ADDITIONAL SAN FHANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Kumara Times, Issue 2738, 1 July 1885, Page 2

ADDITIONAL SAN FHANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

[united press association."] The German despatch boat Pomerania seized a Yarmouth lighter on June 4th, in the North Sea, and towed the vessel in to Wilhelm's Haven, where she is detained. The lighter was fishing in prohibited waters. The London police were informed on Jaz;e sth that two dynamiters had arrived

in England from the United States, and an active watch was kept for the parties. Letters on all conceivable subjects have lately been published in the English papers, and bearing John Ruskin's signature. They are by his solicitors declared to be forgeries. The motive of the forgery appears to be one of pure mischief. A fire broke out in the Margaret pit of a Philadelphia colliery, near Durham, at noon on June 3rd, and was closed by an explosion, by which 22 men and boys were killed outright. The explosion was followed by a rush of water in immense volumes, and the whole mine overflowed, notwithstanding the most strenuous efforts to prevent it. The British Missionary Society of London breakfasted explorer Stanley on May 27. Stanley is making his campaign in Europe on behalf of the Congo State very vigorously. It is said that the budget increase of the duty on beer and spirits has been a blessing in disguise to many enterprising dealers, who have made fortunes by the exercise of a little forethought. John Bright has written a public letter approving of the Parliamentary grant of £31,000 a year to Princess Beatrice as a dowry. Bright says he is astonished to see the Liberals object to so small a grant while silence concerning the extravagance of Government over unjust wars. It is said that Cunningham, dynamiter, has shown signs of insanity simce his confinement in Chatham prison. An inspection of the boiler and engines of the Arctic steamer Alert, returned by the United States Government to the English Admiralty, found them all salted up and in a generally rusty condition. The fact is severely commented upon by the Press. Lieut. John Loonies Shook, assistant naval constructor of the United States Navy, who was on special duty at the Royal College, Greenwich, in England, committed suicide at Blackneath by shooting himself. The cause is disappointment in love. The British steamer Waverley, with a cargo of saltpetre, was seized by the French in Chinese waters, on the ground that her cargo was contraband of war. The Committee of the Chamber of Commei'ce, London, forwarded to Government a resolution in favour of diverting emigration to the British Colonies, especially to Australia, where the consumption of British goods exceeds £8 per head, instead of America, where the consumption is only 10s a head. A report published in London is to the effect that Alfred Aylward, notorious in connection with the Boer rebellion, was one of the leading spirits in the formation of the half-breed rebellion, of which Riel was only the figurehead.