ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1174, 6 May 1884, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Auckland, May 4' The Zealandia arrived at 7.30 o'clock to-night. She left San Francisco on April 14th, and passed the City of Sydney on April 17th. She was detained six hours off Honolulu by bad weather. The Zealandia left at one o'clock in the morning for Sydney. The southern 'Frisco mails were sent by special train at midnight, and the Wanaku sails at daylight from Onehunga.

General Summary,

Mr Gladstone's family urge, him strongly to accept a peerage without delay and retire from active dutj'. It is rumored that negotiations are pending between England and America with a view to adding an extradition clause to cover the authors of dynamic outrages. The Secretary of the London Corn Exchange reports on April Bth enormous stocks of wheat, barley and ruaizu in the London waterside granaries. There were 454,000 quarters more wheat and 100,000 less outs than last year. The Wool Tariff Bill was defeated in the American Legislature. In lite University Boat rt.a<;e, Oxford at the last minute went to pieces. Cambridge finished nearly three lengths ahead. Time, 21min. 29sec. A dynamiter, named Daley, was arrested at Birkenhead station on April 11. An accomplice, named James Egan, was also arrested at the same time. Daley ii an American, and was connected with Carey's gang. He once presided at a meeting ot ' Invinoibles ' at Dublin. The best foot race on record was made at the Athletic Club, Little Bridge, on April 7th, by W. G. George, the wellknow amateur. He covered 10 miles in 51min. 20«ecs., eclipsing all records, even that of the famous Deerfoot, whose time wai 51min. 21secs.

An attempt wa- made on tho night of A.pnl Bth to destroy by dynamite the magazine at Fort George, a few miles from Inverness. The marauder* decamped in boat?, but not before a sentry had pinued one of them with his bayonet. A detachment of cavalry arrived .at Kidderminster on April 9th, »s a check to the riotous carpet-weavars of the factories. The proprietor! have refused to yield to the men's demand*, and a strike is expected. An attempt hat been made at Aberdeen to destroy the machine in the Southport carpet works. Mr Gladstone made a powerful speech in thallosue of Commons on April 7, in support of the Franchise Bill. He said it was a good thing for tho State that the largest number of capable citizens should possess the franchise. He defeuded tho extension of the franchise in Ireland as au act of right and justice. The Duke of Connaught is being hauled over the coals for being present at the cmel spectacle of an elephant light, given bythe'-Rajh of Bhantipoor. The beasts were made drunk and furious by copious draughts of rum. A verdict has been rendered in favor of Lady Colin Campbell in a suit against her husband for divarce.

Differences between Davitt and Parnell are growing more and moi» distinct every day. They are enpeciaily at variance in their ideas regarding the manner of con (hiding the coming election campaign. Davitt's plan is to abolish landlordism root and branch by having tenants to continue the process by which he has already made property nearly unsaleable.

A.Dublin despatch of March 28th says tha Orangemen and Liberals in Ulster are negotiating with a view to a division of seals of Parliament so as to prevent the election of Paruellites.

Tlie Parnell branch of the Irish National League passed a resolution on April 2 strongly condemning Davitt for inviting Mr Henry George to lecture in Dublin. A plot to destroy the Mount- Joy prison was brought to light on April 4. Invincibles in prison were engaged in a clandestine correspondence with confederates outside, and letters were found in James Milieu's cells, which disclosed the whole busiuess. The prison warders were to be bribed with moDey from the O'Donovan Rossa fuDd to convey infernal machines to the prison. One letter contained an order for ihe murder of Patrick Delaney, one of the Phoenix Park conspirators, by throwing him over a balcony, as be should leave the prison chapel after Mass. Delaney still remains at Mountjoy for Many of the warder* have been dismissed. A sudden removal of convicted lnvincibles from Irish to English prisons, is attributable to the discovery of the plot. A revolt against Parnell is being organised by the more active of the Ultra Irish Nationalists. The originator of the new departure is James Stephens, an ex-head centre of Fenian brotherhood who has been living very quietly in Pari* for the past lew years. Stephens proposes to organise an entirely new Irish parly, which will be opposed equally to the doctrines of Parnell, and to the methods of dynamiters, and hopes to secure the co-operation of the best men in both these factions. He intends to call a Council of Irish Nationalists to meet in Paris, to formulate a platform and decide upon methods of organisation. Stephens has also recently been in correspondence with some of the Irish leaders in the United States, and is said to have received pledges of adhesion from several influential Irish-American societies. Catholic priests are giving active assistance to Parnell's Land Purchase and Settlement Company.