ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FEANCISCO MAIL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 219, 26 August 1884, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FEANCISCO MAIL.

The Contagious Diseases Bill passed its third reading in the House of Lords on the

It was reported from Cardiff on the Ist that a man had died of cholera on boaid the steamer Granville from Marseilles, at anchor at Penorth roads. The body was thrown overboard. Another case also occurred on board the same vessel. A son of the British vice-Consul at Ridisto has been captured by brigands, who demand £lOOO ransom.

An action for libel brought by Mr. Bolton (Crown solicitor for Ireland) against Messrs. Parnell, O’Brien, and the other proprietors of the Dublin United Ireland newspaper, for £3OOO damages, was decided by a verdict of £3OOO for plaintiff. O'Brien has refused to pay. Charles Monej penny (a linen manufacturer at Belfast) was found on the night of the 25th July in a carriage of a trian between Paris and Brussels with his brains blown out. He is supposed to have been murdered. Noetzin (Mexican debt agent) has made an application to Baring Bros, to place a new Mexican loan of $30,000,000 at 7 per cent, interest.

At a conference of the Conservative National Union, held at Sheffield on the 31st July, a thousand delegates were present. Lord Churchill presided, supported by the Duke of Norfolk and others. The Marquis of Salisbury was conspicnous by his absence. Ireland won the Elcho shield rifle match at Wimbledon. The scores were—lreland, 1583 ; Scotland, 1476; England, 1474. At Goodwood oh the ‘3oth July, the race for the Steward’s Cup was won by Gerad’s Sweet Bread, the Duke of Westminister’s Duke of Richmond second, and the Duke of Beauforth’s bay filly Mizpah third. Twenty three started for the race.

A great fire took place at Wapping, at Crane’s wharf, on Saturday, resulting in a loss of £500,000.

Henry M. Stanley (African explorer and, lately director of the African International Association work in the Congo country) has arrived in England. The condition of the Thames, in view of cholera in France, excites alarm in London, for the sewarge, though discharged far below the city, washes up past the Houses of Parliament.

The Grand Duke Louis, of Hesse, will abdicate in favor of his son Ernest, under advice from the Emperor of Germany. His morganatic marriage with Madame Coldermine and his subsequent divorce compromised his position. Great precautions were taken at Warwick on the 29th July to preserve order during the trial of Daley, Egan and McDonnell', suspected dynamiters. Strong barriers were erected to protect the approaches to or from the court, and constables aimed with revolvers were placed on guard at all the public buildings. McDonnell pleaded guilty to the charges of treason and felony, whereupon the other charges against him were withdrawn.

Daly and pleaded notgyilty.. The plague has made its appearance at Karrs and other stations in the Caucasus.

Eight hundred persons died at Betra during May. Moslems in the Caucasus are interdicted from making pilgrimages. Russia and Germany have adopted a treaty against anarchists. In future Russians will not be allowed to reside in Germany without permission of the Russian Government.

The cholera in France has reduced travelling to Europe very much. The run of salmon during July in the Columbia River was enormously great, but the canneries not being prepared with stock, not nearly all the fish were shut down. A party of capitalists are negotiating for the purchase of a large tract of land in Utah. Between 100,000 and 200,000 acres are to be applied to the purpose of founding a self-supporting Irish Catholic Colony. By this means it is thought Mormonism will be gradually diminished. Business is • apidly improving in New York, and the mercantile shipping houses are almost as busy as in the latter autumn. The health authorities in San Francisco have taken ample precautions against a probable visit of the cholera, and their example is followed by all sea ports in the United States.

Mr. Parnell, deeming it not prudent to leave Ireland at the present time, the Irish National Parliament party will be represented at the Convention of the Irish National League of America, to be held in Boston on 13th August, by Thomas S. Sexton, and John E. Redmond, who goes on to Australia to lecture.

The arrest of the Cornwall secretary of the Irish post-office, who is charged with unnatural offences, has led to several other arrests, and to disgusting revelations. A despatch from Dublin, dated 3rd July, says that Johnstone and Little, implicated in the Cornwall scandal, have been arrested at Magherafort, and brought to the former place.

An enquiry into the case of James Ellis French (of the Royal Constabulary), arrested the proceeding week, charged with felonious practices in this matter, was privately conducted. The evidence was so revolting that the reporters were requested to withdraw.