ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 81, 9 March 1885, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AncKLAtfD, March 8. Arrived— Australia, from 'Frisco at 3.45 p.m. on February 16th. The passage was an uneven ouo. Passed the City of Sydney on the 6lih ;'*in«te-4>ound for ' Frisco. .i* „ . r -, Leonard Courtney and ' John Morley, M.P.'s, are arrauging^forj^a^cjmggg 61106 of all members of Parliament opposed to the continuance ofthe Soudan war.Maoy of the Liberals urge that the Soudan and Egyptian muddle should be handed over to. tha Sultan. They""are \ alirinXl at the prospects of the bouiWeuiexfense. Government have given the cqntract for the construction ot the railway from Suakiiri to Berber to Lucas M Co., .contractors, who will provide all materials, which the Govern tne.ut Undertake to transport to Egypt. The work will begin immediately. ,/■'■■'* "■''"■ ! The sentries have 'been trebled at the Shearness Powder Magazines m couse qtience 0f ,t1)9 appearance. £ff dyuarniters.Guardshave also been placed , The War Uqpartment are organising a cor{>3 of balopnist^^roin.the ' corps for experimenting .'servie'e,' in the S6«da ! n-.' ;i; .[; ' J '':•■■■<>>■ .'■ihui, There ifea' 'prospect of Edward Yates being released. The confinement has ■told upon his 'spirits arid* hsilthh^T 1500 Irish, had/ r been dismissed from the buildings m. course of construction m East .. London up to February 14> A similar movement has been' startftd at Mincliestor; Liverpool, and ; oiHer l provincial centres. . A great corporation, called the Eoyal [ Soudan ..Trading ■ Omnppaji (jcujfc been formed m London and] .Alexandria, upon the same i basis' as r itie old East India Company. Onepfitsjjrjyileges will be the right to build a railway between Berber and Suakhn.^ „. . . y - <rr~rf At a Liberal meeting held' a't Blniingham a resolution . J waV 'unanimously •passed condoling' with 1 ! 'the 1 Conservative Party on the death of the gallant soldiers and kind-hearted Colonel Burnaby at . Abuklea. His loss is Agrjaajly, jJdeplored : in, England, it being, more of than the battle itself. Frank Adams r/ a r London [ who "recently " married i#i Miss despite the savage opposition of her relations, has begun a libel action ' against "his fatlier-tin'-law,L6nd Coleridge, ' A- large number of crofters have been arrested m the parishes pf Jlilnaunj and Crlendah, Isle of $yke, for resi&tmg the sheriff, and were, landed at : rPpitree otftfaiiuar.y 30th,' guarded b'y'iWJtolice- ; mferi ! arid a mimber-'of f matirtes, A large crowd of people sympathised) with the. prisoners,: iand followed (;he. guards : with yells, and would,havje attempted a rescue,,,but were,.kjEjpt ( atj^ay ,py the guards'. '"' <•->■■'••> "i.-.0.^.. ; O'Leary, a Fenian, had a free fight at his Gksgowlectu/e on February M,. He was excited by Ms references to Parnell, Eossa, and Ford. ..The TichbomeM cjaunajit has now fallen so low. .that he appears m a provincial variety company^in and takes his turn between an acrobat styled the hunian- serpent- 1 and *the Cornish mute. , The English dete'ctivp,foiQ.e>iSv^be reorganised, and. a department of secret ..service men, added for ,the .express purpose of tracing political' an%*qukffl-ppliti cal offenders. ' thousand Irish were out of work •m Lbridoruoii Feb. fedii Eijllyion^-third have been discharged since the recent explosion. " • :;i -''' -'•"•»; , t . , The, weekly London papers, jsay that Garmoyle and miss Fortescue will marry notwithstanding the lawsuit?*-'"'--" Ford, a London carriage builder, recently shipped 1400 hansom cabs to New York. ; '""■'''■\ i The Trince. of Wales^recently request* ed one of his sdnsiJJF appear at and conduct .sendees m th&Boys's Befuge m th« most 'inland part of London. At a ! : ticket office- opposite Somerse House the duplicate' emigrant ticket pur chased by Lucelle Dudiev,. Rppsa's as* sailaiit/ was"" exhibited' o'n^Fe'b'r&rfry 11th, and is dated Aug. 21st. pne : of the 9 transatlantic steamship lines -is abouff to issue iiJfckets entitUng passengers merely to lodging and conveyance, tfbis is a concession to pas~ v f .•„ .jAi'sQldier yr&B, bay<»t.tjgq^ ( tp*iath on Feb. 7th at a London arsenal. He would not give, the countersign to advance m darkness to the^sentary; and* 1 the latter, on a stranger attempting to pass the guard, / stabbed, him': to ; death. * .Investigation showed that. the. tragedy was the result i of a practical joke on the part of the i jdea, d , man. .■•;■ ■■ }< »\ There t is renewed *actrvsy m the British snipping interest' in view of com- . ing contracts. Two new big steamers have been ordered' on>the Tyße', to be I registered-, tseparately under the British j Limited Liability Act, and to be sailed : : underf jthq,Briti^rflag^wlule eye^y share m stock m both vessels is owned by American citizens. John Lee, ex-convict, whoThurdered. Miss Lee, a wealthy lady, m her man. sion-^t Balbicombe, has been sentenced to death.*/;. The Governments of Bussia and Ameri. ca are conferring as to a treaty for the exti-aditiooo^ dynamiters. It is. announced- that a marriage has been nrraTig^d^etwdeff Princess Clementine, daughter of King Leopold of Belgnftf ?d^?£!ni^^gert Victor, eldest soniof tinVprmoe Of Wales. Sir Vernon Harcourfc, said to be m a state; of nervous alarm; ,ha«r taken ex- ' traordihary "means to guard against personal danger^ Sir Andrew Clarke and the Duke of r^esminister^each-gavqryeung Gladstone • a-y-1080 cfieqjue h&i. pfesfent on his wed* IRISH AFFAIRS. , Mayor, O'Connor, a Dublin strong Nationalist, declines to attend the coming yice-regal levee at Dublin Castle. , The Jrishi<Tityte ;piropfls§a;<}hat tha British Press raise a monument to the lneiriofy 1 of' ; th'e ' l Ho r n'."Ji ; ! -A. Cameion ajid.Mr Herbert, wwatr t porresnondentF, who were killed" at' the batfle or Abuklea Wells. -. ■<„' :r/V .' Redmond, and Q'Brien, Irish Nationalists, on returning '-to Londonderry on January 31st, after a meeting at Ear£ donaugh, were met by a torchlighprocession. The mayor ordered the police and military to prevent the entrance of the procession into the city, whereupon O'Brien departed for Dublin, and Redmond- put up at an hotel m Londonderry. Thi^ed to Bavage riots during theunght-; J&tween Orangemen and Nationalists.^^ At a mee>ing ! '>%tf lrish NationaUsts held m Dublin o c n^ebruary4th, Thomas Power O'Ci^noj^m.P., said m his ad- . drsss, ,when.""jn due time Parnell appealed to l|iapeomj|to pMlAhe Irish niembers,^!^ result would astonish the world. ]o!e;made,n.Qi allusion to the exnlpsions.in Lpndpn, n^r-^e^shooting of A ; Dublin .apeciaflr; of February 6th, ,cays the, Attonup^tjo §hoot Rps&a had already ceased to be taffiea aboul. AMEBICAN SUMMARY. 'Skis' Franoisco, Feb. 16. lo.Pngh'qhpjoaj^s w,ere detoiped by heavy snow storms. : .Eighteen violent maniacs have been "bullied to' dektti at 'the 1 'BldfeEey Alms House. >;Tl '»«1 '»"'« • The Philadelphia Asylum destroyed.* Socialistic labour party m New York

passed resolutions favouring the Irish dynarflitists." -■---• George Augustus Sala was favorably received m San Francisco. He remains a year m the colonies. Tremendous; storms m the Western' States. >''■'■< February 10. The snow m Chicago stopped the milway traffic. Hundreds of entile were either ifttraeu or starved to death. Vigorous enforcement of the antipoligamj' law m Utah has demoralised business. Influential Mormons are reniov*irig elsewhere. . Thu debts of New Orleans Exposition has adre^djn reached 360,000 dollars Congress has .been asked to make good ; iJie deficiency. ' „ ■■■■.-,' Sla^e, f^he\Bj) ; intualißt ) finished a aeries of manifestations before the Seybert Commission of Newark, appointed un:der the will of Henry Seybert. who left 60,000 dollars to bee expended m this kiud of , jnyps.tigatiop. When Slade's manipWfcions Concluded, Holler, the magician, contracled with the commis sion to duplfcateall, Shade's feats, and provn there was nothing supernaturnl m the performance. . ... The am Pablo, a large steamer trading from Sau Francisco to China, is reported lost. .-.' .-. •'. > ,:,; The directors of the United States minoji'irjort the; gold and silver product, of thflicolintry m 1884 greater that the yearipiiecefding. T . ■ . . .. . Ctfjpfj Engineer Melville, 1 of the Jeannette^peclition, want? 130,000' dollars to realty the. JNorth Pole by Franz Josef TheiSwedisb .brigantine Frailil, which ' sailed- from Boston for Brisbane, put. into JJew 'York on January 29th. A terrilije mutiny had occurred. The captain ft sin his berth at night by the carpenter With' a broad axe 1 ; but, aidett ! By"t!i^;mate, ; beat him off, and also. uVe^t'eV^artij.whcr joined the assailant. The 'captain, after staunching the woiifi^s^salliedout with the junto faced the qarpenter, .steward, and three sailors annei with axes, and sheath knives., The*captain and mate triumphed. Tim capMfin.'s'Son:? and second, inato, after having been niurd«Jre4 by theinuthlcers, were thrown overboard: Finally, when the flftitftibe'rH Submitted- ; 't<he"captJliivi havirig^p'te'g irons' <»r handcuffs to secur^H^fri^slio't tlj'e' steward and carpenter threw.thu bodies overboard. The.,Be i amen. then agreed to obey orders. Henry George, returned „fr«m Eng-' landj.says that dynamite- is damaging the.^lrish/cause. His land-natioualis;---tion/idea.B iuadc more rapid progress iv Scotland than elsewhere. IlPis I reported that the existence of a pow^rful'dynamite organisation m Pittsbnr]^' are pr^arins: for a socialistic out- 1 break,^t^ajises considerable uneasiness, and martiaU'aw is proclaimed. Panama, Feb. ll. v Theeoftst of Canca is m the hands of ihWeftpiutiohi&s. All binds of busiuess i 8 B^ypp^ vu ■•;' ■.■••■■;■ •"-•■.-■ $e fieisseps nnd .party concluded thi* exan^af;ion of tlio. Panama Canal on the lO^whb^proWounced it a success.