GENERAL SUMMARY.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4279, 18 September 1882, Page 3

GENERAL SUMMARY.

The Maori chiefs now in London have not met with any success in their starring tour. They have succeeded in getting . Mr Gorst to present a petition to the r^ House of Commons, but uo discussion 1 '^as as yet tat en place on native affairs in i$W Zealand, the promised blue boolcs not having been laid upon the table. The chiefs I'visited Lichfield, and were the ' ' guests of Mrs Selwyn. They were shown / the grave of the-late Bishop, and were '" visibly affected on-beholding the tomb of ' 'their late master.' They are now in Lon* •do'ni and will shortly return to New Zealand. " . ■ . Sir Arthur Gordon is expected to arrive in England in October. Sir George ' Bowen, Governor of Mauritius,' in consequence of ill health, has obtained an extension of his leave of absence; he is now at Sissingen. In the Probate and Divorce Court recently a motion was made for an order for resumption of the estate of late Sir W. A. Congrere and his brother Mr W. F. Congreve. Each brother has passed by the feigned name of William Coobe. The elder had resided inJSTew Zealand, and thelast letter from him was received in 1860. The Brush Electric Light Company distributed an interim dividend of £245,000, equal to 100 per cent. It is stated that a team of English Cricketers, captained by the Hon. Ivo Bligh, will visit Australia at the end of > the present season, and are expected to leave on October sth. Ihe tour has been in preparation for a year, and the names of the players announced to start are :— Hon. Ivo Bligh, A. G. Steel, C. T. Studd, C. F. H. Leslie, J. B. Studd, W. W. Keed, G. F. Nernon. A. P. Lucas, E. F. S. Tylecote, Bates, Barlow, Barnes, and

Morley. Lieut. Barry, of the burned United States steamer Bodgers, and engineer Melville, one of tbe survivors lost in the exploring ship Jeannette, left St. Peters*burg, for America oh August 24th. Judge Lawson, of the Dublin Commission Court, who sentenced Sheriff Gray, complimented the jury at the close of the session for the manner in which they bad discharged their duties, f* The corporation of Limerick has voted the freedom of the city to. Sheriff E. JDwyer Gray, at present in Dublin jail.. Wright and Sons, worsted spinners, of Bradford, England, have failed for £170,000. The police have searched the house of Captain Dugmore, a prominent Land Leaguer at Frankfort, Sing's County, Ireland, and fcund a number of arms and documents. The Canadian Fishery Inspector has stopped the Americans from fishing in Canadian waters unless they have a license. A movement has been made by the San Francisco commercial community in opposition to the exactions of the Central Pacific .Railroad Company, the directors of which are in the habit of favoring some and oppressing others by a differential tariff as it suits their interests. At a meeting of some 700 merchants, held on 27th inst., it was resolved to make up a ticket from the candidates of both political parties, to be voted for at the forthcoming election, and to be known as the " Antimonopoly." M. DeLesseps waited upon the Duke of Edinburgh and assured him that he (DeLesseps) entertained friendly feelings towards the British Government. The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland declined to interfere with Judge Lawson's course in the case of Sheriff Gray. Latest news from West Indies (August 2nd) is to the effect that yellow fever was raging at .Port-au-Prince. A company, has been organised in New York under the name of the Great American and European Short Line Eailroad Company, with a view to shortening the sea trips between the United States and Europe. The plan is to convey passengers by rail to a point on the eastern coast of Newfoundland, and steamers will be taken to a point on the western coast of Ireland, distant only 1640 miles. It was thought three or four days will be saved by this route. Ficklin town, in Texas, was swept away by a iood on the 26th; forty lives were lost. . Chas, J. JSipkhain, a late Fenian leader, is dying iri'^^biin of paralysis. The busf of Longfellow will soon be placed in Westminster Abbey. Of ten persons arrested in Ireland for connection with the murder of the Joyce family, fi>e are named Joyce, four Casey, and one Philsin. Mr Sellar, a Liberal, was elected to Parliament for the Haddington burghs . over Mr Karr, the Conservative. A week's stoppage of the mills has been advised by the Oldham spinners. The trade was never at such a low ebb. A national prohibition party has been formed in the United States independent of all political parties. A largely attended convention was held on the 23rd at Chicago. Certain sonators and Congressmen having opposed the admission of female clerks into the department at Washington, the women .have formed themselves into a y secret society to. collect and publish to the yWorld damaging facts in tbe private lives and habits of their opponents. Over'loo women are on trial at Gross Beckserk," Hungary, charged with poisoning their husbands. The guilt of 35 of the accused has been proved. . Emilio Castelar, the eminent Spanish statesman, has sent a long letter to a Madrid paper, defining his political position. He declares he will ever remain a Bepublicafy and ridicules the idea that the

dynasty of 'the' Bourbons can ever sincerely co-operate for the welfare of Spain. Lord Granville refused the Khedive's brother permission to serve with the British army in Egypt Lansbury and Co., of London, commission merchants in Swedish iron and timber, have failed for £90,000. Frederick Linke, the celebrated Eussian navigator, is dead. A British rifle team has sailed from Liverpool for New Yorlr. Lord Dufferin has promised the piU grimssto Mecca permission to travel the Suez Canal as usual. Louis Bubio, Italian painter, is dead., The ship joiners of Glasgow struck on the 25th. Thomas Joseph, an extensive English colliery proprietor, has failed for £150,000.