ARRIVAL OF THE MARIPOSA WITH THE THE ENGLISH MAIL (VIA SAN FRANCISCO). GENERAL SUMMARY. (Dates From Europe up to June 1st.)

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 380, 26 June 1889, Page 4

ARRIVAL OF THE MARIPOS A WITH THE THE ENGLISH MAIL (VIA SAN FRANCISCO). GENERAL SUMMARY. (Dates From Europe up to June Ist.)

Lord Salisbury has decided to let William O'Brien's libel suit for £10,000 go to trial. The Cunard Steamship Company and the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company have secured contracts to carry outward British mails. On May 31sb the manager and assistant of the Ballymena Bank, Ireland, were, as supposed, assassinated in the public road by unknown parties. The manager's name was John H. Lawler, and the assistant s Murray. The affair is involved in mystery, but the impression is deepening that Murray fchot Lawler, and then committed suicide. Lord James Douglas, brother of the Marquis of Queensberry, was warned off tho English race track on May 30th for " welching." Lord Lonsdale arrived in London on May 31st. He declares his intention of organising an expedition to the North Pole. His experience in that region has not discouraged him, but only prepared him to do bettei-. Lord Salisbury, replying to a deputation on May 30th, in favour of the bi-metaUic standard of currency, said he did not think a Parliamentary decree could settle the question, but that the opinion of the people, founded on business ideas, muse decide it. The coming Congress at Paris might cover the ground. The Scotch Local Government Bill passed to a readme in the Commons on the evening of May 30th. Prolonged earth shocks were felt in the Snglish Channel Islands on May 30th. The International Exhibition of novelties was formally opened in London by the Lord Mayor on May 29th. George R. Sims, author and journalist, summoned the Duke of Cambridge and In-spector-of-Police Robinson, on May 27th, to answer a charge of assault. Sims was reporting a review of the fire brigade at Whitehall. There was a rush by the crowd, and he was unavoidably pushed against the Duke, who caught him by the throat and tore his collar, while Robinson hustled him about and accused him of being drunk. Among the persons on whom the Queen conferred honours on the anniversary of her last (70th) birthday were Joseph Edgar Boehm, a sculptor, George Burns, of the Cunard Steamship Company, and Professor Stokes, who were made baronets. Andrew Reid, Inspector-Ueneral of the Royal Irish Constabulary, was made a knight. The steamer, City of Paris, which left New York on Wednesday afternoon May 14 tb, passed Bow Head, near Queenstown, May 21st, evening, at 10.15. Her time, five days and twenty-two hours, beats all records for either eastward or westward passages. Fifty-eight miners were imprisoned by a falling roof in a coal mine near MerthyrTyavil, Wales, May 23rd, and many were injured. All, however, were rescued alive. Mr Gladstone wos knocked down by a cab on May 24, but escaped unhurt. He ran after the cab and arrested the driver. The London doctors have discovered that Boulanger is far gone with diabetes and have ordered him to Carlsbad or Vichy. In consequence of the high price of raw sugar, the largest refinery in Greenwich • closed on May 16th . Pillotel, the French artist, met Henri Rochefort on Regent-street, May 18th, and insulted him by shouting "liar" and " coward "in his ears. Rochefort retained his usual composure until Pillotel attempted to strike him, when he drove him off with the point of the pistol. Both men were arrested, Rochefort was put under bonds of £150. The Queen laid the foundation stone of the new college buildings at Eton on May 18th. The boys presented an address, and the Queen replied. In the House of Commons, May 14th, a motion in favour of the disestablishment of the Church in Wales was rejected— 2B4 te 231. Mrs Maybrick, niece of Jefferson Davis, a French Canadian by birth, was arrested at 1 Liverpool, May 18th, charged with poisoning her husband. with arsenic. Maybrick, who was a prominent merchant, died with symptoms of slow poisoning. The County Magistrate and Chief of Police went te Maybrick's house and were told that the woman was feick abed, and directed that she be removed to the Kirkdale gaol, where she is attended by her doctor and nurses. Arsenic was found in the beef tea prepared for Mrs Maybrick's deceased husband during his illness. As a result ot the absolute divorco granted to Mrs Agnes Boucicault from Dion, the sheriff was about to seize the English copyrights of nineteen of Boucicault's plays and turn over the proceeds of their sale to his late wife. The seizure and sale, however, were restrained by an order from the Court,

MISCELLANEOUS. Christians are being massacred by Turks on the Montenegrin Frontier. The claims for damages arising out of the Chefoo riots have been settled. The English and American flags have been rehoisted, the Chinese saluting them. King Leopold proposes an International Conference at Brussels in September to - complete the work of the Congo Conference. A railway train with 800 pilgrims, en route. to Rome, was assailed by a mob at Trieste and bombarded with stones. Many persons were injured and the railway carriages badly wrecked. On May 13th a body of Socialists hauled down the royal standard from the great tower at the Hague, and hoisted the Socialist flag in its place. Seven houses were blown down during a storm at Seino, Bohemia, on May 19th, and thirty- two people killed. At Prichowiti two houses were demolished. Many per sons were washed away by the inundation, and nine children were drowned. A hun dred houses were swept away in Pilsen dis trict. , Dhuleep Singh, the Indian prince, waf privately married to Miss Ada Wetherell ' in Paris, May 20th. The wedding wai *~ strictly private. The bride is the daughtei of the late D. B. Wetherell, of Hampshire, ' The honeymoon jvIII be spent in Russia, foi ~ which' country the party left on the da} "; following the marriage. '■* A conflagration in the town of Podhagoe " May 28, ' destroyed 600 houses, i church and synagogue, and caused the loss oi many lives. Twelve corpses were extri cated from the ruins. The Pope issued an order on May 28tl that, on the day the monument to Giordan< \, Bruno is unveiled, all Papal guards anc ' gendarmes shall keep within the grounds o

the Vatican. Those on furlough have been ordered to return immediately. Bruno was put to death as a heretic in the ye&v 1000. Prince Alois Sch war tzen berg hand < and a lieutenant of the Hussars fought) a duel in Vienna, May 30th. The Prince was mortally wounded.

THE CZAR'S ESCAPE. A St. Petersburg despatch sfeat'es -that an attempt was ma.de on the life of the Czar at Gatschina on Friday, May 10th, by a high Russian officer. The Czar, who was walking in the garden at the time, escaped with a slight wound in the forearm. The weapon used was a revolver. The guards attempted to secure tho assassin, bub .before they could reach him he shot himself dead. A conspiracy among the military officei'd, against the Czar, with widespread ramifications at St. Petersburg, Moscow, Warsaw, and Cronstadt, has been recently unearthed. Officers in all the regiments stationed at these places are implicated, and three have already committed suicide. Hundreds are under arrest. The discovery of the plot completely unnerved the Czarina. The ringleaders of the plot belonged to the Cronstadt C4arrison. The Czar will dismiss Gourko from the Governorship of Warsaw owing to his unpopularity.

LORD DUNRAVEN'S YACHT. • The yacht Valkyrie, builfc by Lord Dunraven to compete for the America Cup, lost her maiden race on May 22nd in English waters, contesting with the Yarana, Deerhound, and Irex. The Deerhound won the first prize. The boats arrived at Gravesend in this order —

The Valkyrie is nothing like what English yachtsmen looked for. Her poor behaviour in a light wind forbids calling her fast. Lord Dunraven and his friends were keenly disappointed. The second day's race, over virtually the same course — Gravesend for the Iloundmouse Lighthouse and back— was made in much better shape by the Valkyrie. She came in ahead of, all her competitors. On the 25th, she again beat all the crack yachts, the race being fi-om Gravesend to Harwich and back. The boats passed the finishing line in the following order and time:—e :—:—: —

The Valkyrie was defeated by the Irex on May 29, in the Channel match from Harwich to South End. A strong wind prevailed at the time, and this fact is accepted as putting Dunraven's yacht out of all chance for the America's Cup.

A MYSTERIOUS MOVEMENT. There is excitement in New York newspaper circles (says a despatch of May 17th) over the report that James Gordon Bennett, of the "Herald," had gone to Khartoum on an important mission. He left Paris three weeks previously, went to Marseilles, then to Alexandria, and during the week ending May 18th to Cairo. Two stories are cabled in explanation of this singular journey. One is that at the Club Mereton, in Paris, an officer who had seen service in the Egyptian army, said it was impossible for a foreigner to enter Khartoum and departalive. Bennett offered a heavy wager that he could do it within six months. The bet was accepted, and accompanied by a friend, he started. The other story is that Bennett received I a despatch from his Cairo correspondent i stating that he had had a visit from an envoy of the Mahdi with Important news regarding Chinese Gordon ; that the latter was still alive, and kept a close prisoner ; that the new Mahdi by reason of his reverse ab Kordofan and Bahr-el-Ghazel, and the loss of the great Province of Darfooi', was willing to ransom Gordon for one million of francs. The next day Bennett made all arrangements for the journey, and for the payment of the vast sum mentioned, and, with a friend, set out for Egypt.

hvs. nuns. sees, Valkyrie ... Yarana ... Deerhound Irex ..i 4 4 4 5 37 42 42 0 35 21 21 9

1113. a. o. Valykrie ... Irex Yarana Deerhound Amphitrite 6 6 7 7 7 11 58 12 13 16 35 11 11 15 19