ARRIVAL OF ’FRISCO MAIL.

Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 7, 14 November 1887, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF ’FRISCO MAIL.

Auckland, November 11. By tli© Mail steamer Mariposa, which arrived from San Francisco this evening, Jack Burke, JohnL Sullivan, ard Patrick ' arrol, three well known exponents of pugilism, were through passengers to Sydney, Burke has fought mO battles with bare fists and gloves. His greatest achievement was when he stood up to Sullivan (champion of the world) at Chicago, who failed to knock him our in four rounds The gate receipts at that battle amounted to 170',) dollars. Sullivan proceeds to Europe. He is to give exhibitions in the art of self defence in the principal towns and cities of the United Kingdom, and next summer will go ou the Continent. aho Mariposa brings the body of G W Bishop, who was shot at San Francisco by Mrs Yon. The remains have been embalmed, and were interred in a vault at the Laurel Hall Cemetery at -an Francisco, pending the departure of the mail cteamer, Mrs Bishop disputed her husband’s will in the Supremo Court here, on the ground that he was not dead, and the body has consequently been brought over to prove the death.

JDuriu v the voyage of the Mariposa one of her saloon passengers from San Francisco to this port (Mrs G I Allison) died of heart disease, and was buried at sea The Mariposa brings one of the heaviest cargoes taken to Auckland and other colonial ports by a single vessel She Ir3 on board over 2,700 tons of freight and more than 21,000 cases of tinned salmon, MAIL 'UMMAEY. (Dates up to October 2eth) The s s Great Eastern was so'd on October 20th at auction for f‘21.000. The steamer Agrippa collided with and sank the German barque Plautoau, off Deadly Head, on .Mvurday October 28th. Eleven persons were drowned, and the captain has since died, and only two of his crew survived. A report gives the number of destitute children in London at one hum dread and ton thousand. Dr Johnston’s House at Lichfield was sold at auction on October 20th for £BOO. Sir Charles and Lady Dilke have had an extraordinary reception from the Sultan of Turkey. They were re ceived in audience twice, and a special State banquet was given them, when all the Ministers and household were present Sir Charles refused the Grand Cordon of Medovidial, but Lady Dilke accepted the Grand Cordon of the Chefakt, an order of generosity and fidelity. A London Despatch of October 20th says that Fanny, the servant girl who figured in the Dilke case, denied that there was any truth in Mrs Crawford’s statement of her refusal to appear at tho trial. She had. nothing- to do with. the Dilke case Sir Charles {.Tike's friends are working gradually towards tho same action.

The Marquis of Aylesbury has sub miked to the decision of the Jockey Club ruling him off the turf for unfair ' practices The defence of the Marquis is that he did not instruct his : jockey to pu 1 the horse, and says that | he will bring 1 evidence to prove that Martin’s evidence is false. Lord Cairns has entered into a marriage engagement with a woman named Olive Bereno. The scarlet fever epidemic continues in London. On October 12th there were IDOo cases in the hospitals. I Eichard Tichborne Doughty, thoi claimant, was removed to the London city lunatic asylum on October 10, He broke a street lamp in front of the MansionHouso a day or two previously saying he wanted to see the Mayor to get a better homo. Dhuleep ■"ingh has written a letter to the native papers of India—according to a Calcutta despatch of October 10th—in which ho says that England has offered him T200,00U, in settle merit of h;s claim against tiro Indian Government, atul he rejected the offer. Embittered by his arrest at Aden he expresses his internal hatred to the Eiitish Government, and declares that he wiii serve his new sovereign, the Czar, with his life’s blood. At the tiial of the men for the raid on farmer Sexton’s house, v\here \v iieiau was murdered, Ca Iman, an informer, testified that ho planned it' in order to deliver his companions over to the police, and that ho was paid by wuveriimeafc. •

The regular monthly meeting of the Band of Hope at Kakaramea takes place this evening, when Mr Relf will preside for the last lime, and a full attendance is therefore anti■ipated, few people having made themselves 'O deservedly popular in the cause as has Mr Keif. Some fault was found with our report of 1 e entertainment on Wednesday, as being too severe for amateurs. How does this extract from the Wanganui Herald’s critique of the performance of “ Tolanthe ” read Mr Allen was the Lord Chancellor, and it would be somewhat difficult to find a redeeming feature throughout the who e of his perfo mance. No other character in ’he opera affords more opportunities, and no one in the entire comp my made less use of them Uf course it was notto be expected that MiHbien would be a second George he was thoroughly deficient of all humorous penetration. He missed the points of his lines frequently, and altogether the performance was a miserable failure. In his vocal efforts he was if anything even less succ3ssfui and Mr Allen should certainly eschew comic opera in future. Of his dancing, too, nothing more favourable could be said, and no better reason possibly could be given for the recall for his contortion exhibition in the second act than that which sometimes impels an audience to encore an execrably bad song." That is tolerably severe on an amateur, and reflects somewhat harshly on the conductor’s casting of the parts.