ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2099, 16 September 1890, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Auckland, Sept. 18. Arrived —Zealandia, from San Francisco, twenty days out, after a fine passage. Passengers for New Zealand —Mrs T. Smith, Miss L. Thompson, Oapt. J. Whitney, Drs Schiveizen and Yogel, Mr J. L. Thomas, and Wirth’s Wild West Show, numbering some fifty individuals. The Show includes Indiana, cowboys, Mexicans, and others. GENERAL SUMMARY. London, Aug. 22. There was another sensational development in the O’Shea-Parnell divorce suit on August sth, on which date Mrs O’Shea’s solicitors withdrew from the case. This is the second time Mrs O’Shea has lost legal support. The second withdrawal is said to be due to Mrs O’Shea’s persistent refusal to bring a cross-suit against Captain O’Shea, which her solicitors demand that she should do. A declaration of war on the part of her caste was recently made by the Duchess of Buccleuch in failing to invite two newly rich Americans and others to her ball and garden party. Her lead is to be followed by all her set, in order to repair the disintegration in London society wrought by so-called society papers. The London Mark Lane Express of August 19th says the harvest is making active progress. The wheat crop varies greatly according to localities. In the heaviest-growing counties the crop is full. The new wheat shown in the London and provincial markets has sampled well. The supplies of the old are now almost exhausted, and so low are the farmers’ reserves that the total supply of old in the country whether as wheat or flour, dees not exceed 4,000,000 quarters. Foreign wheat is hardening. Prices show an average advance of 6d. Sir Wm. Harcourt, speaking at Derby on August 18th, attacked the House of Lords as a standing obstruction to useful legislation. He said it had done nothing during the present session beyond promoting a Bill to preserve hares, and to secure an extension of the game laws. In a bar-room, King Lane road, London, on July 31st, a discharged soldier named Harper quarrelled with two men, and, drawing a revolver, killed them both. He had just returned from New York, where he had unsuccessfully looked for work. The London papers called the affair an American tragedy. In a speech at Manchester on August 9th Mr Balfour declared that Mr Gladstone’s insinuation that the Government had sacrificed the right of the Protestant residents of Malta in order to secure the favor of a Catholic minority was totally unfounded and a most barefaced attack from the man who sent .Lord Errington to Eome in 1881 to enter into direct relations with the Pope. It was, said Mr Balfour, one of the many instances of Mr Gladstone’s perversity in attacking the Government through his own reputation. Why, asked the speaker, was Mr Gladstone determined to repudiate every act of the last fifty years of his life and to score the Government when it followed his precedent ? At the funeral of the victims of Bt. Etienne mhUDg disaster, on 31et July, some of the coffins were inscribed, “ To the martyrs of labor and to the victims of capitalists. Several Socialists spoke; The Chamber of Deputies voted 200,000 francs for families of the yicfcims.

The German Imperal y«cht, with ihe Emperor William and his brotlier Henry on board, arrived «t Osborne «t 10 o’clock a.m. on Aug. 3rd. The Queen signalled a welcome to the party from Osborne, As the yacht entered Oowes roads, the Prince of Wales and Duke of Connaught, on board the Royal yacht, went out to meet the Emperor. A. number of others of tire Royal family awaited his arrival on the private landing stage. ''A German ironclad accompanied the Emperor, who was also escorted into the harbour Vy five British torpedo boats. The Emperor wore a British admiral’s un 1 - form. One of,the results of the interview at Osborne between the Queen, the Emperor., the Prince of Wales, and Lord Salisbury, was the withdrawal of the candidature of Prince Wa'demar for the Bulgarian throne. The protest of the King of Greece notably influenced this decision. The London Post points to a project of the Kaiser to obtain the Czii’s assent to another Berlin Conference, aiming at a general European peace compact, implying the limitation of armaments.

Famine prevails in the Soudan in some parts of the country. The deaths from starvation average 100 daily.