ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2409, 8 October 1892, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Axtckland, Oct. 6 Arrived—Monowai, xi.M.S., from San Francisco. She left on September 16th at 3.30 p.m., and called at Honolulu and Samoa. She had a fine weather passage. Passengers—Miss Prosser, Mr and Mrs Steen and child, J. Harding, C. F. Woodhead, T. M. Bolles, R. Struthers, G. H. Thompson, G. S. Pitcairn, C. Smith, and 35 second class. GENERAL SUMMARY. Dr Pierson, of Philadelphia, has been finally accepted as the permanent successor of the Rev. Mr Spurgeon, and and will assume office in the London Tabernacle on January Ist 1893. The sale of the estate of Charles Stewart Parnell realised only £20,000. His mother will come to England during the present month to make enquiry into his affairs. The South Dublin market caught fire on August 27 and was burned, together with Warren’s Hotel, which was crowded with guests, many of whom narrowly escaped with their lives. The damage amounts to £130,000. Several Welsh tin plate manufacturers closed their works on August 25. Sixty works are now closed and ten thousand hands idle. . The London Chronicle gives the main lines of the Home Rule Bill agreed upon by Mr Gladstone, Mr McCarthy, and Mr Dillon. The present land legislation shall not be disturbed for five years, and the police and judiciary shall be in the hands of the Dublin Parliament. The English Receiver-General of the Bill of 1886 will be dispensed with; on the other hand there shall be only one Customs Department, and the Irish Parliament shall not have the power to levy separate duties. The only veto shall be the Royal veto, to be exercised on the advice of the English Ministry. Thirtyjlrish members shall be retained at Westminster. The Chronicle believes that Mr Gladstone has abandoned with great reluctance his idea of Receiver-General in deference to the wishes of the McCarthyites. The labour market is not very promising in Great Britain, and the oijtloook for workmen in many trades is disheartening. Notwithstanding the depression agitation in various industries for the shortening of working hours is still carried on. The British steamer Roma, London for Brisbane was wrecked near AJgoa Bayi It is thought that everybody was drowned. Pour bodies already have been washed ashore. Serious labour disturbances, arising from the employment of non-union men to replace the strikers at Gant Ironworks, near Northwich, Cheshire, occurred on September 2nd. The company brought 150 non-union men from Liverpool and attempted to get them to the works. The flew- comers were violently attacked by the strikers, and the new arrivals tried to fight their way through the angry crowd, but after a severe conflict were badly worsted. The company were obliged to order the men to return to the cars which were despatched to Liverpool. The strikers stoned a launch containing several officials. Two hundred policemen tried to disperse the mob. They placed under arrest several of the more violent of the rioters, but were unable to obtain the mastery of the situation, and the assistance of the militia had to be invoked. A body of Northwich troops was placed in charge of the works and to protect the non-union employees. Archbishop Vaughan preached at the East End of London, on August 22nd, and blessed 300 pilgrims about to start on a visit to the shrine of our Lady of Lourdes. The pilgrim band will be headed by the Duke of Norfolk. The Rome correspondent of the London Daily News says that the Pope will raise Archbishops Yaughan and Walsh, and Bishop MoDonqel, to Cardinalates. Heavy thunderstorms prevailing in the South of England have damaged the fruit crop. A number of persons, and many horses and cattle, were struck by lightning and killed, The ceremony of conferring the Pallium upon the Most Rev. Fergus McDonald, Catholic Archbishop of St Andrews, Edinburgh, took place in the Roman Catholic cathedral in that city on August Oth. It was the first ceremony of the kind in Scotland since Cardinal Boston.

Rove] llogan, said to belong to one of tho aristocratic families of Ireland, was arrested at New Westminster, iu British Columbia, on August 24, for vagrancy, and sent to the common goal for two months. Lord Hogan was at one time an inspector in the Royal R'ish Qunstabulnry. The steamship Bunnttav has beaten her record of her last homeward journey from Capetown to Madeira, which she accomplished in 12 (lays without cessation of steamiiig,

Among the passongeiy w ) l6 j ilU(lc(1 at Plymouth on ,September Oth* was Mrs |V . ewman, wife of tho greatest of the Johannesberg (African) millionaires. She means to acidic in Ijonclau. and will prove next season a formidable rival to Mrs Mackay, the Caleforniau Bonanza King’s wife, Mrs McEwan, and other entertainers,

A prize tight near Northampton, between a soldier named Clagson and a bookmaker named Langley, resulted in the latter being so horribly battered that he died in an hour. Clagson was also seriously injured, but succeeded in escaping. Six; of the abettors were arrested.

A seemingl v destitute pauper, named J ones Stewart, died suddenly in Belfast workhouse. American money, amounting | to 10,000 dollars, and twenty shares in | mining companies, were found secreted in the lining of his coat. Great excitement was caused in Romo on August 23rd by the dismissal of Cardinal Ruggiero, Perfect Financial of the Affairs of the Propaganda, who has been looked up by many as the probable successor of Pope Leo XIII. It is said that the Pope himself ordered Ruggiero’s dismissal, being convinced, as the result of an inquiry, that the Cardinal, and not Mgr. Folichi, was really the guilty party in connection with the misinvestments, to use a mild term, for which Folichi was expelled from the Papal service about a year ago. The dismissal of Folichi was brought about by Ruggiero. Folichi was Vice-Chamberlain to the Pope, and had control of the papal funds. It is alleged that in the winter of 1890-91, Folichi, supported by Prince Buoncomagni and Barron Lazzaroni, resolved, in order to save the Banco di Roma, in which the Vatican held 10,000 out of 12,000 hares, besides other securities, to establish in Paris, London, Rome, Berlin and New York, a Syndicate of Catholic the object of absorbing the Financial Societies of Rome, which were known to be in a bad condition and to restore them to vitality, while at the same time raising the value of the depreciated securities. Above all they wanted save the Banco di Roma, intending, as they eventually did, to reconstruct it. That scandal has been made public. Later investigations appear to have exonerated Folichi and implicated Ruggiero.

AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Francisco, Sept. 16. A scandal concerning the United States Navy department is being unveiled at Washington, D.C. It is more than hinted that the Secretary of the Navy, Mr Tracy, has allowed Andrew Carnegie and the Bethlehem Company to have their way with the Government in the matter of furnishing armour plates for the new battleships. The works and machinery of both these contracting parties were not capable of making the “ deflectable armour ” called for in contract for the new ships. They would need a more extensive and costly equipment, and rather than do this both Carnegie and the Bethlehem Company were permitted to substitute an inferior plate at great loss to the Government as well as seriously weakening the new vessels, W. H. Ermin, counsel for the Homestead, Pa., strikers, has made a sensational charge against Andrew Carnegie. He said, in an interview at St. Paul, Min., on September 7th., the men who rolled the armour plate told him that the cost of that plate to Carnegie was only about 40dol. per ton, while the Government paid Carnegie 600dol. ton.” Here was a profit of over 3,300,000d'>'l to Carnegie on his 6000-ton contract. The men said that the test plates were manufactured with a mixture of aluminum, worth 60 cents per lb, and so stood the Govern meut tests, but that he delivered armour rolled steel, which the workmen declared would shiver like glass before the testing gun. The murderers of the wealthy English ranchman, Jas. McKellar, of Santa Rosa, Mexico, were shot on September sth, after a lengthy trial, by the authorities. The names of the murderers were Juan Soto, and Manuel Villareal, one of the most prominent and wealthy Mexicans in that part of the country. His land adjoined McKellar’s, and the latter refused him the privilege of grazing his cattle thereon, hence the tragedy. The murder created a profound sensation throughout Mexico. The Italian man-of-war Guiglielmo, bearing the Columbus statue presented to the people of the United States by King Humbert’s subjects, arrived at quarantine, New York, on September 4tlb The monument was separately packed in 170 pieces. It will be at the Groat Expositiea i" . * . Chicago in