ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL.
; Auckland," Saturday. (The Mariposa, from Honolulu and San Francisco, arrived ps#i a.m. She leaves for Sydney at 2 p.m. to-day. f% GENERAL SUMMARY. News from Europe has r been received up to June 4tl>. . The Orangemen employed at the Queen's Islands Yards attacked, on June 4th, jhe navvies employed by the Harbor T^missrdni&fs, ahd'overpowering them ,aud .beating them badly, drove them inta»the water, It' was with the greatest difficulty that the injured, Exhausted, and ■• struggling -^navvies ,:were ■ rescued. The Orangemen made the assault because .tpeiiihyyies^ v>!allesrea, bad previously attacked some Royalists for aspersing the Home Rulejuovement Intense excitement pee^Sfed^nnongst the local Catholics in(con|^i|e^be of the attack. The Oranßemen .^u'mberea ! : 2ooo, ? and the navvies but .100. • A repetition of the historical |ipt r -is feared. Policemen, fully armed.,: patrolled thacity, and the military were held m readiness within *tfeir fcnrraipks. i| Thirty ~|6atho]jcs were injiifeoY driti twelve were taken to the djrospital: ; 'ZTliO: JDodv v of^mes Curry, one ot the navvies '•" who:; was. missing for a time, has been recovered. He was the sole support. of a widowed mother. 'Mr Boucicault's : fir^ reception on reaching London, says a jdespatch of M ay 21 i was Jby^couri officer, serving a summons for a divorce at,' ihM instance of Eobertsoii fioitcicauit; under the advice of theirchildren, whose, birthright is impugned by tb> > Australian marriage ceremony. Tt' v is understood; use will be made of -Mr - Bouoicault'a affidavit m, charging the first- marriage as legal m /New York, Distinguished counsel are .employed for Mrs Boucicaalt..^The defendants- friends say the suit will be j Xsontested'Strbngly, ' fept Khox, bishop of Dowhi will be the new^Protestant Primate of Jrelaad . •-- On May llv the House of Commons , rejected ;vthe motion to, abolish capital . pimishinenf by a vote of 117; to 62. By last fepprt, cholera isT stated to be on the, increase m Rome, Venice, and Brrndisi. /'V^'v^ t7 " : V "'■ : " ''' ■ The rPrinie of^Kales: has declined to attend 'Mr Gladstone's dinner on the Queeo'u Birthday. The refusal . caused some surprise. , The infant son of the Qiieeu. 'Regent of SpaiujyaTchristeued on May 22nd, amid^reat rejoicing. Don Carlos has ; ptfbJi«he^ t a| ioanifpßto c repudiating this postliumouscUildofAlfonßp, and declaring he will never renouricjß his own right :to the throne^ ; /' Moant-Etua- was- in eruption on May 22nd. Eartliquako shocks were frequent, aifd^he inhabitants had fled from Meoiosi^:n^ar?@iitattia; -lief ore stroams of -mdltenflava. -• • :.*-•'' ' -#*!%&> : T|he Comte de P«r.is,lefWaris on May 220d,5t0 attend the 'wedding of his daughter to the Crown Prince of Portugal, t He was not permitW to re-enter ; France, The Coiumitiee oflhe^Chamber ofe*Dep.utieß decided on June 2nd, by a of 6 to 5, that the,. expulsion mea■ur,jß^ should be compulsory, and not penniMiv%<^Bjecondly, that it should be applied to all families that have at any time reigned m France; thirdly, that the decree of banißbmsut be pronounced by the Legislature, and uot by the Executive. '■.'■) ■;'-■.::.' ... ;-, J ; t ho New .York 4 Heraldte. London correspondent of May 31, says :-— "I hava discovered that the organisation of the army of Ulster has progressed to an extraordinary degree, and I have gathered startling particulars which are m secret circulation among the Orangemen m this cityl The leading fact is, that the organiser of a Royal Protestant body of men pledged to resist any attempt to carry out Home Rule iv Ireland by the Parnelljte body has developed euorinoußly without anybody .having tn» slightest suspicion of itg growth. Th» army i» already enrolled, and all the; military details have been arranged with the precision. i f^A f number of jdistinguishfed npblernettandj members of Parliament are enrolled among the officers of. the. army,', aad arms ua>e already hjSen provided. Arrangementshave bean made for securing cannon and! horses." This story is given for what it is worth. :'■;■%s ,;•. ' Ov May 29ih| 4>thW police seized, at Belfast, a quantity of swords, rifles, bay ou«ts on board ) a steamer from Fleetwoddj a se^apott- of Lancashire. ' They were consigned to parties m Armagh. The newaf.;f>Q.ni Burmah shows an unsettled state of affairs. lucendiarism and t ebellion are spreading all over Upper and Lower Burmah, and numbers of leading merchants . and others * have bcen^ arrested on~a charge of complicity m the insurrectionary movements. In the meantime the differences- between England and China over Burmah continnes to widenj" and the affairs of the two Powers have never baen m a more unsatisfactory condition. ' #^ ; MN^iFRANCTScb, June 5. . - Qwinjf to difficulties; with the Sailors* Union, the 8.8.U Mafiposa sailed for Auckland and Sydney at date with a full crew of Chinamen., The Secretary of State (Mr Daniel Manning) tendered his resignation to .President Cleveland on June 4th. i \ By/ the of ; dynamite rifle cartridges and other explosives, plaped under varies bnildings m Chicagd, the belief ißr gaming ground that the had a scheme to burn and loot ithtt'city on May 4|h,hhat they did not go beyond rioting at tliat time, was due to the prompt action of the police. , Preparations are being made m Sao Francisco to receive ; 15,000 visitinf members of the Grand Army of the Rapublic. The general encampment wlll.be held there m August. Dr J. Wilton Bowers, a practising physician m San Francisco, was sentenced to be hangecl~on June 2nd for the ihurdf r of his wife.: ; ■;"•./ Alderman Jachne, of New York,, convinced of bribery m connection with the Broadway Railway franchise, was on •May 20th sentenced to, one year and ten monthp' in Sing Sing, r ; San Francisco was shaken by slight earthquakes on M«v26. .z^s ... : Herr Johnn Most and his Anarchist companions were found guilty of misde r meanor.in4nciting the riot.at Chicago on Muy 28th, and each' aenUnced to iuipruonment. .> a ... Archbiahop Gibbons, of Baltimore, Maryland, has been elevated to a Car— diualate by the Pope. ■■■ H. M. Brooks, alias Maxwell, brought back from Auckland oa the charge onthe charge of murdering C. Arthur-Prener,-fltt*ly on trial m St Louis, where the murdtr was committed made a statement, oU;M«y 18, that he killed Preller by accident, while acting as his physic* • fan, through giving him an oyerdose of . chloroform. - ""'- Vi V The American ; Union held ii convention m: Philadelphia on May 18, . and decided to; pppoiwrthe^Knightß of" Labor who are encroaching upon tlia* open unions. r ■ Maine fishermen have held a< cbhVentidn, and' resolved Ib resist byforce «U future attempts of Canadians tO ■HBo thefr yeaieli for breaches of the. fishing laws. t \ . Qu the arrival ot the s.i. Mariposi from; S S4B$l *■ & *"P to ft Ban Fra«ci§co, all. cr«w were arrested for disobedience of orders durinc the~voy«ge. -
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1745, 28 June 1886, Page 2
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1,082ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL. Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1745, 28 June 1886, Page 2
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