ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1162, 18 October 1883, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

CAREY'S ASSASSIN.

The City of Auckland, with the San Francisco mail, arrived at Auckland last Thursday The following; is a brief summary of her intellige ice : At the Trade's Union Congress, held in Birmingham on September 12th, Mr Joseph Arch offered a resolution ' that considering the large amount of waste lands in the kingdom capable of cultivation, radical changes in the land system of the country are required, in order that land may be put under productive cultivation for the benefit of the coram unity, thereby offering a check to excessive' emigration.' An amendment was offered calling upon Government to declare such land Government property, and with this addition the entire resolution was adopted. Mr T. C. Brombey, ex- Attorney-General of Tasmania, arrived by the last steamer from Sydney, and is now in San Francisco on a lecturing tour for the benefit of the building fund for the new Cathedral in Hobarf. He is cramming reporters with Antipodes on political gossip, and criticising the Irish policy of the British Government in the most approved Fenian manner.

The Vicar of Stratford-on-Avon has signified his willingness to allow tho ro mains of Shakespeare to be exhumed. The object is to compare the skull of the poet with the bust and portrait of him Some of the members of the Town Council, however, oppose the opening of the tomb as desecration, and threaten to throw anyone attempting the act into the river Avon. Her Majesty has given Tennyson a commission to write some beautiful verses about the late John Brown, which she will have engraved on some of the numerous memorial brasses and monuments which are being prepared by her order. Theodore Martin will also write a biography of Brown.

The Prince of Wales had a pleasant time at Berlin on the Bth, where he attended a fancy ball. He, Lord Charles Beresford and other members of the Royal parts were attired as cooks, chambermaids, etc. The Princess was abse'nt.

At a meeting of the supporters of Mr Bradlaughon the 16th, itwas resolved that at the next session of Parliament (he House of Commons should be given no rest until Mr Bradlaugh be admitted to his seat or his legal disqualification finally determined.

Mary Anderson, an American actress, now playing to rather meagre houses at the Lyceum. London, recently declined the honor of being presented to the Prince of Wales. She desired, she said, to avoid sandal.

It leaked out among the sporting fraternity of New York on the 11th September that Mace had a very easy contract with the Maori, and it called for a year's service with compensation at one dollar per week, and that Slnde's apparent indifference as to what kind of an exhibition lie made of himself before the public as a boxer was due entirely to this contract and. the fact that he won renown while his manager gained the dollars made by exhibiting him about the country. It is said he will astonish the public now that his contract has expired. Mafe has challenged John. L. Sullivan, the American pugilist. He wishes he says to test bis science against Sullivan's strength. He will meet the champion either in New York, California, oi Europe. John L. Sullivan will commence his tour of the three continents on October Ist, after finishing which he will probably visit Australia on another exhibition tour.

A great social scaudal has been developed in Chicago in fashionable society circles. The partieß are Dr. H. Webster Jones, the well known physician, and Mrs Bigelow (nee Dean). They had held a very high position, were very wealthy, and much respected. It is said that the Dr. and Mrs Bigelow had gone' to Liverpool. Another report credits them with sailing in a clipper ship bound for Australia.

' Colonel' Chebborne, of the Salvation Army has been expelled from Geneva, and Miss Booth was imprisoned at Heinfrachtd for violating an order prohibiting the meetings. The Mormon proselytes who arrived from Europe at, New York on September 10th, are said.by a'physician to be the foulest crowd he ever examined. Some were crippled, some' blind, and all dirty. Lord Dunca?ne is shortly to be married to the. professional, Miss Nellie Lemar, who, with her sister Kat 9, has been the reicning star for some time at one of the leading variety shows. She attracted the attention of the Prince of Wales by her singing of the song 'Go and inform your father,' and since that time has been advertised as ' The Royal favorite.'

IRISH AFFAIRS,

Bernard O'Shanghnessy has resigned his seat in the House of Commons for Limerick to take a Government office. It was recently announced in London that an alarming telegram in reference to the revival of the Irish conspiracy had been received there. The evidence adducted at the examination of Dr and Patrick Connolly and their sister Catherine, charged with complicity in a murder conspiracy, indicated that a conspiracy .was. formed to accomplish a private, and not an agrarian, purpose, as w j s supposed. The witness Dineen swore to Dr Connolly forging the name cf John Carroll to a will, by which his (Carroll's) property was to bo left to Connolly. Dinepn was to murder Carroll, and to receive £SO from the sum expected to be realised from the hitter's propertv. The parties were arrested at Bruff County, L'merk-k. \ The National Lnrid League meet in Dublin on August 29th. Messrs Parne.ll, Davitt, and Pcxton, were present The former, in his speech, referred to the success of Irish members of Parliament in promoting the L'tbor, Tramways, and Immigration Acts, and siid he believed the dny was near when the Irish would gain a full programme of the measures for which the League had bee-i formed. Mr Parnell thanked the Irishmen of Australia and America for their support English members of Parliament, he stated, conceded that Home Rule was necessary for Ireland He also added that he had every hope that the emigration scheme would prove successful. Mr Davitt, in his speech, said six thousand Trial) householders had been deprived of their homos wi'hin the quarter ending on the Ist of July, i He urged the people to be resolute, calm, an/I not to lose their self control. Tho League has arranged for a series "g

demonstrations in He chief cities during he coming winter. Michael Davitt was reported to be ill at Dublin on September 13tli with infl immation of the lungs. AH his engagements to spe ik at tlie National League meetings in various parts of Ireland are cancelled in consequence. An Irish National League demonstration was held at Waterford on September 9tli, in which several well-known agitators took part. Michatd Davitt said the object of tho League was to achieve national independence for Irelanr". At the banquet in tho evening, Richard Power, M.P. for Waterford, replying to the toast of ' Ireland as a nation,' described England as a nation insulted by France, hated by Europe, and hairasßcd and embarrassed by Ireland. ____^__

The steamer Athenian, with O'Donnell' the slayer of Carey, on board, arrived at Portsmouth on the 17th September. Four detectives boarded the vessel, and at the last moment the authorities decided to land the prisoner at Southampton instead of Plymouth. O'Donnell stated he had a pleasant voyage, not being handcuffed, and his custodian treated him with remarkable kindness, allowing him to go up on deck in the mornings and afternoons, and his meals were served to him in his cabin, The prisoner has an Irish cast of countenance and piercing black eyes. It was supposed he did not so much mind being tried for the murder ol Carey, but he was afraid he would be recognised as a participant in other affairs. The detectives who had charge of O'Donnell are the same men who were engaged in ferretting out the recent dynamite conspirators. The railway car in which O'Donnell was conveyed to London and the carriages preceding and following it were filled with policemen. It is said that O'Donnell told the Magistrate at Capetown, ' I am not guilty of wilful murder. The killing was done in selfdefence. Carey drew a revolver from his right-hand pocket and I shot him.' The New York Herald has a special of Septemper 18th, which says, speaking of the arrival of O'Donnell at Portsmouth: —" On leaving tho vessel he addressed the Inspector, saying with a laugh, ' Have you got Number One this time?' The Inspector replied in a playful manner, putting up one fiagei. 'Number One is tall with a straight figure. If 3' OU na(i been bigger round I might have taken you for Number One.' The ' murderer landed at Southampton at nine o'clock on the morning of the 18th, and the train arrived at Vauxhall at noon, when he was immediately transferred to Millbank Piisoo. He was arraigned at Bow street on the same day and charged with murder on the high seas, and at the request of counsel for the Crown remanded for one week to await the arrival of witnesses. It has transpired that O'Donnell, after shooting Carey said, 'Shake hands, Carey, I had to do it,' not 'Did not do it,' as at first reported. It is understood Mrs Carey offered evident of a most astonishing nature, which she declares will clear her husband's character. She has handed letters to the authorities which include the correspondence with a Member of Parliament. Millbank Prison has been placed under extra guard. In answering at Bow street, the prisoner gave his name as Patrick O'Donnell, though he is described as Michael O'Donnell, puddler, of Gadowe, county Donegal, Ireland. The London Times in tracing the antecedents of O'Donnell. finds he is 45 years of age, a native of Minlandy, county Donegal, Ireland. Ho has been in America several times, and served in the American war. He lived for some time in Philadelphia and kept a public-house on the Canadian border. He invested his funds in silver mines and Peruvian bonds and lost his money. He returned to Ireland in May last, and frequented the company of Irish Americans in London. He carried a, revolver, and was considered a strong Nationalist, but was opposed to the Invincibles. He denounced Carey when the latter turned informer, and declared he would not shoot but burn hira by inches. He went to the Cape to seek his fortune because he considered America played out. He had never seen Carey before taking passage, and had no idea the informer was aboard the Kinfans Castle when he embarked The defence will probably be that Carey tried to shoot the prisoner, who wrenched tho revolver away and used it to protect his own life. It is stated O'Donnell's brother, now living in Ireland, will endeavor to obtain the services of Mr R M Sullivan, M.P., to conduct the defence. The friends of O'Donnell ridicule the idea that he went to the Cape for the special purpose of killing Carey.