NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1100, 17 October 1883, Page 2

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

(per press association.)

AUCKLAND, Oct 16.

Arrived, at 10 this morning—City of New York, with the English mail. Passengers: Messrs Ledger, McKinnon Arundel, Gibbs, Lovett, Holmes, Thomas, Pillow, Gogan, Forbes, Caruthers and wife, Morriu, wife and child, Major and Mrs George, Mrs Miller, and Misses Morrin and Gordon. Mail Summary. London, Sept 21.—A death from cholera was reported in Sligo county hospital on the 10th. Mr Parnell has selected Edward McMahon as the candidate of the Home Rule party. Professor Nordcnkfeld’s Greenland party were heard from via Thurso, Scotland. He had reached a distance of 360 kilometres inland, and attained a height of 7000 feet above the sea. The whole region is proved a desert. Germany interprets Mr Gladstone’s visit to Denmark in a most unfriendly way.

The Duke and Duchess of Teck have left England and gone into retirement in Germany to economise. Their apartments in Kensington Palace have been placed at the disposal of the Princess Louise and the Marquis of Lome,

A testimonial to Martin Tapper is progressing favourably, Tennyson, Lord Lytton, and all the leading publishers subscribing liberally. There is also n movement in London to erect a monument to Charles Dickens. The British Treasury Department has cancelled £75,000,000 of various stock, representing a portion of the national debt, and issued terminable annuities. At the Trades Union Congress, held at Birmingham on Sept. 12, Joseph Arch offered the following resolution ; “ That considering the large amount of waste land in the kingdom capable ot cultivation, radical changes in the land system ot the country are required in ordej that land may be put nnder productive cultivation for the benefit of the community, thereby offering a check to excessive emigration.” An amendment was offered calling npon the Government to declare such land Government property, and with this addition the entire resolution was adopted. The uncollected writings of Thackeray are announced as included in the new Smith and Elder edition, which will contain his earliest contributions to Punch and other magazines. The Prince of Wales had a pleasant time at Berlin on the Bth, where he attended a fancy dress ball. The Prince, Lord Charles Borcsford, and other members of the Royal party attended as cooks and chambermaids. The Princess was absent. Marwood, the London hangman, died in September (?) An inquest was ordered, as it was said the Invincibles caused his death. It is announced that the Princess Beatrice will go to the north of Italy for the winter. An impression has gone abroad that the Queen has practically disgraced the new Duke of Marlborough by refusing to admit him to her presence to deliver up the Insignia of the Garter which his father wore. His successor, according to custom, delivers it to the Sovereign. He, however, has been told that ho must leave the things with the Lord Chamberlain. The progress of distinguished foreign tourists in America is watched in London with great interest, and in place of Parliamentary proceedings the newspapers arc .full of American affairs, emigration, natural resources, scenery, social condition, etc. The Yicur of Stratford-on-Avon has signified his willingness to allow the remains of Shakespeare to be exhumed. The object is to compare the skull of the poet with the bust and portrait of him. Some of the members of the Town Council, however, oppose the opening of the tomb as desecration, and threaten to throw anyone attempting to act into the river Avon. Mary Anderson, an American actress now in London, rcccntty declined the honour of being presented to tbo Prince of Wales. She desired, she said, to avoid scandal. The Queen has subscribed £2OO for the relief of the distress in Egypt caused by

cholera. The Queen offered the ex-Empress Eugene the autumn tenancy of Abergeldie Castle, which was courteously declined. The London night police are to be armed. Two or three iccent burglaries* in which firearms played a leading part, have changed public opinion on the subject, and the general feeling now is that the officers should be armed at once. Moody, the Evangelist, goes to Ireland in October, “ not however,” as he says, «to convert Catholics, only to preach the

gospel.” The striking weavers of Ashton-under-Lyne held a mass meeting on Sept. 17, at which a resolution was adopted rejecting the masters’ proposals, and deciding that they will remain out another month, pending the preparation of new terms.

Lord Dansome, the future Lord Fevarsham, is shortly to be married to the professional Nellie Leraar, who with her sister Kate has been the reigning star for some time at one of the leading Variety Shows. She attracted the attention of the Prince of Wales by her singing of the song, “Go and inform your father,” and since that time has been advertised as “ The Royal Favorite..” A movement is on foot to erect a monument to the late Captain Webb on the banks of the Severn, the spot where he first saved life. The spread of the cattle disease in every portion of England causes great uneasiness. In some sections only American beef is now obtainable.