ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1770, 25 August 1884, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

(UNJTEP PRESS ASSOCIATION). Auckland, August 24. The City of Sydney from San Francisco, which left on August 2, after an uneventful passage, arrived at Auckland at 1,30 p'.rn. to-day, GENERAL SUMMARY London, August J. The Contagious Diseases Bill passed its third reading in the House of Lords on the Ist, O'Brien, of tho Dublin Union Ireland, has flatly refused to pay £3050 awarded as damages to Balfcon in his suit for libel against that paper, O'Brien's reply to the demand for payment was, "1 will not pav a farthing. The award is preposterous; it violates all common sense."

It is reported from Cardiff, on'lst, that a man died of cholera qn the steamer Qranlle, from. Marseilles, a.t anchor in Benarth Rqads, the body was thrown overboard, Another oase occurred on board the vessel at date. The son of the British Yice-Consul at Rodisto, has been captured by Brigands, who demand £IOOO ransom,

The trial of an action for libel brought by Mr Bolton, Crown Solicitor of Ireland, against Parnell and other proprietors of Dublin United Irish newspapers for £300,000 damages was begun on July 31. Charles Money Penny, a linen manufacturer at Belfast, was found, on, the night of July 25, in a carriage train between Paris and Brussels with his brains blown out, It is supposed he has been murdered.

Moetzin, a Mexican debt agent, has made applipatiqn tq Baring Brothers to plaoe the new Mexican loan qf 30,000,000 dollars at' 7 per' cent, interest. King Oscar, of Sweden, visited London incog, at the time of the annual conference of the Conservative National Union held at Sheffield on July 23. A thousand delegates were present, Lord Ql|iuc})il} prggidpij, supported by the Duke of Norfolk and others, The Marquis of Salisbury was conspicuous by his absence, ' _ It is positively asserted in Oatliolio circles in London that there is a great likelihood of Mary Anderson joining the Catholic Church. Ireland won the Elcho shield, rifle match at Wimblsdon. The scores were: —lreland, 1583; Scotland, 1476; England, }474, Deerstalkers, a Ri]lje, am} laborers, on the estate of the American millionaire Winnams, near Inverness, Spotland, engaged in a terrible fight, when the gillie, named Campbell, killed a laborer named McGillivray. Campbell was arrested. The Goodwood July 30th race for Stewards' Cup was won by Gard's Sweetbread, the Duke of Westminster's Duke of .Richmond, second, and Duke of Beaufort's bay filly Ml?pa|) third. Twenty-three startod for the raoe. "' Dr Cassar Henry Hawkins, surgeon to the Queen, is dead. Lord Randolph Churchill proposes

to'tali'oan* American-tour during the recess of Parliament.

Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer, and lately director V ofj ; tlie African International Assooiatiori 'work in the Congo country, has arrived in England. : ■ ; 'V .;; V : ,' . ;A despatch from Diiblin,;dated July, 23, says that. Johnstone.and Little, implicated in the Cornwall scandal, have.been arrested at Magherafelfc and brought to the former place. An inquiry into the case of James, alias French, of the Royal Constabulary, arrested the preceding week, charged withl felonious practices in this- matter, was privately conducted. The evidence was so revolting that the reporters were requested-Jo withdraw. A. despatch, dated July 26th, says that the! excitement regarding investigation had spread from Dublin to London, and it would become as intense there as in the Irish capital. The arrest of Dr. Fernerdty, of the Coldstream on a charge of being ah accomplice ofc Cornwall in his crime, has caused great sensation in Dublin. July 29. Two more persons have been arrested in connection with thjs unsavoury matter, and many others, becoming frightened at the prospect of arrest have left the country.

The condition of the Thames in view of the cholera in Prance excites alarm in London, for the sewerage, though discharged far below the city, -washes up past the House of Parliament.