ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 265, 20 October 1884, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

San Francisco, September 26. Melbourne, the famous Sussex watering place, is crowded with Americans, scared by the cholera from the Continent. A new steamer for the Cunard line, the Etruria, was launched in Glasgow on September 22nd. A great banquet followed the launching of the vessel, which is built to be the fastest steamer afloat. A furnished house in Hampshire has just been taken for the Tichborne claimant, who will soon be released. An ample allowance has been subscribed for himself and his two daughters. The Grand Duke of Hesse intends to spend six weeks at Balmoral, and this has caused some discussion of the Madame Kotomine affair. The latter has announced her determination to fight the case in the Courts. As a final she has refused all bribes, and has returned the first instalment of her allowance. The case was to be heard on October 16. It is not expected that the infant Duke of Albany will survive the winter.

Parliament will be asked at its coming session to make provision for the eldest son of the Prince of Wales. A rumor was in circulation on the 22 d that the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh had announced their intention to vote for the Franchise Bill at the Autumn Session. An English Church paper severely attacked General Wolsely and Lord Northbrook for starting on their Egyptian mission on a Sunday. Queen Victoria is at Balmoral for the autumn. She is said to be in an extremely gloomy state of mind, and visits John Brown’s grave daily. The Rev. Mr. Trackelton, Presbyterian clergyman of Tullamore, has brought a suit for £60,000, and Mrs. Brown for £25,000 against the Dublin Freeman's Journal tor damages. The journal printed an article in its columns stating that the clergyman had eloped with Mrs. Brown to Paris. Mrs Weldon who won her own case against Drs. Winslow and Temple for illegally confining her in a lunatic asylum, is again before the London Courts in the various capacities of plaintiff, defendant, and counsel. Since her first success the lady is said to have become a mono-maniac on litigation. A London despatch dated September 24, says the lately divorced Lady Colin Campbell recently applied to a leading newspaper for the position of correspondent with the Eygptian Army. Being denied she has sought retirement at the home of her mother, Mrs. Edwin Maghlin Blood, in Ireland. The authorities have ordered increased precautions at Dover to prevent the landing of dynamitards endeavoring to reach London from the Continent. English detectives accompanying each steamer crossing the channel, subjecting each passenger and all luggage to the closest scrutiny.

The Bank of New Brunswick, New Jersey, stopped payment on September 6th at 12.45, and the cashier committed suicide the same day. The President (Mr. Rewoyn) followed his example on the Bth, and the daughter of the latter, when she heard of her father’s death, attempted to drown herself in a well. The bank did nearly all the financial business of the city, and its failure has worked incalculable miscl i f 0 its customeir. It perished through the manipulations of a ring of political and financial tricksters. One curious feature of the affair was that a mob blockading the door of the defunct institution caught a New York Times reporter and wanted to lynch him, as>e. iing that all the trouble arose from his paper calling attention to the rottenness of the bunk. He had a difficulty in saving his life. J. H. Squicr (private banker, of Washington), and John Woscosner (a prominent banker of Corpus Christi, Texas), also suicided on September 10th, on account of financial difficulties. In Pittsburg, where the therometer was 99 dog., the public schools were dismissed.

In Philadelphia many persons died from the heat, and from Washington all who could get away left, among others Commodore Schaley, who said after his recent experience in the Artie region, such a high degree of temperature meant death. A feature of the present campaign is the nomination by the equal rights party of a woman, Mrs. Belva Lockwood, for the Presidency of the United States. The remains of the party of American miners who were massacred by the Apaches were recently discovered in the Sierra Madre Mountains, Mexico. Among the party killed were Bob Henry, and B. Carroll, old prospectors, who discovered the celebrated Pilgrim’s Rest, They were placer miners in South Africa, and were also the first to discover silver in 1877 on the borders of New South Wales and Queensland. The barque Oberon, from Newcastle to San Francisco, has been burned at sea. The crew were saved. Lawless mirors in the coal, districts of Pennsylvania, known as “ Molly Macquireß,” have reorganized and are now ravaging. A quiet but deadly war against the Hungarian and other European operatives has recently taken place. A number of the latter were found stabbed to death. The citizens of Louis County, Tennessee, where the Mormon Elders were recently murdered, have ordered all of that faith to leave the place within thirty days, or share the murdered men’s fate. The lifeless body of the Hon. Giles Leigh, M.P., was found on September 23, ut the base of a precipitous cliff on the Big Horn Range of mountains, Wyoming territory. Leigh was one of a party of tourists, and left the camp on the 14th for a stroll. He was not heard of afterwards, till eight days search revealed his corpse. The remains were carefully coffined and sent to England, Sarah Bernhardt, actress, intends to make a tour of the world, including Australia and California. She is paying up her debts in instalments to avoid the sale of her effects. John L. Sullivan, the American champion prize fig t r, proposes to box Billy Farnan - (the Australian champion) and Alfred Greenfield.