SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1958, 7 April 1885, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

SUMMARY. > London, March 14, The London Times states that war rates are paid on British vessels en route for San Francisco and other distant ports, and the rates on those en route from the Black Sea and Baltic ports, have been raised. • For the first time since the Crimean war an inspection of the naval and military pensioners at Portsmouth Dockyard has been ordered. Earl Durham's suit for a divorce on the ground of his wife's insanity was dismissed with costs against Earl Durham, Sir James Hannen, in giving his decision, declared tlie respondent loved another, and censured the family for,arranging a marriage with his lordship. The English Government have invested £2,000 for the benefit of Gordon's family,.:' ;

The English Government has rejected the offer of the United States to negotiate a Convention with the British West Indies,

_ Andrew Carnegie, the Scotch millionaire, of Pittsburg, was unmercifully blackballed at the London Reform Club. The famous cathedral in Glasgow, which lacks but two years of being seven centuries old, was on fire on March 8, arid for a time there was much excitement. The flames, however, were soon extinguished, little damage being done. Mr Stannard, a Conservative,' gave expression in the House of Commons to the ill-feeling springing up iir trade circles about contracts being awarded to Americans for war supplies, without due consideration of the prior claims of British manufacturers. In reply, the SurveyorGeneral of Ordnance said that he would be greatly surprised if the English makers mild undertake the work (the pump contract for the Suakim-Berber railway) as quickly as the American firm had.

The breach of promise suit, Lady Claude Scott against Captain Spiler, of the Life Guards, was settled f0r£33,000 (?). A despatch from London says that the North Pacific and Australian Fleets will be reinforced.

As the result of a conference with the Agents-General of the Colonies at the War Office, the Government will rely upon receiving contingents from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. London society was liiucli exercised on March 6th over the suicide of a young Englishman recently married, who had lost £55,000 in gambling at Monaco. The Swedish steamer Norclon was run into by the English steamboat Cumberland near Cuxhaven, on February 27, and sank. Twenty-one persons on board the Norden perished. •

The Gordon National Memorial Fund has reached £IO,OOO. The .firms of Rothschild and Barings each contributed £2500, It has been decided .that the memorial shall take the furin of a great hospital and sanitarium to be erected at Port Said, and open to people of all nations. The Prince of Wales visited the London Stock Exchange oil March 2. and wan received with great enthusiasm.' The members of the Exchange sang "God Save the Queen" and " God Bless the Prince of Wales."

The ex-Empress Eugenie and the Duke de Bassano were thrown out of a carriage while riding at Fairboro, and were badly injured. Amongst the latest items of war news is a vote of March 6, by the House of Commons, of £350,000 for. extra naval expenses in Egypt, and for the construction of ironclads. The Supplementary Estimates provide an of 3000 men in the military service, and show the expenses of the Soudan campaign to the end of March to be £3,330,000. Lord Derby, on March sth, invited the Colonial Agents-General in London to attend a Conference on the offers made by the Colonies to furnish the Home Government with troops for service in the Soudan,

A manifesto was issued by tho dynamiters in Paris on March 5, addressed to the Prince of Wales, pledging him safety during his visit to Ireland, because he is a Freemason, The document is signed "Michael Flannerv." One part of it .says: ll Go and see for yourself what tho Irish people have suffered. We shall thank you, .although you are the residuary legatee of centuries of usurpation and attempted extermination." A tremendous fight occurred between soldiers and civilians atJVaterford on. March 7. A detachment of the Royal Irish Regiment, numbering 100, were waiting to embark for Portsmouth, en route to India, and were allowed by their officers to break rank, and enjoy themselves. • They did so by getting drunk and insulting all the residents, and kissing all the women they met on tho streets, All business was suspended, and the police, aided by citizens, attacked the soldiers, who beat off tho charge with tlioir fists and the buckles of their belts, which they used like slitig-shota. Many were seriously wounded, A gang of rowdies took part with tho soldiers against the police, and the .latter were stoned, kicked, and ' clubbed, until they were forced to take rofugo iii the Custom House. ■ -'-"I" ■■■'

Two dynamite cartridges wore exploded in a Protestant chuvoh inGlenfiven; neav Stranolar, in Donegal, on March 3, and sevoral square feet of masonery destroyed. Several more oartridges ; ,wej;e found in the vicinity.' Sullivan, the American champion pugilist, is preparing for an Australian trip. ' '

Mrs Sydney Brown,'of New York, has been acknowledged by the 'Court of Queen's Bench, in England, as the heiress of the Townley Estate, value £20,000,000. The Cartridge Company, Bridgeport, received on March G, an order from the British Government for 50,000,000 cartridges, and another from Russia for 100,000,000, These are the largest orders ever received in the United States, Russia has made proposals for the , purchase of transports in New York. General Grant suffers from cancer in the tongue, which is attributed to the excessive use of tobacco. Congress confirmed his appointment on tho retired army list On full pay. The proposed discontinuance of the .coinage of silver in the United States causes much excitement, as four fifths of the silver mines would be obliged to stop. The ocean steamer Clandon for ieitll,' and Preston and Fenwood, were reported lost in the Januaiy gules, with all aboard. The steamer Alleghany, from Cardiff to Galle, is also reported lost, and a crew of thirty persons drowned, Cyrus Field, the cabel manager, is suing Mr Labouchere, James Gordon Bennett, and hiß London apent, Hall, for libel. The winter in Canada was exceptionally severe, and many persona were frozen to death. , There was great excitement along the borders of Canada on February 25th, caused by the published statement that 30,000 Irißh revolutionists intended invading the Dominion. Application has been mado'by the British military authorities to the directors of the Canadian-Pacific Tailroad to learn the earliest date the railroad will be completed, so as to take troops en ■ route to India. The construction of tho railroad has been stopped owing to the financial straits of the syndicate. President Barios, <if Guatemala, issued a decree on March 9th, proclaiming a

confederation of all the Central American States undor one Government, with himself as military dictator. Honduras 1 accepted, but San Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica rejected,- and commenced active hostilities. The .President of Mexico also intervened by sending a-, force against Guetamala's Mansions. Troops are moving in every airection. War is likely to be general all over Central America. Trade relations, between San Francisco and the Republies is not disturbed. The. Nicaragua unanimously endorsed the treaty with the United States. This is one cause of Bario's hasty action.