ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1395, 22 September 1885, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

The s.s, Zealandia arrived at Auckland on Sunday, having left San Francisco on the 29ch ult. The cargo for Auckland consisted of 216 boxes apples and 685 of salmon. The following is a summary of the intelligence brought by her, the European dates being to August 20th The yacht Sunbeam, with Mr Gladstone on board, reached Bergen, Norway, on the 19th. The Premier was greatly benefited by the trip. He made a pedestrian excursion of 18 miles without being fatigued, and returned to England on the 27th. He was courteously received everywhere by the Norwegians. Several thousand unemployed working men assembled at Hackney on the 27th, and adopted a resolution repuesting the Government to assist them to emigrate. A British man-of-war left Aden on the 29th August to occupy Ambu, situated on Tagoorato Bay, East Africa. The object is to anticipate the occupation of the place by France, Farquharson, the defaulting manager of the Munster Bank, was tracked to Spain by letters written to friends in Dublin.

Jno. Ruskin is slowly dying from cerebral disease accompanied by insomnia. On the evening of August 26th, an infuriated mob invaded a hall in the East End, London, where several Mormon missionaries were preaching, and made a complete wreck of the place. The elders fled for their lives. Several were captured and terribly maltreated, and were left on the pavement for dead. The cause of the attack was stories set afloat that these missionaries have been systematically kidnapping young women by

shipping them to Utah to be “sealed” to rich Mormons, and other tales that had been told about the indignities inflicted upon girls thus entrapped.

Mrs Patterson, widow of the Rev. Mark Patterson, and fiancee of Sir Charles Dilke, now in India, sent him a second telegram on August 14th declaring she would return to England instantly and stand by his side during his trial as a proof that she disbelieved the scandalous crime with which he was charged. Sir Charles replied advising the lady to stay where she was.

By a collision on the Metropolitan District Underground Railway at Earls Court, one engineer and a stoker were killed. Five other persons were badly injured and cannot recover.

Queen Victoria and Court left for Balmoral on August 4th. The Highland clans gave a grand reception to Princess Beatrice and Prince Henry of Battenbnrg.

A hostile crowd assembled at Hull depot on the 25th to meet General Booth of the Salvation Army. He was hooted and several attempts were made to reach his carriage. The police had great difficulty in preventing the mob from injuring him. He was struck several times with missiles. The reason for the attack was the belief that he had induced a girl named Armstrong to make false evidence. The yacht Callafish was run into and sunk by a steamer off Scotland on August 23rd. All on board, including the owner, Crossman, and wife, were lost excepting two.

The .New York Tribune’s London cablegrams of August 17th says-The passage of the Criminal Law Amendment Act remains as the last pretext for the continued publication of the filthy matter by which the Pall Mall Gazette has earned infamous notoriety. The publication of this sort of literature continues and the agitation continues. Public meetings were called in Hyde Park by posters on the walls, and circulars, the text in both instances being indecent. The Archbishop of Canterbury has published a disavowal of his alleged approval of the so-called revelations. The AttorneyGeneralis investigating an alleged case of abduction of girls by somebody connected with this business, but the Gazette daily fills its columns with accounts of what It calls “New Crusades.” It, says the despatch, has apparently lost all hope of regaining a respectable position.

The Gazette “revelations” have been dramatised at Vienna. The play is in five acts, and called “ Protect Our Daughters.”

The first arrest under the provisions of the Criminal Law Amendment Act was made in London on Saturday 15th. The party attempted to conceal his identity, and it was not till the 19th he was found to be a man employed as “ assistant ” at 43, Salter Lane, and who ha., been “shadowed ” by the detectives of Scotland Yard for fully eighteen months as a dynamiter. His name is John Colberth, of Surrey, and tne cause of hi* arrest is the abduclion of a young girl under 13 years.

On the 22nd a tremendous procession (called by the Press a “ morality parade ”) went to Hyde Park. The number was estimated at 150,000, The affair was under the auspices of Good Templars, Bands of Hope, Salvation Army, various Trade and Labor Societies, Ladies’ National Societies, and Young Men’s Christian Associations. One of the waggons in the procession carried 24 little girls dressed in white holding banners bearing inscriptions “Shall our innocents be slain.” Another cart contained an enlarged facsimile of the Queen’s letter to Mrs General Booth approving of the Army’s work in rescuing young girls. With the exception of the waggon with the girls dressed in while, all the waggons were filled with women in the deepest mourning. Such mottoes as “ Save our daughters ” was seen on every hand. The entire proceedings were orderly, the weather fine, and the affair a decided success.

The Bishop of St. David’s declares the action of the Pall Mall Gazette in making the recent revelations constitutes perhaps the gravest effence against public decency and morality ever committed in a nominally Christian country. China is now engaged in raising in Europe a loan of 1,000,000, to be expended in external improvements,

The loss of the German corvette Augusta during a cyclone in the Red Sea was confirmed on August 21st. The crew, consisting of 230 officers and sailors, were all lost. The value of (he vessel was 1,750,000 dollars. Lord Coleridge was married to Miss E. Crawford, at the bride’s house in Lon ion, on August 16th. The marriage was a strictly private one, the room where it took place being only 9 feet square.

The manufacturing establishment of S. Maw and Sons, and J. Maw, Son and Thompson, makers of surgical instruments, London, was burned do ad on the 28th. The loss was £50,000, and five hundred employees were thrown out of work.

A fire broke out in Hoxton, a poor and crowded quarter of London, on August 23rd, in which a lodging house was burned, and with it a man and his two children.

Despatches of 16th says Osman Digna had forsaken his followers and fled to Kordofan, the result being that many of of (he Sheiks are going to Suakim and

off-ring their submission to the British commander.

The result of the fight between the United States postal authorities and the Pacific mail people is not yet clear. At present the contract between tiie Pacific Mail Steamship Co. and the Government of New Zealand does not expire till November, 1885, and until that time the C'-moniy cannot refuse to take colonial mails.

Despa'ehes from the Postmaster-General (o the Postmaster at Kan Francisco says ; —Mails for Australia may bo sent by any steamer leaving that port for the colonies, A |.r vious order that they he sent by way of London, Marseilles (France) and the Suez 0 nai is admitted to he the result of a misunderstanding. A civil war has broken out at Khartoum. The treasury was sacked and the Mahdi’s sucessnrs and other officials were killed.

Reports from Spain of August 14th say cholera was increasing fearfully there. The popular agitation against sanitary interference has been renewed. In Seville the local au'hurilus all resigned, shops were closed, ami no business done. In Granada whole streets were infected with the scourge, and entire families had b*nn carried away, It is estimated 6500

persons have fled from Spain, and up to August 20th nearly that number bad perished by the scourge. The epidemic had decreased slightly on the 16th. Ihe existence of cholera within the Spanish lines was officially declared at Gibraltar on the 15th, and the disease spread rapidly. The Governor of Gibraltar refused, however, to shut oil: communication with Spain, and panic reigned on the “ Rock.” At Marseilles the disease was very fatal. It died out at Gibraltar on the 22nd, but in the former city it has assumed a form that defied altogether the medical men. The patients died suddenly, and two hours after death the body became black. The situation is alarming. Fifty persons died in Toulon during twenty-four hours ending August 24th and 26th. On the 25th the disease broke out on the*squadrou anchored near Toulon. There was a sudden increase of mortality at Marseilles on the 27th, the theatres were closed, and the shops and hotels were also closed. People were very despondent. Deaths from cholera are reported in all the surrounding villages.

IRISH AFFAIRS,

Michael Davitt made a speech at Longford on August 16th, in which he pledged himself to support Parnellite candidates at general elections. He made speeches almost daily in the Irish midland counties, and his language was as bitter and aggressive as ever, commending the Parnellites in Parliament and urging his old panacea for driving the landlords out of Ireland by making their property valueless. Irish plans are gradually taking shape. McCarthy will contest the doubtful exchange division of Liverpool, and bexton will probably contest the Scotland Yard division. A similar arrangement has been made in London, where J. P. O’Connor will get a seat by aiding the Tory (Ritchie) to carry St. George’s. Parnell will contrive to sit for the discontented city of Cork and Healey for Monaghan, unless it should be deemed wise to assail constituencies further north. The Nationalist demonstration which was to have been held at Lough, in the county of Tyrone, on August 18th was prevented by the authorities, but without trouble or bloodshed. Lord and Lady Carnarvon started on a tour through Ireland on August 17th. Their first stop waa st Galway, where a large crowd had assembled to meet the Viceroy, The people received the visitors respectfully, but without any cheering. The Lord Lieutenant received addresses from the Laborer’s Society, the Harbor Commission, the Town Council, and the citizens of Galway. In replying he said Government desired to do its utmost for the prosperity of Ireland. He was gratified to see the efforts of the citizens of Galway to develope the resources of their port, which he said was two hours nearer America than any other important town in Ireland. He hoped to see in his own lifetime the ancient prosperity of Galway revived. He regretted the uniyersal depression in labor, which, he said, was owing to foreign competition, and he urged the laborers to study the interests of their employers. He hoped the Irish fisheries and other industries would be developed, and in conclusion expressed his’conviction that times would mend. His remarks were received with cheers. The Dublin Municipal Council presented Dr Walsh, the successor of the late Cardinal Maccabe to the Archbishopric of Dublin, with an address of welcome on August 17th. At & banquet to Parnell given in Dublin on August 24th, thirty-eight of bis partisans were present. Parnell said there was only one tiling on the Iris!' programme—that was to restore the Irish Parliament. When that Parliament assembled in Dublin it would develope the Healy clauses of the Land iAct, make tenants owners of their holdings, and secure to landowners a share in the land. He sketched the tasks of the Dublin Parliament, which consisted of a single Chamber, and be hop ad the coming party representation would be strong enough to restore the Independence of Ireland. A secret meeting was held at Dublin on the 24th. when it was resolved that all Home Rule candidates for Parliament must give themselves up absolutely to Parnell’s guidance. In his speech Parnell said he Irish cause was assured whether the Whigs or Tories won the election. The Earl of Devon made an offer of ten per cent reductions in the rents of his Limerick tenants, which was accepted. Magisirate Badkin and ten police went to a place near Bullyraggit, County Kerry, on the 27th August, to evict tenants. When they arrived the chapel bell tolled, and 2000 persons assembled and attacked the officers, preventing them from accomplishing the proposed evictions. The police were compelled to charge the mob with bayonets, and a fierce encounter ensued. Many of both sides were stoned and stabbed. Agrarian outrages are increasing in County Kerry. Every day cases of incendiarism and hamstringing cattle are reported. John Pollock, magistrate, and owner of large land estates, publicly thrashed Captain Barry, of the Royal Horse Artillery, and John Albert Blakenby, Deputy-Lieu-tenant of the County of Galway, in the streets of Dublin on the 27th, for interfering in his domestic matters. Mr Pol lock recently left her husband. Pollock, after thrashing his men, offered to “go out ” with them. He is about to institute proceedings for a divorce.

AMERICAN NEWS. Charleston, South Carolina, was struck by a cyclone on the morning of August 28th, and one-fourth of the houses of the city were unroofed or damaged. The damage is said to be a million dollars. Rumors are afloat that Beecher is to be retired frotn the Plymouth church, on account of his attitude during the Presidential election and because he has lost all bis money. The shipping interests of New York are in a deplorable state, and hundreds of nnchartered craft are moored at the docks, Freights are expected to get even lower, Lee and Hanlan had a three mile race at Jamaica Bay, Long Island, on August 22nd. He has arranged a three miles sculling race with Ross. The trip of the Cunarder Etruria, which arrived at New Ifork on August 22nd, is the fastest recorded, viz., G days and 2 Louis. The Mormons uro attempting to colonise iu Alfama.

A volcano has burst forth near Bishop’s Creek, Nevada.

General Grant’s funeral was a very large demonstration. The hearse was drawn by 24 black iiorses, and a colored man was at the bridle of each. The scene as the procession passed up Broadway was a remarkable one, no sound being heard from the vast crowds that had lined the thoroughfare. The heat was so intense many ladies fainted, and some of the citizens and soldiery were also overcome and taken away in the ambulance. Nevertheless the vast crowds were unmoved, and stood with bare heads while the funeral car passed, in San Francisco the occasion was observed as a State holiday. The funeral procession in the city numbered 10,000. Many people objected to the mockery of a funeral. The streets were draped in mourning. General Grant made no will, having nothing to dispose of. The widow depends upon Congressional appropriation and the sale of her husband’s book on the Civil War, from which a rich return is expected. The British barque Baddiogton, from Columbia river bound to Liverpool, was disabled in heavy gales at the Equator. Four men were swept overboard. The vessel was then beaded for San Francisco for repairs, but owing to the dense fogs was wrecked above Point Keys Light. The captain and seventeen hands were drowned, only one man being rescued. Owing to the smallpox epidemic at Montreal the theatres have been closed. Disinfectants are being used for watering the streets and mass is being celebrated at the Catholic Churches. The Peruvian Government forces were defeated by the rebels at Combra on August 18th after a five hours battle. The Peruvian commander shot himself. Tiis killed and wounded was heavy on both sides.

The Americans staked 50,000 dollars on the Puritan, which won the international yacht race, Walter Lennox Maxwell, tbe alleged murderer of Arthur Preller, arrived in San Francisco on 9th July, on board the Zealandia, from Auckland. He was immediately transferred to the now city prison, where he was an object of interest to hundreds of persons who obtained admission from the prison authorities. He was particularly annoyed by reporters, and protested against being pestered with them, aud stated that whilst in prison in Auckland newspaper men were not allowed to see him. Here, ho added, “I have been interviewed from the time of arrival till two o’clock in the morning.” “ Oh ! that’s nothing,” replied a gentleman of the quill, “ Wait till the St. Louis reporters get hold of you ; there will not be enough left of you to place on trial.” Maxwell complained bitterly of his prison surroundings in Auckland, The chief of police and the detectives are rather disappointed in the bird they have caught. Maxwell has neither the appearance nor the demeanor of the murderer be is represented to be. Indeed his deportment is that of a man who feels his position perfectly secure, and that his mind has not been extensively pricked by remorse is evident, for he has gained 12 pounds in weight since his arrival. The reporters have “spotted” him as a fraud regarding his claim to being a Frenchman, He can neither speak Parisian French nor any provincial dialect. He was tested in both. Captain Dees refuses to admit tbe possibility of having made a mistake in this case, but Gran ley, the chief of police, after taking the prisoner’s portrait, feels some doubt on the matter. Dees is chief of the detectives, and cannot afford to admit himself in error. The circumstantial evidence it is true has an ugly appearance, but when the time arrives and the St. Louis officials think they have Maxwell cornered, he may perhaps adduce satisfactory evidence that Preller is not dead. So far the St, Louis officials have been unable to find clear evidence on the point, that tho body found in the Southern Hotel is that of Preller. it is possible. Maxwell, Preller, and his father had been playing a bold game, with the intention of securing an insurance on Preller’s life amounting to £IOO,OOO Soon after the death of that individual his father tried to collect the insurance money, asserting that it would enable him to run down and prosecute the murderer, but he failed to secure the cash, insurance officials declaring there was no satisfactory proof of Preller’s death. Maxwell left for St. Louis on August Itch, accompanied by the officers who brought him from New Zealand. He opposed nothing given above, which was embodied in a despatch published by the Philadelphia Press of August 10th.