ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1150, 13 March 1884, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Auckland, March 10. The City of Sydney arrived at midnight She left San Francisco on the 18th Teh. Her passage was uneventful. Saiv Francisco, February 16. Meetings condemnatory of the Government’s Egyptian nolicy were hold at Guildhall on the 15th, and in Panel’s Hall Piccadilly, on the 16th. There was a crowded attendance and great uproar at both. The Lord Mayor presided at the Guildhall meeting, and at Piccadilly Lord Randolph Churchill and Sir Robert Peel offered resolutions to the effect that Parliament ought to be dissolved. James O’Kelly, Egyptian correspondent of the London Daily Times, supposed to be killed, turned up at Assouan, on January sth. Moody began his mission at Stratford Le Bow on January 23vd, and, notwithstanding a hurricane prevailed, 6000 people were present. The Queen’s “ More Leaves from a Journal of My Life in the Highlands,” is announced by Smith,‘Elder and Co. The Royal authoress, despite entreaties by friends, has retained most of the John Brown passages.

Tho Times of Feburary 3rd, says it is decided that Parliament shall be asked to grant £2,000,000 for the additional defence of the Clyde, Humber, Mersey, and Tyne rivers, the Bristol Channel ports, Aden, Singapore, Hong Kong, Point de Galle and Capetown, the islands of St. Helena and Ascension, all being of vital necessity to the British fleet, which, in case of war, will have to depend upon coaling facilities for its power to defend our possessions. The same paper states the British army is never more than adequate for the work it has to do, and tiie occupation of Egypt is a severe strain upon ordinary military arrangements. The importance of improving tho defences may be judged from the fact that the property of Liverpool alone, which a hostile fleet might destroy, is estimated at £400,000,000. At a meeting of about 15,000 people held at Sheffield, on the night of February 13tb, resolutions were passed denouncing the Egyptian policy of the Government as a sacifice of national honor and prestige. The Mayor presided. On the news of Baker Pasha’s rout having been received in London the French Ambassador had a conference with Earl Granville, and offered the co-operation of the French forces in Egypt, proposing that the French troops be landed at Souakim, and march thence to the relief of Khartoum. The ultimate settlement of the Soudan question to be left to a conference of the Rowers. Lord Granville reg-rred his reply to the offer. A peculiar and fatal disease is devastating Montana. The sheep swell np and bleed at the nose. A post mortem shows an extravasation of blood ip the intestines. The disease ja considered incurable. The lecture of Henry George, the Socialistic Reformer, at Dundee on February 3rd, drew a packed and enthusiastic audience. China has given a London firm largo orders for torpedoes. General Booth, Chief of the Salvation Army, intends to make a tour of tho United States in March. The Oobden Club has circulated 20,000

| copies of a pamphlet, by Mr Griffon, entitled, “ Progress of the Working Classes,” which Mr Gladstone pronounces the best answer to the doctrines advanced by Henry George. The British Homo Office and the police have been warned that serious steps have been taken to perpetrate outrages in England, the means being furnished by the New York Irish World’s O’Donnell Vengeance Fund. The magistrates and the police prevented a National League meeting at Killavillen on the 26th, In the melee two women were knocked down, and one had several ribs broken. The Nationalists’ meeting at Newport on the 27th was, however, in spite of the storm that raged at the time, attended by at least 10,000 people. Messrs Mayne, Biggar, and O’Brien, M.P.’s, were there, and many

priests. A resolution was passed declaring the Land Act inadequate, and the emigration scheme a brutal blunder. • Meetings were also held at Parsontown and Edgeworth. William Meagle, an impo.tant witness in the Phoenix Park trial, has asked protection from the Dublin authorities. 1 lis life is made miserable owing to continued persecution and frequent assaults which he suffers at the hands of sympathisers with the murderers.

Miehael Dcavitt delivered a lecture at Newcastle-on Tyne on February 13th, on the Irish problem and its solution. The lecturer was received with howling and hissing, and a rush was made for the platform. Thirty policemen interfered, and Davitt drew a revolver, which he held in

his hand for some minutes. He summoned the occupanls of the gallery to eject the disturbers from the hall, which they succeeded in doing, being assisted by the police. There was some fighting when the disturbers were being ejected, and several parsons were severely wounded. A convention of fanners at Carlow on February Ist denounced Lord Rossmore and the Orangemen and it was resolved to prohibit hunting on (ho lands of

farmers, and, if necessary, to prevent it. The farmers declare they will poison their grounds, L. R. Martin, known to stockmen in the colonies, is still in Kow Fork gaol. An investigation of the plans of Martin and his associates show that they intended to flood the Australian colonies with counterfeit bonds, which Martin declared he had influence enough to float. The Pope sent a corner stone and marble slab on February 7th, for the chapel to be erected at Cahirciveen, Kerry, in memory of Daniel O’Connell. An explosion in a colliery at Shendon Valley, Wales, on January 27th, killed eleven miners.

The Bey of Tunis has given M. Condair authority to carry out bis scheme of transforming the Desert of Sahara into an inland sea. The Russian Government has ordered Count Lubte, a Polish landowner, to sell his property and quit Russia. He is accused of conducting a Catholic propaganda and exciting the people against the authorities.

t'smark has returned the resolutions passed by Jews iu America on the death of tlieir co-religionist there, Edward Laxen, member of the Prussian Reichstag. He curtly informed the senders that Laxen was not of sufficient importance to entitle him to be thus honoured.

According to a dispatch from Rome, the Pope, in commenting on the hostilities in Touqnin and Soudan, exclaimed

“The Church has small cause to thank the Great Western Powers for their services on behalf of religion and civilization. When Africa and Tonqum are pacified, we shall be at a point where we were half a century ago.” Referring to the disastrous wreck of the City of Columbus, near Boston, mentioned in last month’s reports, it has now been ascertained that Captain Burtham, of the steamship Glaucus, saw the condition of the unhappy people on board but refused to lay to on his voyage to assist them, because, he said, “ time was more valuable than human life.”

A book containing articles from the Nouvelie Berne, grossly libelling of the German Imperisl family, has been prohibited circulation in Paris.

The Czar has grown tired of enforced seclusion, and now makes his appearance frequently and unattended in places of public resort.

The police have discovered a plot for an uprising of the peasantry in Little Russia, and also a scheme for putting strychnine in the Czar’s bread. In accordance with a previous announcement, Mr Barnell, on February Bth, offered in the House of Commons an amendment to the Address in Reply to the Queen’s speech. It severely censured the policy of the Government in Ireland. In the course of his remarks Mr Parnell assorted that Sir Stafford Nortbcote’s recent visit to Ireland had been the cause of great disturbances there,—the Oiange outbreaks and others. Mr Sullivan, M.P. for Westmeath, said Orangeism was an obstacle to the spread of settlement in the North of Ireland, and Lord Randolph Churchill’s insisting on Lord Rosenoath’s dismissal was a bait to catch the Irish vote. Mr Trevelyan, Chief Secretary for Ireland, denied this statement, as well as that of Mr Parnell that Government was playing into the hands of Orangemen. Ho added the rents were bebig more readily paid in Ireland now than in the centres and cast of England, A typhoid fever epidemic broke out at Hyaemtlio with such violence on January 25ch that all the colleges, schools and convents were immediately closed. The disease at Inst accounts had assumed alarming proportions. At that date the thermometer reached 3'J below zero, th. e coldest day of the season. . Shelliqackner, the assassin of Detective Blooch, has confessed that he murdered tho Police Commissioner, KluebecU. Ho declares that Eisart (the money changer) was murdered and robbed by Socialist agitators. Shellmackner was implicated in the plot agaipst the Emperor of Germany. The Austrian authorities will ask Switzerland to extradite his accomplice. The Parisian newspapers gloated over the mischance of Baker Pasha iu Soudan.