ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1695, 7 February 1888, Page 4

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

The Mariposa arrived nt Auckland on Friday. She had one c;t?o of smallpox on bo*rd—a Sydney passenger. The New Zealand passengers were quarantined, and the mails fumigated. She brought the following intelligence!:—

GENERAL SUMMARY. (Dafes to January 12.)

Ringgold Cooper, an American forger, was arrested in Paris on January 12th on an extradition warrant for forgery on the London and Westminster Bank, by which he realised £3600. In a collision between the steamers Shortham and Catstrap, oft Dover, the former was sunk, and seven persons were drowned.

The remains of Napoleon 111. and of his son the Frince Imperial were removed from Chislehurst to Farnboroogh on January.9th. They will be deposited in the mausoleum erected by the ex-Empress Eugenie.

Trouble has occurred among the crofters of Aigash, in Invernesshire, Scotland. Landless crofters, to the number of 1000, drove sheep off fai-ms and offered a determined resistance to the police. Troops were sont to the scene on January Bth. Numbers wore wounded on both sides, and many crofters were arrested. On January 2nd the London Times celebrated the 100th anniversary of its foundation.

It is announced that Mr Pprnell will resume the active leadership of the Irish party some time during January, and will summon a meeting of his colleagues. The Crown Prince of Greece will visit London in May to be formally betrothed to his cousin, Princess Victoria of Wales. Returns issued by the British Board of Trade on January 9th show that the imports for the month preceding increased £3,162,600 as compared with the corresponding month in 1886, and that the exports for the same month increased £3,260,000.

It is proposed to devote the surplus of the Women's Jubilee Offering to founding an institution in London for the maintenance and education of nurses to attend poor people in their houses. There will be branches in the principal cities of the realm.

The Prison Board has ordered that Father Matthew Ryan, who is in prison under the Crimes Act, shall be permitted to wear his own c'othes and underwear.

The League receipts from America, which have been very small since 1885, are still falling off. The Privy Council, at a meeting held on Jauary 2nd, resolved to suppress the League in LondoD, and thus cripple the Central Executive.

Cullimore, the Plan of Can-paign leader on the Kingston Estate, was arreeted on Jannary 2nd on a charge of inciting the tenants to illegal acta. The tenants of this estate held a meeting on the same day, Mr Condon presiding, and adopted resolutions declaring the Land Commissioners' reductions of judicial rents inadequate, and that there would continue to be h Plan of Campaign until the evicted tenants were re-instated, and that they would appeal for greater reductions. The Freedom of the City of Dublin has been conferred upon Mr Sullivan, ex-Lord Mayor, Lord Clanrioarde is engaged in wholesale evictions out of revenge for a libel suit. On the 3rd January he applied for 150 writs, and has lodged £SOOO to his agent's credit at the bank to enablo him to carry on the war. Serious work is anticipated if the troops are to be sent to aid the landlord.

Prince Ferdinand has.declared he will rather die on the battlefield than abdicate the Bulgarian Throne. The Alhaiubra Theatre at Antwerp was burned on January 2nd. Harry Herz, the pianist, died in Paris on January 6th. General Herman Kawzer, formerly head of the pontifical army, died in Borne on the same date.

The Italian Academy of Science has awarded the World's prize of 12,000 franca to Pasteur.

It was reported from Berlin on January 12th that a general blockade of Bulgaria is contemplated by the Powers in the event of Prince Ferdinand's refusal to resign the Bulgarian Throne. From Vienna on the same dale, a statement that the Powers will ask the Porie to summon Prince Ferdinand to resign is denied. Russia is determined in regard to the Bulgarian question to make no concessions.

AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Fbancisco, Jan. 17,

A convention of wool men and floskma6ters was convened at Washington on January 11. The growers and dealers are united in opposition to President Cleveland's proposed reduction of the duty on wool, but manufacturers are lukewarm. A frightful accident befel the Portland (Maine) express near Haverill bridge, which spans the Merrimac river between Bradford and Maverhill, on January 16th. Two cars left the rails on rounding a curve, and crashed into a water tank house, which was utterly demolished. Uf tho occupants of the cars fiftween were killed and fifty others were injured. The accident was caused by the breaking of a switch rod. A Bill has been introduced into the New York Legislature, which provides that no person alleged to be insane shall be committed £o a lunatic asylum, public or private, except after trial before a jury. It was framed by the Society for Promoting the "Welfare of the Insane. A *' national purse" has been given to Edward Burgess, designer of the Puritan, Mayflower, and Volunteer yachts. The subscriptions realised 10.172, dolors, and a cheque lor that amounf- was sent to him at Boston the day before Christmas. An exodus of German socialists to America is looked for during the month of January 1888. Thg movement will bo m-ide under pressure from Bismarck, who is doing his beat to stamp out socialism in the Fatherland. Such an immigration wili probably lead to some special legislation by the United Congress.

New York papers are publishing «lowr irg accounts about discoveries of gold in Transvaal, youth Africa. The corros[inodents say that California and Australia in their fiush times will be eclipsed \.y the discoveries and output of gold in the South African country, and that at no very distant elate, During the wntire yeap of 188? the debt ©f the United States was diminished by 111,701 ,Coodols, the largest reductions being made in June and November, yhen

payments on that account aggregated 16,852,000d01a and 16,833,000d0!s respectively. 0. Delano, President of the Woolgrowcra' Association, lias issued an address to flock-masters in the TJ«ited Stales to "so their influence against Mr Oloveland'n ireetruda views as contained in the last Presidential tariff message. The wool masters number about 1,000,000 voters, and givo employment to about 1,000,000 more. The Panama Canal has arranged with the Credit Lyonnaise to provide the enterprise with fuoda until the issue of neur obligations. One hundred destitute Turks, a new class of immigrants, were landed at Castle Garden, New York, on December 24th. The last spike in (he Overland railroad track connecting Oregon with California, was driven on December 17th at Ashland, Oregon. At 5.3 p.m., as soon as the first blow of a silver .sledge was given to a golden spike, the bells and steam whistles along the cua3t and in Sun Francisco—--400 miles away—gave forth joyful sounds. This result was achieved by electrical connections previously made. The great coal strike in Pennsylvania has created immense trouble among manufacturers and consumers generally. The general opinion is that the advance of 8 per cent, asked for by the miners should be granted and added to the price of coal if there is no other way for the Company to meet it. This would make a difference of 75,000 dols in the miners' wages. A Pennsylvania coal miner makes an average of 500 to GOOdols a year. More miners joined the strike on January Bth, and work was practically stopped in the Wyoming anthracite coal region.

STORM IN THE IRISH CHANNEL.

A violent hurricane raged in the Irish Channel on January 4th, and great damage was done to shipping. The ship Alfred D. Snow, Captain Welley, which left San Franciso on August Ist fur Liverpool, loaded with wheat, was lost nt the entrance of Waterford Harbor, and every member of the crew, twenty-five in number, was drowned. Ttie bodies of the captain and one of the sailors were recovered as well as the ship's papers. A portion of the Fasnet Rock tumbled into tho sea, terrifying the lightkeepers, as they feared the sea would undermine the base of the lighthouse, Approach to the rock by boats during the srorm was impossible, but when it lulled a landing was aftected and measures taken to make things secure. The inquest in the case of the captain of the vessel revealed the fact that the master of the lifeboat refused to go to the rescue of the ship's crew because of the roughness of the sea. A witness stated that the crew of a fishing vessel burst open the boat house and manned the lifeboat, but too late to be of any use.

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS,

Movements of Russian troops and transportation ot wnr material on the frontier have ceased, The latest reports show that these movements originally referred m,ainly to displacements effected within the frontier provinces.

Eight Nihilists, convicted of attempting the life of Hie Czar, during his visit to the Don Cossack country, were hanged at St. Petersburg on Jan. 2. It is said tha'; the budget surplus of 34,000,000 roubles will be expended in building new forts and railways in Russia. Russia has ordered all horsemen on the Gallician frontier to be ready for war at a momeut's notice.

SUPPOSED MURDER OF A REPORTER.

A despatch from London of Jan. 6th sayß the body of Archie McNeill, who went to France to report the Smith-Kilrain fight for the London Spostsman, unci who has been missing since, was found on the beach at Boulogne-sur-rner. There were distinct marks on the throat, showing that lie had been strangled. Ho was known to have had in his possession when hist seen Bank of England notes and a watch, all of which are mhsing. A post mortem was made en the 7th. The body whs not swollen. The nose was broken and there were several woianrls on the head. In the pocketei were found some pencils, a pair of Bd'ssorß; telegraph blanks, and an account of the fight. The opinion is that the unfortunate man was robbed and then thrown into the water. The police on Jan. Bth received an anonymous letter, enclosing the Bank notes from McNeill's body.