ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2517, 17 June 1893, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

h Auckland, June 14, V The R.M.S. Monowai arrived from San Francisco, Honolulu, and Apia tonight. Passengers :■ Mrs and Miss j Postlethwaite, Miss Stanford, Messrs J. a Reece, P. Roberts, H. P. Barber, and . H. VV. Weston, and 19 steerage. Baron b von Pedaack, of Samoa, is a passenger for Sydney. h- —— f GENERAL SUMMARY. Professor Richards, in addressing the j Iron and Steel Institute, London, on May 25th, said that the year 1892 had been one of the worst ever known in the iron and steel industries. They were all i greatly depressed, and the outlook was i gloomy. The production of pig iron had s fallen off 600,000 tons, and steel rails i were in the worst possible condition. • The total falling off in the exports of 3 metals and machinery as compared with 3 iron, amounted to 7,000,000 pounds. The | steel markots > were now swamped, and there was not’work for half of the coun- , try’s steel-producing power. Mr Abel, ' who followed Mr Richards, spoke in an , encouraging and hopeful tone, and expressed the opinion that there were signs of betterment. England was bound to • remain the first iron shipbuilding country in the world. It was announced that ; Mr •John Fjitjjj qf Betljlqhepi, Ify'-j T?i|{ [ be presented with the- Peesqiner gold ! medal. | While a train on the Tralee and Dingle ' railway was going down a steep grade May 22nd it jumped the track and fell fifty feet. Five of the passengers were hllrnd instantly and twelve more injured severely. The Union Dock Laborers’ strike at Hull has been declared off, and the men went back to work on Tuesday, May 23. The settlement is the result of mediation. The strike began on April Ist. The terms of the arrangement under which the strike comes to an end are that the men obtain work as soon as the places are vacant. Non-union men are to be unmolested, and the employers are free to dismiss o?’ to refuse to employ non-union men. It is also agreed that henceforth there shall be no strike on the part of the men or lock-out on the part of the employers without previous notice of twentyone days. Secretary Chesterfield, of the Hull Dock Laborers’ Union, cut his throat'on May 23, when the strikers resumed work. He was depressed at the result of the strike. Emma Wauuton, five years old, wandered from her home in Portsmouth on April 29th, and did not return On Sunday night her parents told the police of her disappearance, and on the night of May Ist they learned that the child had been seen with Ada Wreay, aged 14, early on Sunday evening. When they arrested the Wreay girl on May 2nd, she confessed she had knocked down Wauuton, dragged her to a public well, and thrown her into it. On searching the well they found the body. No motive for the murder could bQ nsgcUaiued. Thg girl

never spoken to her victim till an hour before the murder.

While Mr Gladstone was travelling from London to Chester, on May 19 th, a heavy missile was thrown at his compartment as the train approached Willes ’e i. The missile struck the window of the m xt compartment, which was occupied by the Dean of Chester, smashed the glass, and struck the cushion a few inches from the Dean’s head. N o arrests were made.

An important step has been taken looking towards a general combination of all the trades unions of Great Britain. The Miners’ Federation and Seamen’s Unions will be affiliated, says a London despatch of May sth, and hereafter if the miners strike the seamen will refuse to ship coal to England from Mediterranean ports and prevent coals reaching the ships owned by the employers of the strikers. Mr Gladstone has offered the place of Poet Laureate to Mr John Buskin.

Mr Gladstone said on April 25th, alluding to the Townsend attempt t> assassinate him, that neither the bullet of the assassin nor the incendiary words of Conservative leaders could prevent Home Buie being granted to the Irish people. “ The nation,” he said, “ has at leugth become convinced that even the measure which we now offer is but a small meed of justice to an oppressed people.” He was addressing the bearers of a resolution of confidence from the Presbyterians of Ulster. “I am comforted,” he said in conclusion, u to observe the existence of such enlightened opinion as this resolution pourtrays. It is a bearer of joy, riding above the ssa of violence and intolerance which recently sought to overthrow law and order in Belfast.” Ho also made a thrust at the noble owner of Hatfield House which during tin week had been the Mecca of all the Ulster soreheads, and said that he was opposed to the utterances which, under the guise of partizanship, excited to murder or treason.

A grand demonstration was given Lord Salisbury in Belfast on the night of May 25th. Previous to the arrival of Lord Salisbury Capt. Kennedy, late of the Coldstream Guards, created a furore by unfurling the Union Jack, under which he said the Grenadiers had fought at Waterloo, and under which flag he added the Royalists would fight in Ulster, and he and many ol her officers of the British army would assist them. The reception of the Prince of Wales at the Imperial Institute on May 27th, was in every way successful. The Duke of York and the Princess May were repeatedly cheered by thousands of guests. Mr Gladstone was present, looking tired and irritated. A hostile demonstration was made by some Ulster Tories when he appeared. The demonstration was comparatively mild at first, but increased rapidly in volume and insolence. Despite the fact that the Prime Minister was the guest of the Prince, he was received with a storm of hooting and hissing whenever and wherever he was recognised. Before Mr Gladstone appeared the 18,000 or 20,000 persons present at the reception were in the best of tempers. The San Francisco Chronicle of May 18th, in an article on the Australian banking crisis, says : “ The disastrous effects of the smash have rlready reached San Francisco. The steamer Monowai, which arrived here from the colonies, brought 160 cabin and a large lot of steerage passengers. Many of these were bound for the World’s Fair at Chicago, and intended to extend their trip to the homes of their youth in the British Isles. Some of the new arrivals found themselves without ready money sufficient to enable them to continue their journey of pleaeure, and they will be forced to return to Australia by the next steamer for the Antipodes. Their intended trip to the World’s Fair ends in disappointment, ana in some cases great discomfort and inconvenience. The local banks all refuse to negotiate the paper drawn by others than the four banks of the colonies which thus far have escaped the financial deluge.”

AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Francisco, May 25. A new political organisation was launched in New York on May 24, called the “ New York Citizen Democracy,” which will hereafter wage relentless war against the Tammany machine. Resolutions were adopted calling on the citizens to “overthrow this iniquitous bos? system as represented in our city by Tammany Hall.” The Westbourne-Missouri Pacific train (passenger) was stuck up and robbed on May 26, thirty miles west of St. Louis, by six men. Over five thousand six hundred dollars were secured. A short distance the other side of the Pacific Station a man dimed over the fender, and, holding a revolver to the engineer's head, said—“lt will be well for you to stop right here now.” The engineer Stopped, Five confederates then appeared, and without any preliminaries the door of the express car was blown open. After the robbers had secured the money, the engineer was told to 14 Go ahead like , and make up for lost time.” None of the passenger cars were entered.

A forest Are destroyed Louis Sand’s Lumber Camp, near Lake City, Michigan, on May 21. Out of the total of sixty men, forty-nine escape uninjured ; the rest were cremated. Eight jumped into wells to escape the flames, but billing material falling op tbpm, they were first suffogatefi fiy the smoke, and then their bpdiet! were burped; Eight t—• fiorseg were also barn«D ■*■ ' .ms of Twent.v ' ko death. people were bitten by two mad dogs in Chicago on May 23. The Pasteur Institute for the cure of hydrophobia is kept busy.

James Gordon Bennett announced in the Herald, on May 24, that in order to perpetuate the paper as a monument to the memory of his father, the founder, he proposes to make it a co-operative concern, in which every employee of the paper, from the highest to the lowest, shall share. Mrs .Angelo, aged ninety, a resident of Port Eads, left her home last week (says a New Orleans despatch of May 17) to visit her son, who resides three miles above the Old Jump! on the Mississippi River. She got off the steamer Comet at that place. Days passed and nothing being heard from her, a search party was organised. Her head was found in a pool of water half covered by reeds. It bore the marks of having been crunched by sharp teeth. After further search one of her limbs was found. The supposition is that the old woman was lost in the swamp, and falling exhausted, was dragged into the water by alligators, and slowly devoured.

A boy named John Hampee, twelve years of age, was arrested at Williamsburg, New York, for stealing the clothes off his father’s dead body and pawning them. He was caught in the act attempting to steal the shroud. ~ LE CARON, THE SPY. Major Le Caron, the spy, who was examined before the Parnell Commission, was reported critically ill on May 17 at, his retreat in a south-western suburb of London. Ho was suffering from peritonitis. His health has been broken for some time, principally by the constant

state of terror in which he lived, fearing assassination. His hair and moustache, which were jet‘black, he dyied a fair tint, and this made him look so strange that he fancied it would lead to his detection by his enemies. This fear has preyed on his mind. He lives in a small house, and is under unremitting police supervision. For two months he had not ventured out of doors. The most remarkable feature of the case is that, by the purest accident, the doctor who is attending him is the younger brother of Mr Thomas Burke, the Under-Secretary for Ireland who was assassinated with Lord Frederick Cavendish by the Inviucibles in Phoenix Park, Dublin, some ) ears ago. Dr Burke happened to practice in the neighborhood, and was called in by the police as a person who could be trusted with the secret of Le Caron’s identity.