ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1815, 13 November 1888, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

The Zealaudia, with the San Francisco Mail, arrived at Auckland on Saturday last. The following is a summary of the intelligence brought by her : Advices from Zanzibar of October 19th state that the natives had risen against the British at Matnbos, and there bad been desperate fighting. This is the point of the departure of tbe proposed caravan of the British-African Association for Wadelai. Sir Richard Webster and Sir Henry Jamas abandoned the Timea defence on October 11th. This action is construed by many to mean that the great journal has no case. A new building is proposed at Westminster for monuments of distinguished dead, the Abbey being nearly full. Lord Sackville, who died in London recently, bequeathed everything unentailed to the Queen's Maids of Honor. Sir Lionel Sackville West, British Minister at Washington, inherits the titles, estates, and £IO,OOO annually. A rich petroleum well has been discovered at Anderson, Cheshire. A battle took place on September 291 h in Hayti between General Tbolmoyes' forces and those of General Legitima, beginning at 7 o'clock in the evening and lasting all night. Tholmoyes was kilied. and a large number were killed and wounded on both sides. The Munich newspapers gave on Oct. Bth details of a plot to assassinate the Emperor William while in South Germany. It Buys that Anarchistß left Switzerland with tbe intention of blowing the Kaiser to pieces with bombs as he was passing through Wurtemburg, and that the route was therefore changed. Th« Novostia, of St. Petersburg, pubJibbed on October 9th three diplomatic despatches Irom Rome disclosing the uegotiations betwean England and Italy for a maritime alliance against France. Signor Orispi desired Lord Salisbury to

sign a definite treaty, but Lord Salisbury decline-!. The agreement remains embodied in the communications exchanged.

Count De Lesseps and his son are making a tour of France, lecturing on the brilliant prospects of the Panama scheme, and inviting subscriptions to the lottery loan.

Father Schuyler, the inventor of " Volapuk," died in Paris on Oct. Btb. The Holy Office at Eome has sent a note to the Bishops of France condemning eremation, and ordering them to adhere to interment.

" "The Yeoman of the Guards" is the title of Gilbert and Sullivan's new opera produced for the first time at London od Oct. 3rd. It nus a popular success. 1 Polydore de Keyser, Lord Mayor of 1 London, who is a native of B9lgiuna, was banquetted in Brussels on Oct, 9th. He was treated in every way as a guest of the kingdom. Archbishop Cranmer's tibrary, one of the finest collection of literature of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, has lately been discovered, after having been so long entirely lost sight of. A block of seven-Bterey buildings and a three-storey block opposite, on Buchanan street, Glasgow, were burned on October 14th. The loss is estimated at £500,000Four firemen were injured. The fund for Mr Bradlaugh amounts to £2485, sufficient tc wipe all his debts off.

Tom King, ex-champion of the English prize-ring, died in London on October sth.

There have been violent storms in the North Sea, and several fishing smacks which arrived at English ports report the loss of some of their crews by bsiDg washed overboard. The channel steamer Yollare sank at the docks in Liverpool on October 9th, the water rushing through a port that had carelessly been left open, She was loaded with miscellaneous cargo. The Corn-millers' Association of Leeds advanced the price of flour Is 6d per 18 stone, (bus waking a rise of 8s 6d within eight weeks. The enhanced valaes of American and the poor quality of the English wheal caused rhe advance.