.

The Moors stoned tho English Minister at tho Court of Morocco. The Sultan im prisoned GOO men for their connection with the assault.

Efforts are being made to settle the breach of promise action against Biggar out of Court, Captain O’Shea acting as intermediary. The Mansion House Jewish relief fund amounts to £72,000, Tho fund will despatch 600 refugees to Africa weekly, at a cost of £55,000.

Tho House o? Commons negatived the motion for opening the Museum and galleries on Sunday, chiefly through the non-con-formist opposition. A new printing press has just come into use which delivers complete papers of either 10 to 12 folios at the rate of 24,000 copies an hour.

Alderman McArthur, M.P., and A. Me-

Arthur, M.P., have each given SOOdols. to the fund of the Wesleyan Missionary Society. The following Now Zealand gentlemen were recently elected Fellows of the Boyal Oolonial Institute:—W. F. Buckley, Jno Chambers, Hon. Jno. Johnston. . The Dutch Ministry tendered their resignation because of the rejection by the Second Chamber of the States General of the treaty of oommerse with France, The Spanish Senate adopted a treaty of commerce with France. A Dublin telegram says that crape has been affixed to th® door of Cardinal McCabe’s residence, and a piece of paper with a representation of a coffin on it left on his doorstep. Cardinal McCabe has visited the new Viceroy. AMERICAN SUMMARY. SAN FRANCISCO, June 4. _ A number of prominent persons mysteriously disappeared in ’Frisco lately. The fact he* given rise to much speculation as to the cause. Lewis, lately deceased in Now York, has left 900,000 dollars to help to extinguish the United States National debt. Moses Taylor, the we:J known steamship owner and capitalist, died in New York. James Gordon Bennett purchased all the property of the Bennett estate in New York at a cost of 1,361,000 dollars. Subscriptions started in Das Moines, Indiana, for information leading to the arrest of the Irish landlordswholnred the murderers of Lard Cavendish and Mr Burke in the Phoeiix Park, Dublin, have reached 2600 dollars. The Chinese immigration into California will be legally stopped after August, 1882. James Gordon Bennett has provided for the widows and orphans of those lost by the ill-fated Jeannette.

Laland O. Bacon has been appointed Consul to the Samoan Islands.

The British steamer Suez recently arrived at Victoria, B. 0,, has been chartered to run between San Francisco and Honolulu. She is the first vessel of a regular line of steamships between those porta. Agnes Robertson Bouoioault has been granted 10,000 dois per annum simony, 'pendente lito. She sues for a divorce from Dion Boacicault, the Anglo-American manager and actor.

James Van Hoise, hangman for tho State of Now Jersey, was asked to superintend the execution of Guiteau. He is said to be an expert, but considers the price, ZOOdols, offiTod for the service too email.

Dr. Henry W. Kendall, of Syracuse, N.Y., was shot dead near the County Poor-house Cemetery while resurrecting a body. The Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Orangemen, Maes,, printed cards stating that Orangemen are peaceful and lave abiding citizens, and have no sympathy whatever with tho Irish revolutionary tactics. A sealer reports that the Newfoundland teal fishery has proved unsuccessful. Along the Labrador coast is an interminable stretch of ice twenty miles broad, closing every harbor and bay. The bicycle riders of America have held a convention in Chicago. Michael Davitt will attend the Irish Centennial celebration in Boston.