'Frisco Mail Summary.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 79, 9 March 1883, Page 2

'Frisco Mail Summary.

(Per City of New York at Auckland.)

PRESS ASSOCIATION. ) Auckland, March 7. The City of New V ork brings the latest news from Great Britain and the Continent up to February 14, 1883. The steamship City of Xew Jfork did not leave San Francisco for New Zealand and Sydney t'll five days after the advertised date, owing to the Kng- ; lish mails being left behind at Ugden, GREAT BRITAIN. February 13. The London Times, m an editorial on February 13th, bewails the farming prospects, and say :— •« A crisis m field work exists. It is water everywhere. A good sowing time is wanted, and it is surmised much of the autumn sown groin is rotten. All Europe is m a similar condition." The late Earl of Ashbnrnham's collection of manuscripts h*s been offered for sale to the British Museum. They ex~ tend from th« Saxon period to the let ters of Cromwell, and consists of 400 vols. The value affixed is £160,000. 'ermany and America compete for their possession. Heavy gales and floods prevniled m England on the 12th ot February. Sir Henry Gall, b'fore the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce on Feb. 12th, insisted on the importance of the colonial trade of Great Britain, and pointed out the strong necessity for England to continue to receive food and raw material at the lowest possible, prices. England, he said, can no longer feed herself from her own pro« duct?. Davitt, Healey, and , Quinn were lodged m Kilmainham Gaol on Feb, Bth, for six months. They will be treated as first-class prisoners. Mr Woodboure, poor-law inspector, man answer to a demand for employment for starving poor who assembled at his hotel on the Bth, admitted there was distress m the County of Donegal, and advocated emigration, when someone m the crowd exclaimed, "We would rather die than emigrate." Mr O'Donnell, M.P. for Duiigarvan, tells the Lord Mayor of London m a letter that the Mansion House, m its relation to Ireland, is a leech-«9ueker and not a helper, and that funds intended for the relief of Ireland have found their way into the pockets ot city swindlers, or into the fair round paunches of city gluttons. A despatch from London, February 23, says the British barque Glenamera, from San Francisco for Queenstown, foundered off Kinsale. The crew were saved. The Misses Booth and Char/las Worth, and three others were expelled from the Falvation Army m Geneva, m Switzerland, on 13th, being unable to account for the proceeds of a collec* tion at a meeting of their army. Edwin Booth, the American actor, has created & perfect furore m Berlin as Othello. On the llth he was presented with a silver laurel crown, amid storms of applause. A difficulty is anticipated in' the opening of Parliament, arising out of the Bradiaugh question. A despatch of llth February says arrangements have already beeen made for an immense gathering of people, representing all organisations, m sympathy with Bradlaugb, who will march m procession to Westminister, supporting their champion m a demand to take his seat. If the crowd is interfered with, serious work is looked for, A despatch from London, February lltb, says the outlook for crops generally throughout Europe is gloomy m the extreme. No part of the. Continent, east or west, has escaped inandations.and theimmediate r destruction of property has been widespread, but it is insignificant as compared with the. damajod prospects of tho year. The last surviving son of the poet Wordsworth died on February 10th, m London. George Darwin, a son of the late Cbas. R. Darwin, evolutionist, has been elected professor of astronomy and experimental philosophy of Cambridge University. Th* largest • gasometer j a Glasgow exploded on January 22, causing almost a panic, as the greater portion of the south of the city was left m darkness, Subsequently a shed belonging to the Caledonian Railway Company was blown up. The explosion is believed to be the work of Fenians. The railroad strike m Scotland had extended to Edinburgh on the 17th, and traffic to Leith is stopped. Several wrecks are reported on the English Coasf. The barque Royal Tar, from Philadelphia for Liverpool, was ; driven Into Penzsnceon 29th January, • with her decks swept, and one man lost. Ten bodies had washed ashore at the same place. It is supposed that the steamer Black Witch foundered near point Hall. Tbe Agnes Jack was wrecked near Swansea on the passage from Sardinia. All hands perished, as the vessel was put of the reach of rockets, and unapproachable by boats. Some powder works exploded at Liverpool, killing two men. A gunboat sent by the London Times sailed for Murray Island from London on the 26th January with provisions for the peop'e, who are reported to be m a starving condition. Mr Foster, recently the Chief Secretary of Ireland, received a note on the ! 22nd J anuary threatening to blow up his residence m London. The Briton Ferry ironworks m Wales have stopped. One thousand persons are out of employment. Cooper, Hal!, and Co., commission merchants and bankers, London, have failed for £2,000,000. Tbe beach from Harwick to Alderborough was found on January 15th, strewn with wreckage from the British ship Pride of the OceaD, bound from New York to Hamburg. A case containing dynamite whs found by the c ast£uard, and the fact that the wreckage is m exceedingly small pieces has led to the conjecture that the loss

i of the vessel was caused by an explosion of dynamite. The Lake Country was reported ffooded on January 30th. Derwent Water and Bessenthwaite were united by ths rising wtera, and a portion of Nesswick submerged. The case of Noel v. Noel, a merchant I being co-respondent, has attracted a good deal of attention m London. i Captain Wm. F. Noel, of the Royal Artillery, is plaintiff, and sups for a divorce from Mrs Noel, on the ground of her infidelity with the merchant and a groom. Mrs Noel is very pretty, and a most accomplished horsewoman, aud ona of the most dashing and popular Indies m the hunting 'field. She was married to Captain Noel m 1879, and she bore him two children. Her indiscretions were fully proved at the trial on January 27, and a decree nisi was given. The London Vanity Fair has respublifihed all the scandalous American stories about Mrs Langtry, much to the distress of her English friends. English capital, attracted by the high dividends paid by American Land and Cattle Companies', is seeking in* vestment m that quarter. The London and South-western Hallway Company's steamer Hilda, running between Jersey and Southampton, ran into, on February 4th, and sunk a French ship, name unknown. The ciew of the sunken ship were drowned. Wm. W. Foote. editor ; Wm. J. Ramsey, proprietor ; and M. Kemp, printer, of the London Freethinker, on February 2nd, were arrested for bias* phemous libels. A despatch from London, February 3, says' that the steamship James Gray, has foundered,' and the officers and crew are drowned. Ea*l Lonsdale has brought a libel suit against the London World f claims ing that he was indicted as eloping with a young lady. Sir William Harcourt, while visiting Richmond, Yorkshire, on sth February, was the subject of extraordinary pre^ cautions, because of fears of an attack upon him by the Fenians. Mr Gladstone received a threatening letter at the same time, stating that death awaited him on his return to London. The Premier attached no importance to the threat. The steamer ivenmuir Castle, from London to Shanghai, via the Suez Canal, foundered m. the Bay of Biscay on the 2nd of February. The captain, first mate, and thirty of the crew (Asiatics) were drowned. The crew were only able to launch a boat containing all the Dassengers (numbering eight) and eight of the crew. The crew altogether numbered 40, The survivors, when rescued by a French steamer, were only m their night-dresses, and were all very weak. A bottle was picked up at Bourmouth Beach on February 7 th, containing a saloon ticket on which was written : " Our ship is m great distress, the masts having been destroyed, and immediate help is necessary. Steamer Nederland." Archbishop Croke of Cashel, writes confirming the widespread fearful distress prevailing m the counties of Donegal, Clare, and Sligo. The country, he says, can never expect peace aud plenty until released from the i " red yoke of a bloated and ruthless oligarchy." Th 9 gunboat Redwing made a fruitless attempt to reach the island ot Innismury with stores for the starving inhabitant?. What is left from the Duchess of Marlborough's relief fund will be devoted to assisting Irish emigration, the sum is £3000. The organisation of the committee of the National League announce that the total subscriptions, to date (January 18th) are £17,000, of which there was on hand £1300. The Bishop of Killala has issued a pastoral denouncing . secret societies. The Pope m a letter to Cardinal Mac cabe, of Dublin (copies of which have been sent to all the Irish bishops), con« gratulates them on thai* zeal m calming the country and guiding the people. A despatch from Dublin (January 26), says that important evidence has been obtained m regard to the perpetra-* tors of outrages during the past two years m the vest of Ireland. The police anticipate, capturing' persons con^ nected with the murder of Lord Mountmorris. A man is now m America who took part m the murder of Blake and his servant Flynn near Loughrea. He is being sought after m the hope that he will turhQaeen's evidence. There are two distinct secret societies m Dublin, one belongs to the old " Head Centre," Stephen's Fenian party, which advocates open warfare, ! and the other is known as the Senate, or, council body, wbich advocates murder. . Farrell, the informer, says the '? inner circle" is, so composed that its members are unknown . .' o each other, and therefore are not easily to be.identified. Over one hundred persons who ; are suspected m : connection with the secret •■ organisation m Dublin had fled the city, but it is believed not out of the kingdom. On the 4th February the police had tea more warrants to execute, and search was being made m London, Birmingham, and Manchester for the parties. Over fifty persons connected with the conspiracy to murder Government officers had gone to America. ; Mr Parnell will resign his seat for Cork if a safe candidate to replace him can be found, and contest Dublin County. E J ward Cecil Guinness will oppose him as the Conservative candidate,