ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1371, 28 July 1885, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

Tito City of Sydney arrived at Auckland, yesterday, at 1.30 a.m. from San Francisco. Her passage was uneventful. She passed the Zealandia on the morning of the 23rd. AMERICAN SUMMARY. The Pacific mail steamship City of Tokio, en route between San Francisco and Japan, was totally wrecked on June 28th on a reef near Yokohama. The City of Sydney will probably he transferred to the China and Japan trade. Manlan states that he again intends to visit Australia to compete with Beach. It is rumored that Roding Daggett, Minister to Hawaii, is on a secret mission to Washington with a proposal to the United States Government to purchase the Sandwich Islands, A syndicate of English capitalists is being formed to operate some of the fast steamship lines, with a terminus at Fort Pond Bay, Long Island, to save a day and a halt’s Atlantic voyage. Adolph Speed let's has been acquitted on a charge of attempted assassination of De Young. Moon, the special correspondent of the Australian Sportsman, states that he has been authorised by Deebles, the backer of Beach, to match the Sydney sculler against any American oarsman for from 5,000 to 10,000 dollars. Advices from Washington state that the President is opposed to the acquisition of tenilory in Cuba, Mexico, or elsewhere. Reliable special despatches fron London dated June 18th, say that the interview between the Queen and Lord Salisbury became known at the Carlton Club during the evening, from the conversation of members who had attended the conference. From this source it was learned that the Queen displayed a knowledge and grasp ot the situation and a strength of determination such as she has rarely shown in recent years. She banished aside Lord Salisbury's objection to taking office because of the Liberal majority in the Douse, by saying that site would see to it that the Liberals gave his administration a reasonable degree of support. She said she had already been in negotiations with the retiring Premier, and that the latter had agreed to refrain from obstructive tactics, on condition that pending legislation should be completed as it was begun, all fresh legislation to be initiated by the now Government in accordance with its own party principles without deferring to the late Administration, and it had been promised to her iuflm ue and prerogative to prevent the Opp> ition from causing embarrassment in reg. d to foreign relations. The Queen was 'ery positive in her demands that the a[ eement in process of negotiation between Lord Granvibe and M. De Giers regarding the Afghan Frontier question should be completed in order that peace may be preserved. On the 24th Mr Gladstone read to the House correspondence between himself and Lord Salisbury relating to the deadlock which was conducted through the medium of the Queen. He said in addition that after consulting bis colleagues be informed the Queen that he conceived it would be contrary to his public duty to compromise the liberty of the House of Commons by giving promises not to oppose the reopening of the business of the session before possessing all the facts bearing on such business. He concluded by assuring the Queen (hat facilities foi expediting supply might be reasonably provided and there would be no attempt to withdraw ways and means from the public service, but he could give no specific pledge in regard to undefined questions. At a meeting of Conservatives on June 25, Lord Salisbury, referring to the political situation said he felt sure that all would agree that a timorous policy would be unwise if not fatal. He reckoned on

the united support of the party. Sir Stafford Nortbcote concurred. Lord Hill, M.P. for Downe, Ireland, and controller, said in a speech on July Ist, that the Coercion Act was unnecessary. The present Land Act was a failure, but lie would support the Land Purchase Act which the Liberal Government had proposed. Lord John Manners, speaking at Leicester, said Lord Salisbury’s Government would try and bring order out of the chaos in Egypt, and would endeavor to terminate the tension in Afghanistan affairs which endangers India. London despatches, dated July 3, say that the French Government have withdrawn their demand for the date on which the British troops shall evacuate Egypt, and offers to leave it to tire discretion of the British Government, if Lord Salisbury will admit the principle of evacuation. M. Waddington the French Ambassador at, London has also made conciliatory overtures regarding the question of control of the &m z Canal. This change of attitude on the part of the French Government, is attributed to the entente cor diale between Lord Salisbury amt , Prince Bismarck.

On Juno 27 Mu Balfour made an address which attracted profound attention, from the fact that he expressed not a leas pronounced wish than Mr Chamberlain to see Ireland governed hy equal laws with England, and to see all exceptional legislation against the Irish people for ever abolished. Despatches from London, dated June 22, says, there is a growing fear in wellinformed circles that trouble is looming in Afghanistan, Russia is continually picking up little occurences on the border of the disputed territory and making them matter of complaint, seemingly for enlarging her grievances and keeping them before the eyes of Europe. The Russian officials have now come forward with a strong protest against fortifying Herat and massing of troops by the Ameer, asserting that this display of military vigor by Afghanistan ut the present moment is uncalled for, and has the appearance of a direct menace to towards Russia, A mild warning is also conveyed to the Ameer that he and his officers should exercise a little judgment in regard to their military manoeuvres, and should not try the temper of the 1 Russian troops in the disputed territory too severely as did the Afghan commander at Penjdeh recently. This series of bickering on the part of Russia is to obtain an excuse for quarrelling with the Afghans,

A clerk in the Consul’s office at Kusko was arrested by the Russians on the Russo-Peisian frontier lately and locked up in prison at Askabad. His mission was the hearing of a friendly note from the Consul to the Russian commander at Sarakhs, A despatch from Teheran, received at London on June 30, states that 10,000 Persians are at work in the construction of the Trans-Caspian railway. Warlike preparations are still being continued by the Russians, and rumors are in circulation in bazaars, in Teheran, that war will probably occur after this railway is completed to Mery. The Russians are bridging the river Mnrghab, on the confines of Afghanistan, Eight hundred Russians are at Old Sarakhs. The Persians are fortifying Persian Sarakhs, and building a barracks there for the troops. A foundry has been started at Plerat for casting purposes. A St. Petersburg despatch telegraph office has been opened at Merv. The Geographical Society is equipping out another African expedition, to be under the direction of Mr Lost. It is intended to start in August next from Zanzilar, and proceed thence in Lindy. Lord Garmoyle has settled down at his father’s residence, Boumemoult, and resumed his correspondence with Miss Fortescue. It is expected they will be married Within the year. By an explosion on June 20th in a pit in North Staffordshire, ten persons were killed. York and Daleslou (Yorkshire) were shaken by an earthquake on the forenoon of June 13th. The shock was rather sevire at the place last named. The Oldham Common millowners have decided to go on short time and make a reduction of ten per cent, on wages. The operatives agreed to the former but struck on the latter proposition. The Queen has 'offered a Dukedom to Earl Spencer. The Canadian Argonaut four-oared crew was defeated by the Cambridge crew easily.

London, July 2. The Pall Mall Gazette of the 13th prints a hitherto unpublished proclamation of the Ameer of Afghanistan to his subjects issued in 1882. Mr Spurgeon has created great excitement by an article in the Monthly Review of Juno 27, in which he narrates in detail the circumstances in connection with the death of Justice Williams and the disclosures brought in Jeffrie’s case. He makes these examples from high official life as the basis of full flavored denunciation of English morality. Sir Richard Ashelton Cross, the new Home Secretary, has dismissed the 50 Irish Detectives imported by Sir W. Harcourt for the protection of himself and colleagues. The Duchess of Connaught was greatly incensed over the obituary notices of some of the British papers, who did not refer to her father, Prince Frederick Charles of Germany, in very complimentary terms.

THE CHOLERA. IN SPAIN. Reports from Spain say that cholera is raging furiously there in the four provincial districts. It is moving along the Mediterranean border. 10,000 have left Madrid. The Government Cholera Commission and also many native and foreign doctors declare that the cholera is Asiatic and of a violent and rapid character, attacking all classes of society. The inhabitants of the populous quarters in Madrid are strenuously opposed to all measures taken by the Municipal authorities to disinfect dwellings, and the enforcement of all sanitary regulations were abandoned. In the face of these facts the existence of cholera in Madrid was denied, the merchants being apprehensive of injury to business. Three or four Cholera Commissioners have been appointed and they have recommended inoculation with virus as harmless. The Ministry resigned on June 19tb, in consequence of the decision of King Alfonso to visit the cholera-infected districts. All the shops and cafes were closed as a prevention against disease. The determination of the King to visit the plague-stricken provinces and the action of the Ministry led to a demonstration on June 21 against the latter. The crowd becoming riotous the military wore called out and fired upon the people, who in turn stoned the soldiers. The King, before consulting with bis Ministers, decided to abandon his projected tour, and the Ministry were reinstated. While the sanitary authorities at Madrid were carrying out their precautionary measures against the cholera, a mob frequently gathered and attacked them. They were composed of the lower classes, who are opposed to all practical preventive measures and rely on prayers to keep iff the deadly scourge. Frequent religious processions passed along the streets, and solemn services wore held in Mercia for the purpose of imploring Divine assistance. The dead waggons paraded the city day and night, and many choleia victims were buried cofflnless. Despatches dated June 28th say the laboring people were dropping dead of hunge- a' Mercia, and that the vem.lity and stupidity of the health officers are beyond belief. They seemed to regard the cholera as a hie piling job. Merchants who arrived in Lond n on Jims 29ih from Mercia say if. is absolutely impossible to describe the national panic, loss of nerve and reason, and the Teazv of the local quarantine officers. r, 'he plague finds 99 in 1 JO of hs vi -ti os in shim of cities or in poor villages where hygiene is an unknown word.