ARRIVAL OP THE 'FRISCO MAIL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 17, 18 December 1883, Page 3

ARRIVAL OP THE 'FRISCO MAIL.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, December 17. The City of Sydney, Captain Seabnvy, arrived from San Francisco shortly after 10 o'clock p.m. The passage was -uneventful. : The latest news from San Francisco 'is 26th November. '. ''" MAIL SUMMARY. The steamship City of Sydney was detained till date from the 23id, owing to the non-arrival of the English mails. It is proposed shortly to confine the San Francisco and colonial mails to three steamers, which can be done by . shortening the time of lying in port, but correspondents in all parts of the country will l»e deprived of opportunity of answering letters by the same steamer that they receive them. 'The^'outherri Pacific Railway people are trying to control wheat-carrying froni this, port, and the way they propose to do it is this : —They have found/that ships which go tb San Francisco for wheat carry their cargoes of coal, from England, Australia, and elsewhere. ] n order to meet them at this pfort they have bought extensive coal deposits on Puget Sound, where they are building ships to freight their icb'al tb'San Francisco. In this way they icoul I • supply-^ 1 large amount of the 'demand for coal, and ' render 7 ' it unprofitable for wheat ships to bring coal here. William McCann Nealson, formerly of A'ictoria, Australia, now of San ;Francisco, was attacked and badly jbeaten on October 24, while leaving his dwelling, by two disguised men. It is thought the assault had some connection -with the recent suit against ex Senator Sharon for adultery, in which Neakon was engaged for the prosecution. The affair is considered somewhat mysterious. Before he was attacked Nealsoti had brought a pe - serial suit against Sharon for slander, ilayiug the damages at 120,000 dollars. The latter Tiad stigmatised him ijigja.j blackmailer. This Sharon suit has aW led to an indictment on a charge of jforgery of Mr Season and Miss Hill by "the Grand' Jury. ' Sir Henry Herbert Nnde, the owner ot Muckross Abbey, was about to marry Miss Rebecca Williams, a Baljtimore heiress, on November ; 11th, 'when her father discovered that the; baronet's estate was so heavily mortgaged that he was next door to apanper The wedding proceedings were prematurely stopped. Mrs Langtry started on her second professional tour in America on October 25th. She opens in Montreal, then goes to Chicago and San Francisco, and will probably continue her journey to, Australia. She gave great offence to the 'people of Ottawa by rehearsing her plays on Sunday. Matthew Arnold, who arrived, in New York on the 21st October, is reported as saying that he hoped be would like the country , but after all he thought there was.no place to live in like smoky old Londou. i The iron mills of Pittsburg, Pennsyl j vania are generally closing down, owing to the depression of trade. John Bright denies that he intends to .visit America this winter. ' ' A cablegram states that the health of the- Princess- of Wales is not good. She has iricreased the cold caught in Denmark, and her deafness has so increased that her companions talking to her in the theatte are heard" all'over the house. General MVissey, 'at present in New York, an# en* route for - Australia, is nearly broken down by bronchitis contracted in America, and from which he hopes his trip to the. colonies will free him. • ; .The Corean Ambassadors now in New York have been purchasing so recklessly that they found themselves short of funds, and have had to borrow money to pay their expenses home. :T A jargeand enthusiastic meeting of free traders was helii in New York on tjhe 22nd November. Henry WardBoecher presided. -j i■■ ■ . ■ i Captain F. W. Dawson, an English; man,' arid editor of the Charleston News and Mercury, has been cieated Knight 'ojf the Order of St. George by the Pope, ,'fpp 'the opposition he has made to duelling, and which has gradually Jed tb the suppression of -the practice in South Carolina. , > ; Edward Hanlon, the Canadian oar.sman, arrived in San Francisco on Nov. 1 23rd, en route to Australia. He will (probably leave by the mail stearaei of fteicmber. (■' .•• ;' M is Laugtry was playing in Louisville, K.Y., on November 25th. She is still accompanied by Fred. Gebhart. 1 Ben Butler's thanksgiving proclamation, owing to its irreverence, was not read from the Protestant pulpits. : "Vpl iim J; Ramsay, proprietor of the London Freethinker, convicted on the fith of March list of publishing blasphemous libels and sentenc* d to nine months' imprisiiment, wnb released on Noven^bor 24th. l'e *as< s•• rted fom gaol by Bra< l--iugh an ! u large < r w<l ot sympathisprF,' who th> rod h.w., a d he was givenja p lblic b o.tkfast at t e Ha. l of Sciencp. George W. Foote, e i tu- of h^ surae paper, convicted of the same off me has yet three* months to serve. Wolf, a member of the Advanced Socialist Club of London, was arrested on the 23rd ia his house, where were found two internal machines, placed there by a Frenchman named 80l Birattfe. It turned cut on investigation to b9 a put-up job to obtain the reward expected to be paid t> the intormer, ani that no real conspiracy existeH, as was stated, to destroy the German Embassy, Ambassador, and attache?. „ .. .. Jamas and Co. merchants, of ManChester, failed on the W4ih. Ihi liabilities are jSIIOjOOO. Mrs Cornwallis West, the famous English beuuty, has arrived in Washington, aud WiN assume the 'management of the househol 1 of her brother-in-'aw., backville West, the British Minister. On account of the number of B itish subjects in the Rocky Mountains, Karl Granvi le has been pe.itioned to appoint a Cetrtul at Dnnbar, and an Advance Consul iu S&h Lake. : "" :- : HanUo, the. Toronto rower, who ; leaves ior the colonies by the steamer City of Sydney £t, date, carries with him a she I boat and $ pair of Douaghue sculls for the Australian races. '

Oaii&da has demanded the Imperial

Government. to i^y P'* rt °* tne e^cpens ' of mrntainuig th j pauper immigrants deported Dm Ir lan i and land d in t e co'ony, but there s n i , liUt-lihoid that the demand will be c tnp'ied wilh. It is now surest 'd by the Ottawa Press that the dastituU or unreliable immi- ' gran's be shipped to the ii'ace from whence they c imp, as they were by the anthbiities at American por s. , Kit wall, the English pedestrian, is i<\. New York ro contest with Fitz^nrnlii,: who defeated him last October, for oOOj dollars and the. championship of the world. A son of Jay Gould, the American millionarie, is about to wed Miss Carrie Astor, of the famous Astor family, a union of wealth that is stirring New York society ci r c^es profoundly It is stated in the San Fraucisco, papers that a delegation ot busines men from the Australian polonies, headed by United States Cocsul Calho, of Sydritsy, will visit Amerca next spring with, a: view^of making themselves more, thoroughly acquainted 1 with the niethoJs of. the country, * ' . The Marquis-oF Lome, in his Impves-i sion 8 'of Colonial Life, writes ' thatj Canada is the least costly country »nd : the least troublesome, and yet the. greatest of British colonial possessions. The'', steamship City of bydney reached San Francisco a day in advance of the schedule time. Her speed was due, it is Shi J, to the new improved srew with which she has been recently fitted. Aylard, who gained fame as a lead< r \ in t,he Boer side in the recent Trans- ; vaal war, was arrested in Chicago recently for being drunk an) disorderly. Steve Raymond, an English forger, ; was 'Rentencid. in New York on November ist '0 life imprisonment for passing forced coupons on the Union Pacific Railroad. Port Antonio Janivera was almost entirely destroyel by fire on October the 18th. It began in the dry goods store of Houtherland and Co. The total loss was over £200,000. . ; • . The Canadian Pacific Railroad L aviiig been constructed on the i astern si<Je ,to wtbin 85 miles of the smnmu of* the Selkirk flange of the Rocky Mountain's, it has been discovered that it may "Mf iaj|>ossible to.icrossaivia the 'Kicking Horse Pas?. The engineers on the works got into a disjpu'e on the subject, which became so serious that the matter wos laid before the manager an 1 offi ;i---olj and the qonclusion was to stop a I work for tvro.ya's. Consequeitiy between 4000 and 5000 mien were dis» '. charged. Efficient engineers will ; be put to work at once to discover the best route.: ..■■:..•■-■• Extrßordina-y precautions halve been taken to guard the British men-of»war now lying in the ports of the Canndian aeaboaid provinces agaioßt Feniau attack. - -