ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1559, 21 September 1886, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

The Mariposa left San Francisco on the afternoon of August 28th, Honolulu early on September 4th, Samoa on the 12th, and arrived at Auckland early on Saturday morning.

GENERAL SUMMARY. (Dates from Europe to Aug. 27th). The French Ambassador was recalled from the Vatican on Aug. 27th which is t >ken to precede the disestablishment of the Church in France.

The hop farmers of England, in a meeting at Tunbridge, on Aug. 17th, petitioned for the appointment of a Minister »f Agriculture and greater protection for the intirest they represent. Germany seized a large portion of South Patagonia. Trouble with Chili and the trgentine Republic is looked for. A fire in London on August 20th destroyed 40,000 barrels of petroleum. Prices have increased in consequence. A maniac named Shorti attempted to kill the Pope on the balcony of St. Peter’s >»n Aug. 19th. Central Russia has suffered great loss bom tornadoes and water-spouts. A large area of crops was destroyed. The embankment of the Irrawaddy river, Mandalay, broke down on August 24: li, and flooded the entire district. Fity thousand persons were rendered homeless. The Chinese Government has decided to oppose Russia’s occupation of the port of Lazareff.

A great tire occurred at San Francisco on August 21st. The loss was nearly 800,000 dollars. A heavy storm arose in the Gulf of Mexico on August 20th. Galveston and other Texas ports were greatly damaged, Mr Tilden, a leading democratic statesman, died at New York on Aug. 14th. A report has reached Washington that China is preparing to enforce its claim for indemnity against the United States. The tithe rent riots in North Wales have assumed a serious aspect. A despatch of the 26th says that the Rector of the parish of Llaranomon, the Rev. Evan Evans, refused to make the reduction of 25 per cent asked for, and that the farmers told him to get his money the best way he could. A distraint was attempted, but the officers were driven off by hundreds of colliers from the neighboring mines, who marched up to assist the farmers.

On Aug. 29th Lord Salisbury conducted an experiment of cutting oats with electric machinery. Forty-four steamers and thirty-three sailing vessels are reported to be rotting at Glasgow docks. This is attributed to low freights and generally depressed business. The British Government have decided to appoint a commission to enquire into the expenditure of the principal departments of the State, and Mr Chamberlain will be chosen chairman. A statement is also made that a small royal commission on the currency question will be appointed, with Mr Goschen as chairman. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has fallen ill and cancelled his English lecturing tour. He has gone to a water cure establishment at Mouffat, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. His youngest brother, the Rev, James C. Beecher, of Oosacob, committed suicide on August 25th, at Elmira, New York. He was also at a water cure establishment on account of failing health. The various generals of the English army districts have ordered volunteers to practice picket duty, and ba in readiness to take part in manoeuvres. Each volunteer is to be supplied with 20 ball cartridges. It is understood that this action is taken under the expectancy of a renewal of the dynamite outrages in the counties of England. The London Socialist League have passed resolutions strongly condemnatory of the authorities of Illinois for sentencing the Chicago anarchists to death. The foundering of the British steamer Aberdeen, from Hankow for London, with a large cargo of tea, before reported, was denied on London ’Change [oq Aug. Ist. Thirty-six miners were killed by an explosion in Wood and Co.’s colliery, at Lei«h, on Aug. 13th. A foreign lady who lost £12,000 at the Monte Carlo gambling tables committed suicide in a village near Grenoble on August 22ud, This is the sixty-seventh case of self-murder since the opening of the rooms. An imbecile widow named Lnboir, residing at Selles, St. Denis, France, was burned to death at the stake by her sons on August 26th. While she was burning they sprinkled holy water over her, and when arrested said they had destroyed her for religious motives. The woman was sixty years old, and had the name of being a sorceress.

IRISH AFFAIRS. At Dungannon on August 16th, bands of Nationalists paraded the Protestant quarter of the town denouncing the residents there. A riot ended in several persons being injured. The poliee prevented desperate fighting by forcing their way between the Catholics and Protestants. According to the Irish Times (Loyalist), Mr Parnell is about to embrace Roman Catholicism. Archbishop Oroke, in an address at Milltown Malby, on August 21st, while advising moderation, said the people should exhibit sufficient firmness lo show the that if war was made upon them they would resist. He cautioned them to avoid crime, hut exhorted them to continue firm until the rights of Ireland were restored.

The evictions at Gondedave, a district of Donegal, were concluded on August 22nd. The total amount of the rents concerned does not exceed £SO yearly. 150 policemen and bailiffs, and 60 errs and boats were engaged for eleven days in the proceedings. The cost was £IOO per day. The people were steeped fo poverty, and the scene is described as pitiful. Ao immense meeting at Oarrick-on-Seqr on August 23rd, in aic| of the Irish Parliamentary £und| adopted resolutions

declaring th-t the people would continue the Hmm Rule struggle for years, if nicess.ry. The wildest enthusiasm was exhibited, the. audience standing with uncovered heads, and singing “ God Save Ireland.” Large sums of money have be'-n subsciihed.

The Secret >ry of the Irish-American Parliamentary Fund telegraphed on August 24th £3OOO to Harrington of Dublin, to assist the people recently evicted at Gondedave and other places.

General Sir Redvers Buller started on his Irish mission ou Aug. 2oth, going first to Dublin. His exact functions and powers are not known. A section of the Opposition in Parliament believes his mission to be the first step towards placing Ireland under martial law.

At the Lord Mayor’s bauquet held at the Mansion House on the evening of Aug. lllh, Lord Salisbury, whe was heartily cheered on rising, congratulated those present on the result of the elections, and expressed his pleasure at Lord Rosebery’s consistent continuance of the foreign policy that raised England in the estimation of the nations, whose people were yearly showing a desire for peace, which would be maintained if the rulers were guided by their peoples’ wills. He regretted that there still remained subjects for painful meditation. “Every day’s news,” lie said, "reminds me that Ireland is not inhabited by a concordant and homogenous people. It is too early to enter into details, but it is the duty of every Government to devole its whole energies to freeing the loyal people of Ireland from the constraint exercised upon them, whether in the form of riot, or in the dangerous and insidious form of outrage and intimidation. Whilst admitting the groat difficulty and responsibility of the task, which is so great that previous Governments equally anxious with ourselves only succeeded temporarily and to an imperfect extent, we possess an advantage over our predecessors which we hope to turn to good use. We have a mandate from the people deciding finally, and, in my opinion, irrevocably, the question which has wrecked the peace of Irelamd, (Cheers.) The question of independent government in Ireland after deep discussion and advocacy by the most powerful statesmen this country has ever seen, has been rejected emphatically and unequivocally by an enormous majority of the people of this country. (Loud Cheers.) It is not unworthy to remark that most of the voices in favor of separation, have been obiained by (he personal influence of one great statesman, and on other considtrations apart Irons the merits of this question. I believe that our opponents will eventually admit that this is England’s final decision, armed with which it is our duty to restore in Ireland that social order, the loss ot which is its only just cause of discontent. lam convinced that in Sa'di a policy we shall find "the strongest support in that enormous population of which you are the true representatives, (Cheers.)”

RIOTS IN BELFAST. Rioting commenced again in Belfast on July 21st, caused by a band of music accompanying a crowd on their way to meet a Sunday school excursion. The crowd hooted, a knot of Catholics assembled on Garrick Hill, and they replied with atones. Soon a >arge mob of Orangemen assembled and the fight became general. A large tavern, owned by a Catholic named McKenna, was wrecked, and also a number ot houses believed to be inhabited by Catholics. The police were ordered to fire buckshot, which they did promptly, killing an errand boy named Knox, and seriously wounding many rioters. The military were also called out. Fighting continued rhoro or less severe till August 6th, when affairs assumed a very grave aspect. The city was placarded with the Mayor’s proclamation forbidding assemblages in the streets, which whs prelty much unheeded. In response to urgent telegrams sent from Belfast to Dublin on the Blh, four bundred soldiers were summoned by bugle in the streets, and were despatched in hot haste to the scene of the riots, followed by a body of dragoons and infantry next morning. The rioting on the mornof the Bth instant was severe and sanguinary. It broke out in the Old Lodge Road, where the police fired on the mob, and in the evening was renewed with greater violence in the same vicinity as well as on Qrosvemr and Springfield roads. Many persons with gunshot wounds were sent to the hospital. Eleven deaths were reported and the number of wounded was put down at 200. The Inspector-General was surrounded by a mob on Lodge street, and w as obliged to run for his life. On the 9th hostilities were renewed by s fierce encounter between the soldiers and the mob, in which a number of the latter were wounded. A soldier at close quarters fired at a boy and shattered his hand, for which he was arrested. 1200 troops arrived on the 9:h, but all attempts to stop the rioting were unsuccessful, and the violence .of the mob rather increased. Thirty rioters were wounded during the morning by the merciless fire kept up by the police. The hospitals are taxed to their utmost to accommodate the great number of wounded persons in need of assistance. A painful feature was the number of children wounded, while bands of youths and and girls indulged in every kind of rowdyism. The shops and business places in the city remained open as usual, but the authorities ordered all the taverns to be closed till the evening of the 10th, at the same time notifying wholesale spirit and beer dealers that a penalty of £lO would be inflicted for selling drink for consumption in the vicinity of their premises. The heaviest fighting on Sunday night occurred at Springfield. There the battle was waged in regular guerilla fashion. The Catholics held the field, protected by some trees, while the Protestants occupied an embrasure opposite, in which thej laid. The contestants aimed with rema.ikablo coolness, picking each other off as if they were so many targets. They were not interfered with by the police or soldiers, who were fully occupied in the city. It is said that in this affair sixty rioters were shot, many fatally. Throughout the day and evening dense sullen crowds gathered in the streets to renew the fighting it w as evident, but fear of the troops prevented a fresh outbreak. The Queen’s Island men rejected the Magistrate’s appeal to return to their homes in small bodies ipstead of compact prowds. They carried a good supply of missiles for use in the event of being attacked. The Magistrate dealt severely With the rioters who were tried, Qn the

10th, about five o'clock xo the afternoon, Uo men ' ere shot by disorderly persons in different parts of the city. One was killed in tire Catholic cemetery while attending the funeral of a victim of the riots. The city, owing to the wreck and ruin of houses, presented a deplorable aspect. Its appearance was similar to that of Paris after the Commune. The Daily News attributes the sole responsibility of these scenes of bloodshed to Lord Randolph Churchill. The bitterness of fealing was roost intense, and the presence of the police tended to increase rather than diminish the disorder. The Protestants declare that the Catholics were the aggressors, by wrecking Protestant houses, while the Catholics are equally certain that the Protestants were the aggressors. Of one thing there is no doubt, never did two mobs of different religions display a more bloodthirsty desire to kill or maim each other. During the fighting on Sunday, (he Bth, and next day, whenever the powder ran short, viragoes on both sides, with flat irons and other implements, ground large grained blasting powder into a suitable size for small arms, while boys of tender age melted lead into bullets and slugs. While the rioters were fighting the youths and women stood behind them busily loading the spare guns in order to save time. The fusillade lasted two days, when the ammunition gave ou', and a tac ! t truce ensued, both sides reinoving-the dead aud wounded to their rooms. Both Catholics >md Protestants studiously concealed their losses. ■ On Monday the Protestants leoeived 26 rifles, and much ammunition from Ballymacarett sympathisers, while the Ballynahirch Nationalists sent the Catholics a supply of ammunition and many revolvers, of the type called “sweetheart.” This plentifulness of weapons cause alarm for the . future, and there is a general demand for a house to house search for arms. The city was reported quiet on the 11th, and the wounded gradually improving. A numer-ously-signed petition, was handed to the Mayor on that day, demanding the appointment of a Royal Commission to invest'gateand report upon the causes pf thedis orders which have occurred in Belfast si"C" June last. The Cabinet has decided to appoint such a commission, *nd the Irish newspapers have expressed groat satisfaction at this. The police have not dared to venture into Shankhill Road District for fear of mobs. Rioting was resumed on the 15th fyom midnight, proceeding till 4 o’clock a.m. .A rifle fight was held on Shankhill and Gld Falls road. One person was killed and many wounded. The town seethed with excitement, and a recurrence of sectarian strife was carried on in the bloodiest fashion. Expert riflemen joined in conducting the shooting from the roofs of the houses, tops of the chimney stacks, and street corners. Immense crowds of partisans, who carefully kept out of range, assisted by suppljing ammunition, and removing the wounded. Sides were equally divided, and the moon shone throughout the contest. Whenever the military appeared the combatants shifted their ground. Finally at 5 p.m., after the Riot Act had been twice read, the troops charged upon the crowds and cleared the streets temporarily. The mob repeatedly charged upon the police and the order instructing the latter to use buckshot instead of bullets was cancelled. An old man and two women, inmates of a house in Conway Street from which many shots had been fired, were arrested and taken to prison escorted by a howling mob. The Orangemen admitted that in this fight one of their men named McFarlane was killed, and two others named South and Juhoston were mortally wounded, also that there were a number of minor causalties on their side. They claim that they killed and wounded many Catholics, hut the latter deny this. Many houses were riddled with bullets. Scores of prisoners have been brought to Kilmainham gaol, Dublin, to wait their trial. The local Belfast prisons are full. While the men from Queen’s Island were marching home they were met and tarred and feathered. The military in charging the mob on the 15th, bayonetred Magistrate Burke, who was in plaia clothes and assisting the wounded rioters. Burke was taken to the hospital. Despatches of the 18'h say the workmen had been warned off Queen’s Island, Prior to the disorders hundreds Were at- work there. In many of the large establishments Catholic employees have been forced to quit. Nine policemen have been indicted for murder by unnecessarily firing upon the citizens of B.:lfast. They applied to the Court of Queen’s Bench for permission to give bail, and the request was granted. On the evening of the 23rd, the police made an attempt to disperse a mob in the Orange district of Shankhill. The mob, growing infmiated, threw volley after volley of stones at the police and wounded them, finishing up by wrecking the barracks, which were defended by 20 men.