NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1232, 26 August 1884, Page 3

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

The mail steamer City of Sydney arrived at Auckland on Sunday la«t, one . day behind contract lime. Her passage Wwas uneventful. - The following is a Burner inai y of the intelligence brought by her ; The Contagiops Diseases Bill passed its third reading in.the House of Lords on the Ist August. Mr Bolton, Crown Solicitor, of Ireland, brought an action tor'" £30,000 damages ar&inst the proprietors of United Ireland, published in Dublin. Parnell, O Brien, and others, were interested. The jury found for the plaintiff £3,050 damages. O’Brien’s replv to , the demand tor payment was : “ I will not pay a farthing of the award. It is preposterous ;it violates , all common sense.” _ , . ** A son of the British Vice-Consul at Rodiste has been captured by brigands, who demand £IOOO as ransom. Charles Moneyponay, a linen menufacturer of Belfast, was found on July 25th in a carriage in a night train between Paris and Brussels with his brains blown out. He is supposed to have been murdered. . ■ It is positively asserted in Catholic circles in London that, there is a likelihood of Mary. Anderson (the American actress) joining the Catholic nuns. Ireland won'the Klcho shield in the C rifle match at Wimbledon, The scores were Ireland 1583, Scotland 1476, England 1474. Deerstalkers*- gillies, and laborers, on ths estate of t.he American millionaire Winans, near . Inverness, Scotland, engaged in a terrible fight while a gillie named Campbell was being arrested. Dr Caesar Henry Hawkins, surgeon to the Queen, is dead: t A great fire took place at the Wapping crane wharf recently, resulting in a loss of £500,000* - ■ • . .. . A recent fSte forPhe London hospitals was participated in by the leading members of • the . London aristocracy. Princesses and Countesses abounded as saleswomen. The Prince and Princess of Wales were almost trampled down In the enthusiasm of their welcome. Great precautions were taken at Warwick, off July 29th, to ensure order in , the trial of Daly, Egan, and McDonnell, suspected dyne miters. Strong barriers were erected to protect the approaches to the Court, and constables armed with revolvers were placed on guard at all public buildings. McDonnell pleaded guilty to the charge of.treason and felony and thereupon the .other charges against him were withdrawn. Daly and Egan pleaded guilty to the charges of treason and felony. ——Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer, who arrived at Plymouth from 4 the Congo on July 26th, says he considers General Gordon commands perfectly practicable- routes of escape rrom Khartoum, either, by way of Zanzibar on the east, or down the Congo to the west coast: He says the sending of a large English force to extricate General Gordon would be a most perilous undertaking, anc would likely be attended with great loss and expense. e English troops would be unable to stand.the climate. Lord Roseberry unveiled a statue of ) Robert Burns on the Thames Erabank- ' ment on July 21st. A heavy rainstorm prevailed at the time, and delayed Lord Rose berry’s address. Some Scotch songs were sung by those present. The proceedings w«ie tame. Mr Proctor, the English astronomer, has selected St. Joseph’s, Missouri, us his future place of residence. _ . A party of capitalists arc negotiating for the purchase of a large tract of land in Utah, between 100,000 and 200,000 acres, to bo applied to the purpose of founding a self-supporting Irish Catholic colony. By this means it is thought the Mormonists will be gradually “wiped Opium smoking has increased to such V- an extent in New York that the authorities confess their inability to prevent it by law, Parnell, deeming it not prudent to leave Ireland at the present time, the Irish National parly will be represented at the Conference of the Irish National League of America, to be held at Boston on August 13th, by Thomas S. Sexton and John E. Redmond, who go on to * Australia to lecture. Among those who have suffered from the late skrinkage in stock on Wall street, New York, is the well-known capitalist Bussell Sage, who was reported to be worth 15,000,000 dollars on the Ist of May last, and his financial condition was stated at loss than 1,000,000 dollars on July 10th, Serious fears ara entertained that Sago will become insane.