MAIL NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1200, 13 November 1882, Page 2

MAIL NEWS.

(per united press association). AUCKLAND, This Day. The San Francisco mail boat arrived here yesterday, bringing the following European x intelligence;— London, Oct. 22. The Horse Guards returned from Egypt on the 20th, and their reception along the whole route after landing was enthusiastic to a remarkable extent. Reports have reached London that the Danish and Dutch Arctic expeditions are In danger of being beset by ice in Kara Bea, about 80 miles from the Continent. The German ship Constantia, Captain Kneblken, came in collision with the steamer City of Antwerp, 14 miles off Eddystone Lighthouse, on the 17th Oct., and both vessels sunk. Fourteen of the crew of the steamer were drowned. Barry O’Sullivan, the actor, consented to be nominated to Parliament by the Irish constituency on Home Rule principles. The Lora-Lieut, has commuted the death sentence of Walsh, convicted as an accessory to the murder of Constable Kavanagh, to penal servitude for life. A thick fog, smelling of burning turf, covered the whole of St. Petersburg on the 20th and 21st Oct. A vast circle of incendiary fires extending from Finland to the Baltic is said to surround the capital, and to include within its circumference Gatschina, where the Emperor now is. Fires are in the woods under which are turf pits, and they may last for a long time. They are attributed to the Nihilists. Overdann, a man arrested in Trieste some time since, while manufacturing bombs, wm sentenced to death on the 19th Oct, San Francisco, October 22. The Australian cricketers have been handsomely entertained during their shortstay in this city, and on Saturday played match merely to show their style. The cricketers carry back with them over £ll,OOO. Rowell, the English pedestrian, has offered to bet he will win the coming six days match in New York. He is sanguine, and believes 640 miles will be made. The British ship Bremen of Liverpool, went ashore in a fog on October 16, near San Francisco harbor, and is a total wreck. A Bill was introduced into Vermont House of Representatives on the 18th inst., requlr* ing the prison authorities to render prison* ers insensible before execution, On the 18th October, the Secretary of State of Felinghugsen, conveyed to Harry George, the New York Irish World's correspondent the “Regret of Her Majesty’s Government ” for the treatment to which he had been subjected in Ireland. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher’s farewell address on returning from the congregationalists, shows that, in effect, he denies the in* sniration of the scriptures, the orthodoxy of the doctrine of the fall and atonement, and also the doctrine of eternal punishment, at which he scoffs. Major O’Connor, worth 10,000,000 dollars, was killed in a street fight in Tennessee. The light keeper at Lonely Island, Canada, has been arrested for the robbery of drownea persons washed on shore, A. and J. C. Hope, iron importers of Montreal, failed on October for 200,000 dollars. A cyclone visited the Vuelta Abago tobacco region, Cuba, on October 17, and wrought so much damage to property and loss of life to individuals that the Captaingeneral is compelled to appeal for aid to the Spanish Minister of the Colonies. Acts by the Peruvian provincial government at Arequipa, shew their cause to be desperate, and, according to a despatch of the 21st October, they are marching headlong to destruction. Professor Blackie, of Glasgow, and others are about to start a fresh land agitation in the Highlands. The movement is wholly independent of the Land League. A desnatch from Dublin, dated October 4, says tne police believe that the murderers of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr U. 8. Burke, numbered ten, and are still in Ireland, but that unless the aid of some informer can be secured, the crime cannot be brought home to the guilty parties. The weapons used in the commission of the murders were found some days ago concealed in the rafters of a stable in the rear of a house belonging to a man recently sentenced to penal servitude for intimidating Mrs. Kenny, the widow of a man murdered in Savilleplace, because he was suspected of having ?iven information concerning the murderers, t is alleged Kenny was the driver of the cart in which the murderers rode. The weapons found were four knives, nine inches long, with blades three-quarters of an inch wide. They are quite new, exceedingly sharp, and are evidently surgical dissecting Knives. The blades were discolored, as proved by chemical analysis, human blood. The authorities maintain the strictest silence. Three London detectives arrived at Dublin on the 15th of October, with three of the crew of the Gladstone, one of whom was Westgate the self accused assassin, who as mentioned before had sailed for the West Indies. The sailors were subjected to a searching examination, and the authorities are thoroughly determined to sift Westgates asssertion in order to quiet the public mind. The police firmly adhere to tho belief that Westgate is crazy, and that his assertions are unworthy of belief.