ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRAN CISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2396, 16 August 1892, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRAN CISCO MAIL.

The Alameda with the San Francisco mail arrived at Auckland on Fiiday. . GENERAL SUMMARY. London, July 21. Isaac Cook and sons, prominent cotton brokers of Liverpool, suspended payment on July 7th. Their liabilities are estimated at about £750,000, and their assets the same. The Queen attended Buffalo Bill’s (Hon W. ,F. Cody’s) Wild West Show at Windsor on June 28th, attended by Princess Beatrice and her children and Princess Christian. After the performance Buffalo Bill, Major Burk, and Mat Salisbury were introduced to her Majesty. She presented Buffalo Bill,with a gold seal, containing her monogram, surrounded by the royal motto. She gave Salisbury a handsome scarf pin, consisting of her initials studded with diamonds and surmounted by the Imperial crown.

Harlen’s oil and drug store in Belfast, with eight adjoining houses, including Clarke’s auction mart, containing a number of rare and valuable picture and other works of art, and also Moat’s warehouse were destroyed by fire on June 29th. The damage is placed at £IOO,OOO. The police authorities in London lately equipped a number of policemen with electric lamps. The experiment was a complete success. The lamps weigh only 4oz each, and last seven hours each. Princess May of Teck is certain to be made Duchess of York. The Queen was desirous that the Duke should marry Princess Victoria, the daughter of Prince Christian, but the doctors advised against the Duke’s marriage with his first cousin in view of the necessity of healthful heirs to the crown. The Duke of York proposed to the Princess at Cannes in April last and was refused. He proposed again in London, and then the Princess wrote to the Queen asking her advice. Her Majesty’s reply was “Accept with my blessing.” The wedding will be publicly announced in August. Mrs Aim Montagu, now in prison at Dublin for killing her three-year-old daughter, gave birth to a son on June 29th, All London was laughing on July 2nd at Oscar Wilde’s threat to become a Frenchman because the Examiner of Plays refused to allow his “Salome” to be presented in the English Metropolis. The new play is described as a socialistic mixture of Scripture and modem passion, and as only fit for production at the Paris Theatre Libre. Madame Sarah Bernhardt was to play the pai’t of Salome. As a result of the dispute in regard to ' the question of boy labour, the shoemakers’ Federation at Leicester decided on a lock-out on June 29th. It is estimated that 90,000 persons will be - affected by the shutting down of the various factories. The situation is very serious, and the Mayor and other prominent and influential persons are trying to arrange a compromise. A morning paper reported on July Gth two deaths from Asiatic Cholera in London. The London Star of July 11th says that the Rev. John Edwards, rector at Esscudeji, has fled to avoid arrest for an act of indecency. He was domestic chaplain to Lord Salisbury. The papers are very guai’dnd in the matter, and the exact nature of the immorality has not been made public. It appears, however, that the clergyman had much influence over the members of the Salisbury family, which includes the Rev. Lord William Cecil Salisbury, second son. It is supposed that Edwards has fled to the United Suites. Edmund Yates, in a special cablegram to the New York Tribune of July lßth,

says there is no foundation for the statemant which has been going the rounds of the papers that the Prince of Waleg proposes to attend the autumn manoeuvres which take place In Hungary in September. The Prince is going early in August to Hamburg and will return to England about the second week in September, when he is off to Scotland on a long visit to the Duke .and Duchess of Fife at Braemar. Probably in the course of the Autumn the betrothal of Princess Melita Victoria of Edinburgh and the Duke of Augustenburg will be announced officially. Mdlle. Vacaresco, formerly the fiancee af the Crown Prince of Roumania, has sent to Princess Marie of Edinburgh, who is now the fiancee of the Prince, the love letters she had received from him. The English Court is quite excited over the scandal, and the matter is considered to be without precedent. The young Duke of Aosta, nephew of the King of Italy, and son of the late Prince Amadeus, ex-King of Spain, is said to be favourably inclined towards the Princess Maud of Wales, who is a few months his junior. There is however an aversion among English and German royalty to intemarriage with Italians. Letters written by Baron Wangenheim are soon to be offered at auction in London. They describe the private life of H.R.H. Edward, Duke of Kent, father of the Queen. The documents are said to be startling. They represent his Royal Highness not only as a gallant but as an absolute libertine, and his “affairs-” are substantiated by most minute details. Wangenheim was the Duke’s tutor. Queen Nathalie, of Roumania, “ Carmen Sylva,” was at Neueveed on July 16th, a chronic in valid. She has written to a friend at Munich that her illness will soon end fatally. A terrific cyclone swept the province of Ravigo, Italy, on July 19th. The village of Polesella, on the left bank of the Po, containing 4000 inhabitants, was almost completely destroyed, and many of the villagers were buried in ruins of their homes.

After a lengthy trial for an illegal autopsy on the body of the mind-reader, Bishop, Drs. Irwin and Frank Ferguson, the defendents, had a disagreeing jury on June 19th. Nine stood for conviction and three for acquittal. Complaint was made by the mother of the mind-reader who insisted that the doctors had cut up her son while he was in a cataleptic fit and from motives of scientific curiosity oul y. The Pontiff has issued an encyclial letter directing the Mass of Trinity to be celebrated at the Columbus celebration in Italy in honour of the discoverer. He believes Columbus was animated by the spirit of religion in all his trials and movements. His Holiness also proposes the eccleciastical re-organisation of the churches of the East. The Latin congregation and oriental congregation of the propaganda in conjunction with France and Turkey will move towards the re-establishment of the ancient Patriarch General of Constantinoble, in the person of Monseignor Azarian, present Armenian Patriarch residing at Constantinople an eminent prelate who enjoys the confidence of the Sultan and the sympathy of France and Russia. The Pope has been occupying himself with this question since 1883. AMERICAN SUMMARY. Persistent search for Walter Howard, a wealthy young Englishmen, who mysterionsly disappeared from his ranch near Monte morelos, Mexico, early in June, resulted on the 25th in his mutilated body being found twelve miles from the town of Lineres. He had evidently become lost in the dense tropical forest, and while wandering about in the darkness had fallen over a cliff. James A, Bailey, the actual owner and manager of the immense sawdust estate and caravans which P. T. Barnum left behind him, became violently insane, and was placed in a Chicago madhouse for safe keeping. Bailey was married to one of Barnum’a daughters. His real name is James A. O’Shannessey, A conclave of Catholic Archbishops is called for October next in New York City, for the porpose of discusssing the differences existing on the school question. The meeting is looked upon as the most momentous conference of Catholic dignitaries ever held in the United States, Bishop Lot Smith, of the Normon Church, was killed by the Navajo Indians in Arizona on June 15th. Smith was imposing on the Navajos in some land matters, and they summarily settled the business by taking his life. The white settlers appear to be satisfied with their action.

In the Moorish palace at the forthcoming Chicago World’s Exhibition will be shown a million dollars of gold in one pile. Muscular men with mskets will guard the treasure. Should public curiosity become inconvenient a fid disposed to overstep reasonable bounds, the whole pile wifi, by simply touching an electric button, be made to descend into a burglar-proof vault below the riverside.