NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1898, 30 May 1889, Page 4

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

San Francisco, May 5, Twenty hotels and boarding-houses in the Katskill Mountains have entered into an agreement not to receive Hebrews as guests during the coming season. Professor Sullivan, a teacher of dancing, became Unduly familiar with & pupil named Marietta, at St, Bernardaro, and was shot by the girl’s mother. Minnesota has adopted the Australian system of voting by 26 to 2, Yellow fever has reappeared ia Florida, the outbreak being at Sandford, 100 miles east of Tampa. Mitchell, who accepted Slavin’s challenge to fight for £IOOO, has named England as the place for the contest. Sir Julian Pauooefote presented his credentials to President Harrison on May 3rd in a neat speech, the burden of which was the maintenance of relations of peace and friendship between the two countries. The President replied'in the same spirit. Nagnet, the agent of the Boulangists, is negotiating a loan in London of 26,000,000 dollars. He offers 50 per cent discount. The Duke of Edinburgh, who returned'stricken with fever, was also in distress owing to the abortive attempts made to save the Sultan, wrecked off Malta. A If. Mitchell and Alf. Ball fought h terrible fight of sixty-five rounds with bare knuckles near London on April 17th for £IOOO a side. Both men received horrible punishment. The slogging ended by Ball breaking a bone in his arm at the end of tbe 65tU round, which forced him to give up. Tbe faces of the men were frightfully bettered, neither could see, and friends had ta lead them home. It is no -'-- eo'a' c.; I" n*val exports that |;bo defect pointed on. io the British war vessels have b-ee cop'wl in the construction of vessels for the United States Navj, Samoan affdra co>‘tnn,« to excite interest in political circles, and i fi trd nutter for the newspapers. With the naval authorities in Washington the masterly manner in which the British watship Calliope escaped from peril ia a very sore point. Naval Constructor Richboro does not credit the statement that the-fires of tbe Trenton were extinguished by floods of water that came through her hawse holes. He Attributed the cause of the wreck to insufficient engine power. Tbe Calliope, he says, hc.s 3000 horse-power to 2700 tone displacement ; the Trenton had 3100 horse-power, but her tonnage was 3900. '