ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1419, 17 November 1885, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

The Australia arrived at: Auckland from Ssn Francisco on Saturday. Passengers —Mr and Mrs Hay, Mr and Mrs Way and daughter, Mr Anderson, Rev, Braxmoore, Mrs Hesketh, Misses Otton and Murray (2), Sir William and Lady Fox. The following is a general summary of the intelligence brought by her : San Francisco, Oct. 24. There is great excitement in the New York petroleum market, owing to a struggle between the Wall street and Standard Oil Companies. The Chinese cigar makers in San Francisco have struct against the employment of white labor in the same establishment as themselves. The Irish agitators in New York have subscribed fifty thousand dollars to Mr Parnell's parliamentary hind. The Hudson river at New York is swarming with salmon as the result of experiments made by the first Commietitur*

Mr H. Shaw, bettor known as Josh Billings, died in California on the 14th inst. Doralier, the Republican candidate, was elected for Ohio on October 13th, by a majority of at least 15,000. Troubles io Canada, consisting of assaults and riots, are frequent. The Ottawa fisheries have proved a failure, and famine extends along the whole coast. Several ships laden with provisions have been despatched to relieve the unfortunates. The resolution passed at the Montreal Board of Health, calling upon the Central Board to close the churches on account of the smallpox epidemic, raised tremendous opposition amongst the Catholic clergy, who absolutely refused to comply with any order of the kind. The Isthmus ceased to be duty free on Oct. 9th. Dr Theodore Bauisus, for three years United fctites Consul at Samoa, has returned to Washington. He brings a letter from King Malietoa protesting against Germany or any other nation attempting to annex his territory. Of 60 convicts who made a desperate break for liberty at Husk, Texas, on October 4th, 35 escaped. The rest were shot by the Guards, The hostile Apaches have committed great outrages at Arizona, and the troops appear powerless to oppose them. Westwood, New Jersey, was destroyed by a tornado on October 20th. The printing establishment of Broken and 00., San Francisco, was destroyed by fire on October Bth. The loss is estimated at 700,000 dollars. Prince Jerome Napoleon has started on a voyage round the world. Two hundred respectable citizens in StradbAly, Queen’s County, were arrested for boycotting. They were convicted but elected to go to prison rather than furnish bail. The magistrate hesitated to commit them and finally gave them a fortnight to consider the matter. Mr Parnell talks confidentially of carrying every Parliamentary seat in Ireland in the interest of the Nationalists except one division in Dublin and ten in Ulster. Mr Parnell, speaking at an open air meeting after the Wicklow Convention, said Home Rule would stop all the disloyal proceedings and outrages and thirst for disunion. The Irish, he claimed, would then become like their countrymen in the British colonies, loyal citizens and props to the constitution. The Glasgow Presbytery voted on October 12th in favor of disestablishment and disendowmeut. The English Farmers’ Alliance has adopted a resolution stating that to avert the ruin of farmers, landowners must forthwith reduce rents, and that Government must formulate a measure which will prevent the raising of rents on improvements of tenants. The Telegraph said Mr Parnell had almost a regular Court at Wicklow, and admits the frantic adulations of his followers when he successfully inaugurated the first of the series of conventions. “ What we witnessed at Wicklow,” it continues, “is a conspiracy to paralyse the Parliament of Great Britain in order that an Irish House of Commons may tax British products and maintain a host of poiice and volunteers in armed menace of British peace and security.” The Times says that “in fact the Government of Ireland has passed on and is rapidly passing out of the hands of Ministers.” Late despatches say that the Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury, has got the Tory party in good trim for the campaign, while Mr Gladstone has not succeeded iu uniting the Liberals to the extent expected. He proposed to work through the campaign with a committee of twelve gentlemen three to be elected from each of the Liberal Clubs in London, in order that all shades of liberal opinion might bo represented. This operated well for a lime, but such a number of provincial candidates absolutely refused to abide by the decision of the Committee, that the trouble became seriou#, and a second Committee, composed of Lord Hartington, Joseph Chamberlain, Hon. Samuel Morlay, and Sir Henry Panes, was appointed to adjust the difficulty. Notwithstanding this, numbers of candidates refused to accept the Committee’s decision, ond persist in their candidature. Rosa Winans, the millionaire of Baltimore, who owns a large area of land in Scotland, and whose persecution of his peasantry has made him hated, is in trouble. He undertook to prevent excise officers from searching his extensive deer forests for illicit stills. This defiance of the Crown officials led the party of excisemen to assemble and patrol the forests in every direction. Mrs Weldon, who recently completed six months’ imprisonment for libelling Rivier, Manager of the Covent Garden Theatre, has been again committed for trial on a similar charge made by ihe same complainant. She accused him of stealing documents belonging to her. The English Government has presented a note to the Spanish Government, demanding reparation for an insult to the British Consul at Havannab. A fire broke out in Aldergate on tin morning of October Bth, in the Charter House buildings, within a stone throw of the celebrated Caithosion retreat for pensioners. The Charter House was almost totally destroyed, the damage being £300,000. The Hon. Mr Goschien, Liberal Member of Parliament for Ripon, speaking at Edinburgh on October 7th, said he was opposed to free education. He would not vote for the disestablishment of the Church of Scotland unless the proposition was a Gorernment measure. If Liberals were returned to power they would be justified in appealing ta the Tories to help to fight Mr Parnell, A new crusade is threatened in London against the employment of female models in artists’ studios. Cornelius Walford, the distinguished English author and publisher, is dead. Ruskin’s iiiness is said to be mania, and at last reports he was completely out of his mind. Sir Charles Dilke and Mrs Pottison were married at Chelsea on October 30th, Colonel Armstrong, her brother, gave the bride away, and Mr Joseph Chamberlain was groomsman. The Duke of Newcastle, according to a London despatch of Oct 3rd, has joined the Roman Catholic Church. His conversion took place some time ago, it is said, but the avowal was postponed until the young Duke had attained his majority. The conversion has caused much annoyance in,,Established Jhurch circles. bandit named Gique has besii shot in Santiago do Cuba.

Charles Phillips Robin, a well known French physician and scientist and a member of the French Senate, is dead. M. Roustan, formerly French Minister at Washington, has been appointed Governor of Tunis. IRELAND. The Nationalists of Cavan, Ireland, have selected Joseph Biggar and Thomas O’Hanlon, as their Parliamentary candidates. The “difficult” districts of Ireland engaged the attention of the conference of Parnellite leaders on the 20th, at Dublin. Thos. Sexton is named as the candidate for Londonderry ; W. H. Redmond, for Fermaugh ; Jno. Francis Small, for Down; Timothy Healey, for the Northern Division of Monaghan ; Wm. O’Brien and Timothy Harrington, for Tyrone ; and Arthur O’Connor, for the Northern Division of Antrim. The Nationalists have decided to contest every Irish Parliamentary seat except twelve. The Dungarvian branch of the Irish National League have notified masters of fox hounds that hunting in Ireland roust be stopped. Cattlemen have refused to ship in the Cork Steamship Company, because the manager permitted the carrying of boycotted goods. The landlords on learning this sent a deputation to the Company and informed its officials that they would start an opposition line if the Company refused to carry boycotted cattle. A Landlord’s Defence Union against boycotting has been formed at Cork, and boycotted persons have poured in demands for assistance. The drovers are shipping cattle to Bristol via Waterford, At a meeting of cattlemen in Cork on Oct. 14tb, Mr O’Connor read a telegram from the New York dealers in hides, saying they would not purchase goods carried out by the Cork packet. This attempt to boycott the steamship people failed, and this fact has spurred the Loyalists to increased energy in the fight against the Nationalists, and they intend to contest every Parliamentary seat in Ireland at the coming elections. A powerful Committee, composed of Lords Baudon and Castletown, and other prominent gentlemen, has been formed in London io assist people of every class in Ireland who have been boycotted, and to advance funds to persons and corporations willing to oppose boycotting. At the same time, a syndicate in Liverpool has offered to start a fleet of steam packets in opposition to the Cork Steam Packet Company, to carry cattle from Cork to England for the Nationalists. At a recent funeral in Machoon, County of Cork, the boycotted relatives of the deceased joined the procession with the family, whereupon the priests and mourners withdrew. The obsequies were finally performed by three Catholic priests, who were unattended. At the Armagh Court of Sessions, on the 19th, John Howard Parnell, brother of Charles S. Parnell, sued several of his tenants for non-payment of rents for seven years. The Magistrate said that defendants had evidently obeyed C. S. Parnell’s injunctions instead of plaintiff’s. Judgment for amount claimed was rendered in each case. Mr Rayne, the Parnellite candidate for Waterford, is to be prosecuted for a seditious speech at Clonmell. A body of moonlighters raided a farm from which the tenant was evicted in County Kerry, on October 10th. They slit the caretaker’s ears and cropped his hair. The Roman Catholic Bishops of Ireland have passedjresolutions condemning the acts of violence and intimidation, and warning their respective flocks that by indulging in such acts they are certain to bring the anger of God upon the evil-doers and their families, besides disgrace upon their people in the eyes of the civilised world. Several prominent Nationalists in Ireland and America have written to James Stephens, now in exile at Brussels, urging him to contest a seat in the British Parliament, Stephens is undecided, Mr Parnell talks confidently of carrying every Parliamentary seat in Ireland in the interest of the Nationalists except one division in Dublin and ten in Ulster, where the Orange Tories are too strong for him. These seats the Nationalists will make no struggle tor. Messrs Parnell and Jno, DeLaey will offer themselves for election for the City of Cork. Olancy, and the editor of Nation, and Sir Henry Grattan Esraonde have been nominated for Dublin city. Cardinal Manning has written to the Dublin Review showing how the Catholics ought to vote in the coming election. He defends Parnell and his constituents, even though he is opposing Catholicism, praise# Liberalism, and urges Catholics to place the religion question foremost. Cardinal Newman also made an address (on the Bth in London) i n which he said the Protestant Church of England was the great bulwark of that country against atheism. He wished all success to those defending it. These utterances are considered the most extraordinary of the campaign. The London Post, the Government organ, writing on the Irish situation, says h in fly : “ The independence of Ireland, as shadowed foith by Parnell, will never bo granted by the British Parliament, and it would be a cruel kindness for any Government in this country to abstain from saying so in most unequivocal terms.” Mr O’Connor, speaking in Cork on October Bth, said many candidates were coming forward in the interests of Parnell, expecting they would be paid out of the fund being rained in America for the Irish members of Parliament, but they would be disappointed. Only those called on special occasions, and men of transcendent ability would be compensated. Messrs Richard Lalor and Aithur o,Connor are named as the Pmnelhte candidates for Queen’s County. Daniel O’Connell’s nephew residing at Kildypart has been inlerviewed in regard to the attitude of the neighbors and peasantry towards Mrs O’Cnnnell, “I have seventy tenants,” said Mrs O’Connell “ and six of them hold leases. The rents are absurdly moderate, and many of them are in arrears, Maurice Walsh, Pres dent of the League, is a yearly tsnant on my land, and now owes two and a-half years’ rent. The tenants demand a reduction of 25 per cent. I am willing to reduce the rents 15 per cent., and no morp. My duty ss guardian of my only boyjJohn prevents my giving more even if D were so inclined, and I have many retainers, many ojf whom are aged and 1 totally unable to provide for ihomaolm

Formerly T bought everything at local sliops, but l. w tyranny of the League now compels me to go or send to Limerick, 20 miles away, for everything I need. Local tradesmen refuse to sell even to myself, my servants, or my dependants. Even the priests have joined the tyrants. It is untrue that the police are protecting me. I protect myself. Some of my laborers have been coerced into deserting, and others remain and are now saving my crop. They have not been molested.” A Dublin despatch of the sih says : —“Notice was posted the day before at Mrs O’Connell’s gate, ordering the members of the League to shun her at mass, aed not sit in the same galley with her. MrJ O’Connell attended mass, and was the sole occupant of the gallery. Mrs O’Connell is a lady of intellectual attainments, and she attends to the education of her son. She is also an authoress, having written the popular memoir of her father. She is known far and wide for her humanity and generosity. She faces her danger straight, and drives and walks in Kildypart and vicinity without guards and apparently without fear. The agitation is expanding, but is peace fully conducted in comparison with the previousmovementsin that neighborhood.” The New York Herald’s special of the sth said : —“ The point is reached where maids and women of boycotted families are beaten and insulted,” A despatch on October Bth said ‘‘ Mrs O’Connell nell bad beaten her enemies, and emerged from the boycotting contest victoriously. Several of the tenanfs bowed down in the face of the sheriff’s sales and heavy costs aod paid up on the terms offered. Walsh, the leader of the position, is among the number. There will be no more boycotting of resolute Mrs O’Connell.”