ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 300, 20 November 1886, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

(European dates to October 23.) The s.s. Alameda was detained one day owing to the non-arrival of the English mails. Prominent scientists in Paris and London urge the establishment of earthquake observation stations throughout the world. Gladstone received a deputation of Irish lalies at Hawarden on October 24th, bearing a petition for Home Rule with the signatures of 500,000 Irish women. Sullivan's " Golden Legend," produced

at Leed* on the lGili October, is announced as his best musical work. A Loudon despatch of the 22nd October says that at a meeting of the Inman Steamship Company's creditors to-day it was resolved to sell the concern to the International Steamship Company for j8205,003. The liabilities of the Inman Company secured to the creditors are £174,500; the unsecured creditors £3 1,000. The company's steamers are valued at £165,000. The unsecured creditois will receive 10s. in the pound. The proprietor ot Anderson.s Hotel, London, has appealed (October 21st) to the Lord Mayor to discontinue the annual show, because it disturbs business and encourages riots.

The coal-mine owners, Fifeshire, Scotland, refused (14th October) to give their men a ten per cent, rise in the wages demanded. The result is that 35,003 miners throughout Scotland will suffer from a lock-out. The R>yal Enniskillen Fusiliers, stationed at Aldershob, want on a riot on the night of the 6th October in resistance to a draught being made for service in Africa, and a savage fight ensued. The Irishmen were only subdued after a number of soldiers and police were wounded. Excessively warm weather prevailed all over the continent on Octobar sth. The Paris theatres are described as veritable furnaces, and the attendance fell to one half. The London theremometors were 80 degrees. Two shocks of earthquake were felt throughout Balta, one of the Shetland Islands on the night of October 4th. Parnell and his mother and sister will spend the winter in the South of Frtnce, and will not return to England before the re-opening of Parliament. An English tourist, named Boyd, jnysterionsly disappeared at Basle, Switzerland, on October 4th. He was an Alpine climber, and public opinion is equally divided between accident and foul play as the cause. It 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 Victorias 8.C., and Australia, Chiua. 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 in the streets of the city. Moderate Socialists fear that enthusiasts and sedulous secret tracking are telling dangerously in the East End, where there is much poverty and ruffianism.

IRISH NEWS. . A valuable petroleum spring Was discovered (October 4th) in Sligo under a house which was being repaired. • At a meeting of the National League held in Dublin on the 12th of October, the fortnightly receipts were stated to be £2OOO. Secretary Hartington said tint many landlords were makiug great reductions iu their rents, but that a large number of writs of eviction were continued to be served and executed. The Dublin Mail, of October 13th, says that the Rev. August Stafford Brook, an eminent Unitarian preacher, has become insane and been committed to a mad house.

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 Hartington'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 judicial 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 enquiries regarding the condition of the farmers in those districts, and have just reported. They say that the harvests have been bad, that oats are selling from three to five shillings per barrel, and that the heavy stock has rendered farmers unable to pay their rent. Qn account of the bad.harvest the farmers demand a reduction from 45 to 50 par cent in rents, and where reduction is refused they will pay nothing. A number of landlords offer a reduction of 35 per cent..

There was a hurricane on the English coast. It began with gales on the 13th October on the English ani 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 southwest 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 Mallony 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. The Norwegian barque Frederick Land, from Musquat, N. 8., bound for Swansea,

was wrecked off Padstow, and 19 lives lost; also, the Albiane, 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 10th October, the crew being huddled together on deck. She foundered next morning. It is believed that from 12 to 20 persous 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 untire crew, consisting of 15, perished. A farther list of disasters caused by the storm was reported on 18th October. The British steamer Artos, Captain Whitelesly,from New York (October 27th) to Bordeaux, was lost on Poiut de la Coulra, in the northernmouth, Girgoiden. The British 6teamer Kate, Captain Dark, from Savannah (September 20th) for Liverpool, arrived at Queenstown disabled. The Norwegian barque Oruen, Captain Neilson, from Mobile (August 14th) 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 25th) to Greenock, abandoned off Lundy Island. The mate and carpenter Were drowned-