NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Kumara Times, Issue 2560, 18 November 1884, Page 2

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

+ The Tichborne claimant was secretly brought to Pentonville prison on the night of October 20, He was discharged next morning quite unexpectedly to himself, as his time had still three days to run. At Scotland Yard the claimant received a ticket-of-leave, requiring him to report monthly by letter to the authorities. He appeared to be in good health, and will remain quiet for the present, keeping his residence secret.

Government has decided to expend one million on its fortifications at Aden, Singapore,.and Hong-Koug, and orders have been sent from the War Office to hasten the work.

The distress at the shipbuilding centres of the north is increasing. Trade on the Tyne and adjacent districts is in a sad state. Forty ocean steamers are lying idle on the docks at Sunderland, and most of the ship-yards are closed. Public subscriptions are making for laborers.

It is reported that the War Office is about to send an expedition of 8000 men to South Africa, a portion of which will be drawn from the East Indian Army.

Trevelyan, late Chief Secretary for Ireland, is now accompanied everywhere by a detective. The weekly National papers exult over Trevelyan’s resignation. It is proposed to raise by subscription .210,000 for the family of* the late Alexander M. Sullivan.

An attempt by Lord Lytton to prevent the publication of his father’s letters has raised some very interesting legal questions. It appears that Miss Devey cannot be stopped in publishing the letters.

An anti-slavery jubilee meeting was held in Manchester. Henry M. Stanley was present, and assured the English people that slavery had not

been abolished, but simply what was simply called free labour in Africa of captured slaves. The Government of Columbia (United States), has notified the Panama Railway Company that it will not allow that line of railroad to be cut, changed, or damaged for the benefit of M. De Lesseps canal. Miss Carrie Wilton, a young New York lady, who wandered from her party of tourists in the Colorado Mountains recently, and was found frozen to death, left all her property, amounting to 250,000 dollars, to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. A marriage is arranged between President Arthur and the daughter of Mr Prelinghusen, Secretary of State. It is to take place in January next. A bill has been introduced into Vermont legislature providing for the death punishment of malefactors by electricity. William H. Vanderbilt has donated 500,000 dollars to the college of physicians and surgeons of New York. [special to press association.] London, November 13. A sample of ores obtained by Messrs Davis and Nicholls in Northern Australia has been assayed and found to be remarkably rich in galena and gold. The agents for the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company, Limited, have received cable advice from London, to the following effect; —The steamship Arawa left Plymouth for Otago on the Bth inst., carrying 503 passengers for all ports; also that the ship Dunedin, from Oamaru, had arrived with her cargo of frozen meat in good order.