ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1188, 20 December 1883, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

The City of Sydney, Captain Seabury, arrived from San Francisco on Monday night shortly after 10 o'clock. She was detained at Frisco till date from lho 23rd, owing to the non-arrival of the English mail. San Fbancisco, Nov. 26.

It is proposed shortly to confine the S iii Francisco and colonial mail service to three steamers, which can be done bv shortening the time of lying in port, but correspondents in all parts of the country will be deprived of the opportunity of answering their letters by the same steamer as they receive them. Wra. McCann Nelson, formerly of Victoria, Australia, and now of San Francisco, was attacked and badly beaten on October 24th, while leaving his dwelling by two disguised men. It is thought that the assault had some connection with the suit against ex-Senator Sharom for adultery, in which Nelson was engaged for the prosecution. The affair is considered somewnat mysterious. Before he was attacked, Nelson had brought a personal suit against Sharon for slander, laying damages at 120,000 dols. The lutter had stigmatised him as a "Blackmailer." This suit has also led to an indictment on a charge of forgerv of Mr Nelson and Miss Hill by a grand jury. The iron mills cf Pittsburg, Pennsylvania are generally closing down, owing to the depression of trade. Mr John Bright denies that be intends to visit America this year. A cablegram states tbat the health of the Princess of Wales is not good. She has increased the cold caught in Denmark and her deafness has so increased tbat her companions talking to her in the theatre aro beard all over the house. The Corean Amba&sadors, now in New York, have been purchasing so recklessly that they found themselves short of funds and have had to borrow money to pay their expenses home. Captain F. W. Dawson, an Englishman, and editor of the Charleston News and Mercury, has been created a Knight of the Order of St. George by the Pope for ' the opposition he has made to duelling, and which has gradually led to the suppression of the practice in South Carolina. Mrs Langtry was playing in Louisville, Kentucky, on November 6th. She is still accompanied by Fred Gebhardt. O'Donovan Rossa, a son of the New York dynamiter, was arrested in New York on the 24th at the insfmce of an insurance company for the larceny of a premium on a policy, snd held for examination. W. J. Ramsay, the proprietor of the London Freethinker, who was convicted on the 6th of March last of publishing blasphemous libels and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment, was released on November 24th. He was escorted from gaol by Mr Bradlaugh and a large crowd of sympathisers, who cheered him, and was given a public breakfast in the" Hall of Science. George W. Foote, editor of the same paper, convicted of the same * offence, has yet to serve three months.

Wolff, a member of the Advanced Socialist Club of London, was arrested on the 23rd in'his house, where were found two infernal machines placed there by a Frenchman; named Bolkeranc, It turned out on investigation to be a out-up job to obtain the reward expected to be paid the informer, the Frenchman undertaking the role, and that no real conspiracy existed as was stated to destroy the German Embassy, the Ambassador, and his Attachb. On account of the number of British subjects iu the Rocky Mountains, Earl Granville has been petitioned to appoint a Consul at Dokata and a Vice-Consul at Salt Lake City. Hnr.lan, the Toronto rower, who leaves for the colonies bj? the steamer City of Sydney, carries with him a new shell boat and a pair of Donoghue skulls for the Australian races. Canada has demanded that the Imperial Government pay part of the expense of maintaining the pauper immigrants deported from Ireland and landed in the Dominion, but there is no likelihood of the demand being complied ijwith. It is now suggested by the Ottawa Press that destitute or unreliable immigrants be slipped to the place from whence they came, as has been done by the authorities of American ports. Kawill, the English pedestrian, is in New York to contest with Fitzgerald (who defeated him last October) for 5000 dollars and the championship of the world. It is stated in San Francisco papers that a delegation of business men from the Australian Colonies, headed by the United States Cousul at Sydney will visit America next spring with a view of making themselves more thoroughly acquainted with the business methods of the Country. The Marquis of Lome, in his “ Impressions of Colonial Life,” writes that Canada is the least costly country and the least troublesome, and yet the greatest of the British Colonial possessions. The s.s. City of Sydney reached San Francisco a day in advance of her schedule time. Her speed was due, it is said, to a new improved screw with which she has been recently fitted. Aylward, who gained fame as a leader on the Boer side in the recent Transvaal war, was arrested in Chicago recently for being drunk and disorderly. Steve Raymond, an English forger, was sentenced in New York on November Ist to life imprisonment for passing forged coupons on the Union Pacific Railroad. Port Antonio, in Jamaica, was almost entirely destroyed by fire on October 18th The fire began in the dry goods store of Sutherland and Co. The total loss was over £200,000. Extraordinary precautions have been taken to guard the British men-of-war now lying in the ports of the Canadian seaboard provinces against Fenian attack.

The Earl ef Dunraven i'h agitating for protection. He was Chairman of a large " fair trade" meeting at Lemington on the 11th November, and his remarks were strongly in opposition to the present trade policy in open land. Mr Henry Chapman, M.P. for Lincoln, has renewed his eft '« to induce the British Government to. n strict the importation of cattle from the United State?. The trade is rapidly increasing. Mr Thos. Sexton, M.P. for Sligo, wan attacked by seven men, according to bis own account, in Seven Dials, London, on 16th November, who gagged him, pinioned his arms and rifled his pockets of his money and gold watch and chain. All the footpads but one escaped, and at the trial one of the jurors asked Sexton if he (Sexton) was in liquor at the time he was robbed. Sexton, with considerable temper, answered in the negative. The robbery took place near a public hou«« where he had called to get a brandy and soda f I two o'clock a.m.

A strike among the laborers and freight handlers on the Panama railroad on' Nov. 12th culminated in the wreck of a train, the strikers at the same time firing on it. Many were seriously injured but no one was killed.

Large failures in the cotton trade were reported in Liverpool on October 30th. The House of M. and P. M. Ranger was one of those which collnpsed, with liabilities estimated at £600,000. R. H. Foreman and Co. f.nd Hollenshed, Talty and Co. followed. New York dealers were affected by these failures to the tune of £IOO,OOO. On the 31st the Liverpool house of Miller and Fenton nlso suspended with Henry Pearce and Joseph Taylor and Co., cotton brokers.

A warrant was issued on October 31st for the arrest of the sub-manager of the Preston Banking Company on a charge of embezzling £IO,OOO.

Lord Granville has sent a communication to the French Government insisting upon a proper apology for the behaviour of Admiral Pierre towards Commodore Johnson at Tamatave. The question of the conduct of the French towards Mr Shaw is treated as a thing apart. The hearing of the suit for the judicial separation which Lady Colin Campbell has brought againat her husband, and which will come up in a few weeks, will take place in private. It is of such a character as to render this course necessary. The English Liberals have lost heavily in the recent municipal elections, which, though fought in isolated places and with such local topics as "The Salvation Army," " The new Town Hall," •« Electric Lighting v. Gas," or " Teetotalism v. Beer," were] generally on political lines. Some Liberal journals are desD'mdenc and think the result presages a defeat on a wider field, illustrating the general election of 1882 when the Conservatives were overthrown.

The marriage of the Princess Louise Victoria Alexandria Dagmar, the eldest daughter of the Prince of Wales, now sixteen years old, to the young Duke of Portland is mooted. Sir Moses Montefiore reached hi« one hundredth year on October 24th. Many congratulations from all parts of the world were sent him. Arnond* the letters was one from the Prince of Wales. The Queen, in her impatience, has had a temporary stucco cast made John Brown's statue and erected on the lawn it Balmoral, in front of her royal apartments. The cast has become Ihe subject .of so much discussion in artistic circles, that the sculptor has had to speak in selfdefence. He admits it is far better-look-ing than John Brown ever was, but says that her majesty came to his studio weekly to superintend tn j modelling, and insisted on one change or another until he thought he was doing the Apollo Btlvedere in kilts.

Michael Davitt has expressed, privately 1 and publicly, his dissatisfaction with the want of support that the .Irish people are showing towards the National League, and that neither Mr Parnellor his following are making any serious efforts to carry the resolutions into effect that were passed a year ago by the National Conference held in Dublin. Lord Kossmore, Grand' Master of Orangemen, has written to a newspaper to the effect that if the Parnellite League and other disloyal meetings are allowed to continu-j in Ulster there will be blood ►■lied and perhaps a civil war. The law restraining Orangemen from marching cannot be reckoned upon. The Londonderry Hall, in which the Lord Mayor of Dublin was to. deliver an i address on November Ist, was taken,possession of by the Orangemen, who* held it. Upon the arrival of the Mayor in the city he was driven to his hotel, his escort carrying green and bands playing Irish national airs. jDuring the passage of the procession a man and a boy were Bhot. The Orangemen planted the Union Jack on the roof of the City Hall. Later on they vacated the buildings and withdrew from the vicinity. The Mayor of Londonderry issued a proclamation appealing to the people to refrain from violence and retaliation, The chtef organiser of the obstruction was Lord Ernest Hamilton, son of the Duke of Abercorn. The Times and the Tory journals applaud the arrangements, and the Radicals call for their prosecution. The whole business has strengthened the National party. The Dublin Lord Mayor's visit has caused the Irish .Government much uneasiness. Disorders incident to it did not cease on his departure. Hostilities between the Nationalists and Orangemen continued, and breaking of windows was general. A Nationalist was stabbed on the 3rd. Several hundred factory womou went out on strike the same day, because their proprietors refused to discharge a man in the factory who moved in the Corporation Council to resind a resolution granting permission to the Mayor of Dublin to lecture in the Town Hall, They paraded the streets, trying, "God save Ireland." They were attacked and stoned by a mob which they fought desperately until they were dispersed by the police. An investigation as to the cause of the disturbance will be held. A bailiff was shot dead on November Ist in a house at Castle Blarney, Galway. The trouble in Ulster has given rise to a proposition to form a constitutional organisation apart from Orangemen, and uniting Catholics and Protestant for the country at large. The Cabinet have hinted to Earl Spencer that the policy of stopping League meetings on the assumption that they will be attacked by Orangemen cannot be approved, the Lord Lieutenant has taken great umbrage, and threutens to resign if his policy is interfered with. There is great excitement throughout Loughrea in consequence of a wholesale system of evictions put into operation there on Novomber 9th, and ihe result has been the revival of feuds between Orangemen and Nationalists. Lord Spencer's prohibition of the O/anere and Parnell meeting in Dublin on 12th November is bitterly denounced by the National Press in Dublin and London as a surrender to the Orange faction. He, however, believes this course, to be the sole means of keeping peace', without troops. The widest license of speech is meanwhile accorded to Harrington and Healy in the south of Ireland. Healey openly advocates the complete pillage of landlords. Joseph W. Poole, found guilty of the murder of Kenedy, was sentenced to death iu Dublin on 20th November, to be hanged on 10th December. The prisoner cried out, "Three cheers for Ireland and down with English tyranny!"

Tremendous efforts are being made to save the murderer of Carey from the gallows.

It is stated thfit in the event of a war between France and China, England will forcibly resist any attempt to blockade the ports affectiDg her trade.