ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1838, 8 January 1889, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

The R.M.S. Mariposa arrived at Auckland on Saturday. The following is a suujmary of news brought by her; GENERAL SUMMARY. ~ j A woman named Gallagher, just arrived at Queenstown by the s.s Umbria from New York, was arrested oo December ID. She had 50 dynamite cartridges concealed inter dress. ■ Mr George Routlege, the publ'sher, died on Deo. 14th. ' It wa s officially announced on Dec. Idth Mihat the Pope never intended to leave Rome. . „ , In a cheap restaurant in Bermondsey, London, on December 10th, a man made an unprovoked attack on the landlady s daughter, and cut her throat. Her life was endangered. Great excitement prer vailed, as the assailant was supposed to be “Jack the Ripper." Dr Jomblely, late arrested in London on suspicion of being the Whitechapel murderer, and then discharged, was missing on December Ist. Be arrived in New Toirk, and is there under police survei fiance. , . ~ A sensation has been caused in Rome by the refusal of the Pope to bless a number of medals and relics sent to him by Irish priests in -Ireland. In refusing to perform the act the Pope sternly said “I cannot bless them. The people ot Ireland are disobedient. They seem to <■ prefer the gospel of Dillon and 0 Bnen to the gospel of Jesus Christ.” The London Standard of December 13th says the letter written by Osman. Digna to Sir Wm. Grenfell asserts that the Mahdi had an engagement with Emin TBey and defeated him, and the latter s \troops baying mutinied Emin and the ‘White traveller” surrendered to the . Mahdi, and wore held prisoners. He will surrender them provided Egypt abandons ' Suakim, otherwise they will be executed. - ■ A man named Houston, Secretary of the Lisb Loyal and Patriotic Union, is said to have sold the Parnell letters to the Times, and that he bought them from Richard Pinot, by whom they were forged. ■ A boy named Husband, 11 years old, who was the first to give notice of the discovery of a boy named Searle, who was found in a dying state in the streets of Havare, a market town in Hampshire, on, November 27tb, with his throat cut, was arrested for the murder, The crime was undoubtedly committed in imitation of “Jack the Ripper," the unknown Whitechapel murderer. The Hon. Mr Wolverton and five other Englishmen were on December 2nd elected members of the Mifcbellstown branch of the Irish National League. Lord Salisbury, in a speech at Edinburgh on November 29th, declared him- ‘ self in favor of women suffrage, and said that ho hoped the day was not far distant •when women would be allowed to vote. As Gilbert’s new pl«y, “ Brantmgham Hall” was produced at St. James a, on November 30th,. aud condemned. Gilbert took its cool reception so much to heart that ho refused to appear when some

friends called on biaa. Mrs Parsons, the widow of one of the executed Anarchists of Chicago, left ; :kimdon on December Ist, disgusted with ’fAer cold reception by the British branch. The intended evictions from the Olaoiicarde estates on November 10th, failed, the officials having refused to furnishit military force to protect the bailiffs, the peopls lighted bonfires in rejoicing. Senator George Hearst, of purchased the Derby winner Ormonde (said by the Standard to be “ a roarer ) on December 7tb, paying £17,000 for him. Ormonde was taken seriously ill after the A* petition in favor of a decimal coinage in England was signed by 70 members of Parliament on December Btb. fe'ir Morell McKenzie resigned from the College of Physicians, London, on November 18tb, having been censured for a violation of professional confidence in connection with the Emperor Frederick s illness. . • ; t George Beed, an Englishman, who was related to General Sir Frederick Roberts, lulled himself at the Richelieu Hotel, Montreal, on November 24th He loved an actress in Lydia Thompson’s burlesque troupe, who refused to reciprocate his P LordHartington, and the majority of his followers', formally resigned from the National Liberal Club on December 14 Tbe statement that General Harrison, who will succeed Mr Cleveland in the presidency of the United States, wijl urge • the annexation of Canada vigorously, has caused considerable excitement in the Dominion, and gives Liberal politicians of that country, the most of whom are annexationists, renewed hope of carrying their favorite measure. In the opinion of those who are well acquainted with the -v temper of the people of Canada, the anjnexatioo proposal will never bo seriously •atertained. A fatal disease, known as anthrax, is making serious hovoo among herds of cattle near Calgary, in the North-west Territory. The Canadians dread lest the British Government should order the slaughter of their cattle immediately upon >ding in England. Such a course would - aot!y affefct the Dominion cattle trade, u is announced, that a large popular neony paper is to be started in Italy to - SL/the lower clases in regard to “e Papacy- Ttotolini! article. *'ll be written in thfl Vatican. Lord Lonsdale and two companies have been met by the Hudson Bay factors, who iZrZ the fact at Winnipeg on Noyembe? 26th that they were in good health , irmo* thflir wav northward ob foot. . is travelling i.'the interests • of the Scottish Naturalist Society, and °„ceeee» bio confidence in reaching 8 pXt farther north than b« jet been attained. , jffecent borings in the Baku oil distnci, Tlo»Hia produced warm water instead of fSe’ern, and it i. feared the «„l, of oil is becoming exhausted. Th e Spanish Cabinet has approved the grants the suffrage to all persons over twenty-five years of age who have had residence of two years in the i. .p except officers, soldiers, same plai’o, v ’ paupers and criminals. 1 The Coreaa Foreign Minister at Shang>Ju,a; denies the report of a protective tre.aty haring been Lde by Coro. nithEnsste. France and Holland will submit to arbitration , the dispute concerning tb« boundary line between then respective in Guinea.

Fifteen millions of florins were given in charity, on December Ist, at Vienna, in honor of the fortieth anniversary of the Austrian Emperor's reign for buildin? hospitals, churches, and schools. Several avenues and parks will be laid out to commemorate the anniversary. A despatch of December 10th says that thirty persons had been bitten by mad wolves, near the villages in the neighborhood of Arolsen, an inland town of Germany, capital of the little principality of Waldeck. The majority died in great agony. The French Government proposes to settle the Cardinalate difficulty, that Cardinal Lavigiere be transferred from Algiers to Paris. The Pope demurs, as he wishes to bestow the French Cardinalate upon the present Archbishop of Paris, The ex-Empress Eugenie formally announced at Brussels on December Ist her recognition of Victor Napoleon as head of the Imperialist party. She promised a large fund for partisan purposes. The introduction of melinite end other powerful explosives has caused an entire change to be made io the fortifications of the French coast. On the 11th the French Chamber of Deputies by a vote of 545 to 9 adopted the extraordinary Budget for I'BB9, the estimates being fixed at francs. The Bank of France a nnounced on December 11th that subscriptions for the new Russian loan anvounted to 2,500,000 bonds, or 1,250,000 ,000 francs. The German Press attacked this loan, much to the irritation of th e Czar, who said, in an interview with 'Schouvaloff, that such efforts to defeat the loan must be stopped if the continuance of friendly relations between himself and the Emperor William were desired. In the case of General Boulanger and his wife, before a Paris tribunal, on December sth, the lady consented to live with her husband, but the daughter insisted on becoming a nun. Madame Boulanger said to a journalist that her husband was trying to play Napoleon and to make her Josephine. German papers say that the Triple Alliance is in peril. The Emperor of Germany is writing a narrative of his recent visits to the Northern capitals, illustrated with woodcuts by the Emperor, and sketches by the artist Salezrnent. Two German students, named Uichler nnd Benham, disputed and quarrelled in a S9rlin cafe on the n»g,bt of December lltli over Dr Mackenzie'* character. Insults were exchanged, and a challenge given . and accepted. A duel with pistols was fought next morning; Benham waai flhot through the chest at the first firs and died.