ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1684, 10 January 1888, Page 4

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

The s.s. Alameda arrived at Auckland on Friday. She brings Ihe follo wing intelligence GENERAL SUMMARY.

[European dates up to December 15tb.] The Government lias requested Mr Morrison, leader of the Crofter movement, to go to British Columbia, and report upon the suitability of that country for settlement by bis following. If the report be favorable, Government will assist crofters to emigrate to that country. Mr Balfour was vigorously hissed during his address at Manchester on December 14th. Because of a warning of a plot to assassinate him the hall was slrongly guarded, and a line of police extended from the Town Hall to the hotel, where he slept under guard. A verdict of murder was found against Dan Doherty for the killing of Colonel Graham, by shooting, at the Criterion restaurant, Piccadilly. Doherty pleaded accident, which the Coroner deposed of by saying that the second shot fired at Graham forbade the idea of accidental shooting. Doherty will be arraigned for murder, and wiil be formally tried in January. Sir Chas. Russell, Q.C., and Messrs Lesley and Gill have been rettlaed for the defence.

The seed and oil mills at Duffield were destroyed by fire on December 12th ; loss £150,000.

A meeting of the Baptist Union will soon be held to take action concerning the withdrawal of the Rev, Mr Spurgeon from that body because he does not consider it on an evangelical basis. A number of Bradford firms have received notice from correspondents in Germany and other countries on the Continent that Volapuk, the new universal language, will be uaed after a certain date.

When Mr Bradlaugh was crossexamined in a London Police Court, on December 2nd, in the Graham-Trafalgar Square case, he was asked by counsel for Government whether be remembered the meeting in Trafalgar Square in 1885, which resulted in a detachment of the crowd looting the shops? He replied, “Yes, the meeting was got up and paid for by Lord Salisbury ; I have seen the cheque.” Lord Salisbury promptly pro nounced the statement absolutely unfounded. An application on December 7th for a warrant against Mr Bradlaugh for perjury in the Salisbury affair was refused, as the matter was not vital in the case in which Mr Bradlaugh gave evidence. On the re-assembly of Parliament Mr Bradlaugh will move for a Committee to enquire whether or not Lord Salisbury sent a cheque to assist the fair trade meetings in Trafalgar Square in 1886. On December 7th Mr Labouchero received from an unknown correspondent bags containing 10,000 new sixpences, accompanied by a letter asking that be should distribute the coins among the children of the London work-houses, and their schools and infirmaries. Mr Labouchere is made an almoner in this way every year, but has no knowledge of the party. Negotiations between England and France, looking to co-operation In the working of the Channel telegraph wires, promise to result favorably. France, as well as England, refuses to renew the concessions to the Submarine Company, which thus nonplussed will be obliged to sell on England's terms. England, it is thought, would reduce the rate to twopence per word. The project of the late Sir Jap. Mafthewson to convert the Island of Lewes into n productive property, and to improve the condition of ibe inhabitants, lias fallen through. Owing lo the indifference and Ifz’ness of the Crofters it is now relegated to deer forests. Sir J. Mattbewson spent £280,900 before he abandoned his first idea.

Tha imprisonment of Lord Mayor Sullivan of Dublin, called a “National Scandal” by the London Daily News, created no e(ir in Irish political circles. He was removed to Tullamoro on December 7tb.

Eight persona who were present at the famous midnight meeting of tho Nationalhts at Woodford went sentenced on December sdi to various terms of imprisonment. Their counsel raised a rumpus and was forcibly ejected from the Court room,

There were numerous meetings of Orangemen at Belfast on December 3rd, at which Government w»a urged to introduce a Bill to disqualify men who have been .imprisoned from sitting in Parliament.

In consequence of tho imprisonment of his col'eague, Mr Sexton, the Mayor of Dublin, will abandon the usual banquet and dis ribute £IOO among the poor instead.

Tho Eight Eev. Jno. Power, Catholic Bishop of Waterford, died on December sth.

The delegatee of the Scotch Home Rule Union, who have been making a tour of Ireland, returned to Glasgow on Decernber 7th, and report that the Irish people are eager for fO'ce, that their demands are moderate, and that the • National League is the chief agency for the maintenance of law and order. The delegates believe the present measures taken by the Government are unavailing, Mr Pyne, M.P., who had been barricaded in his castle, resisting the efforts of the police to arrest him, left his fortification early on the morning of December 13th, eluding the police sentinel, and, taking the car that was awaiting him, drove to ?n unknown ph oe,

AMRBIOAS SUMMARY. San Francisco, Dec. 19. During a performance of “ Article 47 ” by Clara Norris at the Grand Opera House, Washington, on December 15th, Miss Annie Horton, great-granddaughter of John C. Calhon, became violently insane, Some five or six years ago the young woman, who is an eraploj’ee in the Post-office Department, fired several shots at Geoige Morgan, to nyhom she was encaged *o be married, and a scene in the pi y, where Cora is shot by Duh«mer, recalled, it is supposed, this circumstance so vividly that Miss Horton's mind became unbalanced. The friends of the Rev, Dr McGlynn, the recalcitrant Roman Catholic priest of gf, S ephen’s, Now York, and polleaguo ofUJeiuy George in the labor movement, who prophesied thu colleciion of P-ter's ponce would fall off in iho pariah on account of the ecch siaslicah discipline to which the priest was subjected, are aur-

prised to find this year the contributions largely increased. The Knights of Labor organisation in the United States is in desperate straits, owing to tack of funds, caused by decreasing membership and the tardiness of stiti loyal assemblies to subscribe. J. R. Hoyte, a citizen of Enterprise, Florida, was shot dead recently by C. R. Cook, who objected to the piano-playhig of Hoyte’s wife. George Bond, a wealthy Harvard student, committed suicide on December 13th. The causes are coraplicetions with two women, both of whom he bad engaged to marry, and a sense of humiliation at hnving been “ plucked ” in hia College examination.

Mrs John Jacob Aator, of New York, died on December 12th.

Owing to the disastrous fire in the Calumet and Hecla mine, Lake Superior, which yielded about two-thirds of the copper in that district, a sharp rise in that metal has taken place. In Loudon Chili bars advanced £2 per ton, and tho market closed amidst great excitement, with no sellers. In New York on December 13th there was half a cent advance with strong upward tendency. James J. Connell, a stage manager, was instantly killed by an electric current at Robinson’s Theatre,Cincinnati, on December 14th, The current came down the bell wire when he rang down the curtain. The high license law passed by the last Pennsylvania Legislature is driving both poor and rich dealers out of the liquor business. They find it impossible to procure bondsmen for faithful compliance with the law.

The Committee appointed by the American Philological Society after discussing the adaptability of the universal language called “ Yolapnk,” have decided against it. It seemed to the Committee distinct retrogression in linguistic progress.

A terrible case of vitriol throwing occurred at Waverhill, Miss., on November 28th. Tho victim is Mias Mamie Mahon. She had refused several offers of marriage, and on the night in question some persons disguised called at her residence and dashed a lot of the liquid into her face from a beer glassjl fatally, burning her. Her eyes were eaten* out, and (he flesh hung in shreds from her face. LOOdols has been offered for a clue to the perpetrator.

PUGILISTIC,

John L, Sullivan, the heavy-weight champion, and Tug Mitchell, tho English fighter, were matched in London on Nov. 29th to fight to a finish, with bare knuckles, for £SOO a-aide. It was arranged at the same time only twelve on each side are to witness the Sraith-Kilrain fight. Fleming and Harding are to go to Spain and select the battle ground. Eilrain is tr?ining at a tranquil seaside spot on the south-east coast of England with Rowell and Mitchell, Smith is also training on tho extreme southern coast, close to the sea. He is trained by Billy Horners. Smith is confident of beating Kilrain, and will take Sullivan afterwards. Kilrain, on his part, is equally sanguine of being victor in the coming fight. Although put forward aa a champion of the United States he is a Canadian by birth. Tickets for the Mitchell-Sullivan fight sold at £55. It will take place ia a large outhouse in Kent.

THE PANAMA CANAL. De Lesseps now purposes to build (he canal with locks instead of the tide-water plan, but will adopt the latter eventually. H, B. Slavin, President of the Mexican Contracting and Dredging Co. that has been employed in the work of dredging the Canal since the start, arrived in New York on November 29th, and informs the Sun that the canal is nearly half done, and in his opinion ships will cross within three years from January, 1888. The canal is open at present for vessels drawing fifteen feet of water, for twenty kilometres on the Atlantic side, out of a total length of seventy-four kilometres, and twenty-four more will be done by July next. The French company on the Pacific side will have five more completed, De Lesseps denies that he ever said the canal would be opened in February, 1889.

CANADA. Tim Canadian Maralime provinces, with here and there an exception among o!d school loyalists, applaud Atkinson's proposed plan of annexation to the United States. The Globe, a paper of some influence, published in St. John’s, New Brunswick, says in its issue of November 261 h “It would be better for the American and Canadian people, and it would not be to the disadvantage of Great Britain, if all English speaking people on this continent were united iu one great annexation. The objection to annexation is purely a sentimental one. There is a feeling that England might be hurt by an expression of ■ esire on our part to exchange one flig for another; but an expression from her that she had no objection would add very largely to the number of people in tne maritime provinces who believe annexation is their ultimate fate. If these provinces of themself s decided to enter the American Union, and become self-governing States, Ontario and Quebec would have to follow. These provinces might act of themselves and for themselves, Canada acd Great Britain could not stop them any more than they can stop our people from removing into the United States.” The colonial office holders are earnest in their opposition to Atkinson’s scheme.

A Mr? Mary Richards of Woolston, overbalanced herself while hanging up a birdcage, and fell, dislocating her thigh.

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