SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Kumara Times, Issue 2825, 21 October 1885, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

[united press association.] GENERAL SUMMARY. Auckland, October 18. (Dates from Europe to 6th September and 'Frisco to 26th September). A fearful cyclone occurred at Fallse Point, Bay of Bengal, on September 25. Telegraph lines were swept away, vessels foundered, and many lives were lost. The Duke of Edinburgh had trouble with his hop pickers on his Kentish estates. Picking was finished on the 25tb, and the usual price for pickers is eighteen pence a basket. The Duke offered a shilling, which was refused amid such a row that the Duke became frightened and quietly paid the full rates. Bowman, game keepev, so frequently mentioned in the Queen's " Life in the Highlands," was formd hanging head downwards on a wire fence in the forest. Plimsoll, the " millionaire, philantrophist and sailors' friend," is about to marry Miss Wade, an enormously rich spinster living in Hull. Thirty soldiers belonging to a Highland regiment came into collision on September 6th with a dozen artillery men in a village near Plymouth. The Scotchmen were routed, and then the artillery men carried the village by storm. Prince Battenberg has resigned from the German service and been made a commander in the British navy. There is a chorus of indignation from the service papers. Mary Anderson, American actress, accidentally wounded herself in the breast while playing Juliet at the Dublin Theatre on the 25th. An uproar ensued among the audience, which was only quietened on being assured by Miss Anderson that her injury was trifling. Rev. Dr. Wm. Smith has been appointed Catholic Bishop of Edinburgh, Samuel Plimsoll purposes to contest Sheffield for a seat in Parliament. He had a tremendous reception in that city on Sunday the 6th. 200 workmen drew his carriage through the principal streets. Gladstone's daughter and young Arnold Morley, son of Samuel Morley, M.P., late of the Pall Mall Gazette, are to be married. A lunatic was arrested in Buckingham Palace on September Ist while seeking an interview with the Queen. He had an ordinary glass bottle, which he insisted on presenting to her Majesty in order that by looking in it she might have a knowledge of all that was happening. The heroine of the well-known song, "The Maid of Llangollen," died in London on September 10th. Her name was Jenny Edwards, and she was the proprietress of an hotel. The song was written by Charles Matthews and John Parry. Jockey Loates, who rode Harvester . when he ran a dead heat in the Derby of 1883, has bad his license wvthdrawu for striking a fellow jockey and assaulting a paddock gate keeper. On the 10th of September at night two men approached the powder magazine at Woolwich Asrenal, and, surprising the sentry, beat him brutally. They were about to enter the magazine, but, hearing a noise, decamped. By an accident at the Oat well Colliery at Ilkestone, eight miles from Derby, on September 16th 300 miners were entombed. They were rescued by way of the furnace shaft. IRISH AFFAIRS. The Belfast Harbor Commissioners gave a banquet on September 19th to Earl Carnarvon. In his after-dinner speech he snid he had been struck Intho vast natural rosrmrces of the West of Ireland, and th-it. it remained undeveloped owing to the absence of railways aud

question whether Government should aid in developing these resources, but the circumstances of Ireland were similar to those of the Colonies, wlieie such aid had been given. On the 9th the Bank of Ireland received another £500,000 from the Bank of England to enable it to meet any extra demands that may be made on it. The latest novelty in agrarian outrages is reported from Roscommon, a small farmer at Baliuasloe was evicted unjustly, as he thought,.from a small tract of pasture land. When the owner set about mowing the grass the machine picked up a crop of pikeheads and was thereby ruined. He now seeks compensation tinder the Malicious Injuries Act. Boycotting is increasing in Ireland now. It is being carried to a greater extent than ever. Persons obnoxious to their neighbors because of their honest independent actions, are unable to dispose of their produce at a sacrifice in the market towns, and the entrance of some boycotted individuals of It. C. churches in the county to join in divine service is made the signal for the congregation to rise en masse and quit the building. Occasionally a priest remonstrates with the people, but sometimes he denounces the boycotted party for showing himself at church. A free fight occurred on the racecourse at Melrush on September 11th in which several jockeys were nearly beaten to death. Parnell intends to send one of his staff to the United States for a fewweeks to stimulate.contributions to the Parliamentary Fund. Charles Henry James, late Official Assignee of the Court of Bankruptcy at Dublin for 26 years, is a defaulter to the amount of £35,000. He was arrested on the 16th September. His difficulties grew out of the turf. On the 16th September the Nationalists held 62 meetings throughout Ireland. The amount of enthusiasm exceeded that in Dan. O'ConnelPs time. The cry at all these assemblages was "Down with directors and rackrenters." The most notable gathering was at Glengariff, County Cork, where Healy, M.P., spoke. In the course of his remarks he said that " Although the Irish race on this island is small, far away beyond the Atlantic Ocean there are now millions of descendants of our race planning for the good of Ireland." There is a decided coolness, with a prospect of an open rupture, between Healey and Parnell. The former is waxing rich and important, and has an ambition to lead the National party. He has of late been taken very ill. The Munster Bank has been reorganised with a capital of £1,000,000 in £5 shares. There will be six directors •with power to add to their number, and an undertaking has been entered into to pay fifteen shillings to the creditors of the old bank before 1887. Tonquin advices io the 16th September, say that the Black Flags are proparing for active guerilla warfare, and the French army of occupation will soon begin aggressive operations unless terms are made. The massacre of Christians at Anam was frightful. The Superior of the college and a whole host of Christians were° slaughtered pell mell. Some were thrown into'the sea with their hands tied behind their backs. Some of the missionaries tried to make a stand with muskets, but were soon defeated. Churches, schools, and dwelling houses were everywhere burned. General de Courcy promised to send a gunboat, which came to Quahan after the place was burned down, and never ] fired a shot owing to the absence of orders.