ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1538, 11 January 1887, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Auckland, Jan. 8. Capt. Van Otteren ' thorpe. She left San Francisco on Dec. ' 18th, and arrived at "Auckland at 7.21 1 o'clock this eveoiog. GENERAL BUMMAIty. (Dates from Europe to Dec, 17th). The London Chamber of Commerce hat emphatically endorsed the PostmasterGeneral's American Mail policy. The Dublin Nation says in connection with the proposal to send a British envoy to the Vatican that Lord Iddesleigh asks for the right to object to undesirable appointments to Catholic vacancies in Great Britain, and that the Pope answered to the effect that persons who in any way violated the law would notbeon couraged anywhere, as spreading the gospel of peace was the object of the church. Lord Salisbury on the 16th December reduced the rents on his Hadfield estate 20 per cent. His example is being gene* rally followed by If rge landowners. The British .agent at Aden has been asked by his Government to explain the motive he had in removing the French flag at Dongarit", the place being on territory o\er which both England and France claim protection. An explanation is to be made at the request of the French Government. : Five Welsh s farmers, leaders of the anti-tithe movement, have been distrained on failing for to pay tithes. Mr Gladstone write to the Welsh Liberal Association that he regards their designs with interest, but at his age he must leave tbe ugitatiun to younger men. Prince Alexander of Bulgaria arrived in London on the Bth, and the Queen decorated him with the Order of the Bath. . .A terrific gale, accompanied by lightning and thunder, prevailed on the night of December 7th and morning of the Bth in the southern counties of England and in the channel, where a number of vessels were |wrecked. ; A 6 .Brighton much damage was done, and throughout the kingdom rain and hail fell. The storm caused widespread disaster in Scotland. The Queea forbade the admission into the household at Windsor Castle, or within the castle precincts, of newspapers con* tabling sensational reports of the Campbell divorce case. Mr Gladstone's disapproval of the antirent campaign in Ireland was expressed in a private letter to Mr Cameron, member for Glasgow. The Scotch Aid and other Liberal Associations are not satisfied, and have asked Mr Gladstone for a full and public declaration on the subject. The English Government have decided to supply the army with the Austrian Fischer repeating rifles, Fischer has gone to London to superintend the final trial of this rifle at Enfield. . American correspondents in London are gossiping freely concerning tbe private affairs of Royalty. The New York Tribune's letter of 16tb December says Queen Victoria continues to favor Battenburg, and tbe Royal Family feud is becoming more bitter. The Prince of Wales ignores the presence of Prince Alexander at Windsor, and has remonstrated with the Queea for advancing him to the rank of the Military, Cross of the Order of the Bath, a grade to which the Emperor William and the Prince Imperial of Germany belbrig. Reports from the British Consuls in America on American homestead laws are 1 about to be published. They agree io praising the operation of the laws, and favor the application to England, of the principle of exemption of personal property to a limited extent from sale under legal process. Despatches of December 16th foreshadow an early dissolution of the French Chambers. M. Goblet has taken the conduct of affairs into his own hands, and is de facto Foreign Minister. Marlatti completed in Paris the fiftieth day of his fast at six o'clock on the .evening of December 15th. The doctor in attendance gave him a small quantity of specially prepared wine before giving him food. He was in good condition. A despatch from Berlin of December 16th says the public feeling of uneasiness owing to the war scare, though without definite basis, is beginning visibly to effect business and retard enterprise. It is stated that Count von Moltke, at a dinner on the 14th, gave it as bis opinion that there will not be a war while tbe Emperor William live*. Advices from Zanzibar up to December 15th says that the entire African coast between Kipini and Lamoo, including Manda Bay and the Island of Gdlta, has been ceded to Germany. There is complete Accord between France, England, and Germany in regard to the treaty which the Sultan of Zanzibar has concluded with Germany. It is proposed to increase the German army in April next. 'The Czar, says a despatch of December 13th, recently found on his writing table a letter announcing that the Nihilists would wait no longer for him to deliver the people from bondage. He thereupon summoned the members of the Council, and ordered them to prepare a Constitution suitable to the conditions of the Empire. , An official newspaper at St. Petersburg denies that Germany s attitude is hostile towards Russia, and insists that, owing to their mutual and vital interests, the relations between the two countries have become more consolidated. News from ludia states that on the 13th December an engagement took place between the British troop and natives near Pukoka. Two hundred insurgents were killed, Cholera is decreasing in Calcutta. Heavy rains have destroyed the crops in the North-West Provinces of India, and floods caused much loss of life and damage to property. IRISH MATTERS. There was serious rioting io Cork on December sth, and a number of the po|ipe.and citizenß were injured, the latter by' bayonet thrusts. Twenty-three j persons were treated in tho hospital for scalp wounds. j

a Government I.as obtained from »<• offiors of the Grown, Dublin, an opii:Lj to the effect that tenant trustees anc 3 others conspiring to defraud landlords o; e their due rent are liable to indictmen r under common law. ; Archbishop Walsh of Dublin, pubJinhet 9 a letter on December 9th, warning Go vernment that the difficulties in Ireland already appalling, would be immenselj i increased if they persisted in their attempts to convict prisoner; by means oj picked or packed juries, as was done in Sligo. The Catholics of Lurgan formed in I procession on the night of December 7th, I and marched through the streets, to show their joy at the acquittal of some of their number who were trjed on charges of rioting. The Orangemen of the town attacked the parade, and a fierce riot ensued, in which sticks, stones, and revolvers wera used. The fighting lasted for several hours, and was finally quelled in the early morning by the Dragoons, who had to be called out. A score of persons were wounded, and several houses partly wrecked. The Duke of Manchester has made a permanent reduction of 25 per cent in the rental of his estate in Ireland. A despatch from Dublin of December 12th says preparations are already being made in that city to give Michael Davitt and his bride a grand welcome. Davitt married a Miss Yore of Oakland, California, during his recent visit to the Pacific coast. The Protestant Home Rulers of Dublin, I at a meeting on December 12th, resolved in favor of free speech in the open air and fair play to Catholics. Magistrate Clarke in a speech said Lord Randolph Churchill had no faith in the Conservatives, yet had not the courage to leave them, believing it better to "reign in Hell than serve in Heaven." On December 14th Judge Lawson, of Belfast, sentenced four men arrested for wrecking houses'along Shinki'l, in the I riots of June last, to four.months' imprisonment. Each of the prisoners pleaded guilty at the investigation. In John Dillon's casd called before the Dublin Court on December 14th, defendant appeared on bis own behalf. He was charged with agitation in favor of what i'b called the "plan of campaign." In his address Dillon said the Crown was straining the law against him. The Judge declared that the "plan of campaign" was clearly and absolutely illegal. He ordered Dillon to give bonds iri the sum of £2OOO with two sureties of £IOOO each for good behaviour in future within 12 days, or go to, prison for six months. :. Dillon was arrested in Loughrey, County Gal way, on December 16th, and charged with conspiracy to defraud. At the same time and place on a similar charge,O'Brien, editor of United Ireland, Matthews, M.P., and David Sheeney, M.P., were »lso taken into custody. Prisoners had been acting as trustees in conducting A. K. Dillon's "plan of campaign," and had received from dissatisfied tenants the reduced rents refused by landlords and their agents.. At the time of making* the arrests the police took away from Dillon £6O which he had just received in trust from tenants. The Times of December 16th urges Government to a vigorous policy in regard to Ireland. The Government "must show," reads the article, "that they, and not the secret conclave sitting in Dublin or New York, are the Government of Ireland, and in doing so they will be supported by the approval of every true subject of the Crown." At the instigation of the Pope instructions have been prepared by Cardinal Simon to the Irish Bishops, warning them to keep their clergy scrupulously within the limits of duty in regard to the antirent movement.

AMERIOAN SUMMARY. L. E. Meyers, champion runner, is a passenger by the Zealandia to Sydney. A i* stock flurry " has been the feature of the month id Sao Francisco, owing to a reported new discovery on the (Joms.tock. The sudden rise in values caused the failure of over ten bear brokers. Apprehension is felt of an uprising of negroes in the Southern States. They refuse to obey legal processes, and resist the collection of debts to the extent of using firearms on the collectors. Bobbery and murder were rife in South Carolina by colored people calling themselves "The Grand United Order of National Brothers, and Political Society of South Africa." A strike by the employees of the Sutter and Geary Street Cable Roads, on the 10th, for a reduction in working hours and an increase in pay, led to a good deal of disturbance, in which a man named Beinson, ooly an onlooker, was. shot through the head »nd killed. A Joint Cqmmiaion has been appointed , by Canada and the United States for the purpose of settling the boundary ( of Alaska arid British North America.. Tremendous efforts are being, made to stop the prosecution of the bribed ex* aldermen of New York. Embracery is extensively resorted to, and such large sums are paid to jurors that there are many anxious candidates. The story is not published, but is authoritative, that the "boodlers" offered the District Attorney 750,000d01s in stock of the Broadway road to drop the prosecution. A new organisation called " The Patriots League " was formed in Chicago on the 4th December, the purpose of which is to counteract the influence of anarchists, and prevent them from carry* ingout their designs. Henry George, the defeated labor candidate for Mayor, proposes to publish a weekly paper in hew York to be called the Standard. George Hazlett and Miss Saidie Allen of Buffalo, went through the Niagarra rapids and whirlpool on November 28th in a torpedo-shaped barrel used by Hazlett and Pons last summer. They were in the rapids and wLirlpool five minutes, and were taken out of the eddy on the Canadian aide just below the whirlpool thieequarters of in hour later in good coudi* tion. Miss Allen is a respsctable girl 18 years of age. A stay of execution has been granted in the case of W. H. Maxwell, Preller's murderer, until February Ist 1887. The interior of the etatue of Liberty on Beloe's Island, New York, caught fire on the 23rd November. It was only by the hardest work that a bad fire was avoided, and Bartholdi'a great statue saved from ruin. I Q'Dprptan flossa has rotijad from the Executive of the Fenian Brotherhood. Dr Hamilton Williams, of Greenpoint,

- | Brooklyn, succeeds him. Williams is u credited with having carried from Geti many the knives with which Cavendish £ and Burke were cut to pieces in Phoenix t Park, Dublin. John Vv. Young, Mormon leader, a son J of Brigbam, was in New York on - November2stb, with a scheme for selling 1 all the Mormon possessions in Utah, and' r moving to Mexico. Severe earthquakes continue at Summerf ville, OolutnbU, and Charleston. The i shocks jn the latter city are more noisy than usual. No damage, however, is rei ported. , The United Irishmen and Fenian Brc- ■ therhobd have broken the seal of secresy • regarding their proceedings, and have : issued a lone; address to their friends on i the subject of Rosaa, whom they accuse of ; falsehood, treachery, insubordination, and many other crimes against the Order. No ; misfortune h«8 befallen the brotherhood of late years for which tloss. is not responsible. ■ ' The rapid rise and speedy decline in prices on the San Francisco stock markets during'December Ist to 4th led to the , failure Of many brokers and the imi poverishment of many hundreds of their clients. H. George, the defeated labor oandidate for the Mayoralty of New York, and Archbishop Borrigan, of that diocese, are enjaged in an epistolary war on the land question. The Rev, Dr. McGinn, a Roman Catholic clergyman of eminence in New York, has been summoned to Rome, to explain his partisanship with H. vieorge in the labor raform and property, right movement. It is expected he will be disciplined. Oap'ain Sanlley, <>f the barque Wiv. H. Dimond, was, no December 2nd, appointed captain of the b.b. Australia, of the Oceanic line, vies Captain Webber, who intends settling do * n in the colonies. While !>'. R. Cutting i* said to be conteniplutne a filibustering movement in Mexico, news comes tliat Captain Boynton, the aquatic expert, i* riising 1000 ablebodied young men for a similar purpose in dntrah America. He advertises for them as railroad hands. Erickson, who invented the American monitor, has c6mp'et u d and put in practical operation an engine operated,by heat derived from the sun'a rays, it in intended for use chiefly in hot countries. 'Miss lb. Jortell, living with her parents in destitute circumstance at Detroit, Michigan, received worl mi December 13th from a law firm in Norwich, England, that she had fallen heireas to £&0,000 sterling, half of the fortune, left by an , uncle, who recently died in Australia. ~, South Dakota has applied for ad mission into the Union of States. , , ' .