ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1407, 20 October 1885, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

';The s.s. City of Hydr.er arrivod at Auckland at i o'olook on Sunday afternoon. Her passage was uneventful. Among her pafsengers were the Right Rev. Dr Redwood, and the Bishop of Brisbane, The Southern mails were sent on at once. GENERAL SUMMARY. (Dates from Europe 10 Sept. 16 ) London de-pitches of September 25<.h report a faarful oyolone at Pall* Point, Bay of Bengal. The telegraph lines were swept away, vessels foundered, and many lives were lost. The Duke of Edinburgh has had trouble with the boppiokers on his Kentish eatate». Picking finished on the 25th, and the usual price for pickers ie eighteenpence a basket. The Duke offered a shilling, whioh was refused amidst such a row that the Duke became frightened, and quiokly paid the full rates. The Rev. Dr W. Smith has been appointed Catholic Bishop of Edinburgh. Prrliament has been further prorogued till December sth, The Princ9 of Wales founded the new English Ohuroh in Oopenhsgsn on the 17th September, and dedicated it to St. Albans. London despatches report that the whole of the fisheries are a failure, owing to heavy ioe. It is proposed to clear and rebuild the *lums of Windsor, and it ia suggested that the expense be defrayed from the Queen'u privy purse. The Royal town is said to be frightfully filthy. Lord Chief Juatioe Coleridge talks of resigning. Thirty soldiers belonging to a Highland regiment came into collision on September 6th with a do*en artillerymen in a village near Plymouth. The Hootch men were routed and the artillerymen carried the village by storm. Mr John 0. Cross, M.P, for Bolton, will make a tour of the United States to investigate tho industrial ocnidtion there with reference to the present depression in Great Britain. A lunatie was arrested in Buckingham PaUoe on Sept. 7th, while seeking an interview with the Queen. He had an ordinary alast bo'tie whioh he insisted on presenting to Her Majesty, in order that by looking at it she might have a knowledge of all that was happening. On the night of the 10th September two men appronohed the powder magazine at Woolwich &nenflJ, and surprising ttiesentry, beat him brutally. They were about to enter the magszine, but hearing a noise decamped. Mr Gladstone's daughter and young Arnold Morley, son of Mr John Morley, M.P., lato of the Pall Mall Gaeette, are to be married, There ia a deoided coolness, with the pros* peot of an open rupture, between Henley and Pa-nell. The former is waxing rich and important, and has an ambition to load the National party. He has of late taken with a very ill graoe Parnell's rebukes for insubordination, and his complete withdrawal from Irish polities is looked for, The latest novelty in agrarian outrages *is reported from Roscommon. A small farmer at Balinaaloe was evicted unjustly, as he thought, from a small tract of pasture land, and when the owner set about mowing the grass the machines pioked up a crop of pyke wads and were thereby ruined. He now seeks compensation under the Malioious Injuries Act. Boycotting is increasing in Ireland, and is being carried to a greater length than ever. Persons who are obnoxious to their neighbors, because of their honest independent aotione, oannot dispose of their produce, even at a sacrifice, in their market towns, and the entrance of boycotted individuals of the Roman Catholic Ohuroh in County Cork to join in Divine service is made a signal for the congregation to rite on masse and quit the building. Occasionally the priest remonstrates with the people, but sometimes he denounces the boycotted p»rty for showing himself in Ohuroh. [The remainder of the news by th» mail will appear in our next issue.]