NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1006, 19 September 1882, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

President Arthur has decided on a strict enforcement of the eight-hour law in the Government dock yard and other public works.

The receipts of the United States Treasury Department for the week ending August 26th were more than over known before within the memory of the fiscal department. The amount averaged a million and a half dollars a day. William Kilpatrick, residing at Milwaukee, who claims to be heir to the throne ;of Ireland, and who the papers gravely say is . not cranky, has been writing to Mr Gladstone to urge on “ his royal sister Victoria” to renounce her title to his country.

The Right Rev. Bishop Weston, of the orthodox Russian Church, committed suicide by jumping, overboard from the steamship St. Paul’s, on a trip from San Francisco to Alaska, whither he was bound on a visit to the churches.

Canadian whisky recently got the better of Slade, the spiritualist, and he gave a humorous seance, in which he unwittingly exposed a good many of his'own tricks, slate-writing and others. Some young men, it is said, placed him him in this condition, with this object in view'. The British ship Cyprotnene arrived at San Francisco on August 6th from Newcastle, N.S.VY. She had an exceptionally rough passage. She passed through gales and calms, interspersed with electrical disturbances, during which balls of fire flew round the ship. The cargo shifted badly. To stop the turbulence of the sea ti e captain utilised fifteen barrels of oil, with satisfactory, results. News from Peru, under date August 6th, shows that the w.ir is becoming one of extermination. The success of the Chilian troops in the interior have excited the population, who are rising against them. A profound sensation exists in Chili in consequence, and a public meeting was held, at which the orators used most violent language, and demanded that an army should at once march against Arequipa. A committee was formed, which offered (o raise 10,000 men for the purpose, and to furnish funds if necessary. The Chilian military authorities, however, desire to withdraw all troops in the interior of Peru to Lima. 3500 men left Valparaiso for Peru at the beginning of the mouth. The Lima garrison will be increased from 3000 to 11,000 men, and no detachments will be kept in the interior in future.

Charles J. Kirkham, a Fenian leader, is dying in Dublin nf paralysis. Lord Spencer lias decided to hold an enquiry into the conduct of the jury that convicted Hayes. They were said to have been drunk. Richard Kelly, proprietor of the Tu.nn Herald, was committed for trial at Tuam for publishing an article written by James Redpath. rvhich is alleged to have been an incitement to the murder of Burke. Bail was accepted. Two men while attempting to clamber over the railing of the Tuilcrios Gardens, during a display of fireworks, thoughtlessly grasped an electric w're used in illuminating the grounds. Both were instantaneously killed. A Negro conspiracy to massacre the white inhabitants of Chatam county, Alabama, was detected by the discovery of papers. The whites armed, and seized the leader, Jack Turner, who was hanged at once, The other leading conspirators are in prison awaiting their -trial. Ex-Governor Sprague, of Rhodes Island, whose mansion was recently sold to Frank Moulton, of Beecher trial fame, refuses to transfer the property, and has entienched himself with Gatling guns, mitrallenses, and rifles. The State has been called upon to pnt the purchaser in possession.

A spirited correspondence took place between the English and American postal authorities regarding certain mail matter. The English stop not only certain American newspapers inimical to the Government, but also registered letters and packages suspected of containing seditious information or dangerous preparations.