ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1827, 11 December 1888, Page 4

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

" Auckland, December 9. i The tf.M.S. Alameda, with the English and American mails, arrived from Sao Franciscjo this morning. She brings news to the following dates:—London, November 3rd; San Francisco, JNovember 18ib. GBNBKAL SUMMAEY. from Europe up to November 17 ) '" t 'There'have been violent'galea and.many wrecks on" the west coast of Great Britain. 1 Despatches ot the 16th say that the Norwegian barque Byathea Thomasen was wrecked at Üburcbkay, on the west coast. No lives were lost. At Glasgow the dome of theexhibiiion building was deraolishfd. The ladies' industrial department in the building wis wrecked, and much other damage done. His Bnlinesß the Pope has named Decetabfr 81s! for special thanksgiving services in the Catholic churches throughout the world for grace during the yeiir of tie Papal Jubilee. fliggiphothacn's spinnins; and weaving millß'at Glasgow were burned down on December ls». The lose is £40,000. '' Russia is reported to be buying largely hay, grain, and other army provisions, in Podolhvand the district of Kuff.

.; In an to Birminghrnm Nationalists on November 4th, Mr Gladstone said that the Irish cause was no longer dependent on one life.; On,the journey from Birmingham to Wolverhampton, accompanied by Mrs Gladstone, the exFremjer was heartily cheered along tie route' except at Snowbill and Oxford, where he was.hooted ; the crowd at tht* latter p'ace was largely made up of undergraduates. The Norwegian barque Nor, from New Tork to Steitin, with patrol-urn, cold led with the oteamer Sandraundham in the - Enjriiih Ol annel, on the morning of Nov. 4th. The latterJWbsiunk with twenty- : (wo cf the crew. The barque w«s badly damaged, but able to proceed on liet ~ voyage. Cupt»in Jonrjeas, of the Nor, disclaims all responsiiuiiiy, and says that the steamer ran into him while the weather was perfectly clear. Signals of distress "-ere made to passing steamers, but they declined to render any assistance. The wages of the miners employed in the Lanarkshire colery have bet-n adTanced 5 per ceu'. The trade committer have advised the jute spinners of Dundee '■' to make similar advances in the wages of employed. " The Nun of Kenmare " (Sister M,»ry Francis Oars) as she was generally kiio/va, * 'Has given up tbo Catholic faith, resigned ■'■ her religious duties, and gone into literary workntUtica, N.ST. The steamer Nantz and the German Bfaip Theodore Ruger, from Hamburg for Sydney, came into collision on Nov. 9;h, flurty-six anlbx off Lizard Point. Both vessels sink. A portion of the ships ciew was landed at Trouviile. The faie r»f the rect of the crew and of the ateamsi's crew is unknown.

Chin* has ordered £75,000 worth of j arms and munitions of war from the firm of Ladwig and Lowe, Berlin. j Negotiations for a Turko-German treaty were concluded on November 10th, and the draft submitted to the Sultan. Cardinal Massotti died in Home on November Ist. The rumor that the pending Russian loan will be for £25,000.000 instead of £20,000,000, together with the movements of troops on the western frontier has created strong feelings of uneasiness at Vienna. The Duke Maxmilan, brother-in-law of the King of Bavaria, died on November 15th. A despatch from Stuttdgart of Nov. 14th, mentions the official announcement that all the King's American favorites had been directed to depart, and left Wurtemberg at once. The Babylonian explorers sent out by the University of Pennsylvania, heretofore reported as shipwrecked in the Mediterranean, have arrived safe atSindh. CrlonelPrejuvalsky, Bussian geographer and explorer, died at Tashkum on Nor. 2nd. ' ' _ ' The Patriarchs of Constantinople and Athens have refused to set aside King Milan's divorce from Queen Natalie. The Home Government has promised to strengthen the defences of Canada along the frontier by the establishment of garrisons and batteries, and also to increase the force in British Columbia. The total strength of the force is now 3700 men. The British steamer Black Watch foundered on Nov. 12th in the Mediterranean. The fate of the crew is unknown. The Vatican has authorised an expression o; its satisfaction with the election of General Harrison to the Presidency of the United States. While the budget of the Minister of Foreign Affairs was being discussed io the Chamber of Deputies, on Nov. 15th, an amendment waß proposed to abolish the embassy to the Vatican. It was rejected by n vote of 300 to 217. M. Goblet said :~" As long as we live under the regime of tbe Concordat, it is necessary to mintain relations with the Vatican for the training of clergy and the appointment of Bishops aud Cardinals. The importance of our protectorate over eastern cmirtrisH also requires the mainteuance of friendly relations with the Vatican. It had been said recently that the Pope could no longer count upon any country but France. That does not mean, that France will intervene to restore his temporal powor, but the Pope having been deprived of that po*rer, the more France ought to honor him by curtailing nothing of her respect for tbe high authoirty he represents." fhe ( feeling against the Salvation Army is increasing in O»lifornia. On October 29th a detachment was rotten-egged in the streets of Petaluna, and driven to their Barracks. The citizens propose to run the Army out of town.

THE WHITEOHAPEL MURDERS. Lb Temps, of Paris, professes to believe tlnit a lunatic Russian named Nicholas Wasmley, released from the Asylum at Sebastopol in the early part of this year, is ihe Whifpchtpel murderer. That journal soys that he kilid and mutilated h vvoainn in. 1882 after having been jilted by ii Parisian grisette, and was finally iirrented wiile trying to kill an.ol.har ...wom.:in. tie was committed toan insane asylum, where he was confined until discharged as cured. Sir Obarles Warren, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, resigned on November 12th. Thia was Bupposed to be maicly due to popular outcry over his failure to capture the Whitechapel jourderer, but his letter to the Home' Secretary stated that the resignation was 1 mainly due to his refusal to submit to the ruin: which forbids public officers to criticise the Government they serve. On ihe 13tb, the police were confident of being on the right track of the White-' chapel murderer. Two persons had been fon id who saw the man who hid accompanied the last vioHm.to her room on thought of the murder. Their description of the man tallied in every respect. The Birmingham police have lately shadowed a man whom they suspected because he waß in the hubit of travelling to London on Sundays. They arrested him in London on November 17th, and at once took him (o Scotland yard for examination. He is a doctor, who formerly held a good posilion with a good practice. Prisoner greatly resembled the individußl seen in company with the latest victim on iha evening of the laat murder.

A despatch from New York, dated November 17th, Pays that a well-dressed stranger accented a policeman in the street that afternoon, asking "If this was London." He was taken to the station. On the way he said " I fet 1 very strangely. I guess I have been iasane. The list time I remember being away I was in London." At tho police headquarters he gave the name of Henry Johnston, and said that he ived in the best district in the West End. Several photographs of English ladies were found in his pockets, aleo a card bearing the adslrens " Mary Johnston, Whiteohapel, London.' He mentioned the Wbitechapal murders. A dispatch from London of November 9th siys—There has been another horrible murder in the East-end, in a Dorsft street lodging-house, where a woman's body was cut into pieces. The head was savored, and placed beneath one arm. The ears and nose were cut off, and. the trunk disembowelled. The flesh was torn from the thighs, and parts of the body aro missing The skin was torn off the forehead and cheeks, and one hand had been pushed into the stomach. The murdered woman was married, and her husband is a porter. They lived together at spasmodic intervals. Her name is believed to have been Lizzie Fisher, but to most of the habitues of the haunts she v sited she was known as Mary Jane. It has been ascertained that she told a companion that she was without money, and would commit suicide if she did not obtain a supply. It has also been learned that a man accosted her and offered her money. They went to her lodgings, and she was heard to enter her room with the person, who was judged to ba a man by the sound of his footatips, between 10 and 11 o'clock on tha night of the Btb. No one saw her companion depart, and there was no sound of a struggle dndog the night. She entered the bonsn'with'a latchkey, and no ono saw her eompaoioH, wh.j in supposed to ba the murderer. The victim was found noxt ra'-roi.ig in iho condition described by a neighbour. This murder is the ninth of the series,

Three bloodhounds, belonging to private citizens, were taken to the place where the body was and placed on tbe scent, but were unable to keep it for any distance. . The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police offered a free pardon to any accomplice of tbe murderer wbo will give in- I formation. One arrest on suspicien whs m»de on Saturday. j Considerable importance w«s attached to an arrest rrade on Sunday evening, November 11th. At ten o'clock the inquisitive W hitechapel crowd had its attau'ion attracted to the extraordinary behaviour of a man who had for some time been officiously making inquiries, and generally conducting himself in an .unusual manner, which led to remarks. At last a cry was raised, "The!Murderer." In the prevailing state of the public mind this was quite enough to inflame to anger those standing by, aud a roar, "Lynch 'him," was heard. He was immediately seized by infuriated persons, principal y women, hustled about, and burled to tbe ground with a badly fractured right arm. Fortunately there were pleuty of policemen about, who interfered and took him 'to the station pending inquiry. He is stated to be a medical student. Up to November 12th not the faintest clue to the murderer had been obtained. A woman's body was found floating in tbe Thames on the morning of November 12th, and another murder was suspected. The body was not mutilated, however, and was well dressed. Some marks indicated foul play, but it is probably a case of suicide. The police arrested one man wbo had a bowie knife in his possession, but no reason to believe that he was instrumental in the woman's death.