GENERAL SUMMARY.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4899, 22 September 1884, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

London, August 29,

The following vessels were loading for New Zealand when the 'Frisco Mail left :— At London : For Auckland : —Loch Cree, Lady Jocelyn, and Oamaru. For Canterbury :—Opawa, Waipa, Victory, Wave Queen, and Doric For Otago :—Westland, Waitangi, Victory, Taranaki, and Doric. For Wellington : —Victory, Piako, Helen Denny, and Doric. At Liverpool, for Otago :—Aikshaw. At Glasgow, for Otago:— Margaret Galbraith. Closeburn, barque, from Lyttelton, for Channel, is announced by telegraph from Bahia, August Bth, to have put in there with damage to bulwarks and stanchions, and with part of her cargo damaged. G. A. Sala leaves for the colonies in January.

The Queen has accepted a copy of Kerry Nicholl's work on the King Country.

It is expected that the new composite corvette Caroline, 12 guns, 1420 tons, 950 horsepower, will shortly be commissioned for the Australian station.

Sir John Hall intends visiting Canada on his way to New Zealand.

" Anglo-Australian," writing in the European Mail on the Imperial Federation Convention, remarks :— " I do not wish for a moment to draw odious comparisons, but I am not alone in regretting, for instance, that New Zealand did Hot warmly and powerfully second the action of Queensland when that colony so boldly took the initiative in the New Guinea matter, and I am well assured that had the Britain of the South moved with real energy on this occasion, the effect on the Home Government wouid have been proportionately great."

Instances of race antagonism are increasing in the Southern States. At Syndeburg, on August 25, a white man named Norris unintentionally killed a negress, and it was with difficulty that the authorities could prevent the negroes from hanging him. At Macon, Ga., the negroes assembled in great force to prevent the hanging of one of their number con* victed of murder, and the military had to be called out.

Beligious troubles continues in Newfoundland. On August 20 hundreds of Orangemen attacked the Roman Catholics' church yacht at Henley harbor, and threatened the missionary, Father Lynch, with death. They tore down the papal flag, and smeared the vessel with tar.

John Maguire, a theatrical manager, was formally excommunicated during High Mass at Missonla, Montana Territory, by Bishop Bromel, for the sin of arranging for a series of lectures in Montana by Bob Ingersoll.

A circus car containing sixty employes was burned near Gruley, Colorado, on the 29th, and ten of the occupants perished in the flames, and many more were fatally injured. A bill has passed Congress placing at the disposal of the American Postmaster--General 90,000 dollars for the conveyance of postal matter between the United States and the Australasian Colonies. It is not yet known how the vote will be applied.

The Duke of Edinburgh, with the Channel Fleet, was in Dublin Harbour on the 29th. Thousands flocked to Kingstown and visited the vessels. The evenings were made brilliant with balls, fireworks and the illumination of the ships.

Cumberland, the "thought reader," cleared £2500 in one week in Austria recently. Bradlaugh lectures in the United States in October and November.

Jersey Island was shaken up by an earthquake, which lasted thirty seconds, on the 25th.

An Irish Veer, Lord Cahir, was arrested' by the London Police for riotous conduct in a coffee room. In Court he behaved uproariously, abused the Judge, prosecutor, and police, and threatened them with his vengeance. He was bound over to keep the peace for six months.

Famine is threatened in Mysore. No steps, as yet, have been taken by the authorities to provide relief.

During a severe thunderstorm in Scotland on the 12th, many buildings in Edinburgh and other cities were partially demolished by lightning. Several persons were killed by lightning, including the Earl of Lauderdale. Traffic was suspended for hours through the dense darkness.

The British military authorities intend testing at Aldershot a new aerial warship invented by a German.

Twenty thousand persons took part in a Nationalist procession at Monaghan .on August 15th. In the evening a banquet was given, at which several notables were entertained. The Orangemen abstained from any counter demonstration.

Despatches of the 23rd say Ireland is reaping a rich harvest from tourists frightened from the Continent by the cholera scare; also that the crops are superb ; and that more noblemen and other rich landlords are spending the autumn on their Irish estates than for years past. This materially improves business of all kinds.

In Dublin, on August 22nd, the jury were unable to agree ou a verdict ia the

cas* of Secretary Cornwall and Captain Kirwan, tried jointly on an indictment for conspiracy and soliciting. The seccni trial of this case is postponed till next term, and the prisoners were released on bail.

Adelina Patti has been refused a divorce under the new French Divorce Law from her husband, the Marquis De Canx, on the ground that the law reserves the right of divorce to such applicants as have re* ceired injury in the marriage relation. The French Press are agitating for a cession to France by England of the Leeward Islands in exchange for French concessions on the coast of Newfoundland. The acquisition is advocated as part of a prospective French line via Panama, Tahiti, and Australia.

Capt. ltenard, of Paris, inventor of the navigable balloon, claims he has solved the problem of aerial navigation,and can insure a balloon postal system as easily asl by railroad, and that he can construct balloonvS each capable of carrying 100 soldiers. At the bombardment of Foochow ports by the French, the arsenal, which cost 42,000,000 francs, was destroyed, and arms and ammunition worth 140,000,000 francs. During the bombardment one French officer of high rank was killed, and one ironclad badly damaged, and had to haul off for repairs. The war has led to an increase of business at Lloyd's and other offices, to whom premiums of 10 to 15 per cent, are paid by vessels laden with muni tions of war for China. The effect on Indian trade and money market is slight. The Viceroy of Canton has ordered all Frenchmen to leave his province immediately.

The French are establishing a coa depot at Pondicherry, India.

The American Press generally condemns the French operations agains China, as causeless and brutal.

The French Press is greatly irritated al the strictures of the English journals. Two French officers were arrested al Coblentz, while sketching the fortifica' tions.

The tenth annual conference of the Young Men's Christian Association of the World was held at Berlin. Count Bernstorff delivered the opening address in English. The Emperor communicated to the conference his sympathy with the objects.

The finances of Marseilles and Toulon have straitened to the utmost in cleaning the streets and tenements, caring for the sick, and burying the dead, owing to the cholera epidemic. The tide of returning fugitives has set in, and no description can picture the destitution and wretchedness existing.

The Figaro of Paris, commenting on the increase of British troops in Egypt from 6000 to 14,000, says France keeps 51,000 in Algeria and Tunis who are ready to cross to Tripoli and seize Cairo when so ordered.

The German Commissioner, Dr Machtigal, has taken formal possession of Canoronus .River, Upper Guinea, and adjoining country. Great dissatisfaction is expressed among English traders. At a meeting of traders and chief at Old Calabar Head, the British Consul got the chiefs to sign a treaty placing themselves under British protection.

A vessel arrived at Salinas Cruz, Mexico, on August 28th, with Asiatic cholera on board. The vessel was direct from China. The news causes great uneasiness on the coast, as being the first information of the arrival of Asiatic cholera on the American Contiuent.

The steamer Australia, on her last tfcip from Sydney to San Francisco, brought a package marked " dangerous explosives." as no owner can be found, the dock people are nervous about it.

In Tennessee, a bpnd of masked men broke up a Mormon meeting, shot four Mormon elders assisting, and some friends who attempted to defend them.