ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

Kumara Times, Issue 2988, 1 June 1886, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

GENERAL SUMMARY. (European dates to May 6.) Nihilists attempted to burn the Imperial Park at Livadia, on May 7, by firing the neighbouring forest, but failed. The Czar and his family were at Livadia. Henry Rochfort and M, Fortiers fought an ineffective duel with pistols near Paris on May 7. Yiciga and Bure, Mormon missionaries, were severely beaten in Switzerland on May 7th, by the friends of a Swiss girl who had been badly treated in Utah. The Emperor of Germany has sent the Pope a gold cross, jewelled, for the latter's services in arbitrating in the Caroline Islands’ dispute. News from Austria states that the town of Eriedland, in Moravia, and the towns of Detrow, Laney, Bizanie, Chigron and Lanok were destroyed by fires ■ one man was arrested in the act of setting a building on fire. A quantity of dynamite was discovered on April 25, in a deserted bookseller’s shop at Harrow Road, London. The Times connects the discovery with the recent attempt to blow up London Bridge, and the disappearance of the two men connected with it. Gladstone came out on 30th April with a denial of the report that he had decided to join the Roman Catholic Church. Baron Hadley has been declared a bankrupt. The Easter manoeuvres of British Volunteers at Portsmouth on April 26th, were very successful, the weather was brilliant and the exercises at both places were witnessed by crowds. The Prince of Wales was re-elected Grand Master of the Freemasons of England. HOME RULE ITEMS. Lord Hartington has consented to introduce in the House of Commons a motion to reject Gladstone’s Home Rule Bill on its second reading. Four hundred Catholic priests attended a meeting at Dungan, in County Tyrone, on May G, called to give expression to their views on Gladstone’s motion in compliance with the Premier’s invitation to all bodies in Ireland to take action in the matter. The Most Rev. Daniel M‘Greetan, D.D., Archbishop of Armagh, presided. Resolutions were adopted endorsing Gladstone’s policy. Mr Gladstone’s measure, says the Nation, means peace to the Irish throughout the world. The Earl of Derby published a letter on May stb, denying the moral right of the present Parliament to decide the Irish question. Two albums, each containing all the Home Rule editorials of the American Press, are in course of preparation in New York. One will he forwarded to Gladstone, the other to Parnell. The National Liberal Federatin'-' of Scotland adopted resolutions on Mir 19th favoring Mr Gladstone’s hi 1 ;.. It is statr-d that Mr .)ohn MorV;, Chief Secretary for Ireland, in a speech to be delivered at Glasgow, >vtii r.;inounce tfiau the Government too. d cided to abandon that feature r-f the Home Rule Bill which exclndco r i,<Irish retuTsentatircs from Westminster, The Far I of Konnv.n'o has resigned his office under the {’resent Government. The Dublin Na tiof. nil n'V’in '■■weed by the Lord Mayor, deVitos that Irish-

American dynamiters will continue to worry England unless an absolute separation of Ireland and Great Britain is obtained. The Duke of Norf Ik presided at the Conservative mass meeting on the evening of the sih of May, at St. James’ Hall, to protest against the Home Buie policy of Gladstone; the attendance was large. Baron Beamwell was introduced as a prominent seceder from the Liberal party on this question. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach and Viscount Oran brook were appointed a committee to ■ present to Parliament a petition against the granting of Home Rule. A meeting on the sth of the National Liberal Federation of Great Britain endorsed Gladstone’s policy amid the wildest excitement. Herbert Spencer, Professor Huxley and Earl Tyndall have joined the antidisunion committee, the funds of which now amount to £50,000. Numerous instances are reported of country constituencies passing voles of want of confidence in their representatives in Parliament. AMERICA. Rioting and bloodshed has taken place in Chicago and Milwaukie, chiefly owing to foreign workmen. Nova Scotia is moving to dissolve her connection with the Dominion of Canada and, with New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, to form a maritime confederation. Resolutions to this effect wete introduced in the Legislature at Halifax on May 6. A stock of patterns, on Kossack and Co., Montreal, valued at £420,000, were seized by the Customs authorities on May 7, for smuggling. Chinese companies have contracted to build a railway in Mexico. The Nova Scotia Legislature passed a resolution on May 5 endorsing Gladstone’s Irish policy. A bill has been introduced into te New York Legisla'nre declaring boycotting not to he a conspiracy or misdemeanor. The chief points in dispute as to the position of England and China in Bnrmah have been arranged, despite tremendous pressure to induce a contrary course. Cardinal Fuscheran, of Canada, issued a pastoral on April 28 condemning the Knights of Labour as inimical to the interests of religion and good morals. A great many Mormon families, mostly English, are emigrating into Mexico from Utah to avoid persecution under the United States anti-polygamv law. AH the labour unions of San Francisco, under the general name of the Federated Trades, had arranged for a grand parade on Tuesday May 11. Many thousand workmen were expected to meet and bo in line. Labor agitations aie still rife in the eastern states, chiefly fomented by Irish and German leaders. Twenty-five thousand workmen struck in various shops and factories of Chicago on April 20. Jefferson Davis made a sort of triumphal progress through the Southern States lately; the people went wild with excitement; 10,000 people stood in the rain to welcome him in Montgomery on tiie 29th, on his way to his rooms, and the hotel was strewn with roses. The boycotting system introduced into California is pronounced a lamentable failure. It is stated the Canadian-Pacific era ms-continental railway will be open for traffic in Jane next. James Mills, managing director of the Union Steamship Co. of New Zealand, was interviewed on his arrival in San Francisco en route to Europe. He spoke hopefully of the cable project to connect California with New Zealand.