ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1582, 14 January 1884, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

(Per 8,8.. Australia at Anck)ani,).,, •i ---E'S G LISf NEWS,' ''(pftfess'ASSOGlAfl&N.) GENERAL ' .r, Seventy workmen who,have been discharged from the Pa : {t'ersdlifliocb; motive Works at New Jersoyi- haVd left, for Clyde to work' on "the -iron; shipbuilding works there, paying their own passages. The American- -free .trado journal says this augurs. badly for protection. • i! - >«• The British and Chinese 's were publicly burnt by an assemblage of Irishmenin San .Francisco On Sunday, December 9. The cremation was preceded bv resolutions of sympathy:for O'Donnell, A movement for seperate government is gaining ground in Manitoba, owing to the misgovernment at Ottawa, The Rev Mr Wilsone, the 'curate of St George's Cathedral, Kingston, Ontario; dismissed for attending a Salvation Army meeting.' The Popo approved of the proposal to erect a memorial church: to the memory of .Daniel O'Connel at ■ Calineeven, Coutity Kerry. Archbishop Croke will lay the cornerstone,. : .'; The executrix of theJDowager Lady: Litton threatens to publish 300 letters of'the kte lord ijnless -his sori will do justice,'to the memory,of his motfien Manteufel,the Governor pf Alsace and Lorraine," has 'isaued-an . order abolishing the nse of the French IftMtjage in debate. ' The staff of .La Lanterns entertained;

Mr Bradlaugh at the reception. C.;£y •Sarah 1 BernhardtKaa' assaulted accompanied her to America, for pub* Ming a satirical biography of' her, urider'the title of Sarah Bernhaum, A civil suit, brought by the London News against the comic paper Judy, was dismissed by the Judge, on the ground that the alleged libel was fair criticism on the way the agenoy conducted its business, and if the suit succeeded,'ihe freedom of the Press might be seriously injured. ' A meeting will shortly take place between thoj'Emperors of Austria, 'Germany and Russia. The remains of De Long, of tho Jeanette Arctic exploring'party, reached Irkutsk on December. 21, being escorted by a military guard, and will be taken to America, The 'disputes', between Spain and Trance as to" King Alfonso's treatment ■in Paris' have been satisfactorily 'settled,'' •The Crown Prince of Germany, 'during his visit to Madrid, gave 24,000 piastres to the palace servants, and 50,000 to; the military asylums, at the opening of the Spanish Cortes. The : royal speech announced the extension of .tlie suffrage to all who can read and ■writeiuid'pay taxes. ,■ A hurricane,: in the Province of . Afejse, in Spain, on December 12, u|ii'ooted 1400 olive trees. i'Bradlaugh met with a cordial reception in ' Paris, but he studiously 'avoided the' Anarchists, ' The London police have begun to make araidon the fashionable gambling On the 15th they entered the •Bacarat Club, Jenk's 1 Club, Park Club, and others known as swell hells, and warned the players and proprietors, • Peyton and Peyton, furniture manufacturers, Birmingham,' have failed for il0,00Q; and Abbot, Paige and Co,, London, stock brokers, for £165,000. Cyoret, a' Lyons' anarchist, concerned in the explosion of a theatre there, has been'sentenced to death. . Rosa Bonheur is dangerously ill at Fontainbleu. • Tremendous floods in Scheldt did great damage. - Badinquefc, who helped Napoleon the Third to escape from the fortress of Ham, died at Paris lately.