ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 104, 7 April 1885, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AncKLAND, April 4. The Zealandia, from San Francisco, arrived at 10.30 to-night. She left San Francisco on March 15. The passage was an uneventful one. GENERAL SUMMARY.. London, March 14. For the first time since the Crimean war an inspection of the naval and military pensioners at Portsmouth Dockyard has been ordered. Earl Durham's suit for a divorce on the ground of his wife's insanity was dismissed with costs against Earl Durham. Sir James Hannen, m giving his decision, declared the respondent loved another and censured the family for arranging a marriage with his lordship. The English Government have invested £20,000 for the henefit of Gordon's family. Andrew Carnegie, the Scotch millionaire, of Pittsbur«;, was unmercifully blackballed at the London Reform Club. The strike of 55,000 English miners against a reduction of wages is throatened. The famous Cathedral m Glasgow, which lacks but two years of being seven centuries old, was on fire on March 8, and for a time there was much excitement ; but the flames were extinguished, little damage being done. The breach of promise suit, Lady Claude Scott against Captain Spiier, of the Life Guards, was settled for £33,000 (?). As the result of a conference with the Agents-General of the Colonies at the War Office, the Government will rely upon receiving contingents from Canada, Australia and New Zealand. London society was much exercised on March 6th over the suicide. of a young Englishman recently married, who had lost £55,000 m gambling at Monaco. American contractors are furnishing the British Government with pumping engines for the railway line between Sualrim and Berber. . The Swedish steamer Norden was run into by the English steamboat Cumberland near Ouxhaven, on February 27, and sank. Twfehtv-one persons on board the Norden perished. The Gordon Natuenal Memorial Fund has reached £10,000. . The firms of Rothschild and Barings each contributed £2500. It has been decided that the memorial shall take the form of a great hospital and sanitorium to be erected at Port Said and open to people of all nations. The ex-Empress Eugenic and the Duke de Bassano wore thrown out of a carriage while riding at Faiboro and f were badly injured. Amongst the latest items of war news is a vote of March 6, by the House of | Commons, of £320,000 for extra naval expenses m Egypt and for the construction of Ironclads. The Supplementary Estimates provide an increase of 3000 mon m the military service, and show' the expenses of the Soudan campaign to the end of March to be £3,330,000. ' Lord Derby, ou March sth, invited the Colonial A gents General m London to attend a Conference on the offers m ado by the Colonies to furnish the Home . Government with . troops for service m the Soudan, ■:r A manifesto was issued by the dyna-ipitei-s m Pan's on March 5, addressed to the Prince of Wales, pledging him safety during his visit to Ireland, because he is a Freumison. TUo document is signed " Michael Flannary." Ouu part of it says : "Go and see for yours JE wlut the Irish people have suffered. We shall thank you, although

you arj the residuary legatee of eenturics of usurpation and attempted extermination." A tremendous fight occurred between soldiers and civilians at Waterford on March 7. A detachment of th c Royal Irish Regiment, numbering 10', wore waiting to embar'* for Portsmouth, en route to India aud were allowed by their officers to break ranks and enjoy themselves. They did so by getting drunk nnd insulting all the residents, and kissing all the women they met on the streets. All business was suspended, and the polica, aided by citizens, attacked the soldiers, who beat off the charge with their fiats and the buckles of their belts, which they used like sling-shots. Many were seriously wounded. A gang of rowdies took' part with tho soldiers against the police, and the latter were stoned, kicked, and clubbed, until they were forced to take refuge m the Custom House. Lord . Monteagle is having a serious quarrel with the tenants on his estate near Shanagolden, County of Limerick. The tenants decline to pay rent m future unless, considering the hard times, a reasonable abatement be made. Lord Monteagle stubbornly refuses all reduotions, and wholesale evictions have been ordered. The Lord Mayor of Dublin was hissed and groaned at the railway station m that city. He was there to receive the American delegation with the remains of the Rev. Dr Cahill. 10,000 persona took part m the procession, whilst 20,000 persons occupied the quay. Two dynamite cartridges were exploded m a Protestant church m Glenfiven, near Stranoler, m Donegal, on March S, and several square feet of masonry, were destroyed. Several more cartridges were found m the vicinity. The programme for the Prince and and Princess of Wales' visit to Ireland was. published on March. 8. The Royal party will reach Dublin oh April 8, when a levee, ball, and banquet will take place. They then go to Kerry as the guests, of the Earl of v Listqwel, remaining until the 19th, meantime visiting Cork, Curraghmore and Killarney. They will attend the Punchestown races. Belfast, Londonderry and Barrancourt will then be visited, and on the 25th they will cross from Belfast to Scotland by the I Stranraer routei The Freemasons will arrange a Grand Lodge m the Prince's honor. It is proposed to open subscriptions throughout Ireland to meet the expense of giving a fitting ,jreception. The Loyalist members of theDublin Muni* cipal Council resolvediip present an ad- ' dress of welcome, expressing gratification of their coming, thus proving a desire to nut an end to the neglect trom which Ireland has so long suffered, and giving rise to the hope that this will bo the precursor of frequent Royal visits. The address also expresses a hope that a Royal residence will be provided m Ireland.