ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2360, 24 May 1892, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Auckland, May 2J. Arrived, this morning—. Alameda from San Francisco. Passengers for Ne\v Zealand :—Messrs Heller, Disston, Kitchen, Durant, Forland, Kirk, Laird and wife, and 11 steerage. GENERAL SUMMARY. The Countess of Antrim, wife of the Earl of Antrim, died in E ondoll on April 4th. Mr John Hartness, astronomer of the Mersey Harbor observatory, fell from the building and was killed. Mr Charles Stewart Parnell’s widow sued twelve of her tenants for non-pay-ment of rent, at Wicklow Sessions, on April 21st. Several of the applications were dismissed, the tenants producing receipts showing that the rent was not yet due. In the other cases the tenants refused to pay unless the abatement allowed by Mr Parnell before his death was given them. The Dean of Gloucester has discovered in the cathehral of that place the remains of Aside, Kipg of Northumberland, who was bp tied in the year 720 beneath the beautiful shrine erected to his memory. Thomas W. Tarkersley, of Scott, United States of America is taking steps to establish his ownership to the township of Tarkersley, England, now in the possession of the Earl of Fitzwilliam. Mr Tarkersley claims under the will of h ( i ; i ancestor, Roger de Tarljeraley;, who left England for America in'lß7o.' ’ Tlie eleventh anniversary of the death of the’Earl of Beacqnsfie|d MS <An April 19 th lit the eusttjUi wi , fcd i4xir., ...ued in 1883 by the ijeaguo in memory of the dead ’ Prime Minister, whose favorite flower was ! the primrose. The day was universally 1 1 1. ..1 .1 I ,1 ~ .. h,* llu, t/niiylilo

dames and associates of the league, each of wnom wore a bunch of primroses. The league’s prime minister is the Marquis of Salisbury, and the membership is very large, amounting to over one million. The statue of Lord Deaoonsfield in Westminster Palace Yard was covered with primroses. Mr Gladstone’s pimphlot on the question of womanhood suffrage was made public on April 20 th. He gives at length his reasons for opposing the enfranchisement of women, and considers the question ought to bo further discussed by the Press and Platform. He argues that the time is not ripe for legislative interference. The ex-Premier notes as an objection that the Women s •Suffrage Dill excludes manned women, who are equally, if not better, qualified to exercise the franchise than their single sisters. He further contends that the sex largely opposes the proposed reform, which opens the question of the right of woman, to fill any public office. He does not infer that woman would encroach on the power of man, but does fear, lest we unwittingly invite her to so trespass on the purity, delicacy and elevation of her nature. While a priest was holding Good Friday services in the Church of the Angels, Madrid, on April 16th, kneeling at the altar, a man armed with a revolver and sword assailed him. He nearly severed the Padre’s head from his body, befides cutting oil' one hand. The victim fell dead, and the blood poured down the altar steps. The assassin, recognised as one Allina, was arrested. He then turned and began firing into the crowded congregation right and left. Women shrieked in terror, and many fainted. One was shot dead and many were seriously wounded. Allina, having emptied his revolver, sprang into the midst of the panic-stricken crowd, slashing right and left, dangerously wounding many persons. The crowd parted in wild affright, and the assassin whose actions could be compared to nothing so closely as a Malay running amuck, reached the street, started off on a run, and soon vanished. In addressing a meeting of the unemployed workmen on April 11th in London, John Moore, a packer, promised , to inaugurate an agitation surpassing | that of Trafalgar square. Unless speedy | relief was afforded thousands of men would rise up and demand work. An- j other speaker trusted that before the end I of the month such large demonstrations j would be held as would oblige the [ authorities to open relief works for the unemployed. The Unionists intend contesting every seat in Ireland at the next election. The object is to ascertain whether there has i been a Unionist opinion growing in that | counti’y. Lord Dunraven sold his yacht Valkyrie ; to the Archduke Carl Stephen for £4500. i A man named Hamilton, residing at | Me'ksham, Wiltshire, engaged to be married to a young lady, became convinced that the uncle of his fiancee was seeking to influence her to break the agreement, and killed him on April 11th. He also killed a policeman who tried to arrest him, but was finally overpowered and locked up. AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Francisco, April 30. Hostility exists between the Poles and Hungarians in Cleveland so bitterly that the wells in the quarter of the city where they reside were found to be poisoned lately. An earthquake of unusual violence occurred in California about April 19th. The vibration was from north to south and lasted about thirty seconds. The peninsula on which San Francisco is located experienced a smart shake, but no damage resulted. Several towns in the interior were shattered, but no lives were lost. Consequent on the earth shock on the Pacific Coast many volcanoes near Lake Sullelee, on the Gulf of California, became active, The country for 20 miles round was illuminated, and the Indians in the neighborhood were in great fear, and fled in all directions. _ | European immigrants are arriving in Hew York at the rate of 700 a day. I After a fierce fight in the Senate, the , Chinese Exclusion Bill was defeated by a big majority, During the debate the Pacific Coast, for whose special benefit the Bill was intended, was derided, and the people mercilessly insulted by some of the speakers. This action will probably cost the Republican party the vote of the States. Meantime the present laws governing Chinese immigration remain in force. The Police Department of Hew York, from the superintendent to the patrol, have been arraigned before the grand jury of the country for levying from the keepers of concert halls, gambling saloons, and houses of ill repute, blackmail that annually amounts to 10,000,000 dollars. According to Panama advices up to April 27th the canal scheme is threatened with a total collapse, the Government having removed, as previously threatened, the chain across the channel entering the canal, which the canal company had placed there to prevent traffic. The company have now chained the canal itself. The canal people having sold a portion of the machinery, in violation of their concession, the Government will probably annul the contract. William Astor, ope of the Hew York raillicmaries, died at Paris. Deceased was the father of Mrs .1. Coleman Drayton, and was greatly worried over the Fox-Millbank scandal in which she was involved. Hext to his nephew, William Waldorp Astor, and probably Jay Gould, William Astor was the richest citizen in America. His wealtli was recently estimated at £70,000,000. The greatest part is invested in How York real estate. Immense pressure has been brought lo bear 1411 Congress for a revocation of the mining debris law. This enactment has had the effect of stopping hydraulic mining for gold everywhere in the State of California, except in the northern part of the counties. It has caused, ivn quuie.usu loss to miiie-qwne.re, mid a decrease. in tl\d output of gold. If was passed in interest of agriculture. Tj\q awsta*'it is now sq ♦•>*-*■ ' . °Jj iittici quubt; tiiere 13 | )U . t ! t ne law will be repealed. me American Indians are beginning j to assert themselves. The other day one ! of the leading chiefs of the Sioux scut a I | letter to Washington arraigning diu Goi 1 vermnent for its treatment of his people. r | and demanding justice. The chief s named “ Wlilb. Gliost,” and the document rathoi

startled the Commissioner of Indian Adairs by the vigorous, logical, and even elegant language in which it was couched. “ White Ghost ” had discovered that his Indians were being swindled by the local agent at the reservation, and ho made such a trenchant exposure of the whole all’air that an investigation must follow. The Chicago World’s Fair grounds were visited on April 7th by a series of tornadoes, which ripped and tore the buildings in the course of erection and scattered them on all sides. Several men were injured by the wrecks. There is great depression in business circles in California and throughout the Pacific Coast. Delegates from 203 labor organisations in New York, convened on April 29th, settled all past differences and united in a solid body to work in harmony in the future. One of the largest irrigation enterprises has been begun in Arizona. Canal reservoirs in Santa Cruz Valley and a canal seventy miles long, with a width of 30 feet at the bottom, will reclaim 300,000 acres for agriculture. The cost is estimated at 1,200,000 dols., which are supplied by English capitalists. Holloway’s Pills and Ointment.— Rheumatism and Gout.—These purifying and soothing remedies deserve the earnest attention of all persons liable to gout, sciatica, or other painful affections of the muscles, nerves, or joints. The Ointment should be applied alter the affected parts have been patiently fomented with warm water, when the Ointment should be diligently rubbed upon the adjacent skin, unless the friction causes paiu. Holloway’s Pills should be simultaneously taken to dimmish pain, reduce inflammation, and purify the blood. This treatment abates the violence, and lessens the frequency of gout, rheumatism, and all spasmodic diseases which spring from hereditary predisposition, or from any accidental weakness of constitution. The Ointment checks the local malady while the Pills restore vital power. Midland Railway. —On Monday afternoon, 1 (sth, a meeting of the Nelson Railway League was held to meet Mr Wilson, General Manager of the Midland Railway, and Mr Hilton, one of the directors of the railway. Mr Pitt, the chairman, referred to the feeling of dissatisfaction which existed at the waste lands being locked up against settlement. He asked Mr "Wilson to define the route, as the present uncertainty retarded settlement. Mr Wilson, in reply, said that the company endeavored to facilitate settlement, but difficulties had arisen through the way in which the contract was read by different Ministers. The contract was very complicated, but he thought he understood it with the aid of the company’s solicitors. They were unable to decide the route till the survey had been made, and the financial position of the company prevented this being done at present. Touching the land regulations he said that each block contained from 10,000 acres to 50,000 acres, and it was impossible for the company to survey a whole block in order to satisfy an applicant for 50 acres, for, considerable as their expenditure was, it was limited, and their selecting capabilities were also limited. In reply to a question Mr Wilson said it was considered it would not pay the company to complete the Nelson end of the line at present, and the company could not finance the undertaking. He had referred the matter of letting another contract at the Nelson end to the directors in London, and had asked them to continue the line into the Motueka Valley, to test the producing powers of the valleys beyond. The best medicine known is Sandee and Sons’ Eucalypti Extract. Test its eminent powerful effects in coughs, colds, influenza; the relief is instantaneous. In serious cases, and accidents of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, scalding, bruises, sprains, it is the safest remedy—no swelling —no inflammation. Like surprising effects produced in croup, diphtheria, bronchitis, inflammation of lungs, swelling, &c., diarrhoea, dysentery, diseases of the kidneys and urinary organs, In use at hospital and medical clinics all over the globe ; patronised by His Majesty the King of Italy; crowned with medal and diploma it International Exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in this approved article, r and reject all others