ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 195, 29 July 1884, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

MINERS’ FREAKS. THE AMERICAN PRESS. CATHOLIC CONVERTS. LIBEL ACTION AGAINST THE EDITOR OF THU TH. THE QUEEN’S BOOK. THE AMERICAN CRICKETERS. SMALL-POX EPIDEMIC. PECULIAR INFERNAL MACHINE. LORD GARMOYLE’S BREACH OF PROMISE CASE. MR. PARNELL AND THE IRISHAMERICANS. THE PANAMA CANAL—ENORMOUS COST. ORANGE OUTRAGES. THE TIMES ON FRANCE AND CHINA. SUPPRESSION OF MORMONISM. THE CHOLERA IN FRANCE—GREAT CONSTERNATION. THE LOAN AND MERCANTILE COMPANY. San Francisco, July 6. At the elections at Cape de Verd Islands, in which several persons were killed and wounded, the Government candidates won. By way of fun on the 4th of July, some miners of Swan City, Colorada, put some giant powder under the post office, and blew it out of sight. Luckily no one was hurt. A new Cunarder has been launched of 12,500 horse-power. This means the trip across the Atlantic in loss than six days.

The New York daily papers find there is no profit in the reduction of price, and the proprietors give notice that tho old rates will be resorted to after the Presidential elections. Monsignor Capel is making many converts for the Catholic Church. Among the leading ones Colonel Bliss, of New York, prominent in politics, is the latest one received in the fold.

Laborichere, the editor of London Truth, has been sued by Bishop, the American mind reader, for libel. The Truth asserted that Bishop was a common swindler, and had robbed the Victoria hospital of £3OO nett proceeds of one of his entertainments, ostensibly for the benefit of the hospital, The report says that members of the aristocracy arc assisting Bishop with money and advice. The demand for tho Queen’s book has almost ceased, and librarians are offering it for 4d. Two hundred and six miles of the BennettMackay cable had been laid from the English shore on the sth July, when the Durady returned to Queenstown to coal. The Irish Catholic Bishops have asked the British Government to an interview for the preservation of the rights of British subjects, which they claim are threatened by a proposed spoliation of the property of Propaganda.

The Court of appeal in London has rendered its decision in the Park Club case. Pacarrat as proposer, and members of the governing committee has been fined £5OO and and players £lOO, and an appeal taken at the Court of Appeal affirms the judgment against the proprietors and committee, but quashes that against the players. The Philadelphia cricketers won the game with the Gents from Leicester in London on the 24th June. The score was 152 in two innings by Leicester, against 200 by Philadephia in one innings. The small-pox epidemic reported on the 23rd June is spreading in London, there being already 700 cases. The daily reports showed the rate to be 75 per cent. Patrick Joyce, arrested on the steamship Illinois, at London on the Ist June, for having in his possession an infernal machine of a new and ingenious pattern. It resembled a wooden log, but was found to be hollow, a hole having been pierced through it leading to a chamber containing a liquid supposed to be explosive. There was an outer wooden casing IGin long and din thick, within which a brass tube was inserted. On removing a metal cap tho liquid could not be found except by a careful examination. It was impossible to suppose the article anything but a log of wood. Moody, the revivalist, took his farewell of England at Exter Hall on the 25th of June, when there were 4,000 converts present. The proposition to form an open air volunteer choirs for evangelistic purposes as a memorial of Moody’s work, was responded to by hundreds of converts. They will be known as the Exter Hall choirs.

The London IKorld o£ the Ist of July says I that the Fortescue - Garmoye breach of promise case has been withdrawn, and that Earl Cairn’s (Lord Garmoyle’s father) paid the plaintiff a heavy consideration. Miss Fortescue (Finney) denies this, and says she never will compromise. “ I have been sufficiently compromised already by Lord Cairns’ family to allow them further to embarrass me by inducing me to stop this action for money. 1 have brought a suit for £9,000. My reputation requires vindication, which trial will give me. I think, more of my reputation than all the money in the world.” The London Standard of Ist July says that influential Irish-Americans have urged Parnell to issueaddress to the Irish voters of them to support Blaine in the Presidential contest, in the hope that this election would result in fomenting tho difference between England and the United States, and that Mr. Parnell declines to accede to the request. The Orangemen of Newry celebrated, on the 12th July, the 194th anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne. Bonfires blazed on the

hill, and in various parts of the town., A procession, preceded by brass bands, marched through the streets carrying an effigy marked ■' The traitor Lundy,” which was afterwards burned.

The police dispersed a crowd of Nationalists in New York on Sunday, 3rd July.

S. Brown’s report to Secretary Chandler on the Panama Canal says none were prepared to learn that the original estimate would bo exceeded by 840,000,000 dollars, which is implied. He states that the work now completed at a cost of 60,000,000 dollars is but one thirteenth the cost of the whole estimate, which accords with the report received from Panama yesterday; that of 150,000,000 cubic metres to be cut, not 50,000,000 have been taken out, and 20,000,000 are under contract. The Panama Star says that 5.0,000,000 dollars in gold have been spent in tickling the surface. Two Orange outrages are reported from Northward, at Twellingatc. Sixteen loaded guns were flrod into the house of Captain Wrey t and windows were smashed with stones. The Wreys arc one of only three Catholic families in Twcllingale. At Greeoers Pond harbor four Southern vessels took refuge from the B.W. pale and floating ice. On the preceding Tuesday the Orangemen attacked tho crews shore and maimed them brutally, and pursued them to their vessels with large ballast stones smashing the companion doors, skylights, cabin, stores, j,nd furniture, breaking bulwarks and forcing the vessels to push out into the storm and ice.

An outrage was perpertrated on Saturday, 27th June, by the crew of the barque Elibank. They broke into the Catholic Church of St. Mary, in St. Mary’s Bay, and demolished the furniture and appointments of the sancturay; destroyed the tabernacle, abstracted chaiace and other sacred vessels, smashed the candelabria, and strewed debris about the streets, and in various ways desecrated the church. Five men were arrested. So soon as the knowledge of the desecration of the church spread among the Catholic population not less than 500 boats were manned for the purpose of flring and scuttling the vessel, but the influence of the Parish Priest prevented the revenge. The Times of the 4th July, referring to the trouble between France and China, says complication wherewith the content between France and China threatens the trade of the United States of America, England and Germany, will be of the most serious character, It is difficult to prevent American and European adventurers from joining in the strife, and thus raising delicate international questions. We trust Pekin will again bow to the inevitable, and yield this time without reserve.

A very stringent measure, known as the Utah Measure, has been designed to control, if not to eradicate Mormonism, passed Congress on the 19th July, The unanimous opinion or the Press is that with the exception of the clauses restoring the right of power restricting territory, making adultery a crime, abolishing female sufferage, changing the rule of evidence in polygamy cases, and requiring marriages to be recorded, the bill is of no account whatever. The Mormon Press and prominent Mormons, consider it a cruel measure, harsh, unjust, tyrannical, and designed to rekindle the fires of persecution, but the tone of the Press is that the Church is ready to meet the consequences. The cholera was reported to be raging in Toulon in France on the 12th June, on which date 15 death had occurred. The city was in a panic, and 8,000 inhabitants left. Companies were formed for occupation of the navy. The pupils of the public school were dismissed. The corpses of the victims were not allowed to be taken to the churches, but were burned as soon as possible after death, in deep trenches, with plenty of chloride of lime. Troops and dock laborers were chiefly attacked, and quarantines were established everywhere. It is said that the first death occurred on the 4th of June, but was kept a secret. The Ministry of Commerce issued a notice on the 23rd that the cholera was Sporodic, not Asiatic, and that it was due to local infection and was therefore confined to the place of its origin. The Spanish Government quarantined against the French shipping and land communication on the 24th, and their example was followed by Italy Austria, and Egypt. The Chateau in Maiseilies, formerly belonging to the EmpresEugene, was prepared for the accommodation of 500 cholera patients. There was a difference of opinion as to the true charter of the disease. While the Government physicians of Tolon joined with the Ministry of commerce in pronouncing it sporadic. Physicians generally were of the opinion that it was an Asiatic type. The exodus of frightened citiqens from Toulon. Continued on the 26th on which day eight deaths took place in the hospital. Fires were lighted in the streets for purification. Business both in Toulon and Marseilles had come to a standstill, and the fourteenth of July has been abandoned. The mountain passes of France were narrowly guarded to prevent tho passage of infected persons, and a military cordon was established above the Spanish frontier. Ten deaths were recorded at Toulon on the 27th June, and six or seven on the afternoon proceeding at Marseilles. The Italian Government notified the postal authorities on the 27th ult. to enclose all mails intended for Italy in tarred sacks, as it was passed through France and England. Special reports in regard to cholera give a greater number of deaths than the official returns. The Rochard Chronicle, of the Naval Health department, reported the number of deaths at from nine to ten daily, and that the aggregate number of deaths up to the 30th June was 14 in the navy and 31 in the town, with 62 patients in the naval hospitals* *

Rumors were current that the commandei of the ship Jarthe had committed suicidt from remorse at having introduced cholera into France.

A mosquito plague at Marseilles has increased the gloomy prospect. Thousands ol bonfires were kindled in various parts of the city to disperse the pests. A despatch from Marseilles, dated SOtli June, says that Captain Billet, of the navy, whose wife was seized with cholera, committed suicide.

Dr. Koch, Chairman of the Cholera Commissioners at Berlin, started for Paris on 2nd July, offering his services to the French authorities in determining the character oi the epidemic. Arrangements were made on Ist July to fumigate passengers at the Paris railway stations. Madame Berthier, a Parisian actress, while taking part in a play at Marseilles on Ist July, heard that one of the audience had been seized with cholera, and thereupon fled to Paris in her theatrical costume. The audience had their admission money refunded. At Toulon on the same day the captain and entire crew of the steamer Minstrel abandoned the vessel, and took to the woods. The Gendarmes searched for them in vain. On the Ist July cholera had spread to all villages in the vicinity of Toulon, and a case has appeared at Lyons. The Pope has ordered members of the Priesthood in all cholera infected districts to remain at their posts, and has placed funds at the disposal of the Bishops.

Urgent cases dated 2nd July, stalo that live cases of cholera were cured by inhaling pure oxygen. The effect of this is immediate and consistent restoring of warmth to the system, and making the pulse normal. The Times commenting 0:1 the cure says:— “ Nervous persons may henceforth trust in the existence of a cure for cholera.” At Toulon, on 3rd July, seven persons were attacked with cholera since 8 a.in., and live deaths occurred within that time. Mr. Redmond has brought under the notice of the House of Commons the alleged seizure and sale by Messrs. McArthur Co., of Auckland, of 250,000 acies of land in Samoa, belonging partly to Mr. Frank Cornwall, and partly to Native Princess Maude Mo, and said the Samoan people had asked what decision had been arrived at by the Government in the matter. Air. Ashley said that the case was one in which the complainant was left to his legal remedy, and was not one in which the Government could interfere. Paymaster Henry Wyatt, R.N., who was present at the attack on Rangiriri, is dead. The capital of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company has been increased by £500,000 in 20,000 shares, 10,000 of which will be offered in Australia, and the remainder allocated amongst existing shareholders.