SAN FRANCISCO MAIL ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1818, 20 October 1884, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL ITEMS.

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San Francisco, September 26. A piece of plate and a purse of gold were given to Captain the Greely relief ship Loch Garry, at London. - Eastbourne, the • famous Sussex watering place, is crowded with Americans, scared by the cholera from the Continent. - . The laying of the last deep sea section of the Irish..shore of the new Bennett-Mackay cable cable will b« completed about the 6th ot October, Bennett is in San'.Mncisco consuMng with, John W. Mackay business.

The British gun boat Wasp foundered off Tory Island, on the north-west coast of Ireland on September 23. Fifty-two men, including all the officers were drowned. Only six persons were saved by clinging to .the wreckage. The vessel struck at 3 o'clock in the morning during a haze. The new steamer for the Cunard line, the Etruria, was launched in Glasgow on September 12. A great banquet followed the launching of the .vessel}.which is built to be the fastest steamer afloat,

. According to a despatch to the New Toi'k Morning News, dated" London, September 24, the correspondent of a well-known American newspaper ,hs<l eloped from London with the. younjf' wife of an English nobleman, and it is believed tbeyliave taken passage for the Australian colonies. The cujflftjf, part of the affair is that the journal is old enough to be the father of the lady, The names are not made public. A furnished house iu Hampshire has just been taken for the Tichborne claimant who will shortly. be released. An ample allowance has been subscribed for himself and Iris two daughters, It is said the Duke and Duchess of Connaught will visit the United States next year, returning from ludia by way of California,

Late despatches say the price of bread is much discussed in England'amh Ireland, the public complaining t though wheat never roaches. 40s per • quarter, and barley nt)t above 355, the price of bread roiimins tha same as when the price of wheat was ten shillings higher. The Grand Duke of Hesse intends to spend six weeks at Balmoral, aad this has caused a discussion olfiftn Madame Kantomine affair. The late has announced her determination to light the cace in the Courts as a finale. She has refused all bribes, and returned tlio first instalment of her allowance, The case will be heard on October 16.

Edwin Hine, the apostle of AngloIsraelism, starts for the United States on the Ist October. He proposes make a lecturing tour of America Jmd then go to Australia. ; It is not expected that the infant Duke of Albany will survive the winter. Parliament will be asked at its coining session to make provision for the eldest son of the Prince of Wales, A rumor was in circulation on tho 22nd that the Prince of Wales and Duke of Edinborough had announced their intentions to vote for the Franchise Bill at the Autumn session. Bismark is about to visit the Prince of Wales at Abergeldie Castle. An American frigate, name unknown l'lin ashore on the evening of Sepjjgkei' 13 at Flaniborough Head in a logout got ofl without assistance, An English Church paper savagely attacked General Wolsely and Lord Northbrook for starting on their Egyptian mission on a Sunday a Queen Victoria is at Balmoral the autumn. She is said to be in an extremely gloomy state of mind, and visits John Brown's grave daily. Over 2000 people at Liecester were recently summoned for defying the vaccination' laws, the feeling against which is incredibly bitter all over England, Rev. Mr Traokleton, a Presbyterian clergyman of Tullaimre, has brought n suit for £60,000, and Mrs Brown for £25,000, against the Dublin Froman's Journal for damages. The.'Journal printed an article in its coloums stating that, the clergyman had eloped with Mrs Brown to Paris, A fund will shortly be start&k at the suggestion of the United Inhd newspaper, on behalf of the Birmingham dynamitards, Daly and Egan. Fifteen thousand persons attend*! the funeral of Duggati, at Dublin, X September 14. . Among them were O'Brien and Davitt. Admiral Courbet, coiumauding the French naval force in China, is claimed to be an Irishman, his father being a Cork man, who on emigrating to France added " ut" to the original name of Corbett, • At a meeting of the National League at Ballinasloe, on September 21, J. M. Kenny, M.P- for Enuis, declared that Ireland would never be contented till she was free, The Irish members of the Commons were opposed, he said, to the Liberal Government because they expect more than the Conserva-

tives. Resolutions were adopted in in favor of an Independent Government and a peasant proprietory. Parnell was cheered at the future Premier of Ireland Thomas Sexton retires from P-iilji. me'nt as the Representative oMrai, and will co.ntest another seat, The municipal authorities of Limerick formally resolved, on the 26th, not to pay an extra police tax, or to send a deputation to Earl Spencer, Lord-Lieutenant, whom they denounce as a tyrant, Tne vote stood 18 to 2. Extra police by Gov- 1 ernment on the plea that local authori- ® ties did not furnish sufficient protection against outrages, and the cost of their maintenance was assessed upon the communities to which they were assigned. This is the tax that Limerick refuses to pay. Sir Stafferd Nortlicote, in an address to the Conservatives of Edinburgh, said the action of the Government on the Franchise Bill- demonstrated a desire to raise grievances agains4&&e House pf Lords. W>