ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1550, 8 February 1887, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

The s.a. Alameda arrived at Auckland at 8 a.m. on Saturday, having left San Francisco at 4 p.m. on Jan. 16tb, Eol- ■ lowing will be found a summary of the intelligence brought by her, GENERAL SUMMARY. . A meeting to organise the London 1 Liberal Radical Union was a great success, the malcontents being overwhelmed. A surprising feature of the evening was an outburst of hisses and hooting when it was attempted to sing political songs to the tune of “ God Save the Queen.” Mr Gladstone is reported to be in a very low state of health, and soffering ■ from cold complicated by diarrhoea. V A number of shops were wrecked at , Norwich during the riot by the unemployed. A working men’s strike of 40,060 in Northumberland is contemplated owing to disputes about wages. A terrible snowstorm prevailed throughout the Midland Counties of England on January Bth and 9lh, The highways and railways were impassable, and in many places the mails were blocked, Some loss of life occurred. Government have decided to purchase 40,000 additional horses, and 500,000 Manchester repeating rifles, to 'os ready by March Ist. . A London telegram of January 9tb says there is a slight scare in England, arising from the mobilisation of two British army corps, and oflicers on furlough belonging to regiments not on orders lor foreign service are stated to have been warned to hold ihemselvas in readiness to report for duty, indicating that preparations are advancing for the formation of a third iimy corps. It has further transpired tlliut the War Office is pushing forward arrangements pointing to the army and navy reserves and auxiliary forces being called out. The activity of

the Admiralty is still more ominous. In Liberal circles it is believed that these preparations really mean war, but the authorities explain them as part of aia arrangement for celebrating the Queen’s Jubilee. Navy pensioners were ordered to notify Government of the ships they would prefer to serve upon or porta they

would prfer to be employed at, in view of being called into possible active service. The West End of London had another labor scare on January 7th. Crowds of unemployed working men assembled in front of tbe offices of the Local Government Board, and demanded relief. Mr Ritchie, President of the Board, received a deputation from the crowd outside, but said he could do nothing. When the crowd were apprised of th's they hooted the Government, and m robed to Trafalgar Square, where an indignation meeting was held and a resolution adopted protesting against the apathv of the Government, The Maiqnis of has instituted an action for uiyorce against her husband. The Marquis has not lived

with his wife for twelve years. Shortly Jtor they began to live apart the Marquis admitted another woman to his house who became a regular inmate of the establishment. His connection with this woman is made the basis of the suit. Neither the woman nor the Marquis deny the charge of adultery which the Marchioness makes against her husband. The case will be tried in Edinburgh dating January, because the Scotch law grants the wife a divorce for adultery alone, [a cablegram a day or two ago stated that the divorce had been granted.] A despatch from London, dated Jan. 22nd, says the telegraphic breakdown, which lasted from the preceding Sunday, had been far more complete than the Postoffice authorities were willing to acknowledge, but something like the real t nth was slowly admitted. The storm of Sunday night cut off London from the outer world as completely as an invading army could have done it. Out of 500 systems of wire only six worked. Communication with the Continent was carried on by post, and messages for America went by train to the Atlantic terminus. The streets of London, after a whole week’s struggle with eight inches of soow, were barely passable at the date of the despatch. King Manga of Le Qr+nda (South Africa) recently caused 100 negro converts to Christianity to be burnt alive. IRELAND. Moonlighters attacked and maltreated the Clerk of the County Sessions Court, Cork. The Clerk’s injuries were serious. As an outcome of the prohibition of the Nationalist meetings, announced to be held at Roslea on January 10th, on the occasion of the threatened wholesale eviction at that place, there was a collision between a crowd of 4000 persons, who were waiting to receive Mr Dillon, and a force of police anddr.fted village peasants, the latter of whom were armed with sticks. The police used their batons freely, and succeeded in dispersing the crowd. Mr Dillon and the clergy, who were present, strongly protested against the action of the police, and persuaded the people to go home. The evictions were postponed. Mr John Dillon has sued Inspectors O’Brien and Davis to recover £2OOO damages for malicious prosecution and assault, and £IOOO damages for seizure and retention of moneys and documents in connection with the arrest of himself and others at Loughrea for receiving tenants’ rents. Detailed accounts have been received of the evictions at Glenberg, County Kerry, on the estate of the Right Hon, Rowland, on January 11th. The time chosen for the ejectment was in the midst of a pitiless tempest of wind, snow, and rain, and after the unfortunate tenants were driven out the bailiff destroyed their cottages by fire so they could not return to hiem for shelter. A leading English journalist, recently returned from a tour through Ireland, states that over wide areas in the west and south, he found the population in a state of incredible privation. Thousands of men, women and children, in the remoter districts, were destitute of money, food and clothing, and were sunk in deepest misery, and were dying of starvation. The authorities are unable to cope with such widespread suffering, and arc without money or supplies for the famishing people. Fifty-six men were arrested last August, at the same time as Father Fohey was taken into custody, for resisting thecollecHnn ppnf« and ocintinriM lit. thn Clan-

tion or rents ana evictions at me \jiauricurde estate, Galway. They were sentenced to terms of imprisonment of from 12 to 18 months. The Skinners’ Company in London offered Irish estates in Londonderry to tenants at a price in the aggregate of eighteen years rental. In each case it is proposed to settle with tenants for arrears of rent at 30 per cent reduction. Mr O’Connor, presiding at a Horae Rule meeting at Bradford advocated fairness in carrying out the “ Plan of Campaign ” —«and advised the appointment of a judge to act as a medium between landlord and tenant. FRANCE. In an epidemic of typhoid fever raging at Claremont, Tanand, 1800 out of a population of 40,000 were attacked, Impure water was the cause of the outbreak. One of the keepers of the “ Paris Zoo” was killed on January 6th by a hippopotamus who look a sudden frenzy. Napoleon, son of Prince Jerome, has entered the Italian army to finish his military education. GERMANY. Princess Marie, of Wurtomburg, died at St. Grande on January sth. The Emperor William wrote two remarkable letters on January 4th, one laudatorj of "his faithful Kaluga ” (Russian) regiments, and the other to the Crown Prince Frederick William, in which, in somewhat extravagant terms, he speaks of the German army at large, concluding fully and unreservedly as follows “ 1 thank the army for its loyalty and devotion to duty, and until my last breath these feelings of love and gratitude will remain the most vivid feelings of my heart.” ITALY. Despatches of January report fearful 1 snowstorms at Florence, Venice, Genoa, and in the whole of the Piedmont district, interrupting railway and telegraphic communication!

A A "'patch of January 9th_ aaya the negotiations between the Vatican and Prussia will shortly be concluded, which will enable the Emperor William to announce in the Landtag the revision of the May laws.

EUSSIA. It ia reported in Vienna that 15,000 Jews nam axnalled bv the Government

officials at Karff. Russia has decided to construct forts on the Austrian frontier, and a military commission has ordered the manufacture of large numbers of the new repeating rifles, recently adopted for the army. CANADA. The New Brunswick Press favors the scheme of secession by the seaward provinces from the Canadian Confederation, and that Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island form a Maritime Union. BURMAH. The Burmese ruby merchants maintain a friendly attitude towards the British. A proclamation has been issued, ordering all the inhabitants to surrender their arms within five days. It is expected that the troops will be compelled to leave the ruby mines, in consequence of the scarcity of water and the prevalence of fever. The camp of a native Prince has been surprised by the British troops, and the Prince himself and 50 followers were killedQHOOKING RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. A disastrous collision occurred on the Southern Pacific Railway on December 21st, 200 miles west of San Antonio, Texas. Nine Mexicans were literally roasted to death,in the wreckage, which took fire after the smash up. Ohio papers are full of graphic accounts of one of the most horrible accidents by collision on a railway that ever occurred in that State. It happened about eight miles west of Cleveland, at two o’clock on the morning of January 4th. An easternbound express train was running at lightning speed when it struck a freight train stationary on the line. The engines of the two trains reared }nto the air, then settled down upon the track, driving into each other till the cylinders touched. The force of the'collision jammed abaggage car into the tender of the first train, an express car into the baggage, and a smoking carriage into the express. There was a mass of wreck, which in less than five minutes took fire, roasting alive the unfortunate occupants. Their shrieks, amid the roar of the flames, had an almost maddening effect on the survivors. Some twenty-five or thirty men were killed or burnt to. death. The cause of the disaster was that the conductor of the freight train thinking he could reach a certain point before the express was due, started out, but the night was so bitterly cold that ho found great difficulty in keeping up steam, and finally his train came to a standstill, where it was found by the lightning express with the deplorable re* suits mentioned. On the same morning a broken wheel threw six cars from the track at a station near Springfield, Mass., and a general smash up was the result, with the usual destruction of cars by fire. Several of the passengers were burnt to death and many were more or less injured.

AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Feancisco, Jan. 16. The schooner Parallel was wrecked on Seal Rocks, near the heads, San Francisco Harbor, at midnight on the 10th. She had forty lons of giant powder in her hold at the time, which exploded when the vessel struck and caused widespread devastation. The well-known Cliff House, in the vicinity, was reduced io ruins. The life-saving apparatus was destroyed, as well as the observatory, and all the ! window glass within the radius of a mile was shattered. The crew of eight men had deserted the ship before she drove ashore. So great was the concussion caused by the explosion that it was felt throughout San Francisco, and people attributed it to an earthquake, A Rill was reported by Senator Edmonds to Congress on January 6th, to incorporate the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua, to be managed by eleven Directors, citizens of the United States and Nicaragua. Eleanor ttaffae’ Cary, an Australian actress, was married in New York on January sth to William Findlator Blood, an Irish actor, whose family is connected with that of Lady Colin Campbell. The bride recently obtained a divorce from Clarence Livingstone, of San Francisco, whom she married about ten years ago. Thomas Stevens, the American cyclist, who is making a tour of the world on his wheel, arrived in San Francisco from China by steamer on January Bth. He confesses he could have done the Flowery kingdom better without his bicycle than with it. The announcement cabled from London that an ocean yacht race for 1000 guineas is to be sailed under the auspices of the Royal Yacht Club next summer in honor of Queen Victoria's jubilee and will be open to the world, has created quite a lively interest among yachtsmen in New York. Mr John Moffatt, nephew of the famous missionary, Robert Moffatt, and a relative of Livingston, the African exp'orer, died in St, Louis on Christmas Day. He was the best known Temperance worker in the United Slates. Ex-Alderman McQaade, of New York, charged with receiving bribes while in office, in connection with the Broadway street railroad franchise, was sentenced by Recorder Smyth, on December 510th, to confinement in the State prison at bard labor for seven years, and to pay a fine of 5000dols.

One thousand pauper immigrants, including 75 Gipsies, have bedn sent buck to Europe by the Now York Commissioners of Immigration during the year 1886, Mr Carter, Hawaiian Minister at Washington, says of the 2,0Q0,0Q0d013 loan lost negotiated in London the Islands Account Bonds do not specifically contain a pledge of the revenues of the islands for their payment, It would be contrary to treaty stipulations with the United States for the King to mortgage the revenues of his Government to citizens of any foreign Powers, and the King had no intention of doing it, . Admiral Amuien, of the United Stutev 'navy, has written a letter to the Frees severely criticising De Lesseps’ Panama Canal and Captain Lad's proposed ship

railway. Hi- li -.cs Do Lesseps with Imvintr r.ai-I ;.i; Aiuorican syndic *» 500,(OJ i ,incs y. r’y to defeat the Nm, - ragna Bail au i says that Ead’a influence has also been hostile to the measure. Reports from Parian*J »nuary 3rd, any the Canal work is progressing. The contractors are satisfied, although they aro working against difficulties, in consequence of the tail-end of th* miny season, and the celebration of the December holidays. The sanitary r cord is good. Chicago papers of December 22nd protested strongly against the landing of fifty English rabbits reported to have arrived on the steamship Werra. Queen Victoria sent King Kalakaua congratulations on his attaining bis jubilee birthday. Alice Oates, the well-known opera comiquo singer and former wife of Tracy Oates, who was manager for Emily Melville during her first visit to Australia, has died in Philadelphia, John Tyler Campbell, ex-Rpeaker of the Californian Legislature, was named at Washington on January 11th as United States Consul at Auckland, New Zealand. Mr Robt. G. Culbatch, newspaper publisher, of San Francisco, has been appointed Consul at Apia, Samoa, in place of Mr Greenbaum. Alex. Crawford, a well-known Dutch iron manufacturer, has received notice that by the death of a cousin named Thompson,. at Ballarat, Australia, a fortune of £1,000,000 has been left to him and his four brothers. The strike of conductors and gripmen on the Geary street and Sutter street cable roads, San Francisco, had reached the stage of outrage on the 14th. A car and dummy, while in motion, and filled with passengers, was blown up by dynamite, and the people thrown some 15 feet by the concussion. Fortunately no one was hurt. Tke strikers h ive established a competing line of omnibusses on both roads. News was received in New York on January 13th of the abandonment of the steamship Cel'ic Monarch at sea in a sinking condition. The steamship belonged to the Monarch line, and left Cardiff on January 2nd for Philadelphia, The crew were rescued by the steamer Lake Superior. There was no passengers. The publication of letters forwarded to this city by Maitland, now in Melbourne, in the Jtffreys-Lewis divorce case has caused great sensation, not only m San Francisco, but in New York. Some of the parties, particularly, the manager, Mr B, Levitt, deny that they ever wrote to the actress in the amative strain of the correspondence published. John Roach, the celebrated shipbuilder, died on January 10th from cancer in the roof of the mouth.

United States Consul L’gebnisy, writing lo his department at Washington under date December 9th, reports n great development of gold mining in British Guinea. The gold is only found in creeks and rivers. About 30,000 people, mostly colored and inexperienced, are in the interior of the colony prospecting. The climate is very unhealthy, especially to whites. Sixteen thousand dlolars’

u> tviiiteu. oiicueu luuuaiuiu uioiara worth of gold was exported to England in 1885. Last year the exportation was increased to 350,000 dollars, and this year it is estimated the export will be 2,000,000 dollars. Henry George’s first number of bis new p iper called the Standard, was issued in New York on January 18th, by the author of “Progress and Poverty” in support of his peculiar views on the science of Government. In the opinion of unprejudiced contemporaries the paper has committed suicide in its birth. Its opening article was a frenzied attack on the Roman Cathode Church for its disciplinary measures towards Dr McLynn, in the course of which George has published himself as the church’s bitter and active foe. This avowal has separated him definitely and fatally from the large body of working men whose religion happens to be the Roman Catholic, and identifies him with the Socialistic-Anarchical element that rejects all religious control. In connection with this matter it may be stated that on account of Hr McLynn’s partisanship for Geoige, he has been deposed of his pastorate of St, Stephen’s Church, and this fact leads the Sunday Union and Catholic Times of New York to say—“ Henry George has been before the public for the past few months, on an apparition monument, crystallised by his own personality, which has borne as first fruits two untoward effects. The career of the most amiable, sweetest, and best of men is closed as a priest, and the career of Henry George as a public man ended by his own hand.” Dr McLynn was ordered to Rome on January 11th. Two prominent Catholics of New York refused to serve on a banquet committee with George, because of his attack on the Romish Church.