ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2325, 1 March 1892, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Auckland, Feb. 27,

The R.M.S. Alameda has arrived from San Franciso and Honolulu. Passengers for Auckland—Mr and Mrs H. Pinkert, Miss Byron, Rev. V. D. Lucas, Messrs J, L. Byron, H. M. Hallenstein, G. A. McMillan, and ten steerage.

GENERAL SUMMARY. London, Feb. 4. The Queen is suffering from a more acute form of rheumatism than usual, especially in the knees. The Court report adds that she is subject to long fits of depression,varied by attacksof irritability. Her physicians, however, deny that there is any cause for alarm. Mrs Osborne, who was accused of having stolen a pearl necklace from Mrs Hargreaves, returned on February 3rd to London from the mountains of Spain, whither she had fled. Through the exertions of her husband she was induced to confess her crime and return to England and accept her punishment. On reaching Dover she was met by several officers, when she was taken to the police station. Capt. Osborne says his wife is full of courage and will not flinch from the punishment meted out to her. Mrs Osborne was formally arraigned before the Lord Mayor on February sth. The Lord Mayor held court in the old council chambers in the Guild Hall. The court room can accomodate only persons, and the crowd anxious to listen to the proceedings was so large that it was found necessary to detail an extra force of police to keep order amongst the people. Mrs Osborne appeared in court heavily veiled, and was accompanied by her husband. She seemed utterly broken down, and in every way to appreciate her painful positon. A representative of the Treasury appeared and stated that he had no evidence against the prisoner, whereupon Mrs Osborne was discharged. She was immediately re-arrested on a charge of perjury in testifying in the libel suit brought by her against Mrs Hargreaves. She was taken to the Police Court, where, after examination, she was remanded for a week.

The will of the late Cardinal Manning was opened on February 4th. It showed that he possessed less than £IOO, which was in consols, and a collection of books. Sir William Vernon Harcourt spoke on February sth at Southampton. In the course of his address he took occasion to denounce in vehement terms what he termed “ Lord Salisbury’s unjust references to the Catholic faith ” in his speech at Exeter on the Tuesday preceding. He pronounced the Premier’s words as disgraceful, and worthy of a drunken Orangeman, adding that such an appeal to the wicked passion of national hatred was not only shameful but mischievous on the part of a statesman in Lord Salisbury’s position. Sir William declared that if the Premier indulged in such remarks with regard to Canada or Australia those dependencies of the Empire would not remain twenty-four hours in allegiance to the Queen unless the British claims were supported by cannon and bayonets. When the death of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon was announced, the morning papers contained long memoirs and obituary articles. The Chronicle appeared with a mourning border and compared the death to that of Luther. The Telegraph characterised him as a great, fearless, and faithful creature, and adds, “ He leaves a void that will be filled with difficulty.” Once or twice during his late hours Spurgeon recovered consciousness for a few moments and recognised his wife. Hia friends had been confident that he would recover because the last attack was milder than the preceding one, but the gout reached his head, and the congestion of the kidneys returned. The deacons of the Tabernacle, who have in their power the choice of a successor to the late Mr Spurgeon, are inclined to select the Rev. Chas. Spurgeon. The choice has been between him and Dr. Parson and the Rev. Archibald Brown of Shoreditch. It was stated on January 29th, at the Stock Exchange, that the deficiencies of Hume Webster, the horse dealer who committed suicide, amounted to nearly £BO,OOO. At Ohelsa, on January 15th, 2300 Socialists assembled to hear a speech by Emma Ham, a prominent leader of the Laundresses’ Union. The meeting was very disorderly. The police summoned the woman Ham to move on, but she refused, hugging a lamp-post to prevent being arrested. A desperate struggle ensued between, the police inspector and the woman, when a general fight followed, in which several policemen and civilians were injured. The woman was finally arrested, together with others of the violentmob. ' John Bonai, who was arrested for firing a pistol at Westminster Hall, meaning to show his contempt for the House of Commons as a body, was bound oyer in the sum of £2OO on January 25th. Oscar Wild became one of his sureties. 1 The banqueting hall in the Queen’s Palace, Osborne, Isle of Wight, will be completed shortly and will have cost when finished and furnished, £30,000. Reports of a horrible crime, or series of crimes, come from Vienna, where a man named Frank Schneider and his wife, Rose, were arrested on January 29th and condemned to death for

decoying young women to their house on the pretext of employing them as servants, and when a favourable opportunity occurred of strangling them for the sake of their few poor belongings. Both were found guilty, and both were sentenced to death. They had murdered eight unfortunate girls in this way, burying their bodies in the vicinity of their cottage, which was in the suburbs of Vienna. At the conclusion of the speeches'of lawyers on both sides both the wretched prisoner* broke down and wept cdpiously. The husband, who is described as a big burly brute, moaned out, "My wife led me on. She planned it all.”

AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Fuanciso, Feb, C. <(,. . Warm work is expected at New Orleans V at the approaching State elections. A cargo including forty cases Winchester rifles and thirteen boxes cartridges, addressed “ A. W. Crandall, Chairman Democratic Comrattee,” had arrived rom New York on February sth, and in answer to questions on the subject the

consignee frankly said, “We are providing ourselves with arms simply for protection against any scheme or otherwise to deny us a free ballot and a fair Court at the coming election. Since the nominations at Burton we have been met on all sides by statements from friends of Foster (the Opposition candidate), that it was war to the knife, and knife to the hilt, and that the machinery in the hands of the State Government now existing was to be used in counting in the Foster ticket and crushing out the “ Henry ticket ” The probability is that the monstrous chartered evil, the Louisianian lottery of New Orleans, will expire at the end of its present charter 1893, as there is a disposition on the part of its managers to no longer oppose public sentiment. On January 31st the schooner Glendon of St. John. N. 8., sailed into the harbour of Bridgeport with the British Jack floating from her mizzen in direct violation of the American laws providing that a foreign ensign must be accompanied by the Stars and Stripes. The flag was perceived by the people on the docks, and cries were raised “ Haul it down. Shoot it.” Captain Trowbridge, of the schooner, drew ajpistol, and swore he would shoot the first man who laid hands on the halyards. When the vessel finally reached the wharf there were 4500 angry men to meet her. They were joined by a few aimed militiamen from the Armory, who attempted to tear down the flag, but they were driven off at the revolver’s muzzle by the crew. An American flag was hoisted on an adjoining schooner and greatly cheered, while the British Jack floated alone on the Glendon. Severe earth shocks have occurred in Portland, Oregon, and Omaha, Nebraska, on January 23rd. In the former city the shock lasted about 30sec, and was probably the most severe shock ever felt there. In Omaha a large bank of earth caved in, partly wrecking a frame house and burying a man named Speen and his wife and two children in the debris.

The frequent marriages of young handsome girls in Chicago to rich middle-aged Chinamen is exciting a good deal of comment in press and society circles. The last case is that of Miss Ida Norton, the daughter of wealthy parents, who married Pong Wong of Indianopolis, and who has the distinction of being the richest Chinaman between New York and San Francisco.

Johnston, Penn., where some time ago an awful flood occurred, has lately been the scene of mysterious murders, committed within a radius of twelve miles. Five men have been mysteriously made away with, apparently by the same hand. The first was discovered on December 4th, a well dressed man, with a bullet through his head. A week later the body of another man was found, a prosperous citizen of the neighborhood. Then followed the discovery of a decomposed body, murdered in the same place; and the last case is the horrid butchery of a man named Krinz and his wife, and the cremation of their bodies. This took place on Februaiy 3rd. It is supposed the murderer is lurking somewhere in the mountains, ready to pounce on any victim whom he supposes to have money. The citizens are organising to beat the surrounding country. About four o’clock on January 25th Miss Freda Ward, of Golddust, Arkansas, and her sister were walking towards the Custom-house, at Memphis, Tennessee, when a buggy containing Miss Alice Mitchell and Miss Lizzie Johnstone drove to the walk, and as the former couple came opposite the buggy Miss Mitchell , sprang out of the vehicle, grasped Miss Ward by the neck, drew a bright razor from the folds of her dress and with it cut the throat of her victim. Miss Ward sank to the pavement and the murderess jumping into the buggy exclaimed “Drive on, I’ve done it,” and went rapidly to her home. The sister of the murdered girl tried to hold the assailant and received a slight cut. There are two theories advanced to account for this terrible affair. One is that Miss Ward, Miss Mitchell’s former friend, had made remarks of a decidedly uncomplimentary nature about her. The other that the murderess has conceived an absorbing love for her victim, and, fearing she was going to lose her, killed her The first consignment of fresh salmon from British Columbia to Europe, which consisted of 300,0008) of Frozen River, left New York recently for Hamburg in the cold storage department of a German steamer. Frozen salmon from Canada have often been sent to England, but this is the first consignment from the ' Pacific coast, and if the experiment proves successful a large trade will result. The rivers of British Coluraba yielded nearly 11,000,0001 b of salmon during the year, although it was reported as a bad year, j The people of Ottoville, Pa, being excited by false rumours that Mrs Levi Hazer, a resident of the place, had narrowly escaped being buried alive, refused to permit the interment of dead friends on January 12th. The corpses were laid out in the parlour, and the relatives were keeping close watch over them. They refused the evidence of physicians that death was complete, and only yielded at length to the evidence of one of their seizes. Janjes Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the New York Herald, who at last accounts contemplated a trip to Abyssinia, has ordered the discontinuance of the London edition of the Herald after January 17th, and has also cabled to New York to stop I all work on the new Herald building in that city. Newspaper men are fishing what it means,

On January 15th a special train, carrying the Andrews Opera Company, was derailed near Brainerd, on the Northern Pacific Railway line. The sleeping car caught fire, and two of the members of the company, Mrs Ed, Andrews and Lillie Wallace, were burned to death, Many others were injured, The thermometer touched 40deg. below zero at the time, and the suffering was terrible, as there was no shelter for those rescued. 11l a speech before an Agricultural Convention at Columbus, Ohio, on January loth, Governor McKinley, founder of the present United States tariff, said : “ There is one thing they all might as well make up their minds to do down east; they can’t have wool free when it comes in a ship and put a tariff on it when it comes on our backs. They can’t have wool go into their factories in Now England free, I and come out of their factories w ith a 1 tariff to the American people.”

The discovery has been made, according to a despatch from Chandaler, 0., of a house built there to destroy travellers. It was so arranged that persons entering must pass over a trap which, when sprung, dropped them into a cavern below. On the bottom of this pit hair, dried blood, and bones were found. Suspicions were aroused by the disappearance of so many people. The inhabitants of the den fled before the investigation.

CARDINAL MANNING’S FUNERAL. The funeral service over the remains of Cardinal Manning was held at Brompton Oratory on January 21st. The structure was not capable of holding one-hundredth part of the crowd applying. Despite the miserable weather there was a large concourse in the vicinity, and at an early hour so dense was it (composed largely of working men and their families,) and so thick the fog, that traffic in the vicinity of the Oratory was brought to a standstill. When the solemn requiem was commenced, the chapel was filled with notable personages representing the four estates, the Queen and the Prince and Princess of Wales. All the Foreign Ambassadors were present. Bishop Hedley, of Newport and Monmouth, preached the funeral sermon, in which he paid a touching tribute to the Duke of Clarence. Continuing he said an era had been crossed in the history of Catholicism in England with the death of Cardinal Manning, and a new era was opened. He made special reference to the Cardinal’s efforts to secure Catholic education for children, and declared , the struggle not yet over. He added that perhaps the hottest and deadliest portion of the educational battle now raging throughout the world would soon be fought. In some respects the ceremonies were more impressive than those attending the burial of the Duke of Clarence. The whole scene was striking and grand, especially when 500 hundred priests, marching two abreast, entered the Oratory from behind the funeral hangings. Representatives of the Benedictines, Franciscans, Carmelites, Dominicans and other monastie orders were there. The Duke of Norfolk, Marquis of Ripon, Marquis of Bute, Lord Howard, Messrs Burdett Coutts, Justin McCarthy, Darriel, O’Brien, John Dillon, and Thomas Sexton were also there, and at the conconclusion of the ceremonies the body was taken to the Kensal Green cemetery, where it was interred. The following was 300 carriages, filled with notable people, behind which marched a large number of working men’s societies. It was estimated that there were fully 100,000 persons around the cemetery. At the conclusion of the services at the grave all the tapers and candles carried by the priests were lighted, presenting a weird scene.