ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2075, 22 July 1890, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Auckland, July 19. Arrived —Alameda from San Francisco at 9.30 am.

... v-ÜBNERAL SUMMARY. A Catholic priest named Crowley was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment for intimidating a. Protes-tent-clergyman at. Scull. The scholars of a convent school in Tipperary struck on June 20th against allowing children of the constabulary iOrbe present. v of Fife’s premature confinement was the result of a cold ■ caught at a coaching meet. The decennial census of 1890 shows San Francisco to have 500,000 popu--‘latidß. . ■ Business in San Francisco is dull owing to labour troubles. An iron moulder was shot in a scuffle with his employer on June 26th. Mexico is menaced with a revolution against the Diaz regime. A report just published in London shows almost incredible transactions of fco-operation societies in Great Britain. It shows that wage-earners own.. nearly £500,000,000 of stock ; twenty-six years they have „ dmfied £40,000,000 in profits; and thatH.be total sales of last year (1889) exceeded those of the one preceding by £2,000,000. On June Bth Lord Ripon presented $o .’Cardinal Manning on behalf of the -jpbngregatioii of the pro-cathedral a cheque for £3676, and an illuminated address on the Cardinal’s silver jubilee. *!’ Kerr, champion tennis player of ;Ireland, defeated Pettit, the champion of America, in a match played at Dublin on June 11th for the world’s .‘championship. The score stood three to nothing. It was privately reported in Berlin the 6th that very serious results ‘may yet follow the Kaiser’s carriage accident. In falling he injured the T tbat had already caused him so much' trouble, and which has been in A terrible condition ever since the mishap, He is quite aware of the serious nature of his hurts. The Emperor said that he had already made arrangements to appoint the Empress and his brother to rule as regents in case of his death, or of his becoming incapacitated as a result of his injuries. - The Jews have had a bad time in Lithuania, at a town called Loholsk, where during an anti-Semitic riot most of their houses were sacked and they themselves nearly beaten to death. Six thousand " rioters besieged the house - of Captain Gibbon, of the Salvation Army, at Bannen. He was turned out of his house, and the mob sacked the premises. Many rioters Were seriously injured. An important French Royalist conference was in process at the Hotel Albemarle, London, on June 26th. The chief leaders of the party were present, and. others had been summoned from France. A great labor demonstration was made on June 6fch in Hyde Park. Forty thousand men marched in procession to the park, where fully two hundred thousand more people had assembled to take part in the meeting. On leaving the park, Sir Henry Havelock Allen incurred by some means ; the ill-will- of the crowd; The mob . made a rush and nearly unhorsed him. ..,'Urbe police formed a cordon around ‘him and kept back the infuriated who threw heavy clods of " earth at the officers and tried to break through their lines. Arrests were ' made, and Sir Henry cantered off, esQprted by mounted policemen. IFbf - months British Honduras and republic have been suffering from a disease so terrible in jts character that everyone attacked 'dies. At oayo it was reported on June 19th that the people were dying like .rotten sheep. The nature of the . disease is in doubt. European doctors call it yellow fever, but their American colleagues differ in their diagnosis. The only fact known is that it invariably kills in from five to six days. An enormous meeting of _ Socialists and. Democrats was held in Koch’s brewerv at Moabit, a Berlin suburb, ’ #n June 14th. T he affair was exciting, • and the Emperor was freely criticised . jind: censured for his rescript policy, rienfaor Garcia, the new Minister of * "Finance for Brazil, announced on June 17th that he would burn publicly one ' half of the thirty millions one dollar * riotes illegally circulated. Barings have arranged a loan for * of £IOO,OOO at 6 per cent. - a wash-out on the Canadian-Pacific '«ftilrnad thirty miles east of Toronto, "Sused an Jdenton June 18th which j € d to the death of five men. They

were on a locomotive which plunged into the break and all were drowned.

A fresh report has been issued by the Special Panama Canal Commission on the prospective earnings of the enterprise. The actual cost of maintenance is placed at 5,500,000 francs ; expenses of administration 1,800,000 francs; annual income for first four years 51,250,000 franca. This is estimated and calculated on an average annual tonnage for that period of 4.100.000 tons, and on the proposed rate of charge per ton of 12£ francs. The Commission estimates that after the first four years there would be. an annual increase in tonnage of 150,000 tons until a maximum of 6,000,000 should be reached. In regard to the transfer of Heligoland to Germany, Lord Salisbury said in the House of Lords on June 19th, there was no ground for supposing the inhabitants objected to the transfer except as regards their conscription, and this was provided against in the agreement. The Germans place great importance on the strategic importance of. Heligoland, A huge petition in favor of licenses was presented to the House of Commons on June 26th. It was got up by publicans, and was presented _in three immense rolls of paper bearing 600.000 signatures. Sir Wilfred Lawson created much amusement by moving that the Clerk of th© House read the petition and verify the signatures. On the night of the 16th June Mr Balfour, replying to Mr Dillon, denied that the police bad charged upon the people and clubbed them at Tipperary for lighting bonfires to celebrate the marriage of Mr William O’Brien. The police put out the fires because they obstructed the streets. Messrs fehroll and Clancy (Nationalists) wanted to know how shadowing in Ireland could prevent boycotting. Mr Balfour said no one was shadowed unless he was known to be engaged in intimidating. The Government would abolish the system if the Parnellites promised to induce persons shadowed to abstain from intimidation. Mr Parnell asked Mr Balfour about the English presumption that every person accused is considered innocent till proved to be guilty. Mr Balfour then asked Mr Parnell if he would undertake to guarantee these people should not repeat their crime, and was met by loud Parnellite shouts of “What crime?” Amidst tremendous applause, Mr Dillon began an exciting speech, denouncing Mr Balfour, and demanding an apology for the use of the word “ crime.” A stormy scene ensued, during which Mr Gill accused Mr Balfour of lying, and Mr Gladstone challenged the Irish Secretary to prove his assertion that the Liberals resorted to “shadowing.” Finally Mr Balfour substituted the words “intimidation and boycotting” for “crime ” and the House quieted down.

AMERICAN SUMMARY. Several sensational suicides are reported, among them Hazel Lellis, daughter of Police Commissioner Lellis, of Kansas City, who had embraced a theatrical life and become disgusted with it. In the case of Annie Turner, daughter of Judge John Turner, of Groverstone, Texas, the father took a pistol from the hands of his dying daughter and killed Professor Davis, whose perfidy is said to have been the cause of the girl’s death. After a tremendous fight the Louisiana Legislature, sitting at Baton Rouge on June 25, passed a Lottery Bill by a vote ©f sixty-six to twentynine, first adopting an amendment eliminating the monopoly features. This extends the franchise of a swindling concern which has been drawn in New Orleans for many years, ani which draws thousands of dollars to its coffers monthly from every State in the Union,

The Tinplate Record of Pittsburg asserted editorially on J une 19 that an English syndibate which controls the manufactures and mines in Monmouthshire and Cornwall, has rvised a sum amounting to nearly 1,000,000 dollars to defeat the tinplate clause in the Maakinley Bill, Harvard having beaten Tale in the football contest on June 1, some of the students of the former college, by way of rejoicing, proceeded to deface their own buildings with red paint, using opprobrious epithets toward their rivals. No place escaped the brush, and thousands of dollars’ damage is the result. The orderly students of Harvard have commenced a subscription to pay far the repairs. In Baton Rouge, Loqisjaqa, on June 14. a parly of men known as the “ Taylor Gang,” fifteen in number, surrounded citizen Hilliard Richardson, and literally shot him to pieces. At Jackson East, Feliciana parish, in the same State, another crowd went to the residence of Dr A. U, Galpotflbe, treasurer of the State Jnsaqe Asylum, and riddled the front door with ballets. Another phenomenon in the way of fasting has come to light at South Whitehall, Pennsylvania, where Adam Wucber hSS abstained Irorp food for eight months, and from water since April 4. Her case is puling the physicians. She is barely alive.

A bagd of Qheymne Jqdiaqs, to whom whiskey had beeq sold by ranchmen, invaded a United States surveying camp at Upper Greer river, Wyoming Territory, on Sunday, June 1, and demanded more fire water. On being refused, and ordered to leave the camp, (be redskins attacked the surveyors and

murdered them all, to the number of five.

A BERLIN SCAN HAL. The Countess Yon Luetzot, charged with making her fashienable residence in Khrgarten the scene of outrageous conduct, in which many members of the German nobility took part, was tried behind closed doors on June 10. The case was made public through the arrest of the Countess for attempting to strangle a servant girl, who threatened to disclose to the police what went on within the house. Although the public were excluded from the Courtroom it is known that Prince Saxe Altenburg, Count Yon Kotzte, Frau Grohnewaldt, the singer, and many .members of the nobility in the capital were among the witnesses sunaUioned'. r-

SPANISH AMERICA AND THE WEST . .INDIES. _ The French murderer, Giriffe, now in prison, at Savannah, continues in his suicidal purpose. On J une 6it was discovered that he had in his possession a' -piece of shirt which' he had twisted into a rope and besmeared with soap, evidently to hang himself with. He-was started on his return to Paris, under the extradition law on June 16. Among tjia passengers on the steamer Saragata, at Havannah, on June 9, from New York, was Ortezas, who had defrauded the Spanish Government of 600,000d015. During the ypyage, while in charge of a detective, he attempted to cut his throat. He was seized and disarmed, but not before he had inflicted a dangerous wound. He said, “ Well, everyone has forsaken me, I have nothing to live for, and death will be welcome.”