ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2158, 3 February 1891, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Auckland, Feb. 2. Arrived, at 11.30 a.ro.—R.M.S. Mariposa, from San Francisco. Passengers for New Zealand, Messrs 0. Sisseny and wife, C. Wild, F. Merrie, 0. Longfellow, M. Green, J. Wesborough and wife, D. Wilkinson, G. Cooks, Rey. Silver, Mrs Davis, and eleven steerage. The steamer had splendid weather on the passage. At Samoa she landed Dr Filip Hampbarg, secretary to Chief Justice Oederkraatz. On the 24th alt. Arnold Durer, a steerage passenger, a Swiss, died of acute rheumatism and was buried at sea. GENERAL SUMMARY. Russia will establish diplomatic relations with Mexico. The Java coffee crop is almost a total failure. A strike of London postal clerks is decided on. Germany's policy is stated to be to thoroughly explore and carefully colonise Africa. Baron Ton lasing, of Bavaria, committed suicide at Monte Carlo. The French Grand Orient declined proposals for co-operation of German Freemasons. Medical circles are much irritated at the free troffic in privileges in connection with Koch's lymph. Forty miners were killed by an accident at Trinity mine, Poland. General Booth is called an egotist and a purlomer of Herbert Mill’s thunder. Work on the Russian railway through Siberia to the Pacific begins in Spring. At the celebration of the eighty-first birthday of Mr Gladstone telegrams of congratulation and numerous presents arrived from all parts of the Kingdom, also cable congratulations from America. A memorial fountain was unveiled at Hawarden, commemorating the golden wedding of Mr add Mrs Gladstone.

The male boiler at Irving Ward’s factory, Liverpool, exploded on December 29th through the inattention of he engineer and caused three deaths. German soldiers in Berlin have been interdicted from visiting ninety-seven restaurants because they are conducted by Socialists. Mr Parnell has decided to publish his side of the O’Shea story. Ha claims to be thoroughly able to vindicate hitnee f. The number cf litres lost by the burning of the steamship Shanai, off the China Coast, was over 200, all by drowning. The re-election to the presidency of the republic of Mexico is now permitted by law. Mrs John W. Mickay, of San Francisco paid £70,000 for Sanford House, London. A serious outbreak of smallpox occurred at the German seaport of Hadersbodaer. A very hard winter is being experienced in England, and terrible weather on the Continent. The severe weather caused acute distress among the English poor. All: out-door trades were suspended in London for seven weeks. A man was frozm to death at Preston. There was an immense fall of snow at Berlin, and people were frozen to death in the streets of Paris. Ships were ice-bound in the Elbe, Germany. and the crows suffered privations through lack of provisions. Several wrecks were reported on (he Spanish coast, with numerous deaths. In Eng- i

land, Germany and Belgium harbors were ice-bound. Dynamite was used at Copenhagen to extricate ships from the ice. All Bavaria and northern Italy were covered by snow, and many persons perished, and there wore violent storms in Algiers. The Thames and Seine rivers were frozen. Over a thousand poor in Midland England were in a condition of semi-starvation.