ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2051, 27 May 1890, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISO MAIL.

Auckland, May 24. The mail boat arrived this morning. GENERAL SUMMARY. San Fkancusoo, May 3. It is well known in Court circles that Queen Victoria's health is seriously inapa red. She is suffering from incurable dropsy, which is only prevented from taking a malignant form by medical skill. Her Majesty’s visit to Aix lea Bains, whither she went for the cure of a persistent attack of acute inflamation of the muscle of one leg, has been in vain. English papers report that she is unable, to walk and is assisted out of her carriage. She is very ill and weak. Her Majesty is much depressed inspirits. She returned to London on Tuesday, April 291 h, and arrived at Windsor on the 30th. Twenty known survivors of the Balaklava charge were found in workhouses in London recently, most of them in a pitiably destitute state. Public subscriptions for their relief were started and the result was only £24. Five sisters named Dotnmorioff, the younges 19 years old, committed suicide at Moscow on April 241 b. Ashes found in their apartment showed that they had burned a number of papers before taking their lives. It is believed that fears of arrest as Nihilists led to their self-murder. Toe disputes between England and Portugal are again approaching a crisis. The delays of the Portuguese government and the aggressive actions of its agents in Moz imbique are exhausting British patience. Two sterowheel steamers are being built by the English for an expendition on the Shire river, to be armed with batteries of Hotchkiss guns, Should Portugal persist in her policy of pro. crastination, a demand will be made upon her for payment of £2,500,000, due to England since the Peninsular War, when Portugal was saved by Wellington from annihilation. Mrs Delina Parnell, mother of the Irish leader, writes to a New York morning paper on April 28th, contradicting the story to the effect that she is not destitute, and reiterates her former statement. She says “ Pen and pencil fail to portray exireme oases, and none has told ray extreme sufferings. I would not now be alive but for benevolent people who have provided for me, for at my advanced age I was fast dying of cold and starvation." “Nona," as the sleeping disease is called, continues to ravage Dalmatia. A post mortem is held in every fatal case. The British Consul at Jerusalem has been compelled to ransom an Englishman named Gray and his wife, tourists, who were capture by the Arabs.

In the House of Commons on April 22nd Mr Bradlaugh severely attacked Mr Cunningham Graham for inciting strife among the starving laborers. He contended that the condition of the working classes had enormously improved, and that in this respect England stood in advance of every country in Enrope. Mr Graham, after repeated but futile efforts to interrupt Mr Bradlaugh, denied that he had incited the people to violence, but said that he would do so the moment the workers became powerful enough. Mr William O'Brien’s novel, which he wrote while in prison, is an historical story dealing with Fenians. The book has been well received by the reviewers. Stanley arrived in Brussels via Paris on April 19th, and was received by Count Dontticraount, marshall of the country, representing King Leopold, and driven to the palace amid cheers. A scuffle ensued between the civic guards and press reporters, who objected to the positions assigned to them from which to view the ceremony. The mayor of St. Girlies, a suburb of Brussels, held an independent reception of the explorer in spite of all remonstrances bj the king's representatives. This caused a aeries of riots leading to many broken heads.

Labor Day (Ist of May) passed off with fewer disturbances than were looked for. There was much discontent in London on account of the restrictions p’aced on the parade. The Bank of England and other important institutions were guarded by troops. A crowd of 500 roughs attempted to create a tumult on the Thames embankment during the procession, but were immediately suppressed by the police. Torchlights were forbidden to be carried at night. 1500 postmen, although ordered to the contrary by the Postmaster General marched down Oxford Street, headed by a band, to Memorial Hill, :where they held a noisy meeting passing ja resolution protesting against the long hours and demanding 6d per hour per day of eight hours, and also calling for the abolition of class goods. The PostmasterGeaeral threatened to enforce against the men the law providing that Government offtcials who disobey orders may be sentenced to five years" imprisonment. The third division of the general procession was composed of 600 girls from the envelope factories. They carried banners with the inscription “Those who do not dare to celebrate to-day are slaves,’ Another banner inscribed “ Kemember Chicago,” and displayed a picture of chains, handcuffs, noose, etc., together with the names of the spies, and their companions who were executed on account of the Hayraarket affair in that city. The people of Newfoundland are said

to be on the eve of revolution, Tbo ooas} popujatiqn is intensely excited over the concessions made by the Imperial Government to the French fishery interests, and the native fishermen are all arming. They threaten to accompany the monster petition they intend presenting to Parliament. The Liberal party, supporting popular tion to ascertain, sub rosa if possible, upon what terms Newfoundland will be admitted to the American union if she accomplishes final separation from England. The Press is shouting loudly for annexation, and the Premier has been hung in effigy. Sir Thorpas Eisnponde, who has fust returned from a tour of the colonies, in oompmy with Messrs Dillon and Deasy, met with a severe accident in the course of a morning ride, in London, on April 30, and had to be carried into the House on Thursday night to vote for Mr Parnell’s amendment on the Lsmd Purchase Bill in the Commons. The marble statue, ten feet high, of President Garfield, has been placed in position in the Garfield monument hall at Cleveland, Ohio. Strenuous shorts ace being made to introduce the 'system ;of Cremation instead ,■ of buria| in San Franpieco,

A notorious “crock" named Ackerman, while on trial in Memphis, Tenn., on April 30, was deliberately shot by his wife, who was called as a witness. She fired three shots at him as she ascended the witness stand, each one of which would have been fatal, and said calmly in explanation that had she not killed him he wonldhaye slain her. Salitzer, owner of the New York World, and three of the editorial attaches of the paper, were indicted for libel on April 30 on charges made by Judge Halloo, executor of the immense Stewart estate. The paper charged Halton with preying upon the estate, and robbing and defrauding Stewart’s widow. The World invites the fullest investigation, and meets the indictment by promises to publish farther revelations of the executor’s perfidy.