ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2182, 31 March 1891, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Auckland, March 27.

Arrived—l.ss p.ni.,R.M.S, Alaraeda, from Ban Francisco and Honolulu. Passengers—Rev. 8. W. Baker, Messrs T. H. White, W. Scott, P. Berolzheimer arid four steerage, and 58 for Svdney. The Sydney passengers inelude Mactnahon and Bice's Opera Company. The vessel experienced light winds and smooth sea on her trip. Hbe made an excellent passage of 18 days 23 hours.

GENERAL SUMMARY. (Dates to March 6). Over nine million pounds have been spent on the Manchester canal, which is rapidly approaching completion. If more money is not secured by August, fifteen thousand men will be out of employment, and the plant, which io worth one million, will be left to rust. Application for assistance has been made to the City Council, which, it is understood, will advance nearly two millions for the completion of the canal.

It is said that in consequence of unlucky speculations on the Stock Exchange, the ex-Empress Eugenie is about to sell her celebrated chateau in Switzerland.

Mr Henry Harrison, M.P., visited the offices of the Belfast branch of the National League on March 21, and seized all .money and documents he could lay hands on. It is said that the central league authorised the seizure, owing to the disorganised state of the Belfast branch, and their disloyal attitude towards Mr Parnell. Mr Harrison and his friends then declared the branch dissolved. A free fight occurred between Mr Harrison's friends and their opponents of the Belfast League, and fists, sticks and chairs were freely ÜBed. Finally the police cleared the buildings. Mr James Brown-Potter, husband of Mrs Brown-Potter, the actress, narrowly escaped death on March 4, at New York, while trying to jump on to a ferryboat which had started to leave a ship. Hjj leap was too Bhort by a few inches. Mr Potter was soon reoued by the ferry-house attendants. On March 2 the Pope received congratulations on the occassion of the eightieth anniversary of his birthday. Cardinal La Yalleta presented an address from the Sacred College. His Holiness, in the course of his reply, said he had passed another year of anxieties and vexations due to the attacks on the Church. His position was similar to that of the Gregory pontificate. Though barbarians tried his patience, Gregory's greatest trials were with internal enemies, who were less ferocious but more evil than the barbarians. So now, the malice of the Church's enemies was subtle, but their snares would Dot prevail. Michael Eyraud, the strangler, whose head was cut off in Paris, had his life insured for ten thousand dollars, but the companies refuse to pay on the strength of a clause in every policy relieving the company of liability if the insured meets his death while violating the laws of the country. The charge i'occonversation by telephone between .London and Pans is two dollars for three minutes. A curious and Btartling case if shortly to be heard in the London Court" A wealthy lady of Stafford, Mrs Cathcart, mysteriously disappeared some time ago, and all the efforts of her relatives and friends failed to discover her whereabouts. Quite recently, however, friends 1 raced her to a lunatic asylum, where she had been confined at her husband's instigation. Mrs Cathcart is the possessor of an estate valued at over five million dollars, which reverts to b.er husband if he can have her

certified as of unsound mind. Mrs Cathcart's relatives insist that she is in fall possession of her senses, and consequently a long and interesting trial is expected. Official Government statistics have been prepared in Berlin on the 2172 cases treated by the Koch method. Of the cases of internal tuberculosis thirteen are reported cured, 171 considerably improved, 194 improved, and 46 died; while of the cases of external tuberculosis, 15 are reported cured, 148 considerably improved, 237 improved, and nine died. The success of Dr Koch's remedy has exceeded all expectations.

The drawing-room held by the Queen at Buckingham Palace on March 4 was notable for an unusually large and brilliant attendance, owing in a large measure, probably, to the presence of the ex-Empreßß Frederick of Germany, and the desire on the part of many to be present upon this occasion as a token of sympathy with her in her recent unpleasant experience in Paris. The Pope intends to take measures to better the condition of Italian immigrants in the "United States. The admission of women to the medical school of the John Hopkins University is assured. It is intended to afford to the women of America those advantages for superior mental training which they are now compelled to seek in the great medical schools of Europe.

AMERICAN SUMMABY,

Twenty five illicit stills have been captured in Florida, and sixteen prisoners. The Eenfrew Gingham Cotton Mills, Massachusetts, were burnt. The loss is half a million, with 800 people thrown out of employment. The colored people who- lately emigrated to Oklahoma are at starvation point. They number several thousand, and find themselves the dupes of unscrupulous agents. It has just leaked out that 589,000d0l in securities, owned by the State of Delaware, have disappeared, and no one knows how or when they disappeared. They are not negotiable. Mrs T. W, Pitch, daughter of the late General Sherman, has confirmed the report that the famous Kbedive diamonds, sent by the Khedive of Egypt as a present to Miss Sherman when she was married to Lieutenant Pitch in 1875, are to be sold.

A man and his two children were attacked by two wild cats at Lake Weir, but the savage creatures were beaten off after a struggle in which the man's horse was badly torn. In an interview with MissCuthbertson, a missionary amongst Chinese girls in Sau Francisco, a paper of that city elicits the information that there are scores of female Chinese slaves in San .Francisco, to-day. Moßt of the young Chinese girls who coma are bought as slaves, and cash payment to parents has secured their services. In other cases they are kidnapped. In still others these girls leave Hongkong deluded into coming by false pretences. There are a few who come actually as wives, but not many. Prom first to last they are under intimidation. There are victims to a regularly-organ-ised conspiracy existing on both sides of the Pacific to consign them to slavery and life-long degradation. Once in this country, face to face with their fate, and seeing what miseries they must endure, the fear of what may happen should they not succeed in getting safely through the Courts by dint of lying as instructed is greater than any other fear. There was a suggestive case recently which came to Miss Cuthbertson's personal knowledge. Two young Chinese girls failed to show tbat they had a right to remain, ihey were remanded, and actually taken down to the mail dock to be deported for Hongkong. At the docks they manifested the greatest terror, and amid sobs, told tales of tortures which they would be subjected to on their return to China, because they had failed to lie their way through the Federal Courts in San Francisco,

The Jury trying the action brought by Mrs McFadden to recover £50,000 damages from the Pacific Manufacturiug Company, ban Francisco, for the death of her daughter Marie Bell, came into Judge Hunt's Court on March 4, and stated that there was no j possibility of their agreement upon the verdict. They were discharged from further consideration of the case. Mrs Bell came to her death at 408, Hyde street, by inhaling gas which escaped from a defective gas heater hired from the Gas Company. Examples of the working of the McKinley Bill are continually coming to the front. The latest is an organisation in Massachussetß of one ot the leading tfcotch gingham manufacturing firms. The process already begun by the transfer of British industries to the United States will in due time make this country the workshop of the world, Our people will contribute to that end a greater measure of ingenuity and adaptation of means to the end than Europe has ever shown.

KANSAS AKID LANDS. Topeka, Feb, 20. A Kansas Irrigation and Water Company has been formed here. One of the principal purposes of the Company is to put in operation a sy&tem of irrigation that can be used bv farmers at a small expense, and whether situated on streams or not. Where streams pan be utilised that will be done; but it is believed that nearly every quarter section in the

State can be successfully irrigated in whole or in part by an outlay of only a few hundred dollars, and will increase the value of the land from three to ten times. With proper irrigation, one-fourth of a farm will often produce more than the whole quarter section in its normal condition, and a sure crop on part of the farm ia better than the uncertain chances without irrigation. Wherever it can be successfully done, it is also proposed to use water for purposes of power. The Company is organised with a capital stock of 1,000,000d01.

A TUNNEL ACCIDENT,

New Yobk, Feb. 20,

! A sheep train consisting of empty cars was moving through the North Avenue railroad tunnel this morning, when it stopped. Behind was the incoming Newhaven train, and before the engineer of the local train could see the standing train he ran into it. The cars of the sheep train were wrecked, as well as those of the local. In a few minutes flames broke out, and to add to the teTror and confusion a third engine, which was running without cars, ran into the wreck. The fire was soon extinguished, and the work of rescue began. Five men were killed and seven wounded. None of the passengers are known to have been killed or injured, the casualties being confined to the emuloyes of the road. A misunderstanding of signals by the engineer of the 'JN ewhaven train is said to have been the cause of the accident. Pour more bodies have been recovered from the wreck, and these are thought to be all the dead. All were burned beyond recognition. A number of the injured will probably die; one of them died this afternoon. The police announced this afternoon that the total number of dead was six, A ROYAL QUARREL. POETSMOtTTH, Feb 26. Great throngs of peopl e gathered here to see the Eoyal pageant accompanying the launching of the new warships. The Queen launched the ironclads with the usual ceremonies. According to report, previous to the ceremony and while the Queen and the Prince of Wales were standing beneath the bow of one of the ships, they quarrelled for several minutes Both the Queen and the Prince, as a result of their quatrel, had an apoplectic appearance. The cause of the quarrel is believed to have originated in some trifling breach of etiquette. Ihe two war vessels were christened Eoyal Arthur and Eoyal Sovereign.

EXTENSIVE FIRE. MiNNEiJOLis, Feb. 26.

A fire in the Speaker paintworks, started last night, and was still raging at six o'clock this morning, though under control. The damage to property will be over half a million dollars, most of which is to the Lumber Exchange. The magnificent twelvestorey building o£ Fifth street and Hennepin Avenue, the Robinson block and the Russell block the latter owned by S. Smith Russell, were completely ruined, The fire caught in the upper storey of the Lumber Exchange, which was claimed to be fire-proof and burned fiercely, The water did not reach above the seventh or eighth storeys, .and the firemen were nearly powerless. The thermometer was below zero laßt night, and the intense cold retarded the firemen a great deal, as the hose kept freezing and bursting. Occasionally from the walla on the upper floor there was a shower of rock followed by a loud report. This noise was caused by the bursting of the stone. For a time these followed in rapid succession, and then grew less frequent only to increase in rumber again, when the fire grew intensely hot at some particular point. After a fight of eleven hours the Fire Department succeeded in confining the fire to the four upper storeys of the Lumber Exchange. The structure looked like a veritable ice palace after the fire. The walls, as high as the hose could throw the water, were covered a foot thick with ice, and the Bide walls were piled five to eight feet high with ice and snow formed from the water.

PARNELL.

Dublin, Maroh 26,

An appeal for money to form a Parnell Campaign Fund is issued by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, and Mr Joseph Eade, High Sheriff of Dublin, is appointed Treasurer of the fund. The appeal puts Home Bule to the Iront, and declares that the industrial development of Ireland, and civil and religious liberty, must be an essential part of Irish self-government. The appeal also says there must be no religious domination, Catholic or Protastant; the Government will rule, under their own laws.