SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Kumara Times, Issue 2692, 8 May 1885, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

GENERAL SUMMARY. San Francisco, April 21. It is claimed that at the next Parliamentary election a large majority of Liberals will come forward iu favour of Lord Hartington. Mr Martin Tupper has been reduced to poverty. Marshal Bazaine is reported to be penniless at Madeira. Mrs Dudley's counsel applied to have a commission sent to England to take testimony to show that she was insane and not responsible for the shooting of Rossa. The motion was granted. O'Donovan Rossa's paper of the 31st March advises the assassination of the Prince, of Wales when he visits Ireland. An Anglo-Russian company, it has been stated, will compete with Americans and Australians in furnishing England with meat. I The arrest of Sheehau in New Zea-j

land on a charge of the murder of his family at Castletown Koche, has had a melancho'y result, for his father-in-law has committed suicide.

Major R. S. M'Gregor, late of the 50th, Regiment has just died at Portsmouth. He served in the New Zealand War of 1864-66, and had a medal with a clasp for services in the Ashantee war of 1873.

Zebehr Pasha, conspirator and traitor, was landed at Gibraltar on the 30th March. It is now asserted by a correspondent at Vienna that Zebehr sent to Khartoum a Nubian servant, who betrayed and killed General Gordon. The motive was revenge for the hanging of his son by the General.

Arab deserters assert that if General Graham will offer sufficient reward, the Arab Sheikhs are ready to deliver up Osman Digna as a prisoner.

THE SASKATCHEWAN REBELLION. The half-breed rebellion in Saskatchewan country, Canada, led by Louis Reil, mead of the former outbreak, is making headway. An important fight took place at Crozier on the 29th March between the rebels and mounted police and civilians, aud forty rebels were killed. Although Reil has not, according to General Middlelon, more than 500 real fighting men, they are well armed, determined, and mean mischief.

The news has been received at Brattlefort that au Indian tribe, the Crees, had started out on the war path, stimulated by Rett's emissaries. Fears of a general uprising were well founded, for all the Indians rapidly joined their forces with the half-breeds in plundering farms at Brattlefort, killing inspectors, and burning buildings belonging to the Hudson Bay Company and the Government.

The Ottawa Government was rapidly despatching troops to the scene of the trouble. Reil is fightiDg to prevent the lands of the Indians and half-breeds being taken from them for settlement by immigrants crossing into the country. He has now over 200 good men under him, but no field-pieces. The crack militia regiments of Ottawa have gone to the scene of hostilities, and the 63rd Rifles of Halifax have been ordered to hold themselves in readiness to proceed to the northwest.

A complete battery of muzzle-loading nine-pouuders with ammunition was shipped from London on 2nd April for Canada to be used in suppressing the rebellion.

The Canadiao authorities are of opinion that the trouble will not last long, but many valuable lives -will be sacrificed before it is suppressed. imong the latest items of news from the frontier it is mentioned that Colonel Irvine has telegraphed for 1500 men with supplies at once. Numbers of Sioux Indians have swarmed across the border from the United States and were making serious trouble. Several hundred of the Six Nations Indians have been organised by the Government as scouts.

Despatches from Brattlefort on the 10th April state that the Indians at Log Lake had killed ten whites, among them two priests. Brattlefort was surrounded by about 1000 Indians. The Indians at Saddle Lnke had raided the Government store-house and gone to join the rebels. The prospect is now indicative of a general Indian up-rising.