ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1242, 23 September 1884, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL.

The Pacific mail steamer Australia arrived at Auckland at midnight on Saturday. In the passenger list occurs the name of Mr Hayhurst. The following is a summary of the budget of news brought by her : The Duke of Edinburgh, with the Channel fleet, visited Dublin harbor on the 29th. A great stir was caused among the people, and the Duke was well received. Thousands flocked to Kingstown to visit the vessels, and the evenings were made brilliant with balls *nd fireworks and illuminations of the ships. Freeman's Journal remarked that such occurrences indicated how loyal the Irish might be if they were enly accorded their rights. Cumberland, notorious as a thoughtreader, managed to make £2500 in one week recently. An Irish peer named Lord Cahir was lianded over to the London police on the for raising a row in a coffee-room. When before the Court he behaved in an uproarious manner, abusing the Judge, the prosecutor and the police, and threatening them all with his Ytngeance. Finally, however, he was bound over to keep the peace for six months. Advices in London, dated August'27th, from Calcutta, stated that famine in Mysore is inevitable, owing to drought. The authorities are taking no steps to provide relief.

The French are establishing a coal depot at Pondicherry, in India. A thunderstorm almost unexampled in severity swept over the North of England and Scotland on August I9tb. Many buildings in Edinburgh and other cities were partially demolished by lightning. Dundee was enveloped in dense darkness, and for an hour allbusiness wassuspended. Several persons were killed by lightning, among the number Earl Lauderdale, who was overtaken by the storm whilst out

riding. There was a great Reform demonstration at Aberdeen on June 16th. Resolutions in favor of the Franchise Bill, and in condemnation of the action of the House ot Lords in rejecting it were unanimously passed. The shops were generally closed, and the whole city made holiday. Aged men who took part in the Reform demonstration of 1882 marched at the head fof the monster procession. A demonstration at Wakefield, in England, on the 16th, was attended by 100,000 persons. Resolutions condemning the House of Lords were adopted. Henry George Bohn, the London publisher, is dead. The British military authorities will thortly test at Aldershot a new aerial warship, the invention of a German. Captain Renard; of Pans, inventor of a navigable balloon, claims that he has solved the problem of aerial navigation, and can insure a balloon postal system as easily as by railroad, and that he can construct balloons, each capable of carrying 100 soldiers.

Two French officers were arrested at Koblenz (Prussia), on August 17th, while sketching: the fortifications. The -English Government have contracted with a Chicago firm for a supply ot 500,000 pounds of compressed beef for the Gordon relief expedition. Surgeon Woodward, one of the late President Garfield's physicians, committed suicide in Philadelphia.

Now that Hanlan has been defeated in Australia he is no longer called *'the great American oarsman " by the United States Press, but only "the Canadian rower."

A terrible tragedy occnrred in Lewii Count3', Tennessee, on August 10th, where a band of masked men set upon and murdered four Mormon elders while they were conducting a meetin r, besides several others who attempted to defend them.

A grand labor demonstration is announced to take place in New York on September Ist. Various handicraftsmen will give illustrations of their usual occupations during the procession.

The Carey Phiblin statement that th» Crown Solicitor Bolton induced him to commit perjmy in the Maamatrasm* murder cases will not be investigated. Twenty thousand persons took part in a National procession at Monaghan on 15th August. In the evening a banquet was given, at which several notables were entertained. The Orangemen abstained from any counter demonstration. The crops in Ireland arc said to be superb. Ireland is reaping a rich harvest from tourists, who have been frightened from the Continent by the cholera scare. More noblemen and other rich landlords ire spending the autumn on their Irish estates than during many past year*. This materially improves business of all kinds.

In Dublin, on August 12th, the jury were umible to agree to a Terdict in the case of Secretary Cornwall and Captain Kirwin, tried jointly on an indictment of conspiracy. The second trial of this case has been postponed till next term, and the prisoners were released on bail. A despatch from Cairo on the 25th aays soldiers from Berber report 336 Egyptian officers and soldiers in the handa of the rebels, who treat them a« slaves. The rebels pray for the Mahdi instead of the Sultan, and declare that all will enter heaven who are killed or exiled.

The Paris Figaro, of August 18th, comments on the increase of British troops in Egypt from 6,000 to 15,000, and says : "France keeps 50,000 in Algeria and Tunis, who are ready to cross Tripoli and siezo Cairo when so ordered."

The State Department at Washington has received from Mr Mason, United States Consul at Marseilles, under date August 26th, a report upon the situation at that place and Toulon. "Since the abatement of the epidemic," he says, "the finances of Marseilles and Toulon have been strained to the utmost in clearing streets and tenements, caring for the sick, and burying the dead. The presenctt of impending finsinr iul ruin weighs heavily upon the business community, and every ordinary source of charity is seriously curtailud. The tide of returning fugitives has just set in, aQd uo description can picture the wretchedness and destitutisa that exists."

< .. „ _^^_^_> The French commenced hostilities against the Chinese on August 15th by bombarding Foo Chow. A despatch to the London Times on that date says that the French Ironclads entered the river at 2 p.m. The forts opened fire with Krupp guns while the ships were three miles away. After an hour's engagement the French retired. The Chinese firo was good. Before the bombardment they had stripped the arsenal of its portable valuables. Nevertheless, the arms and ammunition destroyed were valued at 140,000,000 francs. The arsenal, which cost 42,000,000 francs, is in ruins. During the bombardment a French officer of hifch rank was killed. One of the attacking ironclads was struck and badly damaged, and had to haul off for repairs. All the Chinese gunboats were destroyed. The French are elated at the display of Chinese pugnacity, because it will produce prolonged hostilities, m which case only the capture of Pekin will effectually end the war.

A Reuter's despatch of August 17th says the French lost seven killed and /fourteen wounded, and the Chinese loss is estimated at lt)00 killed and 3000 wounded. An act of aggression is reported at Cogeda, West Africa, on August 19th, where the British have a treaty with the natives. It is stated that a German man-of-war recently visited the town, and the crew landed, removed the British flag and hoisted that of Germany. The act was committed by Dr Nachtigal, German commissioner, who in the man-of-war Moerve is passing south ..along the West Coast. Territory south of Loango belongs to Hamburg merchants named Woerman, it having, it is said, been ceded to them by native chiefs. A despatch from London, August 25th, say that on July 12th the Germans_took formal possession of the Cameroon river, Upper Guinea, and the adjoining country. This aroused great dissatisfaction amongst English traders, who think England should have taken the river long ago. On July 25th, Healdt,'British Consul, held a meeting of merchants, local kings and chiefs at Old Calibre. As a result of this, the kings and chiefs signed a treaty placing themselves and their dominions under British protection. Advices from Maderia state Dr Nachtigal, special German . Commissioner to the West Coast of Africa, has annexed the coast line south of the Cameroon's river as far as Batavia. He has also hoisted the German flag at Malurba and at Littfo and Great Balanza.