ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 284, 31 July 1886, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

London, July 2.

Lord Colin Campbell, defendant in the divorce case Campbell v. Campbell, applied to the Court on 2nd July to have stricken from plaintiff's petition the paragraph charging him with adultery with persons unknown. The Court reserved its decision for a fortnight, as in the meantime it will read the whole of the correspondence and all affidants submitted by Lord Campbell ia his cros: -iuit to s .b----stautiate his charge that Lady Campbell had been guilty of adultery with the Duke of Marlborough. The Chief Fire Commissioners and other eight persons were instantly killed on the 39th June by an accident to the mail train from Belfast to Dublin. The train, while going at a high rite of speed, left the rails on Knock bridge. Twentv persous were wounded and the train was completely smashed. The accident was due to the expansion of the rails caused by excessive heat. The driver and guard were arrested, but are held blameless. The express train on the Hutgart and Berlin railway ran into the local train near Murtberg on the Ist, crushing a large number of persons. Nine are known to bave been killed. None of the express passengers are fatally hurt. The case of Cyrus W. Field v. Labonchere, of Loudon Truth, for libei, was called on the 28th June. The Attorney - General, on behalf of the defendant, withdrew the plea of justification, and expressed regret for publishing the article. He also stated that he and Sir Henry James (Field's counsel), had agreed upon the amount to be paid by Labouchers in satisfaction of costs, and asked the Judgo to discharge the jury. Field refused all compromise on the question of publishing. London despatches of the 23rd June, says that in Egypt and Burmah the British are threatened with increasing difficulties. The conduct of the campaign in the latter country, as well as the method of settling the Government, are alike a failure. Theebaw's disbanded soldiers are constantly attacking the British garrison. Every attack has been repulsed, but the garrison is worn out with incessant duty. In Egypt the Dervishes are resuming activity, and the Soudan border is once more threatened by clouds of rebels. From both countries there are urgent calls for reinforcements. A despatch from Rangoon, on the 29th June says that a force of British troops with two batteries had a severe fight with 1500 Burmese rebel-? strongly entrenched near Tuuimac. The fight "lasted five hours. The British failing to dislodge the Burmese, retired. Several officers wers killed and wounded.

Anxiety is felt on account of Russia's evident desii-e to renew difficulties in the Balkaus, a large Russian force embarking for points on the Black Sea. Hobart Pasha (August Charles Hobart) a Marshal of the Turkish Empire, died on June 19th. Owing to ill-health, Hobart Pasha a few weeks before his death resigned all service with the Sultan. A dispatch says that the deceased soldier was buried by the Turkish Government at Constantinople with great pomp. The remaius were brought in a Turkish gunboat from Genoa.

The Roman Catholic clergy of Belfast on the 13th congratulated their people on their patience an J forbearance under provoking circumstances, and urged them to continue to keep the peace. Mrs Dudley, the woman who shot O'Donovan Kossa on February, 1885, was sent to England from the insane asylum at Auburn. Permission for her to go home had been obtained for some time, but her departure was delayed for want of means until an unknown friend, to be of social prominence and rank in hn gland, came forward and furnished them.

A London despatch says that the yacht Galatea sailed lor New York from that port on June 27th. Captain Seryille, Secretary of the Yacht Club, is reported as saying : " I am net very hopeful of the Galatea's chances in America (to win the International Cup), and would rather seo the Grex. go to New Yo.k in her stea l, ihe Galeta will not compare in any respect with the Grex, nnd the hitter's skipper is the best amateur yachtsman in England. Muie than ihis, her lucing

record is the very best afloat. The Galota has undergone many alterations, and is much faster than she was last summer; but I still doubt her ability to heat the lankec yachts, owing to the difference in measurements."

San Francisco, July 3.

The fast through train on the Canadian Pacific railway to Vancouvers, British Columbia, left Montreal on Monday at eight o'clock. The train, it is claimed, will traverse the 3000 miles in 130 hours, reaching the Pacific on the following Sunday morning, July 4th. This, the Canadian authorities claim, beats the time between Kew York and 'Frisco by 20 hours. When the road is thoroughly ballasted the distance will be accomplished in 110 hours, and it is hoped that a further reduction to 90 hours will be made. First class passenger fare is 92 dollars ; second, 59 dollars 50 cents.

The cooks and waitresses employed in the principal restaurants of 'Frisco struck on June 15th for reduced hours of labour and increased pay. The strike lasted one day, the proprietors complying with the demand.

A tremendous mass meeting was held in 'Frisco on July Ist in support of the Irish Home Kule proposition, and over GOOO dollars was subscribed. A new and numerous order called the Minute Men has been foimed in the Western States to protect the communtries against Anarchists, labour riots, and other outbreaks. They will reinforce the police

A general strike of American operators is expected to take place on the Ist.