ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1956, 15 October 1889, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

The R.M.S. Zialaodia arrived at Auckland on Saturday evening. Among her £BBBengerß ware Mr John Murray, Sir H. nek ■ (Governor of Victoria) and Lady Loob. The following ifi a summary of the Mail news: — ' GENERAL SUMMARY. London, Sept. 22. The English admirals made their report on the recent manoeuvres of the British fleet on Sept. 13th. They find that the machinery of their best vessels and of the torpedo boats was in constant need of repair, and that the rate of spaed attained was far below what is considered necessary for effective work. Almost all the fast cruisers failed to steam their nominal spaed or maintain pressure when it was reached. In winding up their criticism on the machinery trials, the admirals say that, in view of the failure of ordinary boilers of hieh steam pressure, the experiments as to the practical employment of tubular or coil high pressure bailers will be followed with interest. Mr Joseph Chamberlain in a speech at Birmingham on September 2nd advised the Government before introducing an Irish Land Bill to submit to Parliament a resolution declaring Ireland, equally with England and Scotland, entitled to have national endowments for educational pur P °ln reference to this subject, Michael Davitt writes to the Pall Mall Gazette denouncing “ the abandonment of the single plank Home Rule platform for the mess of a Catholic University pottage.” He declares that the stand taken upon the question, together with the vote of the Irish members on the Royal grants, is a sorry exhibition of Parliamentary opportunism.

AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Francisco, Sept. 30. The Eastern importers of French prunes have entered into a compact to undersell the Californian article, with a new to discourage the cultivation of the fruit on the Pacific Coast. The French prune sells fer 6i cents; the Californian, same grade, for 7j.! The elective franchise for women was made part of the Constitution of the State of Wyoming on September 19t Some missionaries recently returned from China have managed to get up a mild scare by giving out that China intends to invade the United States out of revenge for the Exclusion Act of. the Executive. r . The Committee of the National Associations of the Wool Manufacturers, representing the industry throughout the United Stales, met some prominent manufacturers in consultation at Boston on September 17th .to consider what measures can be taken towards securing relief through Congressional Act, The industry is in dire distress owing to tho fact that a high tariff on raw wool has kept the domestic clip at such a stiff price that mills are run, at a loss by those who buy at such figures and try to compete with foreign goods. The members read papers on the subject, which was narrowed down to two alternatives, a lower tariff on wool or a higher duty on manufactured clothes. The American Wool Reporter of September 4th quotes the Boston market as most satisfactory, declaring the end of the stagnation in wool HP.eina- to have been reached, and the mills that, have been holding out for lower prices have given up and are beginning to try to fill accumulated orders. A parly of workmen were imprisoned by water in the Allegh«»y coal mine, Cumberland, Maryland, on August 30th. One of the number, Michael Bradey, •volunteered to take the news of his companions' safety io the surface. To do this lie had Ip dive down about 20ft and then swim through an incline under water 50ft long before he could reach the mouth of t he shaft. The men were all saved. At a base- ball game, played in Darlington New York, on September 4tb, the umpire, Wm. Marshall, was instantly killed' by Louis Dargan, for making what he considered a wrong decision. He knocke d Marshall’s brains out by a blow with a h’eavy bat .... Captain Annesbury, of the American barqJe Jennie Harknees, writes from Manilla, according to a New /ork despatch of Sept.- 3rd, that all American ships visiting the Philhp.ne Islands are in dangerof being fired by the crews. - His vessel was ignited by means of oil spread over it bv his own men. He bad difficulty in persuading them to put it out. The , British-Americaa ship Favommr was also 'fired. She was in port, bound to San FrancisCO. ir t. r> The sea rose in New York Bay on September 10th. and did considerable damage; The Manhattan Beach Hotel at Coney Island was flooded to the deors, and the occupants had to leave. The Oriental Hotel was in much the same condition. The West End Hotel was submerged, and the water flawed over to Sheep's Head Bay. Manhattan beach was washed away. There was great damage at ficckaway, where the sea ran very high. The cellars in West street, New York, were flooded. The village of Florence, Wisconsin, was visited by an earthquake oa Sunday, Sept. Bth . .Tbeearlh’s crust cracked open three inches wide. The machinery of a great mill was also thrown off the line and the shafts bent. The Boston paper manufacturers received a circular on September 16th from •an English syndicate, asking if any paper imills in that place could be bought, which would be likely to prove a safe and profitable investment. The Duke of Sutherland and the English syndicate with which he was connected, 105t2,000,000d016 by tho abandonment of the Great Bear’s Nest Goldmine, in Alaska, Y. The following despatch was received from St. Paul's, Minnesota, under date August 26th: A young Australian named Charles Watson, employed during the last three months as a common laborer in this city, has to-day received news of the death of his father, J. B, Watson, known to fame as the Australian Bonanza King, by which he' succeeds to an inheritance of three million pounds sterling. Young Watson and his family bad been at loggerheads on account of his

marriage with an actress, who died recently while filling an engagement in a San Francisco variety theatre. The fortune consists of mining property, including tho famous Bendigo mine at Ballarat, and several business blocks in Sydney, Melbourne, and Auckland. [Watson ia reported to have sailed for Sydney from San Francisco by the steamer on September 12th, but his name does not appear in the passenger list of the Zealandiaj which left for Sydney via Auckland on that date, and the officers of the Zaalandia, in reply to a question asked whilst the vessel was in Auckland harbor, said that they knew of no such person being on board the boat.] A desperate prize fight at Sts. Louis on Sept. 17th batwesn Edward Aherna and Thos. E. Jackson, 18 years old, resulted in the death of the latter after eleven rounds. ; Chicago detectives, assisted by Scotland Yard officers rounded Coney, LeOaron, and Reilly, Chicago correspondent of the London Times, who are prepared to give full information ot the conspiracy that led to Dr Cronin’s murder. . The relief committee have decided to distribute more than a million and a half dollars to the Oonemaugh Valley flood sufferers. Carlisle Graham went through Niagara whirlpool rapids on August 25th in a barrel of his own construction; The mile of rapids was shot through in three and a half minutes. Ha was taken ont of the barrel more dead than alive. . Tho racial war between whites and blacks in the State of Mississippi is continued. Many negroes have been killed and in some localities whites have left their homes and sought safer quarters. An engineer named Henry was killed at New York on September 2nd. Ho was fixing wires on an incandescent dynamo, when his ladder slipped, and, while he was holding one wire, his free hand caught another, completing the cireuit, and he was killed by an alternating current of 100® volts. A similar death is reposted from Buffalo. . Mrs Lawrence, of Brooklyn, committed suicide at Niagara on September Bth by throwing herself into the rapids above tho great falls. She was swept over the cataract. The British warship Lily was wrecked off Labrador coast early in September, and seven of her crow were lost. She was a screw steamer of 720 tons. The warship Emerald brought the survivors to Halifax. Excavations were being made on September 3rd at the suburban town of Oaracsn, Mexico, in search of the Emperor Montezuma’s treasures, supposed to have been hidden at the time of the Spanish conquest. There is a decided movement in Mexico on the part of English and American capitalists in the direction of acquiring sugar estates, , A financial crash was reported imminent in tho Argentine Republic on September 3rd. The premivm on gold has reached 125 per cent. ; That portion of the crew of the British iron-ship “ aarston," lost of Standard Islonds, which got ashore at Humphrey’s Island, arrived at ’Frisco on September 6th. The Press of America is much exercised over a letter addressed by the pugnlist John L. Sullivan at Boston to the New York Evening Sun, announcing himself as a candidate for Congress. He expects to be elected to his seat by the Democratic constituency in Boston, where he was born. He says his fellow contrymen ought to feel proud of him as an American, because he can lick any man on the face of the earth. TERRIBLE GALE. ■ A terrible gale commenced on Tuesday, September 10th, and lasting till the 13th, wrought destruction along the eastern seaboard. The centre of tbe disturbance was near Cape Henry. Thirty vessels went down off Wilmington, Delaware, and reports of wrecked vessels, with many lost lives, come from all parts of the coast. Ocean City, Maryland, was reduced to wreckage, and the damage to Lewis, Del., and vicinity will not fall short of two million dollars. At Longbranch, the watering place on the New Jersey coast, the topographical features of the coast line, were completely altered by the violence of the surf. Tbe bluff from the Branch and jfilbaron will soon fall into the sea. Coney Island, the New York popular summer retreat, was a scene of desolation, being strewn with wreckage from one end to the other, and those who built houses on the sands monrn losses mooing into millions. Here also the old topographical lines have been completely obliterated. At the height of the storm the waves at the battery, New York, where the Caslla Garden Immigration Dep»: is located, swept over the sea wall into the street. Never "in tbe memory of the oldest inhabitant had the tide run so high, and it crept on the night of September 10th up to the street levels. In some'cell era along the city front nine feet of wa*er was reported. The pier at Atlantic City, N.Y., was swept away, and the sea also destroyed one of the largest hotels, and several houses have disappeared. Numbers of pilots from Now York were compelled to make involuntary trips 1.0 Europe on the ocean steamships, not being able to disembark. It is conceded that this was the greatest storm known on the Atlantic seaboard in twentyfive years. At Lewes the loss is estimated at 3,000,000 dels., at Coney Island 250.000 dole., Rockaway 700,000 dols., Longbranch 195,000 dols., Atlantic City 50.000 dole., Albury Park, N.J., 30,000 dols., and other places’ in the same proportion. ' JACK THE RIPPER. A despatch from London, September 101 b, says (hat Jack the Ripper is making good his threats. Shortly after five o'clock a.na. the police found the body of a public woman under the railway arch of Cable street in the Whitechapel district. The remains showed the usual fiendish work of the Ripper. The head and arms had been cut off and carried away, the stomach ripped open, and tbe intestines were lying on the ground. The usual police precautions were takeh without discovery. The region is so carefully guarded that policemen pass the spot every fifteen minutes. The physicians who examined tbe body state that the murder and mutilation must have occupied nearly an hour. It is surmised that the murderer carried off the head and arms in a bag. The crime was committed 200 yards from tbs spot in Berners lane where Elizabeth Strike was similarly murdered on September 30th, 1888. There is a clue to the murderer. Another account says the body of tho present victim was found at the back of Church lane, at the extreme south end of Whitechapel. The arms had been skilfully amputated, and the body completely disembowelled. No blood was found, either on the ground or on the body, which shows that the murder was committed at some other place, and tho body afterwards carried where it was 1 found. Three sailors sleeping under an i arch near by were arrested, but were dis-

charged, as there was no evidence against (horn. The woman was a streetwalker, about thirty, and evidently a hard drinker. Her name was said to be Lydia Hart. A story was set afloat that the dismembered corpse was not “Jack the Ripper’s” work, but that some medical students had conveyed it to I lie place where it was discovered, from a surgical amphitheatre in the neighborhood, as a ghastly joke. This, however, did aot obtain credence. A letter signed “Jack the Ripper” was received by a local news agency in London on September 17th threatening another Whitechapel mnrder in about n weak from that date. Lawson Tail, tho eminent gynecologist, in aa interview on the 20th September, srid that he was of opinion that tho Whitechapel and Battersea murders were committed by the same criminal, who is proi bably a lunatic woman employed in soma slaughterhouse, and subject to fits of epileptic furor. THE ANTWERP CATASTROPHE. London, Sept, 22. Dynamite exploded in the cartridge factory in the vicinity of the Bourse at Anewerp on September 6th, killing many people. The factory was adjacent to the petroleum stores, and a large Russian petroleum warehouse was on fire. The explosion was in the workshop, where a large number of old castings were being taken to pieces, and many employes were breaking up cartridges. F ully 250,000,00© cartridges were in and about the premises. None of the employes of tho factory at Oerevillennes were found alive, nor was there a corps intact. The explosion was like an earthquake, and broke nearly every window in the city. On September 7tb the petroleum district still burned like a volcano. That part of the city was lighted with a lurid glare, and the balance covered by a pall of dense smoke. Troops and firemen worked in relays. Some were token to the hospital, some suffocated by smoke, others shot through and thrrough by flying projectiles or maimed by falling debris. Ballets flew around like hailstones, and those who sought to escape through the streets were shot down in their tracks. A number of sailors and customs officers were killed on board the ships by flying bullets, and the ships were ri idled by the missies. It is estimated that 200 C tons of cartridges exploded. The noise was heard for 30 miles, and with the smoke that filled the air (he occurrence was like that ot a great battle. This effect was heightened by the explosion of barrels of oil and the falling ruins. Limbß and fragments of bodies were found at incredible distances from the scene, in some cases half a mile away. Over a hundred and thirty whole corpses lay in the morgue, while charred heaps of human remains represented the unknown dead. Many persons cut off from the city and pursued by the flames jumped into the River Scheldt and were drowned by the dozen, or were burned to death by the blazing oil upon the surface of the water. Among those who lost their lives in this manner were many workmen of the factory and about the petroleum stores. About 11®,000 barrels of Russian petroleum were burned. The flames covered two acres of ground, and rose to an immense height. Many of the workers to the heat and smoke, and had to be conveyed to the hospitals on stretchers. All had blackened faces, and bore evidence of the sickening effects of the. smoke that clogged their efforts. The city waterworks with the vast, elaborate, and costly machinery, were destroyed partially and rendered useless. These works cost £1,000,000. The doeks and shipping were untouched by the flames, as the wind was toward the town continuously. Beyond the Russian oil tanks nnd Nobel’s sheds, numerous houses were burned, and when the conflagration was finally suppressed on September Btb, it was found that the village of Arstravelt, inhabited by artisans, had been completely destroyed, and in its vicinity no public buildings had escaped damage, and portions appear as if bombarded. The number of dead will reach 200 and over. Cerevoton, the, proprietor of the cartridge factory where the explosion took place, was put under arrest. The official report shows ,135 persons killed, 20 missing, 100 seriously, and 200 slightly injured.