ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 288, 28 August 1886, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

♦ ■ • (European dates to July 30.) Circulars are being distributed in Wales demanding Home Rule, free education, abolition * of landlordism, and the disestablishment of the church. A cablegram (July 30) from London says there was a sensation in the new Cabinet at the appointment of Homy Matthews as Home Secretary. It was made at the request of the Queen, who was charmed by his vindication in the Crowford trial of the sanctities of the English home. He is entirely an experiment, and is without Government experience, a Roman Catholic, and an anticoercionist. The Alpine climber Pauline Von Soulkar was dashed to pieces on July 29. John Raskin is reported to be insane. The notorious Cora Pearle died at Paris poor and in distress. Of late years, owing to an excessive corpulence, she had grown almost out of recognition. The Prince of Wales' sons are charged with " plagiarism" in 44 The Cruise of the BacchautG." The passage which begins " We should be less than men," and ends, " sad memories of their useless valor," is taken almost word for word from Charles Kingsley's '• At last," where it will be found in the second chapter. An attempt on the part of the authorities at Amsterdam to prohibit the popular game called 44 Eel killing," led to a conflict with the police on July 25. The rioters erected barricades, the police fired into the crowd, killing 20 persons and wounding 80. Twenty-eight arrests were made. A convention between England and China was signed at Pekin by which China agrees to the occupation of Burmah by the English, and promises to encourage trade between China and Burmah. A commissioner is being formed to delimitate the Burmese frontier. Dispatches of the 25th say that Lord Salisbury was cordially received by the

Qneen at Osborne House. On bis return from Osborne Salisbury was cbeere-l all along the route by immense crowds. At London he declined to speak anywhere. The parents of Eliza Armstrong, who figured so conspicuously in the Pall Mall Gazette exposures, have arranged to briug a suit for £9OO damages against Stead, the editor, its publishers, and General Booth, of the Salvation army. The claim will be tor libel on the girl's parents and for assaulting the child. The Sultan of Soumali has expelled the members of the German East African Society from his dominions. Wassit Bey, who arriyed at Cairo from the Soudan on July 29th, reported that Khartoum had been raised by the rebels. In his opinion a force marching to reestablish the Khedive's authority would now meet with welcome rather than resistance. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has been adversely criticised by the London papers. His lectures were but 'poorly attended. The admission being far too high is said to be the cause in part. Davitt has written to Ford, editor ?of the New York Irish World, taking him to task for advising a policy | of Parliamentary obstruction on the part of the Home Rule members. He says the true policy for the Homo Rulers js to advocate the reforms required by the workmen of Great Britain while advocating just:ce'J,o Ireland. Catherine Lewis, sisterof Jeffrey Lewis, and a pretty opera comique singer known in Australia, has secured a divorce from her husband, Oscar Alfredson. The London World says that Gladstone is going on a yachting excursion as soon as he is released from official work. After the preliminary debates he will not be seen again in the House of Commons for several months He proposes to start for Rome early iu November, and to remain in Italy until after Easter. Excitement has been cansed in political circles by Russia's occupation of Port LazerefTf, in the Corea. The Paris Figaro of July 2G publishes a sensational article giving details of a meditated coup do etat by general Boulanger

AMERICAN ITEMS. The United States Commissioner, G. H. Bates, left on July 21st for Samoa to to discuss with the English, French and German Commissioners the neutral position of the Island. It is proposed to connect Japan, New Zealand, and Australia by cable with Canada. Commissioner Flemming, left for England on July 24th to confer with the Imperial Government on the subject of the Maiwell murderer, sentenced to be hanged on August 21st. A Newfoundland paper of July 28: h contradicts the sensational reports of destitution in that colony, and says that there have been no deaths from starvation. The same paper denounces Weddoll, who is in Canada seeking assistance, as an imposter. Dispatches from the Ottawa Government has no official knowledge of the reported woeiul condition of things ia Labrador, and believe the reports to bo without foundation. The mining region of Menow Lake, California, rich in ores, the working of which was impracticable on account of

their rebellious nature, has suddenly I come to the front again on account of the difficulty being overcome. A syndicate of English capitalists is erecting mills costing 15 000 dollars. William John Hurst, a prominent citizen of Auckland, and member of the Colonial Parliament, fell into the hands of the press interviewers after his arrival in San Francisco, and he gave rather a sadcoloured view of affairs in New Zealand, lie said the Colony was suffering from depression, that taxes were excessive and growing heavier every year, but he hoped that the news would be better when the Opposition ousted the present Ministry, lie attributed the depression to the fact that for many years the people of the Colony had beeu living on one another and on the country. IRISH TROUBLES. A thousand persons attended an Orange soiree given at Dublin in the Rotund i on July 12th. It was guarded by the police Thousands of Nationalists surrounded the building, and many placards were posted with inscriptions, "We will pay j'ou Orange dogs in Irish coin the one long debt which Ireland owes all braggarts of the Boyne." At Armagh Major Saunders presided over a gathering of 2000 enthusiastic Orangemen. Afterwards there was a procession, the route of which was lined by GOO police and soldiers. Business was suspended. An Orange Lodge in Coalistin, a small village in the county of Tyrone, four miles from Dungarmon, was attacked on the night of the 13th by a nnmber of men belonging to the National League. The attacking party were armed with rifles, and kept up a fire for two hours on the lodge, the police being powerless to interfere. Armed moonlighters came the same night, and attacked and took possession of two houses in Freemount and Kanturk, county of Cork, which they entered, and severely beat the inmates. There were tremendous riots in Belfast on the night of the 13th between the Catholics and Protestants, during which four taverns and a number of dwelling houses were wrecked. The police and soldiers charged the rioters several times, and at last succeeded in clearing the streets. Among those wounded was a sergeant. His injuries are said to be mortal. A constable and several civilians were severely hurt. The fighting was done between the police and the Orangemen, the latter assailing the officers because they prevented the Orangemen from attacking Catholics. A policeman named Garstein is among those who died from his injuries. Two civilians, M'Dutton and M'lllroy, were shot dead, and fifteen persons were sent to the hospital. The police garrison has been largely increased. The wreckage caused by the rioting resembled the effects of a tornado, the men, women, and children who were struck down were bruised and bleeding; but still cries of definance and threats of revenge were raised. The Protestants were beaten by sheer numbers, and many of their houses were afterwards raided. Twenty-three prisoners while on their way to the police station sang "Rule Britannia " and cursed Parneil and Sexton. On the morning of the I4th the head constable at Waterford forced a private soldier to arrest two Orangemen, a father and son. During the struggle that ensued both Orangemen were killed. Waterford streets were patrolled by the police and cavalry.