SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2818, 5 April 1882, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

’ ARRIVAL OF THE

(Per s.s. City of New York, at Auckland) • - ADDITIONAL SUMMARY.’ The London “Times” Constantinople correspondent says it is feared in official circles that, war-between - Russia- andAustria is inevitable, i An American company is trying to got a concession for a railway in Bagdad’. “ " *" ’ Warre and Brothers, wine merchants of London, have failed for £120,000. The peaceful cession of Thessaly was celebrated in, London by a banquet at Willis’rooms. Lord Roseberfy ’ was in the chair.

Foreigp correspondent ip .St. Petersburg are how refused telegraphic communication for the papers they represent. No ’report of the Nihilists’ trial now going on was obtained ■ from Outside journals. A party of Americans travelling from Brussels to Paris were brutally .-abused by . the Custom-house officers at the frontier station of Fiengist. One lady was roughly dragged ,;out of a ’sleepingcar without her bonnet and cloak, and exposed to coarse jests/ ; -When the male portion of the party resisted, violence was done them. The Gendarmes were called tO the . assistance of ’ the officials, and three of the travellers were arrested and sentenced to : pay a fine of 500 francs each, with police surveillance for eight months. The cause of- all the trouble was apparently that when the Americans were awakened to have! their luggage* examined, they did noU respond with sufficient alacrity. > . ; : Germany aud Austria are strengthen, ing their eastern frontier posts. - The fortress of Goruckpore, in the Presidency of Bengal has been destroyed, by fire. Mr Cowan, M.P., an ox-Liberal, has: been formally denounced by,-the Newcastle Liberal Association for having,; during the last five years, opposed the’ Liberal party on lending questions. Mr Lawrence Oliphant has been sent to the Continent to administer the; Mansion House fund for -the. relief of Jews. Two thousand Hebrew refugees in Austria, are. on the verge of starve, tion.

The Russian steamer Weladhar has been sunk by a collision in the Black Sea, All-on board.perished. Stewart and Co., silk merchants, of Zurich, have failed for£Bo,ooo. ... A-fire occurred at the railway station* Berlin. -It was caused^ bjt the, explosion of an infernal machine, contained in a box marked to, ■ contain valuable dry goods, and heavily insured. The successful rising id’ the Soudan is headed by a Shiek knowh as Emond of Islam. - His proper : name "is Shiek Mahommed Ashmel. *He .turned up a few months ago at Cowar,,in the WaryElard. Since that time he has played havoc with the Egyptian troops sent against him. He is master of the whole country, and is hacked by all the Dagarah tribes, including 60,000 fighting men armed with double-barrelled percussion guns ahd ; admirably made lances.

. Signor Castellar has published an article in reference to Skoheloffs recent extraordinary Speech, in which he says he fears a coming Slav invasion of : Europe, and declares it behoves 1 the Latin races in the interest of civilization', to enter into close alliance with the Germans. Ignatiff repudiates SkohelofE entirely. After his St. Petersburg speech, the latter, was summoned before the Minister of , the Interior, and re primanded. How can I keep myself said Skoheioff, in reply. “I am neither a politician nor a diplomatist. I am like you, and I must have gome outletfor my energy,’’ Hearing this, Ignatieff .exclaimed, “ Surely you do not expect me to invent an invention for you every .year.” It has been decided that the impetuous young General shall he kept in the background. ' ::!

1 San Francisco, March 12., •The Chinese Bill limiting coolie emigration to the United States passed the Senate on the 9th, by 20 to 15. • A letter written by General Garfield in 1865 attacking General Rbsenkraig has just come to light, and caused a great’sensation. ,' Bosenkraig is investigating the 'matter. He thinks the letter a fraud. If genuine, he boldly charges the' late: President with falsehood and studied deception, i A tremendous labor riot prevailed in .Omaha among the railway employees, who demanded Idol 75c per day wages. The city was in a state of uneasitiess, as the rioters at one time had decided to sack the, Burlington and Mission Bailway depots, and' the office, of the •‘Omaha Herald." The military were finally called .out and ended the trouble, i A novel cas’eii’s before, the San, Fran, cisco, Courts in which a confiding woman named Mrs Ettie Bennett is the prosecutor.. Two female sharpers, a toother and daughter, persuaded her that the Duke* of Leicester, who' they said was travelling in, California, had seen her, fallen desperately in love with her and wished to make her his wife. , The deluded woman gave the pair her confidence, and they managed to,do her out of a large amount of personal property. Her eyes were opened when the Duke did not come, and now she sues her deluders as common swindlers. ■An exciting scene occurred ,in the San Francisco Police Court. A policenaan named Moroney, who was detailed to get evidence against"a man charged with an indecent crime, was so badgered a’hd insulted by the defendant’s; attorney that he drew a pistol and shot him in the neck, and immediately, afterwards attempted suicide. Moroney is an Australian.by birth, and is held in good estimation by the chief of police. Young unmarried Mormon women have sent a long petition to Congress, numerously signed, asking the Government to let them i and .their religion alone. In their. I ,petition,:'they say “We, young ladies of Utali Territory, do most humbly and truthfully declare that neither wo nor our mothers are held in bondage, but that we enjoy the greatest possible ‘freedom, socially and religiously ; that our homes' are happy ones, and that we are neither low nor degraded ; for the principles of purity, virtue, integrity, and loyalty to the Government of the United States have been instilled into our ihinds and hearts since our earliest 1 childhood.” The married women also send a petition to the effect that they are happy in their, homes, satisfied with their marriages and relations, and desire no change, The memorial from the Mormon citizens generally declares that the object of present movements from’ outside is the persecution and robbing of the inhabitants of Utah, the utter ruin of her bright prospects, and ultimate anarchy and slavery under tho plea of suppression of polygamy. The polytechnic works of Professor Jackson,’at Chester, Pennsylvania, blew up. Twenty lives were lost, and many persons were wounded.

Havcrshill, in Massachusetts, has boon destroyed by fire. The loss amounts to several, million dollars. No loss of life is reported. Great destitution prevails in Southern Illinois, where a woman and her children are reported to have died of starvation. Russian Jewish 1 refugees aro llockihg to tho United States.

I The steamer Sarmaeia arrived at Boston on thefSth with, the steamer City of Berlin, from Liverpool for New York in tow. /The- latter had broken her machinery. : ■' - " ' • v/ " London, March 12. Lovie, Falcon and Go., of Antwerp, engaged in the Kiver Plate trade, have failed for £300,000. ■-■■-Lieutv.’-'Danelaner"has been forbidden to lea.ve .Irkutsk- till bis .eyesight is restored. Tfid .rest of the Jeannette survivors remain with him, ■ ' The'editor of the “ Logos’Eestoti” (?) at Constantinople, has been killed by a Greek mob and his office sacked. He had charged an ■ official with misappro priating money raised for educational purposes., Don Carlos has abdicated his claim to the Spanish thronein..favor .of his infant.

T,wo, persons have been arrested at Ragusa for assisting the correspondent of the “Manchester Guardian" to spread false news of insurgent victories. “Vanity Fair” says' poker-playing has reached such a height in London fashionable society as to bo a public scandal. , , , .;, is current to the _ effect that unless thecondition of Russia improves the Czar will abdicate after his; coronation. Fight persons have been indicted' in Vienna ’ for criminal negligence in relation to the Ring Theatre disaster. Among them are ex-Burgomaster Neval, Jennal, the theatrical manager, and Lindsay, Commissary of Police. j The editor of the “Leinster, Leader” has been arrested under the - Irish Coercion Act. Madame Weil'sdix’s* husband, who, became insane during the excitement 5 attending the recent financial' crisis in' Paris, died in an asylum on the 22nd ult. , / / Wreckage from the City of London; steamer,' that Sailed from ' London for New,York on November 13, and never; reached her destination, is continually ■ washing up on the Irish coast. Herbert Spencer Will visit the United States s in-August. ■■ ' Waldeok Reuse aad Madame Celeste are dead. Vienna is threatened with a total failure of the water supply. ■The Queen’s monument to the. late Lord Benconsfieldii/.just erected in Hughenden Church, bears the following inscriptipn This ipepiprialiswplaced here by his affectionate Sovereign, Victoria Rex,/Love him that speaketh right.’ ” A balloon which, : ascended;: from London on the 4th Match fell into th'e Straits of Dover and the! aeronauts perished. The-i passengers were Oalbrum and Simonds, aeronauts, They were attempting to cross the Channel. Further reports say the ballonists sighted a steamer and purposely descended because the wind ri shifted and was driving them towards the North sea. -. • ; Jessie Helfman, the Nihilist who, ! because of being enciente, w as respited from the execution •of the capitalsentence for complicity in the assassination of the late Czar, died at St. Peters'-' burg on the 3rd in childbirth. f ' General Skobeloff acquired such popuTarity by his Slavic speech, that crowds cheered him whenever he appeared in public.., : !,, -i’ | One .of a number pf: wild stories afloat is a scheme, under discussion in Canada for the removal of the Pope of ; Rome to the shores of the-St. Lawfence. Tt is said that the negotiators on this Sside of the Atlantic pledge themselves' ; to secure ,a, grant { of 8,000,000 acres ifrom the province of Quebec for 1 the purpose of the erection of a Papal jpalace. ' f ' . J | It has been decided by Judge ißowance, of Montreal, that a divorce obtained in" New -York is legal in iCanada.7 The' decision Has matte astir in social circles.

; The American Government-is. urged: by his relatives in California to move in the matter of obtaining the release .of Daniel . McSweeny, an alleged American citizen, and now imprisoned by < the British Government in Ireland. ' '