ADDITIONAL NEWS BY TEE SAN FRANISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1127, 17 January 1884, Page 3

ADDITIONAL NEWS BY TEE SAN FRANISCO MAIL.

The residents of Nice are much disturbed at the prevalence of typlioid fever there 265 cases having occurred within three months. The Americans are leaving 1 , and going to Cannes. Another Chinese ironclad was launched at Stettin’s on December Ist The Ohine«e Legation and many invited guests were present. The Legation is entering into contracts for mate) id of war, which is being sent to China in immense quantities, Alderman Meager, a Parnelhte, was elected Lord Mayor of Dublin. The , Liberal and Conservative members of the Corpo-ation abstained from voiing. . The gunboat Nautilus is to reinforce the German squadron in Chinese waters It is stated that the Ulemas of Mecca, a body of Darned men, have formally condemned El Mahdi as an imnosrot, Agarian crimes in the Government of Kief, Russia, are increasing. Much property of the landlords has been damaged by acts of incendiarism or pillage. 'Matthews, editor of the Tyrone Courier, has been arrested on a charge of inciting the Orangm-n against the Nationalists. The annual report of the Parnell fund shows £4O 435. of width Ireland gave £25,820. Mr Gladstone was attended by a police man whilst at prayers in Hawarden Church on December 18th. A fearful easterly gale has done great .damage to the town and shipping at Gibraltar. A despatch from Cork dited December 17th, states Andrew Co'eman. the principal' witness for the prosecution in the (rial of the conspirators, testified to the existence of a branch of the Fenian Brotherhood ii County Mayo. He said he had given information to the police while a-sisting th" men now on trial. He once accompanied the men (nnw prisoners) to murder a certain gentleman who escaped because he had previously warned him. The crisis in the shipbuilding trade on the Clyde is growing more and more intense", Three large firms, including Denny, have notified their-employees that wages wi 1 bo reduced in January', and several other firms will follow their example. Ruchannet, the head of the Political Department of the Swiss Federal Council, at a militaiy banquet said, ‘ Be on your guard. Let the Swiss people prepare to defend their country. Many black clouds [ are withering on the European horizon. ( A war lo> g avoided cannot be escaped ] after 1884. It may even come next j spring’ The Empress of Russia is said to be dying of consumetion. ‘ At the Dublin Assizes on December sth, Elliott was indicted for the murder of Mrs Smyth, the wife of a landlord at Westmeath, who was shot dead while returning from church. True bills were also found for conspiracy in the same murder against fourteen other persons. Three persons arrested were discharged. The London Times thinks President Arthur’s message somewhat careless, and sees, a tribute to the Irish vote in the language used in regard to pauper immigrants. The Press generally express disappointment that the President did not recommend a reduction in the tariff. The Standard states the most important part is that containing a recommendation to use heroic measures for the suppression of 1 polygamy.’ The Telegraph denounces the President’s recommendation to use heroic measures for the suppression of polygamy, and describes the proposal as an attempt to erect a political despotism on the ruins of a proscribed fai'h. The Sultan of Turkey has despatched au to Melyjaza and two CourtDervishes to the Soudan on errands relating to El Mahdi’s revolt. Thos. Burt, the working men’s member of Parliament, writing concerning trades unions, regrets two things in particular that so many are secret and that they rush into strikes. A Calcutta despatch says the Marquis of Ripon, Viceroy of India, returned on Saturday, and was welcomed by an immense crowd of natives. The btinners of the natives, on which ‘ God Bless the Viceroy’ was inscribed, were destroyed by Europeans. A European mob of 2000 assembled at Government House and hissed the Marquis and his wife when they drove to the gate. At a banquet on Friday 2000 Europeans were present, and the toast of ‘The Viceroy’ was received in silence, only 24 persons standing up. T. M. ITealy, M.P., ptesided at a foi tn:°ht!y meeting of the Irish National League on December oth. IheSecretaiy announced £IOOO had been received from

America miici- last meeting. Mr Biggar referred in J. O’U.unor Power, M. P. for Mayo, ns tho Jas Carey of Irish politics,’ and added that no Irishman had a choice of a Government situation, who had not first become a traitor to the interests of Ireland.

Imernational measures are mooted for the control of the s ile of explosives, in order to prevent their use by conspirators. 'Fhe Windsor Theatre (the largest in New York) has been burned to the ground. No lives were lost. On December 14th, the Standard Theatre in the same city was destroyed by fire. An attempt was frustrated to burn the Casino. Hancock has arrived in San Francisco and lias received an ovation. His tour is for the purpose of making capital as a democratic candidate in the next Presidenta 1 campaign. According to a statement made by a leading New York importer, the effect of the decision of the United States Customs authorities to exclude impure teas has been to decrease the importation from 1t?,687-000 pounds to 8.G50.000 pounds. At Caldera, a Chilian seaport, on December 10th, 85000 sacks of saltpetre became ignited, destroying a great portion of the coal deposit of the railway between that place and Copiapo. The saltpetre ran along the railway track to the sea, burning the sleepers, fences, machine shops, etc. ___