ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1991, 7 January 1890, Page 4

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

The Zealand ia arrived at Anck'and on Saturday. The following is a summary of the intelligence brought by her. GENERAL SUMMARY. San Ekancisco, Dec. 13. All hope of the recoveiy of the wife of General Booth is abondoned. She is dytog from cancer. Colonel Hughes-Hallet, ex M.P., is on the point of seeking a divorce from Ins American wife, Miss Chamborg, on the ground of adultery. A London syndicate h»s got possession of and controls the output of 29-301 hs of the African diamonds. A woman's body was found among the ballast of a vessel which has just arrived at Middiesborough from the Mediterranean One hand was missing-, but was subsequently found in another partof the ship. The police suspect the woman to be a victim of “ Jack the Ripper.” The floor of a sugar whareouse at Prague, with 15,000 tons of sugar, fell on December 4th, killing eightjmen and in-juring many others.

The Holland Government’s Bill for grants to denominational schools has been passed. One of its clauses abolishes free education except to paupers. The Portuguese Government has sent a circular to the European Powers saying it is ready lo prove unbroken occupation by Portugal of the African treritory now claimed by England, and further that she is determined to maintain her lights at all bhzards.

The Berlin police were appealed to by the relatives of a great many persona who have mysteriously disappeared, and it was discovered that one Bobbe, n tobacconist, murdered and robbed his customers at convenient opportunities, dropping the bodies through a trap into the cellar of an adjoining meat baker, whose goods were noted for their superior quality. Much rain had fallen in California, and at the time the steamer left for Sydney reports were coming in that bad breaks had occurred in various places. On the Sacramento River the upper portion of the valley was submerged, and thousands of acres of wheat washed out, and many bridges destroyed. The largest strike known in the leather manufacturing business of the Lnited States took place in Woburn, Massachusetts, on December 11th, Twenty shops were closed and 2000 men were out of work. The strike was owing to the wages being cut off 50 cents per day by the manufacturers.

Mrs President Harrison has been formally censured by the Women’s Christian Temperance Union for serving the Pan-American Delegates with whiskeypunch on their visit to the White House. Dave Dillon, a once famous oarsman and former Australian champion sculler, was swept out to sea from New York harbor on December 11th, and has not been seen since.

Another electric light lineman, named Peter Clansen, was burnt to death in mid-air on December 9th in New York. Some children playing on the pavement below heard a sizzling noise and looking up saw smoke rising from Clansen’s body in a net work of wires. The corpse was frightfully disfigured. The oarsman Teemer will sail from San Francisco for Australia on the boat of January 14th. He proposes to row Beach and all comers.

There was much atone-throwing at the procession which escorted Archbishop Walsh on his return to Toronto on November 30th to St Michael's cathedral. A stone went through the bishop’s carriage and struck him on the arm, causing a severe bruise.

Heartrending tales of destitution and suffering among the fishermen of Labrador reached Ottawa on November 29th. Near Point Esquimaux entire families are on the point of starvation, and subsisting on the flesh of dogs. At a number of fishing stations, anticipating a scarcity of food, the fishermen saved the refuse from the fish salted, and this will be used to sustain life. The fishermen have been left without the means to buy food.

In regard to the recent injuries received by Emin Bey through a fall from an open window at Bugumoyo, a despatch from Zanzibar says that Emin, who at the time of his fall was without his spectacles, misjudged the height of the balcony parapet, and fell some twenty feet. It is rumoured, according to a despatch from Vienna of the same date, that Emin’s injuries were caused by an attempt at suicide because of remorse for having left his post of duty in the equatorial province he had founded. All the physicians except Dr Parkes, an English resident, abandoned every hope of Emin’s recovery. Barnum’s largest elephant fatally gored his keeper on 'he morning of December 3rd. He repeatedly drove his tusks into the unfortunate man’s neck and head.

Professor Leyden, of Berlin, was summoned on the Bth December to attend the Czar, who was sick with inflammation of the lungs.

The Young Ireland Parliamentary Club gave Mr John Dillon a great reception on his arrival at San Francisco.

L’Autoricie, of Paris, says on English company has applied for concessions to build a bridge across the English Channel.

A Conservative conference was held at Nottingham on November 26th. The principal address was delivered by Lord Salisbury, who said that the views of Mr Gladstone looking to the separation of Ireland from Great B-itbin were making no headway, The election of members of Parliament were mere skirmishes and not fought on the main issue. He was in favor of forming a national party, which must grow gradually. Such a party could not be created by one man. Mr Gladstone, in an article in the Nineteenth C-mtmy, for November, on “Election Statistics” says that he believes if ihe election were held now the country would return a Homo Rule majority in Parliament of 100,

Mr Balfour and Lord Ashbourne presented to a committee of the Cabinet, presided over by Lord Salisbury, the draft of the land scheme which was submitted to the whole Cabinet on November 3® h. it is reported that the first demand ia for from £7,000,000 to £10,000,000 with which to deal with the disaffected portions of 1 reland.

British Columbian salmon packers favor unrestricted Chinese immigration. They represent that the industry is threatened with destruction unless this class of labor is secured. The Government will also be asked to remove the duty on mining

machinery. A deputation arrived in Ottawa on November 25th to represent these facts. They further staled that the tariff had diverted millions of capital from the province of British Columbia. La Satire, the leading French Canadian Liberal paper, came out strongly on Novemb- r 25th, in favor of annexation to the Unio d States, or the formation of the United States of Canada, Stanley Hall, M.P., in a letter to (be Times, embodies the result of his visit to Behring Strait and Canada, and warns the Homo Government Hint apathy in lira controversy will eventually alienate the loyalty of the Dominion, and greatly assist the American Press in fostering Canadian discontent with English connection. A despatch from Winnipeg, of Dec. 2od, says there is great destitution among the Scotch crofters at Salt Boats, nod the Government have been petitioned to make provision for them.

A movement is on foot among the leaders ef the French Canadians to forward an appeaLto the United States if the English majority in the Dominion, ns has been threatened, attempts to deprive (hem of their rights granted by the treaty of 1863.

The difficulties in the Havana cigar trade have resulted in the closing of ah the factories. The Government has ordered the dissolution of all trade unions, and forbidden gatherings of the strikers. The latter threaten mischief.

The Panama Canal group of English capitalists and contractors have offered, according to Crawford Douglas, an employe of the American Dredging Company, over a substantial guarantee, in consideration of a fixed charge on the revenue of the Company from the time the canal is opened to the termination of its concessions, to take the whole matter of finance and construction out of Brunnett's hands, and complete the canal at its own charge and risk. The other propositions involve the completion of a tide-water canal, with but two locks and sort of central lake made by damming, at a coat of 500,000,000 francs. AMEfHCAN SUMMARY. Mrs Delia Parnell, mother of the Irish agitator, now living in destitute circumstances in Trenton, N.J., attributed her condition to prominent Land Lengutra, who took pains to deny that she was in need. She declares that her son Charles has not a dollar, having given everything he owned to the cause of Ireland.

The New York Times of December sth says English capital amounting to £20,000,000 is about to be invested in the United SL.tea in a single enterprise. The project is intended to embrace a variety of purposes, the chief of these being to provide credit for now American railroad schemes. Ifc will ba what is technically known as “financiering” a Company. Lawrence Barrett, a leading actor, has been compelled to cancel bis engagements and retire from the stage. He is afflicted with goitre, the name given to a swelling in the neck, seated iu the toyroid and the development has become serious. The female convicts in Kansas State prison at Leavenworth revolted on Sunday, December Bth, and killed the Superintendent by splitting his skull with hatchets, which some of them had managed to secure.

The Duke of Connaught will arrive at Vancouver from Japan about the middle of May, and make a tour of the principal American cities, paying particular attention to the manufacturing and mineral sections, besides observing the. American system of railroad management. Ho will spend a month in Canada before embarking for Homo. Ad English syndicate with 15,000,000 dollars capital, is about to develop the tin mines in the United States. The company already owns 600 mining claims in BLckhillfl.

Seven thousand five hundred women voted in Boston on December 10th for School Committees under the Australian ballot system. They voted intelligently and quietly. In the case of a contested election in the town of Holyoke, Colorado, a gang of masked ruffians seized the attorney for the contestants before daylight on Sunday morning, December Btb, and beat them half to death. Sheriff Witterbee, against whom the contest is pending, is accused of of leading ihe assailants, who are called “ white caps ” from their disguise. The Chicago Auditorium, the largest theatre in the United States, was dedicated by President Harrison and a number of the leading men of the country on December Bth. Mere than a thousand persons were present. The dedicatory services were rendered notable by Adelina Patti singing Horn®, Sweet Home,” and the rendering of the “ Hallelujah Chorus ” by an immense choir.

An English syndicate completed on December Bth the purchase of 640,000 acres of mineral land in Segumachee Valley, Tennessee, for 225,000d01. They have organised a town company, with a cash capital of 4,000,000d015, and will build the town of Kimball.

Two thousand five hundred people in Mines County, in the newly admitted state of South Dakota, are depending on charity to survive the winter. In Bettincan County, same state, settlers are subsisting on bran and sharps. On December 6th Senator Hale introduced a Bill for the relief of the sufferers by the wreck of the U.S. ships of war in the harbor of Apia, Samoa, last March. The compensation is in no case to exceed the amouM of twelve months’ sea pay of the occupied by each sufferer, A Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church at Brooklyn, on December 2nd, and also one assembled at Buffalo, New York, the same date, have resolved to revise Calvin’s creed, the first by a vote of 48 to 30, and the second by 21 to 12. A GREAT SCHEME, The Canadian Government has undertaken the rest of the work of constructing a slip railroad to connect the river St. Lawrence with the bay of Fundy, thus reducing by 500 miles the trip around No va Scotia to seventeen miles. It will he called the Chiguoco Marine Trumpet rail way, and cost over 600,000d01. Two locomotives will be required to draw a car holding a vessel, and the trip will occupy a little over two hours’ time. The tariff will bo 50 cents per ton on cargo, and 25 cents per ton on the vessel. Hydraulic jacks of immense power will ba used to raise the vessel on the car which can be accomplished in half an hour. This is specially applied to the purpose of war, the car being capacious enough to transport the largest warship.