ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1731, 1 May 1888, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

AUCKLAND, April 28. TJj,' U.M.p, Maripoia airivsd »hi* morning from San Francisco. Ihe follor/ioft •* a summary •! the intelligence brought by her GENERAL SUMMARY, Los»on, April 8. Th* British barqaoPrinceii wsb wrecked offCrsiiiioka, Portugal, on Marchi "31st, , sndtwenty-thren persons wer», drowned. ■lAAvas reported that the .local custom* officers pretexted the saving of liras by tiririt upen ’ the Portuguese lifeboat thu, Jud gone to thvir rescue. ' , A 'despatch from India, received on April 2nd, s»ys. thui the Due d’Orleans, the B’renoh Royalist leader, had a narrow esetpe from being devoured by a Bongs* tiger while on e bunting expedition. The Indian budget estimates for 1887-8 show a deficit of £1,448000, without counting £569,000 spent for special defences. The deficit is caused mainly by conversion of stock, fall in the rate of exchange, and military expenses in Bu--Bfth. The latest advicn from China, dated , . March 28th, soy -the crisis in Hanan ia passed, but the distress of the people i* appalling, 2,000,C00 persons being utterly destitute. The nearest towns are being invaded by hordes of naked and starving refugees from the flooded districts, who, like! swarms of locusts, ?re devouring them. A murderer who had been released on tiokaLof-liave near T< rapesbsr, Hungary, on April sth to the house of the iu w ho had condemned him and killed MpMiife. He then went to the house of a notary and killed ihe letter’s deputy. From there he went heme end split the skulls of his wife and obiid, after which he fled, md has not been captured. Advices from Bokhara dated April oth .. say the Grand Tizier of that place has been murdered by A h»iive. The Ameer . ordered .the murderer and his accomplice to be executed, and they were thrown from a .tower 180 feet high. Mr Balfour told tha English Working Men’s Federation on inarch 26th (tut - America ia the moat Conservative country in the world," and EoeUn i second in this respect. The steamer Ntwhaven, laden with potatoes, and accompanied by two gunboats, arrived at Amu Isle*, relieving the Irish population. Mr GiUiooly, M.F., »»« »“•’ t to Cork Oapi on Maidi 31« i for lao »• • k*. lie Was convicted of assaulting a po.ipe in' ppeotor. When removed from ihe gaol

at Schule he refused to dress, and the police knocked him down, pulled on his trousers, and took him away. The Gaiety Company will leave London for Australia on April 28tb. Mr George Leslie and Miss Nellie Farren are among the members.

Mongredieo, the writer on Freetrade, died in London on April 4th. Mr Gladstone is reported as saying—- “ One can do nething in this Parliament. Our duty is to force a dissolution as soot as we can.” One of the results of Matthew Arnold's late visit to America is a severe criticism from his pen in Nineteenth Century, on the institutions and the people of the country, which’ will delight every one who dislikes the United States. H* makes the broad assertion that civilisation in Ameriea is a failure.

An exhibition of relics of the House of Stewsrt, sanctioned by the Queen, is about to be opened in London. The result of a sham fight, on April 2nd, on the southern eoast of England, showed the weakness of the defences. The invaders were technically successful at every point, notably'at Portsmouth and Eastbourne. They brought against the guns st Portamonth, which have a range of only 2500 yards, guns Of 7000 yards range. Sir Charles Dilke’s recent strictures are now receiving mere attention. Heavy snowstorms were reported in the ooflh of England on March 28th, also storms of violence with much damage at Brest, in France, and in Spain. It is reported (March 27th) that it Has been found necessary to Mr Raskin in a private asylum for the insane. Recently, while he was at Sandgata, ho had a freak of ringing bells throughout the, day, having purchased them for that ipnrpose. He then became violent. There » no doubt that his mind is failing. An Oriental mail at London on April let, brought news of a terrible earthquake in China, by which 15,000 persona perished. Huge chasms opened with the shocks, and engulphed masses of unfortunate people. Water of Hood-colour issued from the fissures.

A special despatch of April 7th from Monte Yidoo reports the loss of the loss of the steamer Kin Janeiro with 120 passengers. Mr Samuel W. Brooks, father of H. M, Brooks, alias Maxwell, under sentence of death for the murder of Prdler, has written a long and touching appeal to the Americin people to help him to save his son from the gallows. GERMANY. The Emperor Frederick has ordersd the rebuilding of the Cathedral of Berlin on a scale of magnificence more worthy of the greatness of Germany. The Emperor’s amnesty, proclamation applies to Press offences, insults to the Emperor, misdemeanors in exercise of civil rights, and infractions of, the laws regulating public meetings. By the will of the lata Emperor, Dr Mackenzie will receive the Grand Cross and also the Star of the House of Hobenzollern. The Emperor's savings do not exceed £2;600,000. Prince William has the same malady as that which Tendered King Yilliam the Fourth insane. The court phyeicans say it is not dangerous, but advise the Prince to travel. .' ;

The Emperor’s physieiana hare sdviied a course of massage of the Isgs as a subBbitute for making a trip to Wiesbaden, which the woaihir forbade. He is considering ihsiietai's.of-a new constitution for Prussia, hie collabaratour being Dr Friedberg, Minister of Justice, Nothing sines the accession of the Emperor Frederick has occurred that has so strongly animsted the Prussian Conservatives against the Empress is the Battsnburg marriage, question. All the Radical newspapers treat the Battenbnrg question with disdain, cs of no consequence to German politics, and ignore the fact that Prince Alexander of Battenburg is only a chord in the gene/al discord struck on the part of the Empress, The Empress Victoria, replying to addresses presented on March 27th by seventeen Associations of Berlin of which she is Patroness, said her foremost end roost sacred duty was to c&re for her suffering husband. She wn conscious of the task developing upon her as Queen anoL Empress, and would sccomplish it to the b*st of her ability. At. the same time, she was reminded that she had other .social duties, moral and intellectual—the education of woman, the sanitary condition of the laboring classes, and improvement in facilities by which women may earn their livelihood, being constantly! before her. The noblest vocation of a princess, she laid, was an untiring activity in the work of ameliorating the sufferings of the laboiiag classes. Owing to the difficulty of her task, the Empress doubted whether she would succeed as fully as she desiie'.