ARRIVAL OF1 THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1150, 18 September 1883, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF 1 THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

i The Australia arrived yesterday morn-j ing, and brought the following news,' dated San Francisco, August 26 j In the House of Commons, on August; 12th the ’Under-Secretary for India pre-; sented the Indian Budget. The surplus ' for 1884 is estimated at £467,000. In the House on the 2lst, Sir Stafford , Northcote attacked the whole policy of , ! the Government. Mr Gladstone, in reply,! ■ praised the working of the Land Act, and: Earl Spencer’s ' vigorous government of; Ireland. In relation to Madagascar, he declared nothing had occurred to disturb the cordial relations of England and | , France.. ■; - i Count Bismarck, in reply to the French! journalists, declares that France threatens the peace, of Europe, and that such a state of affairs cannot continue without: serious danger, and that the passions! fomented by agitatipn may burst the bond* of peace. ' ' '' ; The, Freeman’s Journal, bitterly de-l nounces the House of Lords for its action; in rejecting the Irish Registration Bill; Extension.’ : , , ■ ‘ , A flour mill near Kinnegal, Ireland, was ; burned down on the 22nd. Three! persona perished. j Count de iChambord’s death ip alludedto by Republican journals and they unite in paying homage to his! sincerity. The Royalist papers appeared 1 with mourning borders and are reserved: in thpir; comments regarding the con-, 'sequence' of his death. The body will he buried by the side ot Charles X, A reign of terror existed on August 24; in the, village of Cairo, Roumalia. The Turks were' murdering Christians, a!nd all the latter who could get away were fleeing, i Mr Gladstone is said to have recently: : declared, in conversation with a Methodist clergyman, that a large number of i Ministers and others wearing the blue: j ribbon was an exceedingly gratifying; i circumstance, speaking' well for the; i future. , p Honduras and' Columbia, have given i ( in their adhesion to the principle that if i I France'should continue to countenance ( the attempts of De Brazza to establish 1 Fi (inch ‘ rule in ' Central Africa, an Asso- \ ciation at Berlin intend to implore’the 8 protection, of England. . : j-

A project for the neutralisation of the Congo is favored in London. ; His Holiness the Pope is drawing up an encyclic? 1 letter against divorce. A despatch from London dated August 5, says that Her Majesty the Queen is much stronger. In receiving M. Waddingfon, the new French Minister, she stood throughout the interview, wf'Vh lasted twenty minutes. Shelias ordered that no tenant festivities take place this year at JBalmural or on any of her estates on account of the death'of John Brown. Another despatch says that' in spite of the continued efforts of the Royal Family and medical advisers the Queen obstinately ref uses to for her health, and insists on spending the autumn at ■Balmoral., She is determined to be near John Brown’s grave, and, Will make daily visits to it, contributing neyit'testimonials of the esteem in -which she holds the memory (of l the' 1 departed i gillie Her family is exasperated by; her expenditure of feeling on this subject, which begins to border on the ridiculous. Her Majesty left London for Balmoral on Friday, August 26.-il.' ■' i‘i XHf n r The Cairo correspondent of the ‘ Daily Telegraph’: writes':— :A medical friend informs me that-in, one. ipf the principal hospitals no measures are taken to disinfect or even to clean the beds and bedding from which cholera corpses are heingjemoved.' '! As par one; the pattent dies the body is’ hustled away for burial, and another sick or dying wretch fills the vacancy caused by death. | Even vomit and Rejections from successive patients'are 1 allowed; to accumulate; for many Rhours, until,the whole, place becomes inexpressibly 'hdisome, and these,.cases are but a type of what is going bn in every ; depot, for the! reception of cholera stricken people. , Carts are sent round at intervals to collect the dead at tlie s ‘hospitals and from private houses,' i and”bbdies are not infrequently found even in-the open streets;' 1 Should the man in charge of the dead cart cbme'across a sick person, the lattpr'is unceremoniously thrown info the. vehicle;-' dp tbp df loadpand iB left there until the cart is charged with a collection ibf;isickiij;.The,iliving t ,are,then transferred fromj ~the; dead carl , to, the company ! of .their, fellow sufferers and takeq to (the hospital! / Several towns in the State of Minnesota wcr.e visited by a cyclone bn, August sth ‘vsjitli (f most' .distressing ‘'•■’Places were literally' wrecked, 'and 1 ’many of‘the inhabitants killed. The witid' also detriblished a railroad train, lifting the carriages from the -track .and reducing them to shivers, ( One hundred passengers were killed.:;,., , . -v ■■ The object of the, visit, of : Monsignore Dep«l to the United States is said to V signify Rome ttf tiy ’■ abfd ihdke ' a' great Spread in the future in this Country. The somewhat startling story is circulated that Depal’s ! appbafancodiei:eibut pfecedfes 1 the arrival>of the : Popediimß6lf,fi f,«(; t 't J ' Moody and -Sankey gb-Ato'.'Londonuiii September, to spend the winter- in i evangelistic work;- I .' m ; -nihi-vin

The White Star Line steamship Ludwig, long overdue from Montreal, Canada, is given up f or, lost. ; r : , Commissioner Merrepoiht has, made a report to the effect that in five years, if thepresent- policy of: the ( Government towards the Mormons was the latter would control all the territories remaining. ‘V'''"V