NEWS BY THE SAN FftANCISGO MAIL.

Manawatu Herald, 26 August 1881, Page 2

NEWS BY THE SAN FftANCISGO MAIL.

♦ London, July 29. The Standard reprints from Irish-Ameri* can papers, published i» New York, a column and a half of extracts praising the outrages against England. The shooting at Wimbledon began on the 12fch July. The Canadian team numbered twenty, and was commanded by Colonel Gisbon, who is accounted the best sho^lu Canada. The University match terminarted in favour of Oxford. The heat was intense, the thermometer on the 15th standing at 137. Several riflemen were overcome and had to go into hospital. Scotland won the International Trophy, scoring 1774; England, 1744 ; and Wales, 1086. I Contributions to the Irish Land League from America have fallen off so materially that Mr Sexton, the president, suggested that the Irish farmers be asked to subscribe a portion of their abatement. A daughter of Major-General Fyers, of the English army, fell into the sea at Hyeres, France. His wife and two other daughters attempted to rescue her and all four perished. Sir Evelyn Wood has been raised to the peerage for his services in the TransvaaL All England has been occupied during the month with a great libel case. The plaintifl^Miss Wilberforce.suea a prominent citizen named Phelps, for having said she poisoned her father, and that she was an adventuress and swindler. Plaintiff contradicted herself a hundred times in her testimony, and will be prosecuted for perjury. A steamer has arrived in the Thames from the Clyde, steered by electric apparatus. The steering gear worked well, but the compasses were made ,useleSß by the * electricity. Theßuardof Trade returns show that the value of imports has decreased jE6,500,---000, as compared with June last year ; exports have increased £342,000. Although Arthar Lefroy, the alleged . murderer of Gould, on the Brighton Kailway, was sent away from London at 7 o'clock in the morning, a large crowd assembled at London Bridge Station, and bub . for a strong guard of police the prisoner would have been put out of his misery then and there. He had lived for a fortnight in a wretched coffee house in Stepney, almost without food, and looked nearly starved. His arrest was due to the lodginghouse keeper, an old woman, named Smith, who recognised him from the Hue and Cry pictures, and will get the whole reward, £200, for her shrewdness. The police say he seemed relieved when captured. He had shaved off his whiskers and cut his hair, and although he denies all knowledge of the crime, his flight, concealment, and attempt to disguise himself really amount to proof of his guilt. He took his arrest coolly, but was much depressed and scared at the menacing attitude of the mob near the railway station. Dean Stanley was stricken by erysipelas on the 18th, and the disease Bpread rapidly. Canon Farrar administered the sacrament, and the Dean died on the 19th. The Archbishop of Canterbury arrived in time for a few parting words. Canons Farrar and Jones and the Dean's sisters were at the bedside. His last audible words were — " I have laboured, amidst many frailties and much weakness, to make Westminster Abbey a great centre of religions life in a truly liberal spirit." Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, ha* been expelled from French territory on the charge that he was intriguing against the republic, which he denies. Spanish hostility towards France is very bitter, and in the cafes the probability of war is openly discussed, and the coming elections are comparatively ignored. Midhat Pasha has attempted suicide by opening his veins with a pair of .scissors. The New York Herald's special message, dated 21s* £nly, has the following f&efo. particulars of the recent plot to assasßinllfr the Czir : — BaronnfF, chief of the policy, had received an anonymous letter, statinA 1 that the Emperor was to be assassinated on the 15 th. The letter contained nothing more. Baranoff made enquiries in every direction, and ascertained that a young student, had committed suicide nnder extraordinary circumstances. The man ran himself through with a sword without having injured a vital part, and then lodged a bullet from a revolver in his left temple ; next, finding himself still alive, he tired again in his temple .and in the gaping

wound made by the sword. This determined fluicide awakened Baroneff's suspicions. He foaflthe man apparently dead, but in facttflKreathing, and in a swoon. By the aia^Oi doctors neoauspd him to come to his senses, and to retain the power of speech. The student declared that he had formed one of a band of twenty Nihilists who had all sworn to kill the Emperor. The ]ot had fallen to him, but his heart failed, and he determined to kill himßelf instead. He lived till the 18th, and, before breathing his last, revealed jfco Baranoff the* names of all his brother Nihilists, who were promptly secured by the police. A special from Sfy, Petersburg says that another Nihilist has been found murdered in a cemetery, with his throat cut from ear to ear. The deceased was in communication with the police and his brother Nihilists, who discovered his treachery. They sent him a circular letter inviting him to dinner. On returning at night they assassinated him, and carried his body to the cemetery. The letter of invitation was found in the victim's pocket, aud enabled the police to arrest. A great landslip has occurred near Legriswell. Louton and Bern are steadilymoving towards Lake Thun. The slip makes three metres daily. The course is three miles wide and is of unknown depth. The cities are out of danger, but the farmhouses are being deserted. A terrific storm passed ov&t Lake Geneva recently. Vines and crops in the vicinity suffered inmense damage from the large hailstones. San Fbancisco, 31sfJuly. A party of Americana travelling from Paso del Norte te Chelmahua, Mexico, discovered 13 dead bodies, all of Americans, and a portion of a snrveying expedition of the Mexican Central railroad, who had been murdered by Apaches. Mormon converts by the thousand are landing at New York from Europe, en route to Salt Lake. The British barque Beatrice, oil laden, was struck by lightning off Ready Island, near Philadelphia, and burnt to the water's ede<». Thf» electric fluid ran down the mast int« the hod and fired the cargo. It is reported that the Tichborne claimant's daughter, Jennie Ogden Ferris, writes to the New York Star that her father is playing a game of deception on the Californian people, and that he admitted to her in Brooklyn that he intended to personate the lost Sir Roger. Indian outrages continue in New and Old Mexico. In latter the Apaches, it is believed, have killed a great many mining prospectors and others, ex'Gtovernor Pugh's son among the rest. Grisoomo, an imitator of Dr Tanner, has completed a 45 days' fast at Chicago. News has been received of the missing -whalers, Mount Wallaslan and Vigilant. Both were lost in the ice of the Arctic Ocean, and all on board perished. The Esquimaux described to Captain Millard, of the whaler Thomas Pope, the particulars very minutely. Nothing has been heard of Mr Bennett's Arctic exploring yacht, Jeannette. Edison is preparing to light a district in New York by electricity*. The editor of the Times, Littlerock, Arkansas, has been assassinated. '* he coarse «f his paper did not pease certain outlaws. GENERAL SUMMARY. A wellknown bookse'ler has purchased the W»ri of Hardwicke's estate. A bill to enabftT the bankruptcy trustees to pay that nobleman's debts has passed the House of Commons, it was ascertained there had been 45 insurances on his life, the whole amount being nearly £200,000, the premiums being nearly £6000 annually. Canada shows an increase of population in ten years of 660,498. The infernal machines shipped to England from America have created quite a scare there, and almost equal excitement in the United States. Instructions have been given to the Collectors of New York and Boston to use every means to find the name of the consignor of the deadly packages. The steamship companies are especially agitating over the affair, and have deprived O'Donovan Rossa of a sub-agency he held in the Allan line. The city editor of thft National Democrat, Plori, Illinois, states that the infernal machines were made iv that city and gives the name of the street, adding that a reporter of the paper had been invited to an exhibition of the ma chine's destructive powers. The New York Tribune, referring to the matter, Bays -•• If the American authorities do their duty, the Irish Revolutionists will not be long able to plan their hellish schemes in America." In Abyssinia a Catholic mission station has been captured by the natives, who burned the church and 4he mission house, robbed ten prisoners of their clothes, and sent them away into the interior. The ndtives of the Alente Islands, Alaska, are dying in numbers from an epidemic of typhoid and pneumonia.

Furze as todder for Cattle. — During the last few years the cultivation of furze, gorse, or whin, as an article of food for cattle, has attracted very considerable attention both in England and on the European continent; and aa compared with other green fotds it ia stated by the European Mail to rank the highest in flesh-form-ing constituents. What is now a great nuisance in New Zealand, may therefore become at some time an article of considerable value. The furze has to be prepared by machtfcery before it is suitable for cattlefood. The liar wants to knock yon down for doubting his word. The honest man will stop to argue matters. •

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