ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1920, 23 July 1889, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Auckland, July 21. Arrived—-Zealandia, R.M.S., from San Francisco.

GENERAL SUMMARY. (European dates to June 29th). Bier Majesty the sueen will in future permit divorced ladies, who are thempelves blameless, to enter her, presence, w This indulgence caused a rush to court. ’ The amalgamation ' ofo the cattle aud fresh meat interests of T. 0. and Joseph Eastman, ot New York, and’Johiy'Bell and Sons, of London, Glasgow,/ and Liverpool, was effected on June 18th, and the stock of the new concern known as Eastman’s limited, has bean subscribed for in London. The capital is 4,605,000 dollars. The business in which 801 l and Sons are engaged is selling meat shipped to Great Britian, principally from America, Australia) Now Zealand, and River plate. The firm has the largesttrade in Great Britain.

, Modification has been made in the Russian import duties. The duty on raw wool, shoddies and worsteds, is raised from 25 to 100 per cant; on starch, 7 per cent; on wax 25 per cent. The tariff on rice is lowered 20 per cent. Cardinal Piece, the Pope’s brother, was reported dying oo June 20th. The Council of Switzerland has decided to borrow 16,000,000 franco with which to purchase repeating rifles for the army. The Russian army is to be equipped with new rifles of small calibre, manu- lr factored in France. , , , The Bombay Gazette publishes a state- i raent that the Brigadier-General of the ,A. British army iu Madras had been attacked by leprosy. i 'English capitalists are investing heavily in American, industries;' A report made on June 24th showi they have put at least 200,000,000 dollars in them within a year, and if they continue they will soon gain complete control in many directions. 10,000,000 dollars had been offered for the watch factory »t Elgin, Illinois. Despatches from the Isthmus, of June 11, say the canal collapse caused great suffering, which still continues. Panama has resumed its quiet appearance of twenty years ago. Sales by auction of household furniture in the city is tm--1 precedented, and all merchandise disposed of at much below its value. The line along the scene is now a scene of complete desolation. One of the canal dredges, which coat 200,000 francs, sank in a creek in the neighborhood of Lavernilla, on the Ohagres river, and no attempt will be made to raise it till next dry season. The Springfield cotton mills at Oldham were burned on June 27th. The loss ia £IOO,OOO, IB The steel torpedo dopot ship Vulcan was launched at Portsmouth on June 13. She ia 0620 tens burthen, and of 1200 horse power. The Vulcan is intended to accompany the fleet and carry a large equipment of torpedo boats. Ten steamships sailed from the Mersey on June 14th, with full orews procured outside the ranks of the strikers. The Seamen’s Union refused to j order the strike off, but it is virtually beaten. The y shipowners of Liverpool unanimously refused on June 13th to grant thß.adr3jß.ca of wages demanded by striking seamen. Mr Carnegie, the American millionaire, gave a banquet in honor of Mr and Mrs" Gladstone at the Hotel Metropla, London, on June 18th. The diningroom was decorated profusely with colours showing the flags of England and the United States conjoined. There were .thirty guests present. , j The chief sensation in London for the week ending June 22nd was over the “ Prince of Wales’ leper.” London took exceptional interest in the circumstances surrounding the death of Father Damien, the missionary priest at the leper colony of Molokai, in the Sandwich Islands. The Prince in his speech at the .meeting to consider a scheme for the foundation of a leper hospital, declared that there was a. leper employed in a' London pleat; market. At this a fearful outcry was made by the butchers, and columns of protests were crowded into the papers until the identity of the man was revealed. He proved to be a native Englishman who had never been out of the country and who made a living by peddling ox tails. He’,is an undoubted leper.

The Princess Stephanie, whoso .husband (Prince Rudolph of Austria)'committed suicide, will soon be able to go to Vienna, says a London despatch of June 220 d, and to the Austrian court,' 'which she detests. According to law she is obliged to remain in the capital as long as there is the possibility of a posthumus heir being born. At the end of a fixed time she ydi| take up her residence in a villa, on Lake Lucerne. The house in which the young Prince killed himself at Meyerlihg,/is being pulled down. The orders of the Emperor are to make every effort to obliterate the scene of the midnight tragedy, and it to be forgotten. \

PARNELL COMMISSION.

When the Parnell Commission resumed its investigation oh June 18th Mr Parnell’s appeal against the postponement of The T mes libel suit was dismissed with costs. The Appeal Court decided that the delay had not damaged Mr Parnell’s character, The Times haying admitied tha libel and paid money into Court. Mr J. F. O’Connor, ALP., testified before the Commission on the 20th that the turning point in the agrarian struggle in Ireland was the rejeclionof the Compensation for Improvements Bill. Thereupon tenants were compelled to combine in accordance with Mr Parnell’s policy, which substituted constitutional agitation for revolution and open for secret combination. In his evidence before the Comrm°aioa on June 16th, Mr Thomas Sexton, Lord Mayor of Dublin, said that he was not opposed to Fenianism. He also said that ho regarded Alexander Sullivan, now under a cloud in regard to the ChicagoGronin murder case, in the same favorable light as when he eulogised Kim iu his speech at the Land League Meeting in Boston in 1884. The witness having stated that he had been asked to join a Fenian society, but refused to give the name, Attorney-General Webster pressed him for it without avail, and an angry scene took place between them. At the request of Mr Parnell, Michael Davitt will not give his testimony unj the defence closes. .Sir Charles Russell will ask the Court to permit Davitt to make an address in his own behalf before he gives his testimony. Davitt proposes to show that Government employees

planned dynamite outrages and put them into effect. James MeDermott, residing at Hamburg, has offered to appear before thn Commission to disclose the intrigues of Government agents and giveproof of their connivance at outrages. Mr Parnell, however, is adverse to treating with McDermott.

ft: r ;• Canadian news., :

” 'LorcftA. W. Cecil, the Evangelist, was drowned in the Bay of Quint, near Adolphus. Town. The body was found in the afternoon a few feet from Sythe shore. He had just come from lErockville with his servant. The deceased, Lord Adalbert Percy Cecil, was a son of the second Marquis of Exeter, and a brotbpr of ..the present Marquis.. He was formerly a lieutenant of the Rifle Brigade, and been stationed in Canada. He was forty-nine years of age. A barge used ito carry passengers and , K freight across the S..,,Maurice .River, near Quebec, became unmanageable on Jane !■?; 22nd, and was swept over the Grand.Fal!, two miles below the station. Besides the crew a large number of passengers were ' on board, but just how many lives lost has not been learned. All the bodies :<i recovered' were horribly mutilated by contact with the rocks in the current. An /> /estimate' placed the number drowned at twenty. i’i' At Toronto, Ontario; on the 25th, fifty persons were prostrat 1 and fiteen exii peoted to die from drinking lemonade in the town of Woodstock. Sugar of load : was found to be one of the Ingredients of the drink, which was served at a picnic. The druggist made a careless mistake in giving that substance for tartaric acid. A crowd started to hunt the druggist to lynch bins, after they had raided bis shop and scattered bis.stock broadcast.

AMERICAN SUMMARY,

San Francisco, June 29. ■ Maria Mitchell,The well-known Astronomer and Professor of Astronomy at Yassar 1 College, died at Lyhnmast on June 28th. She was a daughter of General Mitchell, U.S.A. Frederick D. Prentice, a Now York ’ 'millionaire; was’ awarded i on June 28th by Judge Parrish, of the Circuit Court, ■the pesseasioß' of half of Deluth; The property is valued at over 5,@00,000d015. . St; Paid, Minn., : residents ! have I been victimised to the extent of 500,000d01s ic the waj of real estate sales by swindlers making false impersonations, r ;,,Four border bandits entered a Bank in Fellwide, Colorado, on June 4th, and . while one of them hold ,the clerk and assistant cashier in a garrotte-like grip, the three others despoiled the institution of over ; 20,000d015. The robbers got safely of with the plunder. The purser of the R.MS.S,, Zsnlandia, which arrived at San Francisco on June -,Bth, from Sydney, N.S.W., reports .the death en route, of Mrs E. Pickering, a passenger. She died on May 29th. Portions of towns on the Missouri were ; devastated, on June 20th, by .a wind end rain storm of great violence. Many houses wera blown down, churches were wrecked, and'several persons killed. Four Mormon missionaries were flogged neatly fo death at Hinosboroughi Missouri, on June 24th for proselytising. The deed was committed by twenty masked men. Captain Murrell, who recently rescued over 500 passengers from a Danish steamship on the point of foundering, was presented on June 24th at Baltimore, Md., • with tile insignia of knighthood of the order of the Dannebrog, sent by the King of Denmark. John E; Moore, attorney for David D. Houston, of Middletown, New York, has began a suit in equity against the city and county of San Francisco and a namber of other defendants, claiming a large portion of the site on which the city is built, under a grant from Manuel Micheltorona, a former Governor in California, to one Fernando Marchina. The complaint states that the monthly rentel from this property is 5,000,000 do!., and usual recovery is prayed. The suit is considered a huge blackmailing scheme. • , The Navy Department has directed that ' on and otter July 4th, 1889, the natidnal flig en all the Government vessels of the

United States shall bear forty-two stars in honor of the proposed new States, The War Department, on the contrary, will not alter the Army color till the formal admission of these four States.

Searle, the Australian scalier, was id training for his Thames match against ,O’Connor on June 220 d. He says of his opponent“ i do not underrate' his ability in the least. From all I can learn, he is a first-class sculler, but I hays made : my mind to beat him. and I think I shall .■ be able to do it, barring accidents, I feel very strong, and 1 thiak I shall row ' taster on the Thames than I ever have done in Australia.” Mrs Sarah Jana Whilling, was hanged on June 25th, in Moyamensing Gaol, Philadelphia, for poisoning her husband and two children, to get the insurance on . their lives, amounting in all to 400do)s. She was quite at ease, and said she did not “ mind hanging more thm sitting down to breakfast.” Dr McDow, in gaol at Charleston, 1 awaiting trial for killing Captain Dawson, an Englishman, the editor of the News and'Courier, was elected surgeon of an influential Charleston Military Company ‘ on June 21st, Disregarded as significant of the drift of public opinion in the case. Wm. J. Hilton, a wealthy merchant.of Franklin, N.Y., who was thought to be dangerously ill, deliberately burned 30,000 dollars in greenbacks and Uovernbonds on June 21st, to prevent his wife, with whom he had a. disagreement, and his son, who is a profligate, from inheriting. An attempt was made to find the merchant insane, but the jury declared him of sound mind. Two newspaper editors of Thibodeaux, Louisiania, had a stout fight on June 10th. Nonquin, the editor of the Sentinel, was killed, and the other, Facquet, of the Comet, was shot through the head, but is expected to recover. By a decision of the Treasury Department, Washington, on June 4th, those officers of the new Catholic University now being erected who are foreigners ' engaged abroad cannot bo allowed to land - under the law prohibiting the im- ' pdrlation of contract labor, Professors or ..... trackers are not excepted. A .lively electric storm on June 16th played havoc in New York and Now ► Jersey. The Church of the Immaculate Conception in Now York was struck by lightning, also two, churches in Newark, N.Y. The damage in both cities amounts to 100,000 dollars, in this is included

the destruction of the Standard Oil Tanks at Communipaw and (he National Storage Dock at the. same place. A number of lives were lost, and great damage to property was also caused in Maryland and Kansas.

At the State election held in Pennsylvania on June 18th, over 75,000 majority was given against the amendment to the Constitution prohibiting the general sale and use of intoxicating liquors. Great efforts were made by the temperance people to influence the vote in favor of the amendment. Brass bands and, groups of children Binging hymns could be seen and heard everywhere in the principal cities during the polling hours, while numbers of women argued with and almost beseeched voters to deposit amendment ballots. Great damage was caused by the bursting of a dam en the evening of Jane 17th in Kansas. Uniontown and Bellatown were flooded, and several lives lost. A tornado struck the cemetery of ftliddletewn, N.Y., on June 17th, and cut a way through it 500 ft wide, tossing and whirling huge granite and marble monuments in all directions, bursting the shrubbery and uprooting the trees. The tornado spent its fury among the graves. Monuments weighing as much us five toss and costing many thousands of dollars were ruined,

A license was issued at the State Capitol, Chicago, on Jnne 11th, to an organisation called the American Execution Company, the avowed object of which is to take the burden of all executions off the hands of sheriffs. Chicago ia the headquarters of. the Company, but the area of operations will be as wide as the United States. The necessary preparations will be made for using electricity to take the life of the condemned, as ordered by the law of New York State. The capital is 25,000 dollars.

DESTROYED BY FIRE. The city of Seattle, on Puget Sound, one of this moat important in Washington Territory, and which gave promise of Speedily distancing Portland, Oregon, and becoming the metropolis of the northwest, was almost totally destroyed by fire on June 6th, The city was burned from the water’s edge to the hillside, the area ravaged being 120 acres. It was started by a workman over-turning a glue-pot in a cabinet shop. Before the fire bad been burning aa hour the water gave out, and the people were utterly helpless to control or stay the flames. They stood idly by and kaw their city burn. There was no fire department to speak of. The total loss is between 10,000,000J015. and 12,000,000d018., but rebuilding recommenced almost before the ruins had ceased to smoke. Four lives were lost, one of these being a thief, who was shot by a policeman while in the act of looting. Seattle was the county seat of King’s County, Washington territory, and located on a apacious and placid harbor in the Middle Sound, a short distance south of Taioma. Its population had increased from 6000 in 1883 to 30,000 in 1887. Five railroads centred in it. The city was the headquarters of the Puget Sound business, all of the steamboat linos, whh two exceptions, making it their headquarters.

A TEXAS EPISODE. ■An incipient race feud was commenced between blacks and whites in Bastion County, twenty miles from Austin, on June 14th. At the last election the negroes in the Cedar Creek precincts elected a Justice of the Peace and a constable, both ignorant cornfield negroes. A few days ago Alf. Litton, a white man, went to a negro’s cabin to expostulate with him for sending insulting messages to himself and his wife, For this he was arrested by the negro constable and breught before the negro Justice for trial. Litten, wishing to step outside the Court a minute, asked permission, Hia lawyer said “ Yes.” The negro constable said “No.” Disregarding the latter, Litten started for the door, when the negro fired, killing him. Instantly on this a desperate fight commenced. The black fellows present delivered a perfect.volley of bullets, and when the smoke cleared away and the firing ceased, it was found that three white men were killed and three badly wounded, A negro had also been killed by a stray bullet. The negro Justice and bis constable mounted horses and fled. The negroes, it is said, had been waiting an opportunity for this massacre a long time. .

ROSS A EXPOSED, The libel suit of O’Donovaa Dossa against editor Cassidy was dismissed in a New York Court on June 13th, after the most damaging evidence had bean given against Rossa, which proved him a traitor to the Irish cause. It was proved that he had received ISOOciols from Patrick Ford, of the New York Irish World', for the families of prisoners in English gaols, of which he only distributed 300dols. Cassidy, the defendant, caused a great sensation in coart by submitting a letter from Henry Labouchera, dated Twickenham, April Ist, 1889, showing th»t Rossa was in receipt of secret service money from the British Government, and that he (Labouchero) in his place in Parliament had objected to voting away the money of the taxpayers of Eoglaud to go into Rossa’a pockets.