ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 296, 23 October 1886, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

♦ (European dates to September 24.) Lord Salisbury left for France on September 24tii. Sir Saville Crossley, William George Cavendish Bentinck, and 30 other members ol the House of Commons left by steamers departing for New York during the week ending September 25th, for a tour of the United States, including California. Nubar Pasha was expressly summoned to London on September 22nd, and.had a conference with Lord Salisbury on the Egyptian question. The basis of settle ment will probably be the continuation of a dc facto British Protectorate over Egypt by the maintenance of a norm; 1 British army of occupation, or an overdraft upon British troops in Egypt, i;i order to be provisionally maintained b> a a specially raised force of Egyptian troops

with J iritis!] ofti.-ers. British personal oi'llg;ttions t<)\Viii'ils lurkey arc to bj upheld in accordance with the Cyprus Treaty of Aiiiance. r i"lie Sultan gave audience to the Duke < f Edinburgh at Constantinople, and I'i iii -e George of Wales, on September 23n1. He received his visitors most cordially, and conferred upon both ihe Imperial Order of Osmalia. it is reported that the Czarewitch is about to visit the Sultan. Lord Colin Campbell's divorce suit wdi be heard before Sir James Ilannoii soon after the opening of the court in Xovember. The co-respondents are four in number—a Duke who has already appeared 'in the same character, but in different company, a General almost as widely known in literature and art as in military circles, a captain who is a most valuable public servant, and a fashionable surgeon. jSinety thousand cotton spinners at Burnly resolved on September 21st to strike against a reduction of wa^es. It is now settled that Lord Lyons is to resign the Paris Embassy before Christmas, and he will be succeeded by Earl Lattou.

I It is stated in Constantinople (September 20ih) that England, Austria, and Germany have i ivited Turkey to occupy lioumeiia if iius&ia, advances into Bulgaria. Mr J :mes Fergusson denied explieity in the House of Commons, on September 17th, that England had any annexation designs in tne -Mediterranean. The hue works of Nottingham hive combined in proposing to reduce wages. The reduction will be resisted, aud lockout is imminent. ivlrs Girling, a leader of the shakers in England, died on September 18th. Her sect is reported to be in a state of impoverishment. Gladstone returned to London on September jßcJi, and proceeded to Hawarden :o see Ills daughter. Mr Drew, of 85 Cater street, London, E.G., was found in a compartment of a railroad car on September 24th, at the Queensford station, crushed, his brains protruding. The affair is a mystery. There was no robbery. A bill ratifying the international convention tor the protection of the submarine cables of the world, passed the House of Commons on September 14th. Sir Charles Ddke returned to London ou September 15t.h, and announced his intent.on to re-enter public life in the British metropolis, as proprietor and editor of a daily newspaper. There is some indignation expressed by the Press at what they call " Dilke's hardihood." A col! so i ( c urred ia the Cy'e oil September loth, between the British steamer Siichenar and the Clan Grahame. The former vessel sank. iiie aUlliOlitiCn vi J_.otvl Oi"« nontcmriiatc presenting the freedom of the city to Prince Alexander, of Bulgaria. A lioyal Commission ol enquiry in'o the necessity of Civil Service reform in the British Government, has been appointed. The yacht Volta, propelled by electricity, in making her trial trip between Dover and Calais on September 14th, reached the latter place in 8 hours 15 minutes from the time of her starting from Dover. The return trip was made in 4 hours 15 minutes. The accumulators were charged once for the whole 50 miles. The sea was calm, and the passage was made so noiselessly that a seagull asleep on the water was not disturbed by the approach of the yacht, and was caught by the hands. Orders have been received at Chatham (September 22nd) to expedite the completion of war material now under weigh. Belays of workmen are to be employe 1 by day and night. The land war in Wales is exciting much attention. Arthur Arnold, presided at a meeting held on Septesnbcr25Lh, at the National Liberal Club, London. He advocated the diffusion of land, but not legalised robbery like Henry George.

IRELAND. The crops in tho North are reported to be ruined by the heavy rains. Win. Cuffe, bailiff, who made himself very obuoxious by his cool treatment of women recently evicted, attended a mass meeting in Belcarra Chapel in September 21st, when J 2 of the women whom he had turned out set upon him, assisted by others, and beat him so unmercifully that his life is despaired of. Albert bridge, spanning the Logan river at Belfast, collapsed on September 25th, throwing twenty persons into the river. Four were drowned. General Red vers Bnller, the Commissioner recently despatched to Ireland by the Government, hasexpressed his opinion in his report that the mass of the tenants are unable to pay the rents and arrears demanded by the landlords. In the House of Commons (September 22nu), Dillon, a Parncliite, urged the rele >se of Father Fahey, a priest imprisoned at Woodford, who, he siid, refused ti» give bail because he thought that would amount to an admission of misconduct on his part. Holmes, Attorney-General for Ireland, justified the action taken. He said he had himself no power to interfere after the Magistrate hid giyen his decision. Seaton said he was of the opinion that Father Fahey wmM prove the most inconvenient prisoner the Governor ever hid. Tan-nan, a Parnpllite, followed, and after being twice called to order because of irredaveut remarks, lie was ordered to cease speiking, whereupon he left the chamber, shouting "'His tloa.se is no place for an irishman. I am Jisgasre.l with it." A letter has been sent to Lord Churchill

from the Scottish Protestant Alliance to discuss the reply of Lord Randolph Chuvclrill to their protest against the ap pointnient of Mr Hy. Mathew as Homo Secretary, which was brought up on the ground that he was a Roman Catholic. The Rev. James Pat-on, Director of the Alliance, has addressed a letter to Churchill in which he says, " You have penned an insolent reply to a respectful public document. Although you are now a Cabinet Minister, we observe with astonishment and regret that you have not laid aside those weapons of abuse with which you tomahawked your way to power. It is a 'national calamity when men pitchforked into high positions are destitute of decent manners." Patton concludes his remarks by saying that the Alliauce founded its protest upon the same ground as those upon which the expulsion of Roman Catholics is found.

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