ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1791, 18 September 1888, Page 4

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

The R.M.S. Alameda at Auckland on Saturday morning.

GENERAL SUMMARY.

(Dates from Europe up to August 4th.) The ironclad Warrior, while cruising up the Channel on August 32, discovered a wrecked balloon and rescued the aeronaut and three companions clinging to the basket ropes. They had ascended at Antwerp on the 20: h.

O’Donnell, who recently lost his libe 1 suit against the Times, cabled his solicitors from Paris on August 24th to bring a suit against Mr Parnell tor charging him with collusion with the Times.

The Umbria won the ocean steamship race, beating the City of New York. Tho time of the winning steamer was six days four hours from New York to Quesnstown. Mr Parnell has retained Mr J. B. Balfour, formerly Lord-Advocate of Scotland, and Mr Asher, formerly So-licitor-General for Scotland, in Mr Gladstone’s administration, to conduct his amt in the Scotch Courts against the Times,

A despatch dated London, August 10th, says there is deep concern over the destruction of crops by rain and cold weather. Meetings of landlords and tenants are being held to consider the situation, and the conclusion reached is ihat English farmers must abandon wheal raising; that the uncertain climate, coupled with foreign compatition, readers it impossible to make wheat pay as a crop.

Advices of August 23rd from Zanzibar say that an armed force landed from an American gun boat and cut down the Sultiiu’s flag staff, and removed the flag. Armed parties also landed at other points and acted in a similar arbit«ry manner. Five thousand ship builders struck at Befai-t on August 21st for increase of wages. This was due to a strike of 300 boiler-makers. When the strike was announced the employers decided to close the yards entirely.

L my Donovan, of New York, the champion bridge-jumper of the world, leaped from Clifton bridge over the river Avon, on August 7th, and met hi*death. Tiiia bridge has the highest span of any in Great Britain, and Donovan made the leap without any special preparation for the feat. There was an ppareot collapse of the body before it leached the water, and the unformnatt iirni i« btdeved to have died in mid-sir. His body did not riao to the surface after •‘inking. Donovan had previously leaped from Brooklyn Bridge, Niagara, and London Bridges. He was 24 years of age, a compositor by trade. Mis body was afterwards found in the water at Depiford, Ti.e sailors who displaced the Chinese hands on the last trip of the Alameda at Sydney, and manned the steamship on bar return to San Francisco, were given a reception banquet by the Seamen’s Association of the latter city on August 23. Ii was a very earnest and successful affair.

Queen Victoria arrived at Renfrew on August 22nd, on her way to Glasgow, where she was to visit the exhibition on the same afternoon. The houses wendecorated with flags. Sir H. Ponsonby, private secretary, refused to present to Her Majesty a petition pr ying for Mr Dillon’s release. At Glasgow an address was presented by the president of th> exhibition to the Queen, who replied in fitting terms.

Ihe force of police detailed in 1882 to protect the various members of Ihe British Ministry was withdrawn on August 21st. While preaching in Manchester cathedral on August 11th, Bishop Harris, of Michigan, United States, was stricken with apoplexy and fell unconscious. He died oa August 21st. The revival of the English shipping trade is now considered as permanent, .’lid nearly all the vessels laid up on the Tyne have gone into commission. The steward of the British ship Doyendy Hall, sentenced to be hanged for murdering the captain during the voyage from San Francisco to Liverpool, waS respited on August 20th.

The card-room hands in the Blackburn mills went out on August 15th, the employers refusing to grant the 10 per cent advance in wages demanded. 10,000 men will be affected, as the strike became general, and the whole trade is paralysed. The banquet in honour of the Cabinet Ministers was given by the Lord Mayor at tbe Mansion House on the night ef August Bth. Regarding Ireland Lord Salisbury said that the great curse of that country was poverty. The Government was able to do little to diminish the poverty or to enrich men. He main tained that the Government had been successful in lessening the tyranny exercised by associations over the Irish people. If the Government of Ireland .■ as administered tor a few years with the same judgment and firmness as now, liberty and prosperity would be reassured to the country. The Parnell defence fund had reached £4OO (? £4000) on August 23rd. Scotch la were report that it will be easy to delay the trial of Mr Parnell’s action against the Times until the commission of enquiry has reported to Parliament. The Gaz-tte of August 23rd publishes a proclamation ordering the suppression of he National League in the Baronies of Longford, Oaaitirea, and Olankea, and revoking the operation of tha Crimes Act in various parts of the Queen’s County. Th« Emperor William attended at the unveiling of th« monument to Frederick Charles at Frankforlon August 16th. At the breakfast he gave a toast “To Ge'm-'n Unity,” and said that 46,000,000 Germans would die rather h»n deliver a single stone of AlsiceLorraine to tha French. He also said “O e th'ng I must add, gentlemen. We all know each other too well to entertain such thoughts ; yet, I must defend my departed father against the shameful suspicion that ha could have relinquLhod any port of the gains of the Great War.” The speech caused a depression on the European Bourses. German newspapers of all shades of opinion expressed approval, while the French journals preserved » dignified silence, which is regarded as significant of the intensity of f. eling created by the Imperial speaker’s words.

The striking worßmen resumed work in a number of the shipbui'ders’ yards at Calais on August 21, a sign that the strike had suffered a total collapse. Admiral Kranlz, Minister of Marine) has given orders for the equipment of eight ironclads, to reinforce the French squadron in the Mediterranean,

The first through express train from Paris reached Constantinople at midnight on August 16th. The Albanian garrison at Metzorn, cxtsperated at the non-receipt of their wages, revolted on August 23rd, burned tan houses, killed a large number of Christians, and plundered many shops. Advices received in London on August 16th report that Cetewayo’s son is insisting on a full sovereignty in Zululand, and refuses to submit to the civil rule of the British.

According to a London despatch of August 19th, the Japanese Government has decided to spend £10,090,000 in lire Teats purchasing men-of-war. The Pope receive! tho Cardinal on August 19th. He is represented as very weak and worn, and is still forbidden to take exercee in the garden. Rhumatism is his principal ailment. Tho reports regarding the wheat In Russia received up to August 22nd show the prospects of ihe summer wheat to be promising. The yield of winter wheat will reach the average. It ia expected that the wheat crop in India will reach 260,000,000 bushels of sixty-seven pounds e*ch. This will ensure a good average quantity for export, A pitched battle occurred between Opportunists and Boulangiste, at Tean Daugeley, Charente Infentuae, on August '2th, who had gathered to do honor to General Boulanger, He arrived on an electioneering tour at 4 p.m., and provoking remarks being directed against him by persons on the outskirts of the crowd, a batt'e ensued. Cuts and thrusts were given with tho utmost ferocity, and the partisans of the General being in the minority, fought with the savageness of despair, Comte Dillon was knocked insensib e by a blow on the head. M. Perrin, a friend of M. Louis, the mayor, who oppO:ed Boulanger, fired at the latter, and a friend, M. Raizgran, threw himself before him and received the bull in the back of the bead. Four other shots were drad into Boulanger’s carriage. One of his horses was bidly wounded in the sbouldor. The gendarmes charged on the crowd, and restored order. Paris was excited over the affair, and crowds paraded the streets at night, some shouting for Boulanger, andaome reviling him.

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

San Francisco, August 25,

The giant powder mills at West Berkeley, across the bay from San Francisco, blew up on August 24 h, and five men who were working therein were burned to cinders. Three were Chioese. The Mercantile Fire Insurance Company of New York has retired, after thirty-seven years of business, crowded out, the directors say, by larger companies. During a fire in a paper m ! ll at Neen >k, Wisconsin, on August 23rd, a large rotary bleacher exploded, killing eighteen persons and wounding seven. The fatal explosion was caused by the firemen turning the hose on the bleacher while it was •ed hot.

The steamer City of Chester, a coaster, belonging to the Pacific Steamship Company was run into and sank by the steamship Oceanic, a big Chinese liner oelonging to the W.O. »nd 0. Company, on the morning on Wednesday, August 23rd. The collision occurred at 1 a.m., in t dense fog, off A'catraz Island in San Francisco harbor. The damage done to the Oceanic waa not material. Ten of the Chester’s passengers were lost—either crushed or drowned.

The British ship Folly, of Halladale, 161 days from Calcutta, arrived at New York on August 22nd. it took her nine weeks o double the Cape of Good Hope. The mortality among i ofants in Washington, D.C., where 800 have died since April last, and where the death rate at present (August 23rd) is 10 pec day, is charged to impure milk. Not fifty gallons of pure milk are daily sold in all this large city. A fire, attended with great loss of life, occurred in a six-storey brick building on tbs Bowery, New York, on August 4th. Some twenty persons were burnt to death, and many seriously injured. The place was occupied by Polish Jews, working at tailoring. The Chinese Restriction Bill was passed by the United Stites Senate on August Bt.h, It provides that from and after the dale of exchange of ratifications, or pending (he treaty between ths United Slates and China, signed on 12th August, 1888, it shall be unlawful for any Chinese person, whether a subject of China or other power, to enter the United States except as the Bill provides. The exceptions are Chinese official, teachers, students, merchants and travellers for pleasure or curiosity who shall first obtain permission to travel from the Chinese Government or any other Government of which they may at the time be citizens or subjects. The Bd! also passed the House on August 20 h withent a dissenting vote. Giving testimony before an Immediate Investigation Committee at New York on August 9th, Herr Most, a leading anarchist, said there were half a million socialists —Germans and others —in the United States at the presect time.

Fredk. von Oberkarapft and Thomas J. Mask were, before the Federated Grand Jury in St. Louis, Mo., on Anguat 14th, charged with wholesale robbery of letterboxes, extending over a period of two years, and involving the theft of thousands of loiters, cheques, and drafts, aggregating in all l,000,000do'«. in value. Yon Oberkampft c’aitns to be of a noble German family, and was employed as translator and writer by the St. Louis Daily Stadia Zitung. A serious, and at the same time singular, accident happened to Mis Cornelius Vanderbilt, wife of the New York milliona're, at Newport on Anguat 14'h. While out driving a runaway horse landed in her carriage, knocking her out of the vehicle, and so cutting her face with its hoofs that the lady is disfigured for life.

Lawrence B. Jerome, father of Lady Randolph Churchill, died in New York on August 14 I). He wan celebrated in his w,.y as a wit, and bon vivant. Yellow fever has become epidemic in Jacksonville and other towns in the State ( >f Florida. There were Hglitren cases in the town mentioned on August 13th, and new c»ses were developing in all quarters. and murkiness were the atmospheiio conditions. Gangs of men were employed io clearing the streets of garbage and old rubbish, and covering them with coal-tar, and pirch pine fires have bean burning for days. The panic has driven away a large proportion of the people. The food supply is cut short, and most of the hotels

and restaurants are dosed. The factories are closing up, throwing many hands out of employment. Great privations are dreaded by the unemployed. All the Southern States have quarantined against Florida, but infected people manage occasionally to evade the cordon smitain, and it is feared that fever may become general in the south. THE WHITE PASHA. A despatch of August 17th from Suahim, to the London Times says; “ Reports concerning the presence of a while man in Bahr El Gazell district are confirmed. He is known as Obu Digna, and has a force of enormous strength, including a large number of half naked men, probably from the Niam country. This is a strong point in favor of the idea that the white man is Stanley. The Khalifa of Khartoum has sent a force of 5200 men against him." The Negus of Abyssina has sworn to capture Khartoum, and the Khalifa is greatly alarmed. The latest despatch says that the natives arriving at Suakim report that several white men accompany, the “Bearded White Pnaha,” and if this is true there canj te no doubt of the identity of the leader, as Emin Bey has no white folowers.

It h officially announced that the forces of Congo State have recaptured Stanley Falls station.