ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 903, 12 January 1882, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL.

The English mail steamer Zealandia arrived at Auckland last Tuesday afternoon. She had two cases of smallpox on board. One man died. The vessel was quarantined. The following is a summary of the news by her ; —An Italian gardener in j3an F ranc i sco named Gallano killed his brother and his cousin, and attempted to murder his sister and mother. The cousin was stabbed 24 times.

General Johnstone, a Confederate General, has boldly charged Jefferson Davis with appropriating to his own use nearly 2,500,000d015. intended to pay the Confederate troops.

Bishop MacQuaid, Roman Catholic Bishop of Chicago, on Sunday the 18th. warned his hearers against listening to a few priests with loose consciences on the f‘ no rent” proposition.

By an explosion on the 19th in the Arial Pit, Lancashire, belonging to the Abram Company, 40 lives were lo t. A heavy seizure of arms and several arrests have been made at a house in Brabazon Row, Dublin. There is a smallpox epidemic in Chicago.

Mrs Garfield sent the late President Garfield’s portrait to tire Queen at Her Majesty’s request, The Queen contributed £2200 to the relief of Irish laborers.

The Neifew, the first of a regular line of steamers under the Chinese flag, arrived in the Thames on the 6th inst. with 3000 tons of taa.

Captain Erownrigg, of the man-oLwar London, was recently killed near the Island Kemba, while overhauling a trade slave dhow flying French colors. He was on a tour of inspection only, and the crew in the dhow seeing the men in the London’s pinnace were unprepared, fired a volley into them and boarded them, wounding some, and driving the remainder overboard. They closed on Captain Brownrigg, who, after a gallant resistance, during which he received twenty one wounds, fell shot through th e heart.

Mrs Langtry, the Jersey Lily, has made her first appearance on the stage at the Hay market, as Miss Hardcastle, in “She Stoops to Conquer.” Her voice Sas refinementin every tope, and the performance was a most interesting and successful experiment. ;. /

Lord Dufferin would not allow the Go"nptantinople authorities to search a British yessel for explosive^. A sweeping revolution in ocean steamship building is contemplated by influential Massacbussetts capitalists. The yesselare to he constructed w ithout masts and there will be literally nothing whatpver about the deck except ■ the top of the pilot house and the funnels. One of the projectors being said, “We have stepped torwnrd to solve the problem by doming our vessels, covering them as with a shell from stem to stem. This will place, us above all danger of rough seas sweeping over us, With what force,they may they can do no damage . No spars are out, no freight goes overboard, no lives are lost, everything is safe enough beneath the roof. The cost of the larger vessels will range from 550,000 to 650.000, at least one third less than ordinary vessels of the same size.” O’Donoyan Rossa recently stated at an interview that the Irish organisation for destruction purposes in Ne w York was more perfect than that of the Nihilists in Russia. Two emmiesaries, he claims, recently fired the town of Woodstock, New’ .Brunswick. ans cost the English Insurance Companies £200,000. A storm which passed over Glasgow ajpd Other parts,of Scotland on the 22nd, was the fiercest at the points affected for thirty years. The Bishop of Manchester is preaching in opposition to Moody and Sankey’s mission.

Oarsman Boyd has accepted the challenge of Hanlan to rev? a race over the Thames Championship course for the championship and a stake of £25 to £IOOO a side.

The London police believe that Hatton Garden Post-office robbers were Americans.

■ The Biirdelt-Couttg litigation was averted by the Baroness resigning her half share.in the Bank, receivinga small annual allowance as compensation. All the counsel considered she had violated the terms of the Duchess of S t. Alban’s will by her marriage, 1

Lord Cowper takes a gloomy view of the situation in Ireland. At a banquet in Belfast he reiterated his intention to retire, and spoke of (he deep-seated ill-feeling and dissatisfaction in the pountry. ; .-' Montreal Orangemen have appealed from the decision of the Supreme CouJt in the case involving the question to walk in procession.