ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2289, 5 December 1891, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Auckland, Dec. 3

The mail steamer Alameda has arrived from San Francisco via Honolulu and Apia, She had a fine weather passage of twenty days. Passengers for New Zealand — Misses Taylor (two), Claxtons, Purvis, Wilson, Stewart, Mesdames Peacock, Child, Taylor, Palmer, Brown and daughter, Senator Stewart, Revs. W. Morley, Berry, Spencer and Lee, Messrs Caughley, Allen, McLusky, Taylor, Hayhurst, Palmer, Thigh, Fish, and five steerage.

GENERAL SUMMARY. London, Nov. 15. Sir W. Harcourt’s eyesight is in a very critical condition. The sight of one eye is nearly lost, and that of the other is threatened.

The “ Daily News ” admits that the 20 per cent* decrease in British trade with the United States may be fairly attributed to the McKinley tariff, Society circles in London were agog on October 29th over a curious case of kleptomania that had been brought to light by a suit that came up at Guildhall Court, where Major Hargreaves sued Pink and Sons, the well-known jewellers, to whom the thief had sold her booty, for the recovery of the jewels belonging to his wife or their value. It turned out that the thief is the young bride of a man of wealth, and had been detected stealing at private houses where she visited. The culprit’s name is known but to few people, although her nefarious actions have been frequently hinted at in society papers. The family numbers Royalty among its friends, and is connected with the nobility. The husband threatened proceedings against anyone who charged his wife with this practice. F. E. Dubedat of Dubedat and Son, Dublin, bankers and brokers, has been sentenced to one year’s imprisonment with hard labour, and seven years’ penal servitude. The firm failed early in January last, and the convicted man pleaded guilty to defrauding his creditors to the extent of £120,000. The King and Queen of Italy will not pay a State visit to England next year as reported. In the first place, their Majesties have not been invited; and in the second, the Italian finances will not warrant the trip. The new Chief Secretary of Ireland, Mr W. J. Jackson, has the reputation of being a good business man, without any bias towards his own ideas, if he has any, and he will be a ready and pleasant instrument in the hands of Mr Balfour and Lord Salisbury, with a shrewd eye on the main chance. The city of Leeds has another singular mystery in the finding of the dead bodies of a mother and her three little boys in the river at that place on October 31st. The mystery is that the woman lived in comfort with her husband, who is an American and a carrier by trade, and was apparently cheerful and happy. Jas. Finch, who tried to assassinate Mr Dennis Donohue, British Consul at San Francisco, arrived at Cork, where he is locked up in the Insane Asylum as a dangerous luuatic. On November 9th, while some keepers were’walking along the shores of Lake Naas, they saw an object in the water and procuring grappling irons they landed a human body, which proved to be that of Rose Lawless, youngest sister of Lord Cloncurry. How the lady met her death, whether from accident or design, is a matter for conjecture. A heavy cyclone passed over Calcutta and the vicinity on November 2nd, which wrought severe and great damage, bssides the loss of seventy-seven lives from the sinking of the Government steamship Enterprise, at the Andaman Islands, and the killing of sixty convicts. There is no doubt, a great loss of live at other places along’ the coast. Advicies from Orissa in Bengal Province, mention a cyclone on

the same date that cleared a path through a forest, hustling gigantic trees aside as if they were reeds. Every dwelling in its course was swept from its foundations or turned over. Heavy damage was done below Calcutta on the river. Among the small vessels anchored at the mouth of the Hoogly, where it empties iuto the Bay of Bengal, the wreckage was appalling. No estimate has yet been arrived at of the total loss of life but the figures must be large. The Italian Mafia bravos are operating in New Haven County. Italians are insulted and maimed (both men and women) by their compatriots, but dare not complain.