ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1850, 7 February 1889, Page 4

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Auckland, Feb. "5. The R.M.S. Zenlandia from San Francisco, with English and American mails, arrived at 9 o’clock to-night. The vessel brings the following dates London 'December 26th, San Francisco, January 15>h. Her news from Samoa is to the 23rd instant, and therefore is not later than that brought by the Wainui. GENERAL SUMMARY, (Dates from Europe up to January 14th.) Messrs Oxhead, Coldsraer, and Co., Jewry, London, foreign agents, failed on January 7th for £147,000. The seventy-ninth anniversary of Mr Gladstone’s birthday was celebrated in England and Italy on Dec. 29th. Among hundreds of letters and telegrams received was a most cordial missive from Mr John Bright, now convalescent, to which Mr Gladstone feeliuglg replied by telegram. A sergeant who formerly belonged to the Egyptian army arrived at Suakim from Khartoum on Jan. 3. He left the former place on November 23. He says Emin Bey was free at the time he left, and had repeatedly defeated the Dervishes in Babr-01-Ghazel. This story disproves the report of Oamnn Digna, who claims that he cartnred Emin Bey on Oct. 10.

A despatch from the agent Ward, at Leopoldville, confirms the opinion of leading African explorers that Stanley was the white Pasha in Bahrel-Ghazel, and was at Bonolya. on the Upper Aruwimi on August 17th last; that ho did not leave there on Anguft 28, “presumably to rejoin Emin Pasha,” but that he set off at the latter date either to explore the Makua or to cross the continent towards Lake Ohad or tho Upper Benue.

The expedition to be headed by Stevens, the bicyclist, to search for Stanley and Kmin Bey, is being organised by the New York World. ' The crofter population of the island of Lewis is Buffering for lick of food. Potatoen and other crops are exhausted, and the people are on the brink of atarvation. The Shah of Persia, after visiting St. Petersburg in April, will make a tour of the other European states, including England. Mong Kow, Chinese agent of the Cana-dian-Par ilio steamship line «t Vancouver, was in Ottawa on January Btb, in reference to the head tax on Chinese immigrants. He interviewed the Minister of Customs here, and represented that Chinese merchants and others were interested in a scheme for the immigration of a mdlion of Chinese to the United States, British America, and Australia, and that the present tax of 50 dollars u head is an obstacle. It is feared that When this largo movement of Chinese is made, the Canadian Government will at once raise the tax to prohibitory rates. It is thought that the Canadian-Pacific Company are endeavoring to influence the Government in favor of this scheme, as it will bring millions for transportation, Mong Kow intimates that a friendly understanding with the Chinese Government and a satisfactory issue of the negotiations would result in increased trade between China and Canada immediately. It is now thought that the Murchison letter, which cost Lord Sackville West his position as British Minister at Washington, was written by an Englishman named George Osgood, of Pomona, California, who °is a member of the St. Geoige Society. Ha hud no political design whatever in doing so. Mr James Gordon Bennett has bought, it is said, the plant of the London Globe, and that the paper will be transferred into an edition of the New York Herald.

The London police have received, and traced lo their origin, letters which lead them lo believe that “Jack tha Ripper” is living in the vicinity of Drury Lane, and seem confident that the c ue upon which they are now working will result in the murderer’s capture. Mr Gladstone has recently written to the Rome correspondent of the Tablet denying that ho has at any time recommended that the restoration of the Pope’s temporal power be made the subject of international arbitration'.

There wore 40,000 people present when tho To Deum was sung at St, Peter’s, at Home, on December 30th. Speaking of religious matters, the Pope’s encyclical complains of Ihe tendency of the rge towards material interests, and that such tendency is strengthened by worldly pride, an evil press and drama, a demoralisation of the arts, and education in the schools of materialistic and atheistic tendency. Socialism and Nihilism arc also tho outcome of this tendency towards material things. Tho Freeman’s Journal says that the Times sent a man to Puebh) to induce Sheridan to testify before the Parnell Commission, promising that if he proved satisfactory he would be paid £IOOO for his testimony. After his examination was concluded Sheridan declined, saying that he did not desire to meet the fate of James (Lrey. Sheridan is president of Han Louis YGiey, at a point 149 miles south-west of Pueblo, on the other aide of the mountains. Ho is regarded as a typical Irishman.

A witness named Reeves, agent at Cork for several Limerick papers, was sent to gaol on January 7th for contempt of Court for refusing to testify from notes taken of Parnellite speeches.

IRELAND. One hundred and twenty priests have signed a protest against the imprisonment of Father Kennedy, who was found guilty of attending meetings of a suppressed branch of the National League. Two sergeants of the Royal Irish Constabulary were elected members of the National-League at Mitchelstown on Jan. 14. They say their action Is a protect against the employment of the military in making evictions. The number of policemen detailed to protect Secretary B dfonr was increased on Jan. 7, in consequence of a report that the Invinciblos were planning to murder him. The attempt to evict O’Donnell, a tenant at Donegal, on Jan. 9, led to a five hours’ fight between his friends and the police, lie was finally dispossessed and arrested. The crew of Dublin University have challenged the Yale College crew to a race provided the latter go to England this year. Yale will pfopatdy accept. The Hon. Cornelia .Petie, sister of Lord Dudleigh, was killed in the hunting field in Comity Tipperary, on Dec. 28. Her horse stumbled, she fell from the saddle,

her foot became entangled in the stirrup, and she was dragged to death.

EUROPEAN TOPICS,

At the opening of the Reichstag on Jan. 14 the Emperor William said the foreign relations of the country were friendly. The speech was frequently applauded. Prince Bismarck was not present. The Empress of Russia is ordered to reside at Nice. A thorough change of scene is declared to be necessary, in order to prevent a complete breakdown of her nervous system.

By the lapse, on Jan. 4, of tho famous Eforgo Tontine, the Government gets l,ooo,ooofrancß and an annuity of 1,250,000E.anc5. Of the 115,000 subscriber twenty are living, all of (bam being over 100 years of age, M. Rochefort fought a due l , on Jan. 14, with M. Lissig Ray, editor of Le Bataille, using swords. Ray received a mortal wound, Rochefort was a'so wounded, but not dangerously. Prado, the murderer of Mario Aquetant, was executed in Paris on the morning of Dec. 28. Ha was unconcerned, and acted as if l e were simply an onlooker. He made no confession, and sraiied blandly when his arms and logs were pinioned. Ho refused the services of the priests, and shed tears dramatically at the ignominy of the guillotine. The few words he muttored were unintol'igihK A large crowd jeered when he cume from the gaol, and shouted with satisfaction when tho knife fall, AH night long there was a great howling mob outside the prison, bohemians from the streets, loungers from tho avenues, workmen in blouses and women with children in their arras. They could see nothing, but still they remained, jostling, crowding, hooting, and shrieking. There were numerous accidents. Women fainted and were carried away by the gendarmes. Many had rented rooms weeks before, in the immediate vicinity of Roquelte, to gratify their curiosity. After the execution tho crowd dispersed in an orderly manner.

In Belgrade, on Dec. 19, a mob smashed the windows of the Austrian Consulate, shouting “ Down with Austria.” During the performance of the “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” at the Opera House, Berlin, on Dec, 30, the Princess Adelberta of Bavaria was seized with a violent attack of hystesL, and had to bo removed. It is now believed that she has become insane.

A Russian sailor was sentenced to tea years’ penal servitude at Sf. Petersburg on Jan. 7, for murdering seven persons on shipboard, in revenge for hard usage by the captain.

Famine and drought prevail in the interior of China, causing terrible sufferings.

AMERICAN.

The recent municipal elections in Boston will be nullified, on account of the misuse the women made of their voting privilege. They are only supposed lo vole for school trustees, but, in a large number of instances, votes were cast for the whole ticket, from the Mayor clown. The surplus in the United States Treasury at the dose of tho year 1888 amounted to 80,000,OOOrlois. The express car of rn eastward boniid overland train on the Central Pacific Railway was stuck up on Dec. 24 by two young men only partially disguised. They succeeded in getting away with 50,000d015. Tho train men say the robbery was the neatest and best job of tho kind on record. The fund of Plymouth Church, where tho Rev. Ward Beecher-formerly preached, in Brooklyn, was reported bankrupt on Jan. 11.

Pedro Divo, the Italian brigand, who disembowe led the Marquis Sanduzzo in Italy, some lime ago, and who hid in the mountains, was captured at Stanford, Connecticut. Divo tried to bribe his captors, but failed. German West, of Utah, opposes the admission of that territory into the Union, on the ground that the Mormons are unfitted to exercised the rights of citizenship. Mrs Jay Gould, wife of the American railway magnate, died in New York on January 12 from paralysis. The American anarchists have been pursuing Johann Moet, once their lender, a» a “ liar and scoundrel.” He has applied to the New York police for protection.

Strong efforts are bsing made by the National Woolgrowera’ Association before the United States Senate Committee for an increase of duties on nil grades of wool, particu'arly on carpet and washed wools. There is no probability, however, that the Committee will increase the rates over those contained in the proposed Revised Tariff B'i). It leaked out in New York on December 23rd that the Marquis of Queensberry, who had just left the city for Enadand, had been following the London Gaiety Burlesque Company around tjio world out of wild devotion to Marion Hood, the prime donna. Charles Guck, a 14 years’ old hr.y, entered a dynamite magazine at Mount Pleasant, Ohio, on -December 14th, smoking « cigarette. The magazine contained 210 kegs of powder and ten kegs of dynamite, Guck was blown to atom?. Several moo wore badly hurt, and nearly every h mse within a mile of the scene was torn to pieces. Less than thirty yards from the magazine were thirty tons of dynamite, which d'd not explode. The Onnard liner Umbria, which loft New York on January 5, passed Brow Head at five o'clock on the afternoon of January 11, making the passage to Queenstown in six days two hours fortyfive minutes, beating the best record. Thu Rev, Fielder Israel, pastor of First Unitarian Church, Salem, Mass., and prominent in the Masonic order, cut his throat in the vestry room on Jan. 4, He died instantly. The American hotel keepers are to have a trust o lied the Hotel Mutual Association, which will be almost world-wide in its scope. The schema originated in England, and is thoroughly organised for that country ; and it is nearly ready for work on the Continent. According to. the prospectus of tho Association, the capital stock, is placed at £150,000 for the present.

One of the biggest land deals on record has been consummated 'vith the Briziiian Government by New York, Pittsburgh, and Washington capitalists. The principal object of the promoters of the scheme is (o develop the valuable diamond and goldfields in Western Brazil. The grant is for between 60,000 and 60,000 acres bordering on the upper Amazon River,