NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2605, 9 January 1894, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

President Cleveland in his annual Message to Congress, after a reference to Samoan affairs and the position occupied by the United States, said :—" This incident and the events leading up to it signally illustrate the impolicy of entangling alliances with foreign Powers." In reference to Hawaiian affairs Mr Cleveland said:—" After a thorough and exhaustive examination Mr Blount submitted his report, showing beyond all question that the constitutional Government of Hawaii had been subverted with the active aid of our representative to that Government, and through in timidation caused by the presence of an armed naval force of the United States, which was landed for that purpose at the instance of our minister. Upon the facts developed it seemed to me that the only honorable course for' our Government to pursue was to undo the wrong that had been done by those representing us, and to restore as far as practicable the status existing at the time of forcible intervention. With a view of accomplishing this result within the constitutional limits of the executive power, and responsibilities growing out of any changed conditions brought about by our unprofitable interference, our present Minister at Honolulu has received appropriate instructions to that end." Thousands of unemployed people met at Tower Hill on December 12th, and listened to addresses of Jas. Keir Hardie, a Socialist member of Parliament, Frank Smith, and others. Hardie said he intended to move an adjournment of the Commons on the 12th to call the attention of Parliament to the unemployed. Upon the conclusion of the speeohmaking the crowd marched to Hyde Park. A number of black and red flags were displayed. The police dispersed the crowd, and Hardie later on made his motion to the House.

The Mobile and Daphin Island Railway Company, Alabama, have sued the Pall Mall Gazette, London, for £BO,OOO on account of statements contained in that paper reflecting on the stability and honesty of the parties interested in the building of the road. Many English capitalists are interested, and the publications in the Gazette are alleged to have hindered the sale of bonds, thus scaring off the foreign capital invested. The Royal Geographical Society received news on December 9th of an expedition, headed by the American explorer, W. Aston Chanlen, who started out to ascend Mount Kenia, the great mountain of Equatorial Africa. The expedition had been gone four months, and it i 8 doubtful if they ever reach home. The animals had died of plague, including 150 donkeys and flfteeu camels. The nightly rioting between the soldiers of the Highland Light Infantry and Welsh Fusiliers, at Aldershot, became so serious on. December 9th that the Duke of Connaught ordered the pickets from each brigade to parade all night. Several soldiers were taken to the hospital on account of hurts inflicted by swords, bayonets, and rifles, which were found scattered about on the morning after the rioting. The House of Lords, in spite of Government opposition, adopted an amendment offered by the Earl of Dudley, providing for a clause in the Employers' Limited Liability Bi I '. enabling workmen to contract themselves out of the provisions of the Bi'l. The amendment was adopted by 148 to 21. In the discussion Lord Salisbury declared the amendment would lead to hostility between employees and employers, who would cease their liberal contributions to workmen's insurance funds.

A separation has taken place between the Prince and Princess of Colonna. The interest of this item lies in the fact that the Puncess is the stepdaughter of John W. Mackay, one of the Calif ornian Bonanza'lCings, 'and when the marriage took place her mother, Mis Mackay, warned Colonna that ho would marry n rlowerless bride, although her step father gave her an annual allownnca of 175,000 dollars and many valuable prose its. It was d Ur! QYered shortly after th* marriage, which took place in IS™ r.t ?«!», tho Prince was a gam'd-'i* and a rnuo. Ho haras.od his wife for numey and treated her bratally for the purpose, as he said, of taking th > American iudopendenco out of her. S>ie bore his abuse, taunts, and vulgarity until last Octobor, when she took her)threo children and left him, going to the Hotel Brighton in Paris, where hor grandmother, Mrs Hunger ford, is staying. Ooloima sold lib wife's furniture- and v.-i hling presents after she left, and spent the proceeds. 'l'hreo young men, two of them law studonts, the thir.d a ton of ex-Premier Morcier, were avrcstoi in Montreal early on the morning of .November 20th while attempting to bl< v up tho Nelson

monument in Jacques Gartier square. It was known that such a plot was talked about for time in police circles, and a special watch was kept on the monument, with the result that the young men were arrested in the act of placing explosives at the base of the monument. The French population having long objected to the monument being placed in Montreal. They claimed that Nehon was an enemy of their race. Recent Press articles have tended to create a very bitter feeling. Pelland and Dr Martinique were colleagues of Mercier in their iconoclastic attempt. The parties were arraigned on December 2nd, and admitted their intention to destroy the monument, but the charge of dynamite was not sufficient for the purpose. The exPremier and other well-know lawyers appeared for the defence. Lord Charles Beresford's new naval programme commences by declaring that the navy of Great Britain must be onethird stronger than any combination of the fleets of her two possible enemies, France and Russia. He proposed to expend £22,000,000 sterling on the construction of six ironclads of the Royal Sovereign class, ten cruisers of the Blake class, fifty vessels of the Mavock class, designed especially to destroy the enemies' torpedo stations. £500,000 should be expended for reserve ammunition, a supply similar to that maintained by the French at Toulon, and £634,600 used in strengthening the moles at Gibraltar. Bishop Coxe, of Buffalo, N.Y., Protestant Episcopal, issued a second open letter to Monsiguor Satalli, Papal delegate in the United States, on November 29th. The Bishop says the position Satalli has assumed in the Republic is aggressive and offensive, and as an accredited diplomatist would have made him persona non grata. He savagely arraigned Satalli for meddling with American domestic affairs, and notably the system of common schools.

It has been understood that presentments against members of the American Protective Association, the new antiCatholic political organisation on charges of criminal conspiracy, were to be made to the Grand Jury in Buffalo at the District Attorney's office. It was said on November 28th that no such cases have been or will be laid before the Grand Jury, and further, that the Association was not in violation of the law, and such charges could not be substantiated in a Court.

Nolan aad Meara, who were arrested in Dublin after the murder of Patk. Reid on suspicion of being connected with the crime, but were afterwards released, were rearrested on December 14th and examined at the Castle. It is understood the police have a perfect clue to an entire dynamite conspiracy in Dubbin.

PAPAL ENCYCLICAL

The Pope's Encyclical, issued on November 28th, is in three parts. The first part deals with propounding the Scriptures. It recommends preachers to study sacred books, giving examples of the preaching of Jesus and the Apostles and Fathers of the Church. The second part refers to the method of teaching and study, and contains instructions to theologians, prescribing the study of ancient languages, particularly Semitic. The third portion is the most important. In it the Pope points out the fallacious errors in the system of interpretation of the Scriptures, dwells upon the necessity of the authority of the Church in this respect, and affirms on the authority of the Councils of Trent and Florence, and of the Vatican, the divine inspiration of all parts of the Scriptures, warns against the spirit of rationalistic criticism, and the tendency to give the preference to scientific theories, and concludes that on points where science seems opposed to Scripture, it must be supposed that either the Scriptures are badly interpreted, or that the scientific reasoning is erroneous.

GREAT STORMS IN ENGLAND

Severe storms prevailed on th 9 coast of Great Britain on December 9th. At Greenock the quay was submerged by the high tides, and saveral of the Highland mail steamers were compelled to return to port. All vesels arriving in the Clyde reported terrible weather. A vessel went down off the coast of Anglesea with all on board. In Dublin roofs were damaged and chimneys and signs strewed the streets. The steamer Enterprise of Folkstone, was wrecked while trying to make West Hartlepool. The crew were taken off by rocket apparatus. The sea washed over the railway line between Helensborough on the Firth of Clyde and Cadross. Passengers were transferred by waggons in Glasgow streets. The lower parts of the town were flooded and much damage was done. The brigantine Scotsman sank in the English channel off Selsey Bill, Sussex, but the orew were saved. The month has been stormy, in fact, all through. On 10th November the Cynthia of Liverpool, foundered in a gale with all hands. The Atlantic steamship LeiiGania had a perilous voyage to Liverpool, and that city itself suffered much damage. Holyhead, Scarborough, Sunderland, Kendal, Dunde?, Fraserborough and Huddersfield, all Bent reports of damage to a greater or less extent. Lord and Lady Morton and family had a narrow eucape on board their steam yacht, which was driven ashore with great force at the Bray, smashing iu the starboard bulwarks. The party were rescued with some difficulty, and placed aboard a steamship until the storm abated.

The gale was renewed with f ury oo the 20th. All boats running between Calais and Dover were storm bound. There was fearful weather in the Channel aad the North sea, and the inland rail ways were blocked with snow. A portion of the pier at Calais, and the piers at Dieppe were so severly damaged that vessels cannot enter the harbour. The stranding and foundering of vessels with great loss of life formed the burden of reports from all parts of the Channel. The steamer Maugara, at London, December Bth, reports that off Ushant she saw an unknown steamer in distress, and started to her assistance, but before she could reach her she sank, with all on board.

Among the horrors of the storms of the past monih on the Noith Atlantic is the wreck of the Norwegian barque Don Juan near Lombig, with the drowning of all the cr< w except three, and the foundering of the steamer Noanca off the Cornish coast and the lobs of all kw grew of 18 men.

SHIPPING DISASTERS

The British barque Merile, from Mauritius, for Cork, was spoken on November 22nd, whon twenty-seveu miles from the Lizard. She reported that several of the crow were dead, and the remainder in great distrcss. Intelligence reached London that the captain and the majority of the crew of the ship Mendoza, which foundered near Mactiniquo, lately died of fever. The few left woro unable to navigate her, and sho sank, only four of the crew being saved.

The Bioamship Sir John Hawkins, for Gibraltar and Liverpool, foundered, with a mew of. tweuty.fiv© HWtt*

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