ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 280, 3 July 1886, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

o (European dates to June 4th.) The workmen employed at the Queen Island yards attacked on June 4th the navvies employed by the Harbor Commissioners, overpowering them and beating them badly, and drove them into the water. It was with the greatest difficulty that the injured, exhausted, and struggling were rescued. The Orangemen made the assault because the navvies, it is alleged, had previously attacked some Royalists for aspersing the Home Rule movement. Great excitement prevailed among the local Catholics in consequence of the attack. The Orangeman numbered 2000, and the navvies but 1000—a repetition of the historical riots. Policemen fully armed patrolled the city, and the military were held in readiness within their barracks. Thirty Catholics were iniured, and 12 were taken to the hospital. The body of James Corry, one of the navvies, who was missing for a time, has been recovered. He was the sole support of his widow mother.

Boucicanlt's first reception on reaching London, says a dispatch of May 21, was by a constable officer serving a summons for divorce at the instance of Agnes Robertson Boucicault, under the advice of their children, whose birthright is impugned by the Australian marriage ceremony. It is said that use will be made of Boucicanlt's affidavit charging that the first marriage is legal. New York distinguished counsel are employed by Mrs Boucicault. The friends of the defendant say that the suit will be contested strongly. Dr. Knox, bishop of Dornwell, Down.

will be the new Protestant bishop of Ireland.

On May lltli the Commons repealed the motion to abolish capital punishment by a vote of 117 to 62. At last reports cholera is reported to be on the increase in Rome, Venice, and Brindisi. The Prince of Wales declined to attend the Gladstone dinner on the Queen's birthday. The refusal caused some surprise. The infant son ot the Queen Regent of Spain was christened on May '27 th amid great rejoicing. Don Carlos has published a manifesto repudiating this posthumous child of Alfonso, and declaring that he will never renounce his own right to the throne.

Mount Etna was in eruption on May 22. Earthquake shocks were frequent. The inhabitants had fled from Miolosise, near Catania, before the stream of molten lava.

The Comte de Pari 5, at Paris on May 22nd, to attend the wedding of his daughter to the Crown Prince of Portugal, was not permitted to enter France.

The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies decided on June 22nd by a vote of six to five that the expulsion measures should be compulsory and not permissive. Secondly, that it should be applied to all families that have at any time resided in France. Thirdly, that the decree ot banishment be pronounced by the Legislature and not by the Executive. The New York Herald's London correspondent of May 31st says :—" I have discovered that the organisation of the army of Ulster has progressed to an extraordinary degree, and I have gathered startling particulars, which are in secret circulation among the Orangemen in the city. The leading fact is that the organisation of the Loyalist Protest mt body and men pledged to resist any attempt to cany out Home Rule in Ireland by the Parnellite body has developed enormously without anybody having the slightest suspicion of its growth. The army is already practically enrolled, and all the military details have been arranged with the greatest precisiou. A number of distinguished noblemeu and members ot Parliament are enrolled among the officers of " The.Army," and arms have already been provided. Arrangements have been made for securing cannon and horses. This story is given for what it is worth." On Maj 29th the police seized at Belfast a quantity of rifles, bayonets, and swords on board a steamer from Fleetwood, a port of Lancashire and consigned to parties in Armagh.

The news from Burmah shows an unsettled state of affairs. Incendiarism and rebellion are spreading all over Upper and Lower Burmah. A number ot the leading merchants and others have been arrested on charges of complicity in the inssnrrectionary movements. In the meantime the difference between Eugland and China over Burmah continues, to widen, and the affairs of the two Powers have never been in a more unsatisfactory condition.

San Francisco, June 15.

Owing to difficulties with the Sailors' Union the steamer Mariposa sailed for Auckland at date with a full crew oS Chinamen.

The Secretary of State, Daniel Man ning, tendered his resignation to Presi dent Cleveland on June 4th.

By the discovery of dynamite rifle cartridges, and other explosives placed under various outbuildings in Chicago the belief is gaining ground that the Socialists had a scheme to burn and loot that city in May, and that they did not go beyoud rioting at that time was due to the prompt action of the police. Preparations were being made in 'Frisco to receive some 15,000 visiting members of the Grand Army of the Republic. The general encampment will be held there in August.

Dr. Melton Bowers, a practising physician in 'Frisco, was sentenced to be hanged on June 2nd, for the murcler of his wife.

Alderman Jachine, of New York, who was convicted of bribery in connection with the Broadway Railway franchise, was on May 20 sentenced to a year and ten months' imprisonment in Sing Sing. The polygamy convicts in Utah, to whom offers of clemency were made by the authorities if they would promise obedience to the law, spurned the overtures indignantly. In their reply they said : " Our wives would deem such action as cruel, inhumane, aud monstrous. Our children would blush for shame, and we should deserve the scorn and contempt of all honorable men."

San Francisco was shaken by a sligh earthquake on May 6th.

Herr Johann Most and his anarchist companions were found guilty of misdemeanor m inciting to riot in Chicago on May 29th, and each was sentenced to imprisonment.