ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1504, 11 May 1886, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

The B.s. Mararoa arrived at Auckland at 4.30 on Sunday morning. She left San Francisco at 2 p.ra. on the 17th April. Her actual steaming time was 27 days 22 hours 24 minutes. Among her passengers was William Neill, the temperance orator. She left for Sydney at 5 o'clock the same evening. The southern mails were sent by special train to Onebunga, thence South by the s.s. Rotorua at 11 o’clock.

GENERAL SUMMARY. (Dates from Europe to April 16.) Silty-seven cases of cholera were reported from Brindisi on April 16tb. Edward Banian has accepted Beach’s challenge for the championship. The race if arranged will probably take place in September. Reports of the mnrder of Bishop Harrington by the African Ring Mombasa have been confirmed by official despatches. Charles Brown, an Irishman, who threw the petition in the Queen’s carriage, ban been released. The roll was thought to be dynamite at first, but it turned out to be only a prayer for the release of a prisoner. Franz Liszt, the eminent pianist, narrowly escaped being murdered by a Socialist mob at Liege. It is feared the shock will ba fatal to bim. Prince Bismark celebrated his 71at birthday on April Ist. He received visits from all the notables, and the usual number of congratulatory, letters, and telegrams. M. M. Rochefort and Dnquesny have been arrested at Dreasville and taken in fetters to prison. Mr Geo. Agustus Sala on his return journey to Ireland from Australia, was attacked by fever in India. Despatches of April 11th say he is quite seriously broken in health and spirits. The last words the Right Hon. W. E. Forster, late Chief Secretary for Ireland, uttered before hia death were—“No home tole.” Sir H. Halford, well known from his connection with rifle shooting, is dying of Bright’s disease of the kidneys. Reports from all quarters of Ireland on March 30th sent to Mr Gladstone indicate the country to be in feverish excitement, and that the failure of the Home Rule policy will lead to outbursts of violence. Eight thousand ladies of Cork County have sent a petition to the Queen against home rule. Three thousand of those who signed are Catholics. The Orangemen of Armagh made a public demonstration on April 10th against Mr Gladstone’s proposals. They adopted a resolution denouncing the Premier and declaring their allegiance to the Empire. The Prince of Wales goes to Dublin in May to attend the Races. He will be accompanied by Lord Randolph Churchill. The Prince has expressed his approval of the Irish policy of the Premier. The Irish National League of America sent Mr Parnell a draft of £12,000 on April Bth. Dr Reichfield, German explorer of Africa, claims to have acquired a portion of territory, equal in size to half Germany surrounding Lake Tanganyika. It is doubtful, however, if Prince Bismark will confirm the annexation,

In New York on March 30th was published a Berlin special telegram to the Cologne Gazette which gives the list of steamship service that will receive subsidies from Germany. Among rhese is a line to promote trade with the Australian colonies, and which is to ply between the Fatherland and the antipodes. The first of .these steamers will leave Bremerbaven on June 31st. The fares are fixed at a pi ice 30 per cent, below the present rates. Cambridge won the University boat race on the Thames on April 3rd. The •ky was cloudy, weather mild, and the wind strong atthestart, andduriogtherace the water was lumpy. The betting was in favor of Cambridge. The river banks were crowded with people, thousands making holiday. At no time during the race was it possible for either crews to move more than half a length ahead of the other.

AMERICAN NEWS.

The King and Council of the Sandwich Islands have issued an order that after April no Chinese can be admitted into the Hawaiian kingdom. Dr Gosmando, formerly of Melbourne, has been convicted at Portland, Oregon, of criminal' assault on a patient. He confessed himself an impostor, and that be knew nothing of medical science. The Ways and Means Committee of Congress has unanimously adopted a report ip favor of the abrogation of the Hawaiian treaty. The great railway strike in the Northwest is over, and the men are slowly returning their work under the protection of the military. ' The United States Government had quietly made preparations for promptly sending a body of troops to the scene of disturbance in tbe West, The s.s. Zealandia and s.s. Australia have bean placed under the Hawaiian flag. The former will ply between Honolulu and San Francisco, and the latter will probably he put on the Australian route whan thoroughly overhauled. Captain Waddell, of the Confederate cruiser Shenandoah, and late of the Austral-American service, is dead. Geroniuco, chief of the Apaches, who had been committing awful outrages, surrendered to General Brooks, unconditionally. He escaped next day and

with his band resumed Ins bloody work. The people of Arizona are terrorised. The Chaplain of the United States Congress in opening the session delivered a prayer which created a great sensation. It was as follows : —“ Give ear, 0 God of Jacob, and awaken us to see the danger which threatens ths civilised world—a revolution more tremendous than any history tells of, in which scenes sf terror may be enacted in every capital of Europe and America.” The prayer went on to declare that the time has come for selfish grinding monoply to cease, and that most men should learn that their great fortunes are not given to spend on their own pleasure. John Bigelow, who was the representative of the New York Chamber of Commerce with Be Lessep’s party, to inspect the Panama canal, is not favorably impressed at the condition of things. He says it is all conjecture as to when it will be finished. There is terrible destitution in Newfoundland. A movement is on foot in Novia Scotia to secede from the Canadian Doramion, on the ground of unfair discrimination against the colony.

THE HOME RULE PROPOSALS. Despatches from London of April Bth say the excitement was intense throughout the Kingdom, as it was the day selected‘by the British Premier to divulge his scheme for the solution of the Irish ‘problem. Seats were taken in the House •s early as 5.30 a.m.; the Irish members being the first in. The crush outside the House of Perliament j?aa intense. It was considered an ill omen that the enormous clock to which “Big Ben” rings time in the Victoria tower, stopped during the afternoon. Mr Gladstone entered the House at 4.39, p.ra. He arrived in an open carriage and his appearance was greeted with deafening cheers. He was bareheaded and bowed right and left to the crowd. His wife rode beside him. Within the building his reception, though less demonstrative, was equally enthusiastic with that outside. Among the Liberals and Parnellites the wildest enthusiasm prevailed ; and it is safe to say no such scones were ever witnessed before in the Commons. When the applause after the delivery of Mr Gladstone's speech had subsided, Mr George Otto Trevelyan, who recently resigned the position of Secretary for Scotland, after eulogising Mr Gladstone's oration, gave the reason of his resignation, which was, in brief, that he could never consent to such a scheme as Mr Gladstone proposed, which he regarded neither for the benefit or the welfare of the country. Mr Parnell, who was received with tremendous cheering by the Irish members, replied to Mr Trevelyan, and defended hi? own past utterances, and actions which had been impugned by him. In reference to the measures tor Ireland, he thanked Mr Gladstone for it, and believed it would not only prove a beneficial measure from an Irish point of view, but would also prove of equal benefit to England. The Bill, nevertheless, contained blots which the Irish representatives would do their best to remedy. One of these was to be found in its financial proposals.

Mr Gladstone left the House ten minutes after concluding hia speech. He suffered from re-action, and was obliged to retire to rest immediately after his dinner.