ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1599, 25 June 1887, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Tbe S.s. Zeslundia with the 'Frisco mail arrived at-Auckland on Thursday afternoon, having left 'Frisco on June 3rd. She brought fifteen passengtraior New Zealand. Tbe following is a Bummary of the intelligence brought by her :

GENERAL SUMMARY. (Dates to June 2.) A despatch of of June Ist says that the Saltan of Turkey has ceded the Island of Cyprus formally to England. ' Queen Kapiolani of Hawaii and suite arrived at Liverpool on June 2nd, and was received with a royal salute and a gnard of honor. Mr Bayley, Vica-commodore of the Boyal Albert Yacht Club, was declared a bankrupt on June 10th. His liabilities are £67,000, MJ ~ ,Tbe Gerunn steamer Oder was wrecked Oli Soetra Island, in thei Indian Ocenn, on May 30th. The pansengers and most of I the crew were saved.: i.'. ! Prince Albert Victor, the eldest son of the Prince of sYvaleß, will go to Dublin on -■ Jnne 27th as the Queen's representative at the Jubilee celebration there. Mr. Edmood Yates telegraphs on Mny . SOth that upwards of £4OOO has been sub■cribed by present members of the Royal household for a Jubilee present to the Queen. It will take the shape of a . .aplendid silver centre piece. The list of the Women's jubilee Offering r closed on May 30tb, showing £SOOO, and ;„ a million and a half of subscribers. Howell won the bicycle championship at Wolverhampton on May 30th. The Egyptian Convention between Eng- -/ land; and Turkey was signed at OonBtantinople on May 22ud. The Royal Commission appointed to .., (investigate tho charges against the War Office of jobbery in making contracts and purchasing defective weapons, has prepared a report which exonerates the officials individually, but advises numerous administrative changes. George Augustas S»la lectured on "What. I saw in Australia'and New Zealand," for the benefit of the hospital for women and children. A Unionist meeting held in Bristol on Maylßtb, wasswatoped by Gladstoneites. Sir Henry James, who was to deliver an address, was unable to obtain a hearing. The meeting broke up In disorder. Thirty thousand children are to picnic ' : > in Hyde Park on Jubilee day. The idea was conceived by Mr Edward Lawson, of the Daily Telegraph, who heads the contribution to meet expenses by a donation of £IOOO. The Dukes of Westminster and Bedford gave each £IOOO. AMERICAN ITEMS. Mueh disappointment was expressed by V the English aud Irish residents of San Francisco on account of the non-arrival of the Earl of Aberdten by the Rteamship Zealandia on May 15th. Preparations had been made to give the ex-Lord Lieutenant of Irel«nd a complimentary reception. W. L. flanser, a young man Bged ZZ t agent for the New Zealand Life Insurance Company at San Jooe, shot himself fataly On May 15tl>. He was short in bis accounts, and that and a love affiair ara said to have caused the net. The signing of the KasHan-American ' ' «fadition treaty by. Secretory Bayard on the part of the United States whereby • political refugees are to be surrendered to the Czar by th«- American Gouernment, nab created an iutense feeling among foreigners' under the stars and ■tripes, arid also among th«a« native born, i The Knights of Labor are intensely ex- ■ cited, and mass meetitijgs are being held, bt wbich Secretary-of-State Bayard is denounced in unmeasured terms. IRISH SUMMARY. Fathers Keller, Ryan, and Slattery were released from Kilmainham prison in Dublin on May 21, the Court of Appeal having decided that the arrest of the priests for refusing testimony wf *illegal. A memorial od the Irish que«tioo, prepared by the Irish College at Romp end rinblkhed on May 18th, is entitled "Ire, land as it is." It explains Parnell s policy, and apologises for the attitude of th« Irish episcopacy, referring expressly to Archbishop Walsh, The memorial is rather firm and uncompromising in tone, but not revolutionary. It is supposed that Monsignor Eirby, Rector or the College, consulted with tbe Vatican before issuing the document. A later dispatch doubts the issuing of this memorial.

::.-: O'BRIEN'S MISSION. Mr O'Brien, editor of th» Dpblin United IrisbniMSf mrrived in New York qd May 10th, e» route to Canada, on bis crusade , against Lord Lansdowne, the Governbr.- , '*oeneral|< in retaliation fpr the eviction by latter of the tenants pn his Lugga 'Gbnan estate in Ireland.. Ha reached ;' Montreal on* the 11th and met with a splendid reception, addressing a meeting «f 2000 persons. At Quebec he was also well received. The City Council of Toronto refused to let O'Bjrien any public hall in that place, and at a meeting attended by nearly 12,000 people on May Hlh, over which the Mayor, Mr Howlund presided, rtsolutions were passed Itfouglyl reprobating O'Brien's mission,

and expressing confidence io Lord Lansdowne, aho looking with confidence to the British Parliament for a wise and meet settlement of the Irit.li question. Three cheerp were given, amidst the greatest entbusi ism and waving of huts, for the Queen and Lord Lansdowut, and the vast multitude, with uncovered heads, joined in singing the National Anthem, after which they adjourned. The Mayor sent a copy "f the resolutions to the Gouei-*, who rt-plied .lis follows:-—"It has been a source of the deepest regiet 'o me that those who have sought for political purposes to stir up strifebetwoeo tenants on part of my Irish estates shouM have been for a time successful. I desire sincerely that the differences which have thus arisen may Dot provn permanent, and. that the kind relations *■ hich bntil recently exisied between these tenan's and myself may ere long be comp'eiely restored." When O'Brien arrived at Toronto on tiie 18th he wan attacked by a mob, p>i icipally composed of Orangemen, who used Pticks and stones ;■ .uissiles, shouting all the while "Kill the traitor." The usuailed lecturer was forced to take refuge in a laundry to save his life, and was conducted thence by the police over to his hotel. In Ottawa the demonstration was mixed in character, but the preponderance of feeling was in favor of the speaker, and wi'B regarded as an answer to the Toronto attack. A. prominent citizen, Mr R. Wagle, made the deliberate statement from from the platform, " We want annexation, we do not want any more pauper-stricken landlords coming over here to disgrace us and shame themselves." On the evening of May 20th he reached Kingston, " the Kerry of Canada," as it is called, with its population of 15,0( 0, of wliom 5000 are Catholics, and spoke at the Skating Rink. Calm was maintaiued for some time, but was broken when Kilbride, Lord Lansdowne'e evicted tenant, commenced bis etatement. Ao immense crowd outside began to shont " God s-ve the Queen," and to groan at O'Brien. When the meeting ended and he came out iii ihe street he was greeted by shouts of "There he is," "Drag him out here," "Kill him," "Choke him," "Tear him asunder;" and amid shower* of missiles the lecturer and his friends fled for their lives. Newspaper correspondents with him were badly hurt. The office of the Canadian Freeman, an Irish Catholic organ, was wrecked. O'Brien found refuge in the house of a man named Peter Devlin. An examination showed him to be pretty well used up. A boulder had struck him on the back of the neck and felled bim jast in time to .prevent a blow aimed at his head with i club taking effec'. His throat was full of dust and his clothes bespattered with blood. He was scarcely able to.Btand, but hemaouged to say some very bitter things to the Mayor for bis evident favoritism of rioters. He left Kingston on May 21st, amidst cheers from the Nationalists, on his way to Niagara? Falls,. visiting Byracuse and Rochester (N.Y.) *n rouU. When the pnrty got on board the sleeping cars leaving Rochester, and bound for the Falls, O'Brien fainted away on his bed from pure exhaustion. A physician told him he was Buffering from internal injuries. His body was bruieed and battered in several places, and a touch of inflammation of the lungs hitd appeared. At Hamilton on the 30th he met with a reception which threw into the shade everything that had occurred previously. A body guard welcomed him, and nothing took place until the meeting at eight o'clock p.m. at the Skating Rink, where the OpaDgemen made a demonstration on the outside. When be left the Rink O'Brien was hustled into a carriage with Messrs McMahon and Roche, of the Local Branch of the National League, and Dennis Kilbride. As the vehicle wheeled into the Market square some eight pistol shots were fired into it. Nobody, how. ever, was hurt except the driver, whose wrist was badly smashed. McMahon seized the reins, which dropped, and drove as rapidly 1 as possible to the hotel. As the party stepped into the corridor a volley of "eggs was hurled at O'Brien, but missed both him and bis friends. O'Brien returned to Niagara Falls on the 24th. Before be left Hamilton he received a letter from Syracuse, New York, to the following effect:—East Syra, cuse,. New York, May 18tb, 1887, William O'Brien, yon black hearted Irish fool, if you ever make your appearance in Kingston or Ottawa your blood will run cold. Take my advice and go back to your black Irish home. P.S. —1 will be there in less than 48 hours." O'Brien was badly scared by this letter. The Hamilton Spectator asserts that shots were fired from O'Brien's carriage before the atlackiog party touched a trigger, a statement denounced by O'Brien as a falsehood. The Governoi.General was entertained by the Rational Club at Toronto on May 2ist. He made a slight reference to O'Brien and his mission, saying it was an incident that had not interfered with his convenience or happiness. On his raturn to Ottawa Lord Lansdowne had an exceptionally warm reception. The whole city turned out to greet himO'Brien, according to a despatch of May. 17th, has been elected without opposition to a seat in the House of Common i for the North-eaßt Division of Cork. BURNING OF A THEATRE. The Opera Oomiqne at Paris took fire on May 25th, and the building was totally destroyed. The fire took place during the first act of " Mignon." It appears that the fire apparatus, whiohhad been put in position for the burning of the palaoe in the seoond eot, rolled down from its plape near the roof and exploded below. In fifteen minutes the stage was a vast furnace. The iron curtain was lowered in front of it. This prevented the fire spreading immediately to the auditorium, and allowed the audience to escape. The victims were almost all singers, fourteen of whom were killed by jumping from the windows, and forty-three were injured. The scenes attending the disaster are described in subsequent despatches as frightful. Twenty bodies, dreadfully mutilated, were taken from the ruins, the remains principally of ballet girls, choristers, and maohinistß. The remains of three men and two women were found in ft stage box, where refuge had been taken from the flames. It was ascertained that many bodies wore burned in the upper galleries, where escape was exceedingly diffioult. In the afternoon twenty-eix bodies, eighteen of ladies, all in full dress, were found lying together at the bottom of the stwrcase leading horn he second storey. These ladies aU had escorts at the theatre, Jut no remain, of men were found near whew they were burned to death. The wbrk of .eVphing for bodies was resumed at night, apumbermorewereexhumel 1 he ofioitl statement mfde on May 28th

| said fifty • o ies had already been reoovered, but it i« estimated at least 200 had lost thoir lives by this &te. Up to the 26th, 156 missing parsons were inquired for by their relatives. They are supposed to have perish'd in the flame*. The bottom of the Theatre was flooded five feet deep with water, and on the surface the firemen found floating sixty bodies. The offloials endeavered to underrate the loss of life, and the large number of bodiis found has alarmed tho public. Among the audience were Generals Boulanger, Saussier and Thibandin and MM, Goblet and Berthelet, all of whom eioapad unhurt. The library attached to the theatre was entirely destroyed with all the content', including many valuable soenes. Six thousand costumes were burned in the wardrobe. Tbe Government propose to close several Pans theatres because of their defioienoy in exits. The work of searching fjr the bodies wu accompanied by a horrible nauseous staell on May 29th, notwithstanding that deodorising fluids were thrown on the ruins from hydrants, Thi indicates that there mutt still be many oorpses under the debris.