ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1576, 3 May 1887, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

The s.s. Alameda, with the San Francisco mail, arrived at Auckland on Saturday. She encountered heavy gales for the first forty hours of her passage. The following is a summary of the intelligence brought by her : GENERAL SUMMARY. A movement is on foot in London, by churchmen, to establish English colonies in Les Angelos, California. Canadians ore quite despondent at the decrease of trade and impending trouble with the United States. Prince Alexander of Battenburg, has again declined to be re-elected ruler of Bulgaria. Sir James Ferguson a.i'd in the House of Commons on April 6th that the British Government sustained Cinada on the fisheries question. Mr Davis, editor of a London sheet called the The Bat, was, on Mirch 31, sentenced to three months' imprisonment and fined £6OO, for libel on n person named Peck. The case was tried before Mr Justice Hawkins. Mr Joseph Caldwell, company promoter, ef Telegraph Street, London, has failed. His liabilities are believed to be enormous. He failed once before for £1,000,000. A remarkable collection of Oriental manuscripts, formerly in the possession of King Thsebaw, of Burmah, has been secured for the Indian office. They treat almost exoiusively of the modern histcy of Burmah and Siatn. Viscountess Strangford died recently on board the Lusitania in the Mediterranean on her way to Port Said to opea the new hospital. Wide and sincere iegret is expressed at the event. Since her husband's death the deceased lady had devoted herself to th* organisation and administration of some of the most admirable and needful charities in the world.

The English public are said to be amazed at Lcrd Tennyson's Jubilee ode. Tin verses are called unmusical. The phrases ate awkward and meaningless— Buch coinages as "Lord Territorial," and " Lord Manufacturer" fcr examp'e. Mr Chas. Philps, second Secretary of the United States Legation in London, denies in toto the whole story concerning the stolen naval plans, telegraphed to the New York {Herald hs coming from him by that paper's resident correspondent. The question is now narrowed down to one of veracity between the correspondent and the Secretary. The sentry on guaid at the powder magazine in Chat bum dockyards noticed, on the night of March 27tb, it man lurking about the place, who, not replying to the proper challenge promptly, the sentry bayoneted in the thigh. The wounded man was found to be »n employee named Clark, and was sent to the hospital to be detained as a suspect. The Right Hon, Lord John Manners, Vice-President, of the Committee of the Council on Agriculture, stated in the Hou*e of Commons on March 29th, that, after a Government inquiry, the Department of Agriculture dictioefi tp recommend British farmers to inoculate according to Pasteur's system for the prevention of anthrax and other diseases. There is great distress throughout Bogland amoag the wording classes, and the emigration agents have no trouble in getting skilled workmen to emigrate. A despatch from London, dated March 30, says that an attempt was raide ou the life of the Irish Secretary, Mr Balfour, by mgaps of small packets of supposed 1 dynamite senj; through Post Office. The parcel was handed or'tr to Qolonel

Mageudi fr analysis. Ma oy believe the affair to be on y a practical joke. The French are making a fuss over the failure of the Duke of Edinburgh to return the French salute at Cannes. The Duke explained that ho had no salutin / cannon. He left England in a hurry, and forgo' or had no time to get them on board. Manuscripts of Burns, the Scottish poet, owned by Gibbon Cruig, Esq., sold in Edinburgh recently, realised excellent prices. " The Whistler" fetched 240 guineas. It consisted of 2J folios. Lord Rosebery was the purchaser. The Pall Mall Gazette's story, copied from the Vienna journals, that thePrioce I of Wa'es won nearly a quarter ot a mi'lion of guilders in one niyht, and 80,000 florins on a subsequent occasion, during his visit to Buda-Peeth, Hungary, is absolutely denied. It is called a flagrant example of the "lie circumstantial." The roof of a Church in Sicily fell without warning dnring service on Surday, April 2nd, boryiog beneath it one hundred persons, forty of whom wens killed ; many more were injured. The New Jersey State Senate, on April sth, refused to appropriate a single cent towards a monument to their then Go-vernor-General, Geor«e B. Maclennan, owing to his having written disparagingly of hie wife.

The Berlin police on April 6th made a raid on the social democrats, and confiscated many of their booka and journals. Arrests were also made in Hamburg, Stettin, Eonsiogberg, Minnbein, and many other places. Great uneasiness is caused in Berlin by the :reports from St. Petersburg and Afghanistan. An Aoglo-Russian conflict is feared in the near future. General Komaroff writes in the Russian military organ of St. Petersburg, April sth, that the work of the Russian Frontier Commission is not likely to lead to any useful resulti and adds —"The force of oiicuuistances will inevitably impel Russia sooner or later to move forward into Afghanistin until she touches her only national and proper frontier, the Hiodo* Koosh mountains." A gigantic naptha fountain burst on April 7th at Btku. Oil, sand, and enormous stones were carried to a height of 30ft. IRISH AFFAIRS.

There is tremendous opposition to the Irish Coercion Bill all over England. Sixty-two meetings were held last night, April 7th, in London and the provinces. At many resolutions were adopted favoring a dissolution of Parliament. There is greatly increased activity of the Irish-Americans, »nd mnny organisations that formerly stood aloof advocate dynamite reprisals on England. Father Keller, now in gaol in Dublin for refusing to testify when summoned, is allowed to celebrate mass daily in his cell. He is also allowed to receive visitors for half an hour and re»d newspapers Rent to him. His cell has been furnished by outside friends. Father Ryan of the Hibernian'Braoch League, summoned to give evidence in a ctse similar to one which Father Keller refused, also remained silent and was sent to prison. Mueh against his desire, Father Keller is being lionised as a political martyr. He has been made Canon of Cloyn. The great agitation in Ireland against lord Lansdewoe the Governor-General of Canada, is said to be causing him some annoyance, and the Government grounds at Ottawa are under surveillance. Messrs Duane and Kilbride, the two principal tenaots of Lord Lansdowne, who were recently evicted from their extensive holdings near Baggacurrau, have been elected Chairman and ViceChairman of ihe Board of Poor Law Guardians.

It is den<ed that the National League will lemove itn headquarters to England, in the eveot of the passage of the Coercion Bill. B)yle, the Invincible, has been released from gaol. He complained bitterly of the treatment he received while in confinement. Mr Gladstone writes to'the Chelsea electors, under date April 6: adversaries have availed themselves of the fact that 1 have t«ken a large share in placing the Irish problem us a question of practical politics before the country, to plead it as a personal affair; that it is not a true conviction; and that the people are not in genuine sympathy with the justice of the Irish demand. A little reserve on my put will help them to be sooner undeceived, and to profit more effectively by the teacbing they are already beginning to receive—the teach* ing of evento." The Nntiontl Liberal Federation met on April 6th, «nd passed a Strang resolution of hostility to coercion, and of support to Mr Gladstone, An imposing demonstration was held in Victoria Hall, South London, on Aplil 6th, at which Mr John Merley spoke. Mr Balfour's name was met by a cry of " Shoot him."

The Chelsea Liberals met the same evening, when Sir Charles Dilke and Lady Dilke were on the platform. Mr Gladstone was invited, but sent an excuse. Mr Pirnsll, in an interview with Mr T, P, Gill, M.P., expressed himself to the effect that be liked the situation, as the arbitmry action of the Government in closing the debate when bis amendment to (he first reading of the Bill had only been under discussion for one evening bad produced a strong feeling of ao« tagonism to the measure throughout Great Britain.

THE QUEEN'S JUBILEE. Some outrages are apprehended from London Socialists during the Jubilee procession. Tlie Queen intenda, however, to m<tke such a progress through the city as this generalioo baa not seen, ger Majeßtj insists that the ceremony shall bo held in YVostminster Abbey, where Bhe was crowned, and those in charge of the celebration propose that the Queen shall drive in full stale, which abe haa not done since Prince Albert's death, from the Palace up Constitution Hill, through Hyde Park to the Middle Arch ; thence along Oxford St., Holborn, Newgate, and (Jhsapside to the Thames Embankment; tbence back either by tbe Embankment or Fleet street, the Strand, and Whitehall to the Abbey. Strong efjbrta. are being made to change the day of celebration from Tuesday, the 21st, to Monday, June 20th, 88 being more conreuient for the general public. Scotland, Ireland, and Wales hold aloof from participation in tbe Jubilee.

i ' AM! iy \\NBUMMABY. S\m Francisco, Apr' 9. Adie-dfu. in .i-lnr w"H column* ■<■ <• a ranch- in Uo.uh* Ccunty, n««r Chic«, Oiliforni , on April 7tb, when a Chinese 000 k, eighteen years old, bein«r angered 1 hat liii employer's ffi!«. Mrn Billion, had requested him to assist in taking up some csrpets, deliberately *et to work to slaughter the whole household. He shot Mr* Billion dead 118 une »«t at dinotr, mortally woUDded a hired white man named Wearer, and fired two shots at the daughter Anuie, which grazed the I side of her head. He then esoaped, and at last accounts the neighbors ware hunting for him with a view to lynch him. The boy had been reared in the family from the time he was twelve years of age.

The Rev. Dr. Joseph Parker, of London, has accepted a call to PI) mouth Church, Brooklyn, New York, the pulpit of which was rendered vacant by the death of the R«v. Henry Ward Beecber. People in the vicinity of Somerset and Benton, Texas, are holding meetings daily to devise means to obtain food for a large portion of the community. Many have deserted their homesteads and fields and gone to seek a more favored locality. Unless there is rain at a very early date the situation will be pitiable, The people are now hauling water a distance of ten miles. The result of the election in Chicago on April sth is a tremendous rebuke to ilia Anarchist element. Their candidate, Carter Harrison, was defeated by a 1 majority approximately 28,000, and the J whole ticket shared the same fate. Prohibition was defeated in Michigan by 10,000. The Legislature of Pennsylvania has by enactment substituted death by electricity for hanging in case of capital punishment under the law. Miss Catherine Lorillard Wolfe, said to be the richest unmarried lady in tha I world, died in New York on April 4th. Her wealth is estimated at 20,000,000de1. , She was related to the Lorillard, Bishop ' and Bruce families.

Short crops of cereals are expected in California owing to the absence of the usual spring rains. The New York Legislature hss legalised gambling on raoe tracks. Sir Win. Owen Laoyon, K.C.M.G., C. 8., died of cancer at Windsor Hotel, New York, en April Bth. Deceased was born in Scotland, was forty-four years old, and had served in the British Army with distinction. He contracted the disease of which he died in, the Soudan campaign. A tremendous riot took place at the headquarters of the Salvation Army in Savnonab, Gtorgia, on the night of April 4th, incited by several ruffians abo were present. Some twenty-five people were more or less injured. Broken jaws and noses were plentiful. There is extraordinary activity shown by th« Irivh-Americans jost now. In all parts of the United States tuey are adding members to the National League *nd subscribing money freely. The organisation, heretofore Conservative, now openly advocates a dynamite policy in answer to coercive measures to be taken by England against Ireland. Six thousand five hundred carpenters in Chicago quitted work on April sth, and building operations iu the city will, it is expected, remain suspended till the •ight-hour question is definitely settled. The British steamer Curoon, which left Birrow, England, on February 13th with a full cargo of steel blooms consigned to a firm in Pennsylvania, had not been beard of up to April 5, and is given up as lost with all hands on board. The captain's name was P. A. Halcrow. The vessel sailed from Dundee, and was owned by Wm. Thompson. The New York Senate passed on March 20th a Bill making every Saturday a legal holiday. Manufacturing and other employers having a large number of hands at work are disiurbed by thi action. The Hon. Thomas C. Reynolds, ex-Go-vernor of Missouri, committed suicide at St. Louis, on M*y 20'h, by plunging down an elevator shaft of the Customs-House buildings full 80ft. He was killed instantly. The fear of becoming insane led to the act.

Mr J. 0. Brown, member for Tuapeka in the New Zealand House of Representatives, who arrived by the steamship Alameda, from Auckland, laf t for London via New York on March 19th. The Rev. John McLeod, of Ne/r Zeaand attended a meeting of the Presbyterian Ministerial Association in San Francisco on March 22nd, and gave an account of the progress of Presby terianiam in the British South Pacific Colonies, with special reference to New South Wales and New Zealand. la the latter country he said it was fast overtaking the Established Church. The Pope has endorsed the prospectus of a Catholic University, to be located at Washington district of Columbia, and placing the Institution directly and for ever under the able jurisdiction of the American Hierarchy. The demoralisation among the United States army officers is attracting some attention. A Washington despatch of March 20th Bays four have been courtmartialled for duplicating their accounts and for drunkenness.