ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

Kumara Times, Issue 2896, 9 February 1886, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

*+* [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, February 8. Arrived, the steamship Mararoa. Captain Edie, from ’Frisco. She left San Francisco on the 17th January, one day late, and arrived at Honolulu at 9 a.m. on the 25th. She left at 230 a.m. on the 26th, called off Tutuila February 2, sighted the s.s. Mariposa at 6 a.m, on the 4th inst. Experienced heavy S.W. winds and sea, increasing to a heavy gale, which only moderated the day before reaching Honolulu. Passengers for Auckland, saloon—Mr and Mrs Laishley and three children, Mr and Mrs Weaver, Messrs Hunter. Gilbert, George Henderson, Miss Grieg, and 22 steerage. For Sydney—B saloon and 35 steerage. Theie are 90 tons cargo for Auckland. She takes 200 tons of coals and sails for Sydney at 6 o’clock in the morning. The Rotorua leaves Manukau tomorrow morning with the southern ’Frisco mails.

The Mararoa brings no Samoan news of importance, but the loss of the Ransom schooner of Auckland, wrecked at Pleasant Island, October 4th • no lives were lost. The Mazeppa schooner was lost at Ngatika, Otroliue Islands, in July. The crew were saved. George Henderson, supercargo of the Ransom, was a passenger by the Mararoa.

Among the through passengers for Sydney by the Mararoa is A. S. Hallidie, president of the California cable works. His object is to promote the use of cable roads in the chief colonial cities, and study trade relations between the Colonies and the States. GENERAL SUMMARY. San Francisco, January 15. Ihe Roman Catholic and Episcopal Chinches of America have pronounced against cremation. A cablegram (January 10th) says that the great still manufacturer, MaV stal), of Sheffield, is about to remove his entire works to America. Some of the most skilled workmen will he brought over and the rest hired in the United States. 1000 men will be employed. A. despatch from London on the Bth says that the poverty of hundreds of Americans in appalling. Subscriptions are circulating daily among those with incomes to send the unfortunates home. More than -500 are living in absolute squalor, and subsist only by beggin". Parnell in a letter in tile leaders of the Parliamentary Aid Association of America thanks them for tho material,

aid received during the late elections in Rn gland, and admits that if it had not Ween for the funds so timely forwarded from Canada and the United States many of his nominations must have failed of success.

Louis Kossuth is reported to be dangerously ill. A London cable to the New York Herald (January 10) says that the the Marchioness of Westmeath was at rested in the stieets of London on January 6th for drunkenness. The woman was divorced twenty-four years ago from the Marquis and has led a disreputable life since.

The British steamer Chillingham sunk off Scilly by a collision on January 4. This is the accident of which the Sidonian was thought to be the subject. The latter, a steamer of the Anchor Line, is afloat and intact.

Gladstone replies (January 5) to a letter written by John Jennings inviting him to visit America, that the precarious state of his health and imperative demands on his time just now prevent him undertaking such a voyage. Paul Bert has accepted the post of Minister Resident of France at Hue, the capital oi Anam. It is announced that the American Exhibition in London is postponed to 1887, nominally in order to avoid competition with the Indian and Colonial Exhibition this year. The American Consul-General expresses the opinion that the postponement will he deemed on both sides of the Atlantic aa an act approaching the dignity of international courtesy.

Sir John G. Stevens, the wealthy railroad magnate of New Jersey, has committed suicide.

London despatches of January 16th say that the delegates sent to China by i lie German and other Banks have gone to negotiate a loan. Their business is to study the country and get railway concessions. They are prepared, however, to form a syndicate with English or American, or oven French, competitors. The Francho-Cbiuese treaty does not give France any monopoly in railway construction.

The Belfast Pieshytery has issued a manifesto declaring the adoption of Horae Rule at any time impolitic, and would now be disastrous and criminal.

The Daily News of January 13 says there are rumours that Government meditates a coup de etat in Ireland, and that among the changes contemplated is the appointment of General Viscount Wolseley to he commander of the forces there.

On the 13th January the State .Department at Washington received °®cial information from U. S. Consul at Greenbaura, at Apia, Samoa, of the seizure of the Samoan Islands by the German Government.

Cable despatches from London (January 10) say that the interest of the English public in Home Rule has shown a marked decline during the week. The leaders of both parties maintain complete silence. The Loyalist Union held a meeting in Dublin (9th) and resolved to establish branches of the union throughout Ireland.