ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2629, 24 August 1881, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

[Bv Telegraph.] Auckland, Aug. 24. The City of New York arrived at 2 a.m. She sailed from San Francisco on July JO. GENERAL SUMMARY. San Francisco, July 30. The London “ Standard ” reprints from Irish-Ainerican papers, published in New York, a column and a half of extracts, praising the outrages against England. The shooting at Wimbledon began on July 12. The Canadian team numbers twenty, and is commanded by Colonel Gibson, who is accounted the best shot in Canada. The University match terminated in favor of Oxford. The heat was intense on the 15th, standing at 127. Several riflemen were overcome and had to go to the hospital. Scotland won the International Trophy, scoring 1774 ; England, 1744 ; Wales, 1080. The contributions to the Irish Land League from America .have fallen off so materially that Sexton, the President, suggested that the Irish farmers be asked to subscribe a portion of their abatement.

A daughter of English Major-General Fryers fell into the sou at flyers, France. His wife and other daughters attempted to rescue her. All the four perished. Labouchcre’s censure resolution against the Prince of Bulgaria was not permitted to he put in the House of Commons. The American homeopathic delegate to the convention in London has been banquetted. Sir Evelyn Wood has been raised to the peerage for his services in the Trans vaal.

All England has been occupied during the month with a great libel case. The plaintiff, Miss Wilherfurce, sued a prominent citizen mimed Phillips for having said she poisoned his father, and that she was an adventuress and swindler. The plaintiff contradicted herself a hundred times in her testimony. She will be prosecuted for perjury.

A steamer has arrived in the Thames from the Clyde steered by electric apparatus, The steering gear worked well, but the compases were made useless by electricity. In Ireland tria. by jury has become a farce, owing to the lax law known as the OTlagan Act. In some cases the jury announced before the , charge is delivered that they have made up their

I minds to a verdict of not guiltv. [ Evidence of crime is disregarded, and if the (Town’s case is ahsohiic'-v conclusive of_ prisoner’s guilt the’ jmy gen Tally disagree. Ibc London board of trade returns show (hat the value of imports has decreased £0,500,000 as compared with June last year. Thu exports increased 0322,000. Mr Keene presented 5000 francs, to the poor of Paris out of his Grand Prize winnings. The (Jissagne Lullier duel was a sanguinary one. They fought with swor Is, continuing till the last drop of blood was drawn, and the body of the vanquished combatant placed at the absolute disposal,of the victor. i he death of the Rev Daniel McCarthy» Roman Catholic, of Kerry, is announced* Although Arthur Lefroy, the alleged murderer was sent away from London at t o cloak in the morning, a Irrge crowd assembled at London Bridge station, and but for a strong guaid of police the ptisouer would have been put out of his misery. He had lived for a fortnight in a wretched coffee house in Stepney almost without food. Me looked nearly starved. Mis arrest was due to the lodging house keeper, an old woman named

Smith, who recognised him from the hue and cry pictures. She will get the whole £2OO reward for her shrewdness. I’lie police say he seemed relieved when captured. He had shaved off his whiskers and cut his hair ; and although he denied all knowledge of the crime, his dig it, concealment, and attempt to disguise himself ready amount to a proof of guilt. Ho took his arrest coolly, but was much depressed and scared at the menacing attitude of the mob near the railway station. Dean Stanley was stricken with erysipelas on the Bth, and the disease spread npidly. Canon Farrar administered the. sacrament. The Dean died on the 19th. The Archbishop of Canterbury arrived in time for a few parting words. Colons Farrar and Jones and the Dean’s si-ters wore at his bedside. Ilis last audible word's were —“ I have labored amidst many frailties and much weakness to make Westminister Abbey a. great centre of religions life in a truly liberal spirit.” Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, has been expelled from French territory. It is supposed that he was intriguing against the Republic, which he denies. Spanish hostility towards France is very bitter, and in Madrid Cortes the probability of war was openly discussed, and the coining elections are comparatively ignored. At the final reading of the Irish Land Bill in the House of Commons, the majorit}* of the Conservatives and some Parnellites, including Parnell himself, abstained from voting; also Goschcn and some other Liberals. Midhat Pasha attempted suicide by opening his veins with a pair of scissors.

In the county of Cork farmers aud agricultural laborers have came to terms. The potato crops throughout the country promises plentful. By the anti s'avery decree issued in Egypt actual slaves remain so, but no addition is to be made.

Another comet appeared in the West, and is labcdled by astronomers comet “ C,” being the third this year.

The CVir wiil shortly leave for Moscow. Asa precautionary measure troops have hcen stationed ail aloyg the line. Four hundred police act as an escort. Go persons perished in 11 fishing boats oil: the coast of Englan 1 in the gale on Jnlv 21.

Nihilists hold a congress in Berlin, tinder the very nose of the (iovernment, which, although fully warned of the fact, was unable to discover the place of meeting.

Jew rioters angered at the denunciations of the “ Zeitung,” a local paper, several assaulted the editor, and sacked some shops. They demolished the office of the "Zeitung.” Over 30 rioters were arrested,

The Now Y'ork “ Herald” special of July 21, has the following fresh particulars of the recent plot to assassinate the Czar, telegraphed:—Baronoff, the Chief of the Police, had received au anomymuus letter, stating that the Emperor was to bo assassinated outlie 15th. The letter contained nothing more. BaronoJf made enquiries in every direction, and ascertained that a young student had committed suicide under very remarkable circumstances. The man thrust himself through with a sword without having injured a vital part. Then finding himself still alive, he tired again in the temple and in a gaping wound made by the sword. This determined suicide awakened Baronoff’s suspicions. He found the man apparently dead, but in fact still breathing, and. in a swoon. By the aid of doctors ho caused him to come to his senses and speech. The student declared he had formed one of a band of 20 Nihilists, who had all sworn to kill tlie Emperor. The lot had fallen to him, but his heart failed, and he determined to kill himself instead. He lived till the 18tli, and before breathing his last revealed to Baronoff the names of all his brother Nihilists, who were promptly secured by the police. A special from St. Petersburg says that another Nihilist was found murdered iu the cemetery with his throat cut from car to ear. The deceased was in communication with the police, when Ids brother Nihilists discovered his treachery. They sent him a circular letter inviting him to dinner. On returning at night they assassinated him, and carried his body to the cemetery. The letter of invitation was found iu the victim’s pocket, and enabled the police to make important arrests. A great landslip near Begriswell, in the Canton of Berne, is steadily moving towards Lake Thurm. It makes three metres daily. The course is three miles long and of unknown depth. Cities are out of danger, but farmhouses are deserted.

A terrific storm has passed over Lake Geneva. V r iues and crops in the vicinity suffered immense damage from the large hailstones. A party of Americans travelling from Paso Del Morte to CJiibmahua, Mexico,.discovered 12 dead bodies, all American, and portion of a surveying expedition of the Mexican Central Eailroad. They had been murdered by Apache Indians. Mormon converts in thousands arc arriving in Mew Pork from Europe, eu route to Salt Lake.

The British barque Beatrice, oil laden,was struck by lightning off Heady Island, near Philadelphia, and burned to the waters edge. The mectric fluid ran down the mast into the hold and fired the cargo. It is reported that the Tichborno Claimant’s daughter, Jennie Ogden Ferris, writes to the .Mow lork “ Star 1 that her father is playing a game. o£

deception on the California people, and that ho admitted to her in Brooklyn he intended to personate the lost Sir Roger. Indian outrages continue in New and Old Mexico. In the latter the Apaches tortured and killed a great many mining prospecters and others,-Ex Governor Pughs among the res f . Griscomo, an imitator of I)r Tanner, has completed a 45 days fast at Chisago. News has been received of the missing whalers Mount Wallaston and Vigilant. They were both lost in the ice off the Arctic. AM on board perished. _ The Esquimaux described to Captain Millard of the whaler Thomas Pope, who brought the news, the unhappy particulars very minutely. They said the bodies of the dead crew had swollen, then burst open, evidently frozen to death during the winter of 1870-80, and had been acted on by heat during the succeeding summer. Nothing has been heard of Bennett’s Arctic exploring yacht Jeannette. A railroad train was recently boarded by some 13 desperadoes at Point, in New Mexico, and thoroughly sacked. The conductor was shot, also a stonemason, one of the passengers, who tried to defend him.

The editor of the “ Times ” Little Rock Arkansas, has been assassinated. The course of his paper did not please certain outlaws.

The State troops have had to he called out at Wisconsin to oppose the striking of lumber men and mill men. The latter assembled in mobs of 1000.

Guarrity, a bookseller, has purchased the Earl of Hnrdwicke’s estate. A Bill to enable the bankruptcy trustees f o pay that nobleman’s debts has passed the House of Commons. It was ascertained there had been 45 insurances on his life, the whole amounting to nearly 1,000,000 dollars. The premiums were nearly 40,000 dollars annually. Canada shows an increase in population in ten years of 680,408. George Hazel, the champion of England, defeated Charles Price, exchampion, in a ten mile race at the Polo Grounds, New York. Hazel ran ten miles in 53rains 231-secs. An immense aerolite fell at San Francisco on the 30th inst. It struck the waters of the bay in Yhe vicinity of the gaol and Government Island. The Chinese Ministers, Chin Tin Chan, Law Pal, and Yong, have been re-called from the United States, much against their wishes.

It is proposed to send Carl Shulz as American Minister to Berlin.

The Alents, natives of the Island of Alaska, are dying in numbers from an epidemic of typhoid and pheumia fever. O'Donovan, who was connected with the Fenian movements some fifteen years ago, and is now' a prisoner r.t Merv is writing letters from that place to the London “Daily News” that attract a good deal of attention. He is a son of Dr O’Donovan, the famous Celtic scholar, and since Ins banishment lias been a soldier of fortune.

An alliance between Germany’,Austria, and Italy is spoken of as likely. France and Daly are negotia'ing a treaty of Commerce. It is reported fiom London that the well-known Victoria Woodhnll is about to marry a rich banker, and that the Baroness Burdett-Contts, as w’ell as the prima donna, Mdlle. Albani, will soon he under the necessity of retiring for a short time from public life. Baron Von Geyse, a young officer of much promise, has been shot dead at Berlin in a duel with a brother officer.

The Duke of Argyll, it is said, will marry the widow of the late Hon A. Auskon. The lady is a daughter of the Bishop of St. Albans. The Foreign Secretary has issued a notification that in future no more British subjects captured by brigands will be ransomed by Government.

The two Treaties between the United States and China have been formerly ratified and exchanged. Chinese law students, numbering 100, are to be withdrawan from America and sent for education to France, England and Germany, Just now there is a mania for killing officials in the United States. The Governors of Pittsburg and of Minnesota, and Govenor O’Connell of New York, have had narrow escapes from murderous lunatics. The United States has declined to join in the proposed general representation on the subject of the treatment of Jews in Russia, on the ground that it has already instructed the Minister to Russia on the subject.