SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Kumara Times, Issue 3131, 16 November 1886, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

GENERAL SUMMARY.

(Dates from Europe up to October 23.)

Prominent scientists in Paris and London urge the establishment of earthquake observation stations throughout the world.

Gladstone received a deputation of Xiish ladies at Hawarden on October 24, bearing a petition for Home Rule with the signatures of 500,000 Irish women.

Sullivan’s " Golden Legend,” produced at Leeds on the I6th October, is announced as bis best musical work. The proprietor of Anderton’s Hotel, London, has appealed (October 21) to the Lord Major to discontinue the annual show, because it disturbs business and encourages riots. .The coal-ixune owners, Fifeshire Scotland, refused (14th October) to give their men a ten per cent, rise in the wages demanded. The result is that Si.-,000 miners throughout Scotians will suffer from a lock-nut. Toe j-uva! Enniokihcii Fusiliers, stationed at Aldershot, wont on a riot on the uigbt of the Gth October in

resistance to a draught being made for service in Africa, and a savage fight '•nsned. The Xaishmen were only subd«' d after a number of soldiers and police were wounded.

Excessively warm weather prevailed all over the Continent on October 5. The Pai’is theatres are described as veritable furnaces, and the attendance fell to one half. The London thermometers were 80 deg. Parnell and his mother' and ais'e.r will spend the winter in the south of France, and will not return to England before the re opening of Parliament. An English tourist named Boyd mysteriously disappeared at Basle, Switzerland, on October 4. He was an Alpine climber, and public opinion is equally divided between accident and foul play as the cause. Tt is said that the Canadian Packet Railroad Company is pushing the building on the Clyde of six new steamers to be used on the route between Victoria, 8.C., and Australia, China, and Japan, and the British Government will be urged to subsidise these lines.

According to the St. James Gazette (October 11th) enthusiastic Socialists declare that thousands of men are regularly drilled in London, and they boast that they are able to put 10,000 armed men into the streets of the city. Moderate Socialists fear that enthusiasts and sedulous secret tracking am telling dangerously in the East End, where there is much poverty and ruffianism. IRISH NEWS. A valuable petroleum spring was discovered (October 4) in Sligo under a bouse which was being repaired. At a meeting of the National League held in Dublin on the 12th October, the fortnightly receipts were stated to be £2OOO. Secretary Ha r ring ton said that many landlords were making great redncions in their rents, but that a large number of writs of eviction were continued to be served and executed. 1 he Dublin Mail (13th October) says that the Rev. August Stafford Brook, an eminent Unitarian preacher, has become insane and been committed to a mad bouse.

Affairs in Ireland are pursuing a course extremely satisfactory to the Government.

According to despatches on the 16th October, General Sir Redvers Buller’s mission has accomplished much, and the landlords generally are responding to Lord Hartiugton's appeal to deal tenderly with the tenants. There are no such sweeping evictions as were predicted. Even the United Ireland admits there has been an extraordinary reduction of judical rents, and says it only remains for the tenants themselves to carry out Parnell's 50 per cent, reduction.

The branches of the Irish National League in the Counties of Cork and Waterford have been making inquiries regarding the condition of the farmers in these districts, and have just reported. They say that the harvests have been bad, that oats are sel'ing from three to five shillings per barrel, and that the heavy stock has rendered farmers unable to pay their rent. On account of the bad harvest the farmeis demand a reduction from 45 to 50 per cent, in rents, and where reduction is refused they will pay nothing. A number of landlord* offer a reduction of 35 per cent. GALES, WRECKS, AND SHIPPING CASUALTIES. There was a hurricane on the English coast. It began with a gale on the 13ih October, on the English and Irish coasts, accompanied by floods. It extended far to the north, and continued for several days. In Ulster, railway traffic was impeded. The British barque Billaport was wrecked off Skillings Island on the south-west coast of Ireland. All perished. The Teviotdale was wrecked on the Carmarthen bar, with the loss of 17 lives.

A number of channel fishing boats were stranded, and Brighton Beach was strewn with wreckage. The storm was very furious on the Irish coast. The streets in many towns were flooded. The corn standing in the fields was destroyed. The damage was immense. There was also a destructive flood in Wales. Throughout the gale was accompanied with the heaviest rains within memory. The reports received from all parts of the kingdom continue the list of disasters. The British ship Mallany was wrecked in the British Channel, and 20 persons drowned. The shore was strewn with the debris of vessels and bodies washed to land, stripped of valuables by the wreckers.

T The Norwegian barque Frederick Land, from Musquat, N. 8., bouud for Swansea, was wrecked off Pad, slow, and 19 lives lost; also, the Albiaue, of the

same place, four lives were lost, the other persons on board being saved by a life boat. Another large barque was seen to be in terrible distress on the 16th October, the crew being huddled together on deck. She foundered next morning. It is believed that from 12 to 20 persons were drowned. The gale prevented people on shore from rendering assistance, although they distinctly heard the cries of the drowning men, A Norwegian barque was wrecked off Tintagel, Wales. Here the entire crew, consisting of 15, perished. A further list of disasters caused by this storm was reported on 18th October, The British steamer Artos, Captain Whiteh'sly, fiom New York (October 27) to Bordeaux, was lost on Point de la Coulra, in the northern mouth of Girgoiden. The British steamer Kate, Captain Dark. from Savannah (September 20) for Liverpool, arrived at Queenstown disabled. The Norwegian barque Oruen, Captain Neilsen, from Mobile (August 14) for Goole, was towed into Cowes badly used up. Three of the crew had died and the rest were suffering with ague. The British barque Rutland, from Quebec (September 25) to Greenock, was abandoned off Lundy Island, The mate and carpenter were drowned. POLITICAL CRISIS IN THE HAWAIAN ISLANDS. Intelligence has been received by the Alameda of the political crisis in Hawaii, The Legislature is in this way. A loan has been passed authorising the borrowing of £400,000, out of which existing liabilities of £250,000 were to be made. Spreckles suddenly arrived fiom ’Frisco and insisted that a new clause should lie added to the bill, precluding any further borrowing until the £400,000 loan was paid off. On the proposition being put to the House it was rejected by a large majority, the Opposition joining hands with the Government, thinking that the Ministiy would retire and Gibson, the Premier, be put out of office. They were sold, however. In the morning appeared the announcement of a new Cabinet, Gibson still Premier, and three native Hawaiians filling the other offices, Crichton and the At-torney-General being out. It was first thought that the new Ministiy would come to grief for the want of money, but they soon got over that. It is reported that a mercantile firm agreed to place the loan in London at 98.