ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1546, 24 August 1886, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

The s.s. Alameda arrived at Auckland from San Francisco at 8 a.m. on Sunday, She left on August Ist, and (he passage was uneventful, She was delayed by a gale off the coast and dirty weather. Among the cargo for Now Zealand are 400 cases of salmon and 300 cases of dried fruits. The Hinemoa sailed at II o’clock with the Southern mails. GENERAL SUMMARY. (European dates to July 30tb, I88G.) Circulars are being distributed in Wales domapding Home Rule, free education, the abolition of landlordism ppd the dig; establishment of the Church. A cablegram of July 20th from London says a sensation in the new Cabinet i> the

appointment of Mr Henry Mat'hews as Home Secretary. It was made at the request oi the Queen, who was dimmed by hiß vindication in the Crawford tin! of the sanctities »f the home. He in entirely an experiment, and is without Government experience,a Roman Catholic, and an anti-coereionist. An Alpine climber named Pauline Von Soulikar, was dashed to pieces on July 29th. j . . Mr John Ruskin is reported to be in■ane. i The notorious Cora Pear! has died at Paris, poor and in distress. Of lateyeais,. owing to au excessive corpulence, she had grown almost out of recognition. An attempt on the part of the authorities at Amsterdam to prohibit the popular game called "Relkillii-g" on Sunday?. led to a conflict with the polico on Ju ■, 28th. The rioters erected barricade*, and the police fired into t*e crowd, killing twenty persons and woundup eighty. Twenty-eight arrests were made. »A convention between England «iv : China wn' pjcrned at Pekin. In it ar<- i the term' ! v which China agrees to H» occupation <-f Barmah by the English, a= <1 promises to encourage trade between China and Burmah. A commission i> being formed to delimitate the Burinec frontier. Despatches of the 25th say L<>r Salisbury was cordially received by ih«Queen ac Osborne House. On his reninfrom Osborne House Lord Salisbury was cheered by immense crowds all ad.i■■? the route to London. He declined i speak anywhere. The parents of Eliza Armstrong, wl.«. figured so conspicuously in tbo Pall M;ol Gazettee exposure, have arranged '.• bring a suit for £9OOO damages aguiuft Mr Stead, the editor, its publishers, and • General Booth, of the Salvation Army, The claim will be for libel on the girl's parents and for assaulting the child. Wassit Bey, who arrived at Cairo from the Soudan on July 29th, reported that Khartoum bad been seized by the rebels In his opinion a force marching to establish the Khedive's authority would now meet with welcome rather than resistance. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher lus been adversley criticised by the Loudon pipers. His lectures were but pooi-iy attended; the-admission lee being too high is said to be the cause in p»»rr. Mr Davitt has written to Mr Ford, editor of the New York Irish World, taking him to task for admiring the policy of paltry obstruction on the part of the Home Rnle members. He says the time policy for the Home Rulers is to advocate Ihe reforms required by the worker of Great Britain while advocating justice to Ireland. The Paris Fiearo of July 26th publishes a sensational article giving detai's of a meditated.coup d'etat by General B-->i-langer. AMERICAN ITEMS. A cable ia proposed to connect Japan, New Zealand and Australia with Canada. Commissioner Flemming left for England on July 11th to confer with the Imperial Government on the subject., Maxwell, the murderer, was sentenced to be hanged on August27th. ; St. John's (Newfo.indland) Colonist of July 28th, contradicts the sensational •reports destitution in that colony, and ■•ays there have been no deaths from starvation. • , Despatches from Ottawa state that the Government has no official knowledge of the reported woaful condition of things in Labrador, and believe the reports to be without foundation. ' William John Hurst, a prominent citizen of; Auckland, and a member of the colonial Parliament, fell into the hands of Press interviewers after his, arrival in San Francisco. He gave rather a sadcoloured view of affairs in New Zealand ; said the colony was suffering from depression ; that the taxes were excessive, and.growing heavier every year, but hoped that the news would be better when the Opposition ousted the present Ministry. He attributed the depression to the fact that for very many years the people of the colony have been living op one another and on the country, IRISH TROUBLES. Two thousand persons attended an Orange soiree given at Dublin in the Rotunda on July 12th. The hall was guarded by police. Thousands of "Nationalists BU>rounded the building, and many placards were posted with the inscription "We will pay you Orange dogs in Irish coin the one long debt which Ireland owes to all braggarts of the Uoyne." At Armagh Major Saunders presided over a gathering of 2000 enthusiastic ..Orangemen. Afterwards there was a : procession, the route of which was lined rby 600 police and soldiers. Business waß "suspended. v An Orange Lodge in Coalistin, a small <"'village in County Tyrone, four miles from Dungannon, was attacked on the night of the .14th by a number of meu belonging to the National League. The attacking party were armed with rifles, and kept up a fire for two hours on the Lodge, the police being powerless to interfere. Armed Moonlighters came the same night and attacked and took poasassioa of two houses in Freemount and Kenturk, County of Cork, which Ibey entered, and severely beat the inmates. There was a tremendous riot in Belfast on the night of the 13th between. Catholics and Protestants, during which four taverns and a number of dwelling houses were • Backed., The police and soldiers charged the rioters several times, and at last supneeded in clearing the streets. Among -'those injured was a sergeant. His injuries are said to be mortal. A constable ..'■' and several civilians were severely hurt. Fighting was done between the police and Orangemen, the latter assailing the 'officers because they prevented the -Orangemen from attacking the Catholics. A policeman named Garton is among those who died from injuries. Two civilians (McDntfccn npd Mclllroy) were shot dead and fifteen persons wete Bent to the hospital. The police garrison was largely increased. The wreckage caused by the rioting resembled the effeets of a tornado. Men, women and children, who were struck down, bruised and bleeding, ' still uttered cries of defiance and threats of revenge, The Protestants were beaten by. sheer numbers, and riaany of their fibuses were afterwards raided. Twentythree prisoners while on their vray to the police station sang " Rule Britannia" and curied Parwll tad Sexton.

On the morning of the 14th the Head Constable of Waterford forced private soldiers to attempt to arrest two Orangemen, father and boo. During the struggle that eoHiied both Orangemen were killed. Waterford'a streets were patrolled by police and cavalry. The Nationalist meeting at Stewartstown, on the same evening, was attacked by a mob and the Riot Act was read. Several police were injured. Government have declined to institute an inquiry into the conduct of the police on the occasion of the recent election in Londonderry. The Viceroy's order summoning the inhabitants of Londonderry to deliver up tiieir arms and ammunition before July 25th, has been discharged. United Ireland of July 29th says." The rrucke with landlords is shattered, and that the Irish people have not the least ii'ention to estrange the English masses. It would be impossible to produce a more eloquent example of the policy of ramming English rule down Irish throat < than is afforded by the appointmeot of as Irish Viceroy, the Marquis of Londondnrry, inheriting as he does the blood and oh me of the cut throat Castlereagh." The Freeman's Journal says the appointmeot is ominous of coercion, and Irishmen .nust be prepared for this. The loyalist Press of Ireland is delighted over the appointment of Londonderry as Lord Lieutenant. EXTRADITION TREATY. The extradition treaty between the United States and Great Britain was signed at London on June 25th. It was sent to the United States Senate on July B'h, with a message from the President advising its passage. To (be list of dimes subject to extradition, the new treaty adds manslaughter, burglary, embezzlement or larceny involving 500 dollars or upwards, and finally the main clause is the destruction of property which endangers the life of-others, which in either eountry is made a crime of which dynamiters and socialists are guilty. The treaty specially exempts from extradition persons who have been convicted of political offences. Mr Howard Vincent has written to the American Press quoting from his reports in order to prove the urgent necessity of au extradition treaty with the United States directed entirely against Fenians and dynamiters. He concludes by saying that meanwhile the civilised world is watching the United Stales Senate.