GENERAL SUMMARY

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1747, 28 July 1884, Page 3

GENERAL SUMMARY

San Francisco. July 6. A. tremendious riot occurred at the recent elections at Cape do Verde ( Islands, in which several persons were killed and wounded. The Government candidate wo.i. General Masscy, the English poet ; and scholar, who has been delivering alarmist political and freethought lectures in San Francisco, goes to the colonies liy the Zealnndia. General G. A. Sheridan, an American orator and lending member of the Grand Army of the American Republic, who is making , a tour of the world, is a passenger by the same steamer. The amended Chinese Restriction Bill passed the "United States Senate on July 3 by a vote of 43 to 12. Two days were devoted to the celebration of the American National Anniversary this year on July 4th and sth, The procession in San Franciso especially in its military features was a ■ grand affair. By way of fun on the 4th of June, some miners of Swan City Colorado, put giant powder under the Post Office and blew it out gf sight, Luckily no one was hurt. A new Cunard has been laanobed of 12,500 horse power; this means a trip across tho Atlantic in less than six days. The New York daily papers find there is no profit in a reduction of price and the proprietors give out that old rates will lie restored after the Presidential elections. Monsignore C'apel is making many converts for the Catholic Church among the American?. Colonel Bliss, of New York, prominent in policy is the latest one received into the fold. A movement has been set on foot by Eepublicians in Several States to boycot Harper's Illustrated Weekly, because that paper refuses to support Blaine for the Presidency. Ben Butler accepted an anti-monpoly and greenback nomination for the Presidency. His letter of acceptanco, however, is looked upon as a marvel of ambiguity, The spread of cholera in Prance is Causing great alarm on the Continent. Mr Labouchere, editor of London | Truth, has been sued by Bishop, the ' American mind-reader, for Libel. ] Truth asserted that Bishop was a common Bwindkr,.and,had robbed tiro 1 Victoria Hospital of £3OO, the proceeds of one of his entertainments ostensibly

for the benefit of the hospital, Report says that many mombers of the aristocracy are assisting Bishop with money and advice. Princess Louise went to Miurenbad on the 27th for her health. She is still suffering from the consequences of her fall in Canada. . The demand for the Queen's book has almost ceased, librarians offerin" it for 4s. Two hundred and six miles of the ; Bennett-Mackay cable had been laid from tho English shore on July 5, when the Duraday returned to Queenstown to coal, At a conference of members of tho Houses of Lords and Commons, held in London on July 4, was unanimously resolved that'the introduction of tho Deceased Wife's Sister's Bill into the House of Lords should be made at t once. Lord Edward Fitzmauriceannounced n 'he House of Camraons on July 4, that the whereabouts of Sheldon, an Englishman captured by outlaws in Kansas, and held for ransom, had not been discovered. The small-pox epidemic is reported on Juno 23rd as spreading in London, there being already 1700 cases. The daily reports showed the rate to be 75 per week. Patrick Joyce was arrested on the steamship Illinois, at London on June 21st, for having in his possession an infernal machine of a new and ingenious pattern. It resembled a wooden log, but was found to be hollow, a hole having been pierced through it leading to a chamber containing a liquid supposed to be explosive. There was an outer wooden casing, 16in long and 4in thick, within which a brass tube was inserted. On removing tho metal cap the liquid was found, Except by careful examination it was impossible to suppose the article anything but a log of wood.