ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2278, 10 November 1891, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Auckland, Nov. 7. The R M.S. Monowai, from San Francisco, arrived this afternoon. GENERAL SUMMARY. The claim of the Crown against the Duke of Hamilton for £30,000 will come before the Court of Session during the approaching sitting. The money is claimed by the Government as duties on the art treasures in Hamilton palace, which were sold a few weeks ago. The case will probably be carried to the House of Lords. An application has been made by the London Salvation .Army for one of the largest vacant sites on the Thames Embankment near the Temple, for the erection of a stupendous headquarters and assembly hall. Pressure is being brought to bear on the Corporation by the owners of property to prevent the request being granted, however liberal are the terms offered. At a meeting of working men in Hyde Park on Monday, Oct. sth, the Liberal Federation was denounced for suppresing free speech, neglecting the working men, and giving precedence to Ireland. Resolutions were adopted declaring the L beral party unworthy of confidence, and that a Labour League should be formed in order to secure labour representation in Parliament. Several thousands of working men were in attendance.

IRISH AFFAIRS. The noted Irish leader, Mr Charles Stewart Parnell, died suddenly at 11.30 p.m. on October 6th, at his house, Walsingham Terrace, Brighton. He arrived from Ireland on the Thursday previous, suffering from a chill. On Friday he was unable to leave his bed and his regular physician was summoned. A second doctor was soon called in for consultation, and the consultation was resumed on Sunday, October 4th, when the patient was in great pain and growing weaker every hour. The sickness was pronounced to be an attack of acute rheumatism, and from the day he took to his bed Mr Parnell required the constant attention of two physicians ; but, in cpite of their skill ond the unwearied attention of his wife, he gradually sank lower and lower until he expired in the arms of Mrs Parnell, who with the physicians were the only persons in the room. Reports state that the end was one of intense agony for the sick man until the last moment, when he became unconscious, and eventually died without pain. Whispers of suicide were promptly hushed by the statement of Mrs Parnell that her husband had long suffered from rheumatism, which developed into fever and killed him. Great sympathy was expressed for the widow, and deep regret by the press and the political world of ail shades of opinion for her husband’s sudden death. As to the political consequences of his death, the bulk of opinion was best expressed by a prominent American journal when it said “ Denth, instead of coming as an enemy, teeems to have come as a friend, and to the rescue of Ireland. It was the personality of Mr Parnell that caused breach and sustained the faction. That has gone, and there is nothing left to quarrel over.” Mr Parnell died before he had celebrated a religious marriage with the lady who is now his widow, and which he fully intended to do. His aged mother, who is living in abject poverty at Bordertown, New Jersey, behaved as insane from grief when she heard of her son’s death. Mr Justin McCarthy, in an interview in Dublin on October 14th, said that he did not intend to issue a counter-manifesto to the one issued by Mr Parnell’s followers on the 12th, and which showed no disposition to close the breach, but rather to fight on the lines pursued by the dead leader. He trusted that the nation’s verdict and the good sense of Irishmen would estimate the true significance of the division still existing in the Irish party. In conclusion he said that he and his colleagues onlv cared to remember Mr Parnell’s noble endeavours to promote Ireland’s interests. A convention of the Irish National Federation was held at Leavan on October 15. Numerous priests were among the delegates. Mr Timothy Healey presided, and in his address said the members of the National Irish party were not concerned with eulogies over the dead, but with the interests of the living. Let the dead past bury its dead. He hoped that all dissensions would be interred in Mr Parnell’s grave. The vote for a renewal of the war came from the minority and not from them. Ireland had given the minority no mandate to perpetuate the feud. Their position was degrading. If the letters and repeated declarations of Mr Redmond and Mr Harrington were published, he promised such an exposure as probably had never been known in regard to the public mind and the people of Ireland. He could forgive Mr Parnell, but! these men pretending to be his political heirs were acting solely in the interests of Dublin Castle and the Orange bodies.

MISERY IN GERMANY,

With the news of the terrible destitution of the Russian peasants, come reports that want and misery are increasing among the poor of Berlin as winter approaches. Dangerous and ablebodied paupers are given work on the North Sea Canal and other public improvements away from the city, but this hardly makes an appreciable difference in the number ox paupers apparent on every hand. In other industrial centres of the Empire there is more poverty than last year, and the high price of bread makes the lot of the poor harder. Bandits attacked a mail coach near Meurs, East Prussia, on Oct. 6, and overcame the coachmen and guards, when a driving party came pp and surprised them. A fight ensued between the new-comers and the bandits, which resulted in the repulse of the latter and the release of their captives. The distress caused by the shortage of the crops has increased lawlessness, not only in the region where this affair occurred, but everywhere else.

AMERICAN SUMMARY. It is reported on good authority that the French Government is buying good quantities of grain and meats in different parts of the United States, particularly at Chicago,

I On the night of Oct. 14 at a residence |in Bath County, N.Y., a man named I George Oripps shot and killed two brothers, George and James Howard, who were leading an attack of masked men on Cripps’ home for the purpose of doing him bodily injury. Their leaders killed, the followers left the scene in a hurry. The great oil warehouse of Phillips and Cunningham, 136, North Delaware avenue, Philadelphia, together with Jessup and Moore’s contiguous warehouse, was consumed on September 28, involving a loss of 500,000d01. Falling walls injured several firemen, but they were quickly extricated. A number of prominent American ladies are bringing heavy pressure to bear on the Secretary of State, Mr Blaine, through his wife, to use his influence with the British Home Secretary in favour of Mrs Maybrick, now suffering a life sentence in Liverpool for the murder of her husband. Recently a petition for this woman’s pardon, signed by Mrs Harrison, wife of the President, and the wives of the members of the American Cabinet, was sent to Minister^Lincoln for presentation to the Queen.