ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1126, 15 January 1884, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

The Australia, with the San Francisco Mail, arrived in Auckland on Sunday morning. Her passage was an uneventful one. The following is a summary of her mail news : San Francisco, Dec. 22. A twenty years' law suit was ended in San Francisco on December 13th by a pioneer of California and a millionaire named Charles McLaughlin being assassinated in his office by a railway contractor, named E. Cos, who had grown desperate by his protracted legal difficulties with McLaughlin. Cox originally advanced money to the deceased to build a railway between San Jose and San Francisco. The New York Commissioners are purfying the Police Department. Five officers have been dismissed and two permitted to resign. One has been placed on trial for murder and others charged with drunkenness and obtaining money under false pretences. The British and Chinese flags were publicly burnt by an assemblage of Irishmen in San Francisco on Sunday, December 9th. The cremation wa3 preceded by resolutions of sympathy for O'Donnell. The Pope approved of the proposal to erect a memorial church to Daniel O'Connell at Callinevan, County Kerry. Archbishop Croke will lay the corner •tone. The executrix ef Dowager Lady Lytton threatens to publish 300 letters of the late lord, unless his son will do justice to the memorv of his mother. Fourteen thousand cotton operatives are idle in Lancashire. Half the Blackburn looms are stopped and the men on strike. The deficit in the Egyptian Budget of 1883 is three million dollars. The London police have begun to raid fashionable gambling houses. On the 13th they entered th« Baccarat Club, Jinks' Club, Park Club, and others known as ' swell hells,' and warned the players and proprietors. The failures are announced of Peyton and Peyton, furniture manufacturers, Birmingham, for £IOO,OOO ; and Abbot, j Page and Co., London, stockbrokers for j £165,003. 1 Manceufell, Governor of Alsace and Lorraine, has issued an order abolishing the French language in debate. The remains ot DeLong, of the Jeanette Arctic exploration party, reached Irkutsk on December 21st. At the opening of the Spanish Cortes, the Royal speech announced the extension of suffrage to all who can read and write and pay taxes. A hurricane which has occurred in the district of Aheuse, Spain, on December 12th, uprooted 1400 olive trees. It also demolished the quays atDerucain Valencia, inundated the town, and wrecked V£ vessels. The Canton of Vallais, Switzerland, has restored the death penalty for murder. Monsignor Savarez, the Pope's domestic prelate, has left the Roman Catholic Church a.id been received into the Episcopal Church by xJr Niven of St. Paul's American Church at Rome. At the services at the funeral of Mirio, a wreath from Queen Victoria was placed on the cofim The depression in the iron trade of America continues. The manufactories in Pennsylvania are generally shutting dowD, and 12,000 coal miners are out of employment. Poole, who was convicted of the murder of John Kenny in July 1882. after a trial in Dublin last November, was hanged within the walls of Richmond at 8 o'clock on the morning of December 18th. Quite a crowd assembled, composed principally of women, who denounced the murdered aDd eulogised Poole. No disturbance occurred. The Crown Prince of Germany paid a visit to the Pope on December 18th. He was received with great cordiality. The Prince was visibly affected, and expressed in the name of the Emperor his gratification at being able to manifest his respect for His Holiness. The private conference lasted one houi. Later in the day the Prince received all the state dignitaries, and left on his return home next day. The Dominion Government is being strongly prasssd to take immediate action

to prevent the influx of Chinese in British Columbia. Upwards of 9000 of these undesirable settlers are without work in that province. They resort to all kinds of depredations to keep themselves alive, and several esses of murder have already been reported. Plundering is their sole means of support. On December 21st the trial of McDermott and others for complicity in the dynamite outrages concluded. The following were the prisoners sentenced for life :—Terence McDermott, T. Devaney, Peter Callaghan, Henry McCann, and Patrick McCollough. Those for seven years were—Jas. O'Donnelly, Jas. Kelly, Pat. Dramend, and Denis Casey. A grand banquet was given to Mr Parnell in the Rotunda, Dublin, on Dec. 11th. It was attended by persons >om all parts of Ireland and Great Britain, as well as more distant places. Five hundred and eighty tickets were cold. Mr Parnell in hiß speech dwelt upon the assisted emigration question, stigmatising it as an indirect attempt on the part of the Government to quiet the difficulty by getting quit of the Irish people. He insisted that three-fourths of the emigrants of the last year or two had been compelled to find homes in miserable garrets in New York, Boston and Montreal, and the present Irish Executive was characterised as mean and more incapable than any of its predecessors. Referring to their parliamentary position he said, " If we cannot rule oursalves we can cause England to be ruled as we choose." At the close of the speech, Major Dawson, of Dublin, presented Mr Parnell with a cheque for £38,000. The Marquis of Lome delivered a long lecture at Birmingham on December sth on Canada and its products. He particularly praised the salubrity of its climate, and said that the fevers which were too common in the United States were unknown within the boundaries of the Dominion. The speaker, in conclusion, said, " with the Dominion of Canada and the Australian Colonies in close relation, England need never fear her proud position in the world will be shaken or questioned." The Marquis also read a paper before the Colonial Institute, London, iu the course of which the following remarks occurred : " Information in regard to the prospects in life in the Colonies should be given in the information could be easily obtained it is difficult to believe that so many people would remain here wr hout occupation. The area of Australia and Canada is so vast, the fertility of the soil so remarkable, and the rapid increase of their population so certain, fiat within the lifetime of the children of the gentlemen present, their numbers will be equal to ours, and in another century they will be greatly superior to us in men and wealth. Our colonies give foreigners an apparent advantage over us. It it still our policy to remain their • osest allies. Our first step to keep them in alliance is to work with them in pushing their commerce."

Despatches dated December 12th describe the effects of the violent gales throughout England. On the preceding day much damage was caused in London and in the provinces. Huge trees were torn up and carried away. The low lying districts of Birmingham were flooded. A portion of the roof of the church, of St. David, in Derby, was demolished, and the Congregational Church was also injured. The parish church in Rotherham was much injured. Chimney shafts were thrown down in Manchester, Leeds, etc. A large gas holder near Bradford was capsized, together with the chemical works. The Leicester carriage works were destroyed. At Birkenhead great damage was done. The chief officer of a steamer just arrived from Glasgow was killed. Cabs were overturned and many buildings destroyed At Lincoln the paraptt of the tower of the Cathedral was blown down. A ship was blown from her moorings in Belfast harbor. At South Shields a vessel broke adrift, and three wherries sank. The British ship Liverpool, from Quebec for Greenock, is a total wreck near Stramair, Scotland, and only a man and a boy were saved of the crew. Two persons wer» killed at Hull and several injured. A portion of Portsmouth was flooded, At Hartlepool many ships were damaged. At Birmingham two persons were killed and a number injured. Three persons were killed at Manchester and three at Dewsbury. At Chester a man was blown down in the street and killed. Two persons were killed at Liversedge. A portion of the roof of St. Mary's Church, in Berwick, was destroyed. Several houses in the suburbs of Nottingham were blown down. At Kildwick the gasometer was demolished. A postal and telegraph inspector at Leeds was cut in two. At Bradford a monument under the cliff in the central portion of the Midland railway depot was blown down. Several vessels docked in the Mersey were damaged. Two vessels were wrecked at Dimure, Scotland. Two men were drowned in the lowlands of West Lancashire. The damage to property in Glasgow was very great.