ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1647, 15 October 1887, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

The Alameda, with the San Frasciaco Mail, arrived at Auckland on Thursday. The following is a summary of the intelligence brought by her, European dates being to September 23 I—GENERAL SUM MART. Sir John Thurston, of Fiji, has formally complained to the Colonial and Foreign Offices against British apathy with regard to German aggression in the Pacific. The Trafalgar, the largest ironclad ever constructed, was launched on Saptember 20ih. . The attention of the Admiralty Is now devoted to fast cruisera. Twenty thousand nail workers were on strike on September 12th. Archibald Forbes is reported to have recovered hia health, after being considered incurable.

. Cholera is raging in Rome, Palermo, Medina, and Naples. A filibustering invasion of Cuba has taken place. A large band of hostlles , penetrated into the interior of the island. Great Britain has concluded a treaty with the Tonga lalaods, which has virtually annexed them. Michael Dantt sailed from Queenstown ' on September 22nd for Now York. He 1 has been ordered the trip by his physician, i and will not make any public appearance i in the United States. Mr Henry Lsbouchera, Mr J. F. Brunner, and Mr Robert Leake, English Members of Parliament, were elected members of the Irish National League on Sept. 33. The Duke of Devonshire has bsen converted to Mr Gladstone's Irlah policy, and will induce Lord Hartington to follow his lead. The address of the Executive Committee of the New National (English) Labor party ■just issued announces that the party will hare a separate organisation from trades unions, but will co-operate with them as far as possible. The programme is adult suffrage, one man to have one vote; State payment ef members of Parliament; education and land reform ; poor law reform; maintenance of freetrade, but abolition of State-paid bounties; home rule ; local 1 covernment reform ; and religious equality. It is signed by 21 representatives of populous centres in England. Scotland, Ireland, and Wales are not yet represented. Hansen and Wormald’s woollen mills at Tewkesbury were destroyed by fire on September 6th. The loss was £40,000. While a big gun was being c»st at Vicar’s foundry, Sheffield, on September 6th, it exploded, killing five men outright, Three others, who were wounded at the time, died subsequently at the hospital. At Ballyponreen, Tipperary, on Sept. 11th, a riot broke out in a publichouse, and the police used their batons freely on the disturbers. The latter compelled the police to retreat to their barracks, from which shots were fired upon the crowd, but no one was injured. Archbishop Walsh, in a letter published on September Bth, declares that Lord Ashbourne’s land purchase scheme is the best and most suitable for Ireland that bas yet been passed. Looegrao’s funeral at MUchelatown was attended by over 10,000 people, and was over half a mile long. He bad been ahot by the police on S*ptemb«r 9th. A friend of sn Enf ish M.P., present at the late Herberlstovra elections was terribly beaten by the police inspector, who afterwards apologised. “ 1 mistook him,” he said, “for an Irish member. They pay ns out in the House of Commons, and we mean to pay them out in Ireland.” Mr Ohamberlaia’s visit to Colaraine was the occasion of & grand Unionist demonstration. The English Trades Congress has adopted a resolution to form a Labor Electoral Association for the purpose of securing an increase of labor representation in Parliament. Another resolution demands land reform, beginning with the imposition of taxes, which will eventually leave the land in posseasion of ths people. The congress also debated a motion in favor of the eight hours’ movement. The speeches of the delegates showed strongly developed tendencies towards socialism. While returning from a funeral at Mit» chelstown on September 14th, a mob of about 300 wrecked the houses of several obnoxious tenants in Galbally, who were compelled to llae for their lives. The police were stoned and compelled to take refuge in ths tarrocks. Mr ). Brunner, M.P. (Liberal), recently elected for Norwich, has given £IOOO to start a distress fund for Ireland. A party of Orangemen, while passing through Greencastle, Ulster, on the night of September 17th, had an encounter with Nationalist residents. The police, who tried to quell the disturbance, were stoned and driven away. A force sent from Belfast fully restored order, and arrested twelve of the participants. Mr Dillon remarked to an interviewer on September 18 th that the outlook for the Irish cause was gloomy, Mr Balfour was determined spparently to bag all the Nationalist leaders. Mr Dillon would not bo surprised if within a month or so the majority of them, including himself, were found picking oakum. The Dublin Gazette «t Sspt. 10th publishes a proclamation supressing the League in various placcea specified the proclamation makes it criminal to convoky hold, or publish meetings, or do anything in connection with the League. The Nationalist Leaguers are hurredly consulting as to what measures are to be taken. No appeal to Parliament is necessary to cover this fresh act. It will not be possible to evade the Lord Lieutenant’s order by turning over the work of the National League to any other Association. The Liberal League of London proposes some course of this sort, and they have asked the Irish leaders in London to meet them and discuss a plan lor substituting branches of their Association In every place where a branch of the National League is suppressed. The Lord Lieutenant’s order will defeat minssurres of this kind. Under it all meetings of the League in specified districts are unlawful, and any person calling together such a meeting or publishing any such notice concerning it is liable to six months’ imprisonment.