ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Kumara Times, Issue 2303, 15 January 1884, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

— - ■ [united PKESfcS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, January 13. i'lu! Au-i.iana airi'.ml at, G. 30 ili.s morning. She lefc Shu i’raucisco on

23rd December. The passage was uneventful. Passengers for New Zealand—Captain and Mrs K. Hill, Rev. Father Stalk, Mrs Dean, child and servant, Mr and Mrs W. D. Steward, Mr and Mrs Brown, Miss Hall, Mrs A. Campbell, Messrs D. Hill, F. G. Gordon, Gifford, Marshall, Sobeisky, Wesley, Fletcher, Denham, Merriman, Knight, Isaacson, Cann, M'Geoys, Colley, Peake, and five steerage. For Sydney—29 saloon and 39 steerage. Among the passengers for Australia is Mr D. Mackay, agent for the great overland route through America, now on a business tour through the colonies. GENERAL SUMMARY. San Francisco, December 22. The Australia leaving at date, is the first departure under the re-arranged service. The steamer City of New York, which has been withdrawn, will be placed in the China trade. A movement is commenced against secret societies by a Christian League, embracing the leading divines of the United States. Mr Brennan, hon. secretary of the Irish Land League, is in San Francisco for the purpose of raising money for the League, Mr Yillard, projector and successful manager of the Northern Pacific Railroad, resigned the Presidency of the company, owing to pressure of discontented stockholders. His manipulations have almost beggared several leading men of the country, while be is reported to be worth 10,000,000 dollars. A twenty years’ lawsuit ended in San Francisco on December 13, by a pioneer of California and a millionaire, Charles M‘Laughlin, being assassinated in his office by a railway contractor, named E. Cox, who had grown desperate by his protracted legal difficulties with MJLaughlin. Cox originally advanced money to the deceased to build the railway between San Jose and San Francisco. British and Chinese flags were publicly burnt by an assemblage of Irish in San Francisco, on Sunday, December 9. The cremation was preceded by resolutions of sympathy with the murderer O’Donnell. A movement for separate government is gaining ground in Manitoba, owing to mis-governraent at Ottawa. The Pope approved a proposal to erect a memorial to Daniel O’Connell at Cahirciveen County Kerry. Archbishop Crokc will lay the corner stone. The refusal of Mr Goschen to accept the Speakership of the Commons, is the result of his aspirations to succeed the Marquis of Ripon as Viceroy of India, Fourteen thousand cotton operators are idle in Lacasbire. Half of the Blackburn looms are stopped, and the men are on strike. The Anglo-Egyptian Bank of Alexandria offered the Egyptian Government ten millions sterling, to construct a canal parallel to the present Suez Canal. The deficit in the Egyptian budget of 1883, is three million dollars. Violent gales extended throughout Great Britain on December 13. Much damage was done in England and the provinces. General Massey who has arrived in New York to deliver a coarse of lectures, has commenced an action against the New York Times, damages 5000 dollars, for publishing a defamatory article. The Bolivian Commissioners at Santo de Rio are rapidly completing peace negotiations between Peru and Chili. The London police have begun to raid fashionable gambling houses. On the 15th they entered a Baccarat Club, Jenk’s Club, Park Club, and others known as “swell hells,” and warned the players and proprietors. Failures—Peyton and Peyton, furniture manufacturers, Birmingham, £100,000; Abbott, Page, and Co., London, stock brokers, £165,000. Cyoret of Lyons, the anarchist, concerned in an explosion at the theatre there is sentenced to death. Rosa Bonheur is dangerously ill at Fontainebleau. Tremendous floods at the Scheldt did great damage. Badingret who helped the Emperor Napoleon ITT. to escape from the fortress of Ham, died in Paris lately. General Mantefel, Governor of Alsace and Lorraine, issued an order abolishing the use of the French language in debate. The staff of La Lanterne, entertained Mr Bradlaugh at a reception at Paris. Sarah Bernhardt has assaulted Marie Colonvier, an actress who accompanied her to America, for publishing a satirical biography of her under the title of Sarah Bernhaum. The civil suit brught by the London News Agency against the comic paper Judy was dismissed by the Judge on the ground that the alleged libel was

fair criticism on the way the Agency conducted its business, and if the guit succeeded, the freedom of the press might be seriously injured. A meeting will shortly take place between the Emperors of Austria, Germany, and Russia. The remains of De Long, of the Jeanette Arctic exploring party, reached Irkutskon on December 21, being escorted by a military guard. They will be taken to America. Disputes between Spain and France as to King Alfonso’s treatment in Paris are satisfactorily settled. The Crown Prince of Germany, during his visit to Madrid, gave 24,000 piastres to the palace servants, and 50,000 to the military asylums. At the opening of the Spanish Cortes, the Royal speech announced extension of suffrage to all who can read and write and pay taxes. A hurricane in province Aliense, Spain, December 22, uprooted 1400 olive trees, demolished quays at Druca, in Yalentia, inundated the town, and wrecked 13 vessels. Captain Robert Dickenson, Irish politician and refugee, died in Belgium. The Canton Yalais, Switzerland, has re-introduced the death penalty for murder. Monsignor Saoarez, the Pope’s domestic prelate, left the Roman Catholic Church, and was received into the Episcopalian Church by Dr. Niven, of Stanley’s American Church, Rome. Several people were crushed to death in Moscow on December 10, owing to the pressure of an immense crowd, assembled to receive a gratuity usually given at the demise of wealthy persons. The assemblage was before the house of a rich merchant. The depression in iron trade in America continues. The manufactories in Pennsylvania generally are shutting down. 12,000 coal miners out of employment. A statue of Gladstone was unveiled at the Liberal Club room, London, when Earl Granville delivered a strong eulogium on the Premier.