ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1968, 12 November 1889, Page 4

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Auckland, Nov. 9. The Alameda, which arrived to-day from San Francisco, brings English papers to October sth, and American to October 20th. GENERAL SUMMARY. (Dates from Europe to Oct. 19tb.) A special London cablegram of October 19tb says that Mr Balfour’s plan of a Eoman Catholic endowment is that the Government designs to found three Eoman Catholic colleges in Ireland which shall be affiliated with the Dublin TJDiversity. Negotia-

tions are now proceeding between Mr Balfour and Archbishop Walsb.

The marriage of Prince Hatzfeldt and Clara Huntingdon, daughter of Callis P. Huntingdon, of the Pacific Coast Eailroad Syndicate, is announced to take place at Brompton, London, at an early date. The dowry, including the payment of the prince’s debts, is set at nearly 10,000,000 dollars. Miss Huntingdon has embraced the Eoman Catholic faith. Green’s paper mills at London were burned on the night of October 19th. The loss is £250,000.

DOU C*U UUWIIJ Huntingdon has embraced the Eoman Catholic faith. Green’s paper mills at London were burned on the night of October 19th. The loss is £250,000. An explosion took place in the Bentville colliery at Laugton, Staffordshire, early on the morning of October 19th. There were 70 men in the pit, and only ten are known to have survived. Fifty bodies were found by the rescuing party. The mine is completely wrecked; An old man and his three sons were in the mine at the time of the explosion and perished, When the news was told his wife and mother they dropped dead from the shock. The Duke of Westminster and other

large holders of real estate in London have organised a determined opposition to the proposed improvements of widening the streets and piercing new thoroughfares, which involve the sequestration of grounds in the heart of the city. The London Chamber of Commerce is discussing a scheme submitted by Mr William Smith, harbor engineer of Aberdeen, for the construction of a railway to convey ships from the ports to the inland manufacturing centres. The proposition is regarded with favor. The legal costs on the Irish side of the Parnell Commission, including the expenses of witnesses and reporters, is covered by the indemnity fund. Sir Charles Bussell received £IOOO for preparing the briefs, in addition to £SO daily. Messrs Reid and Lockwood each received one-balf these amounts. The expenses of the l imes largely exceed those of the Irish side. Meantime, according to a despatch of October 12tb, Mr Parnell’s health grows worse instead of better, and grave fears are entertained that he will be unable to resume his political career. He will winter at Bournemouth,

At Shields, on October 4th, when the Italian armoured warship Formidable was loading 'gunpowder and cartridges, the hoisting machinery became unmanageable, and packages of cartridges dropped from a height to the deck of the vessel. A terrific explosion followed. A naval officer and several men were instantly killed, and several wounded.

President Carnot, being congratulated on October 12th on the outcome of the recent electoral struggle, said that the Republic was still m the hands of its friends. He believed that the success of General Boulanger meant the ultimate overthrow of the Republic, as the party was mainly composed of royalists and anarchists. An apparently inspired article in the London Times of October 11th says that in view of the amount of English capital invested in the Sandwich Islands; England could not see them pass into the hands of any foreign Power with indifference, but that their acquisition by the United States would be regarded with more equanimity than their spoliation by any European Power, to which the British Government would never submit.

AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Francisco, Oct. 18, The Canadian Government has been advised that Sir Julian Pauncefote, British Minister at Washington, returns to the United States with authority to reopen negotiations for the arrangement of a new extradition treaty between that country and Great Britain, also to arrange preliminary matters for reopening the fishery question, and the adjustment of the Behring Sea difficulty. It is learned from the State Department that Mr Blaine has intimated to Lord Salisbury his willingness to dispassionately review the matter in dispute informally before it is formally taken up for final adjustment, to see if an amicable settlement cannot in this way be secured without arbitration or the appointment of a Commission. The machinery of the inclined-plane railway at Mount Auburn, Oincinnatti, which reaches to a height of 250 ft to 300 ft in the space of 1000 ft, became disarranged on October 15th, and the cable snapped with a full car at the head of the incline. It rushed to the bottom with fearful velocity, carrying its human freight with it, The car was broken into a million pieces, and nine occupants were killed. The truck itself and the floor formed a shapeless wreck, which held the bleeding and mangled bodies of passengers. Yellow fever was reported on October 16th to be existing at Key West, Florida.

A balloonist at Eich field Springs made an ascent on September 24th, and while descending by means of a parachute was blown into the lake and drowned. At Eevel, a seaport in Russia, a parachutist named Le Roux, descending from his balloon on the same day, fell into the sea and was also drowned.

Charles B. Bishop, the popular American low comedian, fell dead on the stage of the Lyceum, New York, on October 18th, while playing his part of Adam Butter worth in the first act of “ Lord Chumley.” Ihe finance Committee of the World’s Fair to be held in New York in 1890 adopted a resolution on October Bth, recommending thbt steps be taken to raise a preliminary fund of 5,000,000d01.

Chu Fong, cashier in several Chinese importing houses of New York, is trying to form a stock company bf Chinese to start a Chinese Bark. A Board of naval officers have selected the site for the new United States navy yard on the north-west Pacific coast.

At Point Turner, in New Staten, Washington, an attempt was made on October 9th to poison the Eev. Father Keely, a Eoman Catholic clergyman, of Oneida, -New York, by mixing arsenic with the sacramental wme he used at mass.

A telegraph lineman named Feekes died a horrible death at New York in October. While working at the top of a pole he came in contact with the line wire, and perished in the greatest agony, watched by thousands of spectators. As the result of this, the Mayor, Mr Grant, ordered all overhead wires cut the same afternoon. The Electric Light Companies obtained an injunction, which the Courts will be asked to dissolve, as the Subway Commission have found hundreds of places where the insulating material is worn off the electric lighting wires, and they are consequently dangerous. A scheme is in progress to colonise several states in New Mexico with negroes from Texas and other of the United States. The mammoth tabernacle in Brooklyn New York, occupying nearly half a square, of which the eccentric Dr T. De Witt Talmage is the pastor, was destroyed by fire on the morning of October 13tb, together with several adjoining residences. The fire was started by an electric bolt during a thunderstorm, The total loss is about 130,000d015, including the grand organ. '1 he former tabernacle was burned seventeen years ago. MARITIME CONGRESS.

The first meeting of the Maritime Congress was hold at Washington, D. 0,, on October 16th. The chief question for which it is called is the adoption of a universal cods of marine signals, and a better means of obtaining increased safety in navigation. About 50 delegates met at the State Depart, raent, where the Secretary of State, Mr Blaine, addressed them. Rear-Admiral Franklin, of the United States of America, was chosen president over the deliberations of the congress. The following countries were represented - Great Britain, 7 delegates, including Admirals Moiyneanx, Bowden, Smith, and Nares ; United States,' 7 ; Prance, 5 ; Germany, 6 ; Denmark, 2 ; Belgium, 1 ; Austro-Hungary, 1 ; China, 3 ; Guatemala, 1 ; Hawaii, 3 ; Honduras, 1 ; Italy, 2 ; Japan, 2 ; Mexico, , 2 ; Norway, 2 ; Spain, 2 ; Sweden, 2 ; Siam, 1 ; Netherlands, 2 ; Venezuela, 3. This congress is conceded to be one of (he most important that has been he'd in Washington for second lime, and its personnel is most distinguished, THE COMING ECLIPSE. Orders have been issued by the United States Navy Department to the offieers in command of the warship Pensacola to take Professor Todd and a party to Africa to observe the eclipse of the eua in December, The Pensacola sailed on October 16tb from New York, and will go to St. Paul Do Leonda, on the west coast of Africa. Professor Todd and his assistants will go 100 miles into the interior to make observations, Returning the ship will stop at Capetown, St. Helena, and the Ascension Island, to allow the scientists to make magnetic and pendulum observations. The trip will occupy four months. •FAMINE AT LABRADOR. Bishop Bosso sends word under date October 17lh, from the Labrador coast, that the fisheries had failed altogether, and over 100 families were starving. Captain Seeman, the Bishop’s messenger, tells o story of incredible sufferings. One family lived on the carcase of a dog for three days, when the youngest' child, then the mother, then the eldest daughter succumbed to their intense sufferings, leaving the starving husband and eldest child, The husband was without strength and means to secure a decent burial for the dead until succored by neighbors from Hopedale, It is reported that a father and mother subsisted on the body of their six-months-old infant for days, only then to follow the child by death from starvation,

THE POPE AND SIGNOR ORISPL The Italian Premier, Signor Crispi, made a striking address at an official banquet in Home on October 15th, which was attended by 49 senators and 141 deputies. He declared that it was necessary to combat all persons, high or low who were seeking to undermine the political edifice of Italy. The temporal power of the Pope, although it bad existed for centuries, had been only a

ransitoty period. Home existed before 1, and would continae to exist without i, Cotnplainis or throats, either from home or abroad, would have no effect, Rome forms an integral part of Italy. The Pope has perfect religious liberty, and is only restricted—and less harshly than in other Catholic States—from encroaching upon national rights. Let the Church, which is now free, not endeavor to frighten ; Prometheus with the Ihuaderbol sof heaven. Their own task was to fight in the ceiase of reason. Anarchism was easier to: combat than the Church, The Premier appealed to all men of advanced bat reasonable ideas to separate openly from the creators of disorder,' national discord, and social disorganisation, who were! pretending to represent Mazzini and Garibaldi, Cardinal Rampalla has issued a circular to all lbs Homan Catholic Powers of Europe, in which he protests against (Signor CrispiV attacks, and calls for the restriction of bis utterances by the moral influence of these nations. The Civitta says the Vatican, being weary of these attacks, will shortly expose the double dealing of the Government with the rights of the Papacy,