ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2241, 15 August 1891, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Auckland, Aug 13. The Monowai, Captain Carey, arrived from San Francisco this evening, with the mail. She left San Francisco on July 24th, and the voyage was made in the fast time' of 19 days 5 hours 41min, the steaming time being 18 days 17 hours 30min. Passengers—F6r New Zealand—Miss Murray, Miss Hart, Hon. A. Campbell, Messrs James. Payne, Copeland, Ware, Wilson, Lace junior, Blanchard, and 35 second-class. For Australia —45 saloon and 30 secondclass. GENERAL SUMMARY. LONDOK, July 23. Cardinal Manning and a Committee have drawn up rules for a Union of Catholic workmen, which he is organising on lines laid down in the recent Encyclical Letter by the Pope. Its name will be the Catholic Association. It is intended ultimately to embrace all English-Speaking Catholics. The Duke of Cambridge issued an order on July 11th forbidding the existence of Orange lodges in the army. A piece of Crown land was recently leased in Pall Mall at a rental based on a selling price of £500,000 per acre. The reported negociations which have 1 been going on between England and Portugal, for the purchase of the Mazambique country, has finally resulted in Lord Salisbury making an offer of £8,000,000 for the whole Portuguese possessions in Southeast Africa, to be paid in a lump. Lord Salisbury has declared that female suffrage ought to form part of the coming electoral reforms. The Home Secretary, Mr Matthews, refuses to advise the Queen to release Bidwell Austin, imprisoned for life in 1873'for forgeries on the Bank of England. Truth of July 23rd gives an account of a mutiny, which it says occurred in the second batallion of the Coldstream Guards, quartered in the Wellington Barracks, near Buckingham Palace, when it furnished the guard of honor during the recent visit of the Emperor William. The mutiny took place on July 22nd. It seems the extra duty thus necessitated was far from pleasant to the Guardsmen, and after the Emperor's departure the men expected a day of freedom from guard mounting for recuperation, and not getting it rebelled. General Harding was finally called in, and by a judicious speech succeeded in quieting the malcontents. P. C. Twentyman made 181 J miles in twelve hours on a Safety bicycle on July

13th, beating Holbein's record by four miles. The course was between Hitchen and Wisbech. At Bisley, 6n July 3rd, the Canadian Rifles defeated a Cambridge team by 28 points. The Liberal and Radical members of Parliament are just now stirred up over a rumor that it is intended to ask the nation for a grant for Princess Louise of Schleswig Holstein, graned-daughter of Queen Victoria, who was married on July 6th to Prince Aribert, of Anhalt, under the auspices of the Queen. They intend to oppose it to the utmost, and it is said will be joined in their opposition by many Conservatives. [The remainder of our report is held over till our next].