ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1934, 9 March 1885, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL.

[United Press Association.) Auckland, March 8. The Australia arrived from San Fran, cisco at 2 p,m, to day, She left San Francisco at 3,45 p.m. on February 15. The parage was uneventful, Auckland: 550 cases salmon, 74 oases ginned goods, 40 cases apples, 1021 sacks maize j 'for Sydney: 1118 cases salmon, 2566 cases canned goods, 2260 sacks maize. The Australia left for Sydney at C p.m., and the Penguin, with the southern San Francisco mails, sailed from Onehunga at 3 p.m. GENERAL SUMMARY. Mr Leonard Courtney and Mr John Morley, M.P''s, are arranging for a conference of all members of Parliament, opposed to the continuance of the Soudan: war. Many of the Liberals urge that the Soudan and Egyptian muddle should be. handed over to the Sultan, They are alarmed at the prospect of boundless expense, ..' .-,.■•; ■.■lA'i The Government ; have, given a qoi'jtract for the construction of a. -railway;f£om Suakim to Berber. Messrg, Co., the contractors will propide all materials, which tl)e Government undertakes to transport to Egypt, The work' will begin.immediately•• The sentries have- been treblelatjhe Sheerness powdermagazmein consequence of theappearance of suspected dynamiters, Guards have also been placed at Eton College, . Tho War Department is organising a corps of balloonists from the Engineer Corps for an experimental service in the Soudan. There is a prospect of Mr Edmund Yates being' released soon from confinement, which has told upon his health and spirits, Fifteen hundred Irish laborers have been dismissed from buildings in course of construction, in East London, up to February 14 A similar movement has been started at Manchester, Liverpool, and other provincial centres, A great corporation called the" Royal Soudan Trading Company." has been formed ..'in London and Alexandria upon tho same basis as the old East India Company. One of its privoleges will be tho right to build a railway between Berber and Souakim. The weekly London papers say that Lord Garmoyle and Miss Forfcescuo will marry, notwithstanding the lawsuit. Ford, the London carriage builder, rosently shipped 1400 hansom cabs to New York." '" The Tichborne cjajmant has now fallen so low that he is Appearing in a. provincial variety company jm EngjaniL and takes his turn between an acrobat' stylei| the human serpent and the Cornish mite, The Prince of Wales recently requested one of his sons to appear at and conduct services in the Boy s Refuge in the moat squalid part of London, At a ticket office opposite Somerset House, a duplicate of the emigrant ticket purchased by Lucelle Dudley, Rossa's assailant, was exhibited on February 11. It is dated August tho 21st, , One of the transatlantic steamship lines is about to issue tiokets entitling passengers merely to lodging and conveyanoo. This is a concession to passengers subject to sea-sickness. . A soldier was bayonetted to death on February 7th at a London arsenal. He would not eive the countersign to advance in the darkness to the sentry, and the latter, on the stranger attempting to pass the guard, stabbed him to death. An investigation showed that tho tragedy was the result of a practical joke on the part of the dead man, There is renewed activity in the British shipping interests in view of the coming contracts, Two new bigsteamers have been ordered on the Tyne, to be registered separately under the British Limited Liability Act, and to be sailed under the British flag, while every share in the stook in both vessels is owned by American citizens'. John Lee, ex-convict, who murdered Miss Lee, a wealthy lady, in her mansion at Balbicombe, has been to death. The Governments of Russia and America are conferring as to the treaty for the extradition of dynamiters. Italy has formally replied to the protest of the Porte against the occupation of the Egyptian ports along the Red Sea by Italian subjects, imperilled by the with-' drawal of the Egyptian garrisons. Meantime, a fleet of Turkish war veßsels.has been ordered to prepare for. sea. within a month, and this order is interpreted to mean a fixed determination to oppose Italy's encroachments on the Red Sea and prevent, any. aggressive niove-' ments by her in Nothern Africa.