SAN FRANCISO MAIL NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2028, 29 June 1885, Page 2

SAN FRANCISO MAIL NEWS.

I|UrJ?PN,CI>S|BO, JipG, Odium, a swimming professor, encouraged by Paul Boyn'ton, leaped from the Brooklyn bridge at. New York, into the East River, a distance of 135 feet. For 100 feet he shot down straight, but when within 30 feet of the water his body turned, and he Btruck with .a mighty splash. When Odium rose to the surface, blood and froth were oozing from his mouth. He was seized by Boynton and dragged, on board a tug, where a number of sports were assembled watching the feat. After considerable rubbing he came to for a few Beconds, but soon afterwards died. On examination of the body, five ribs were found to be broken, and the heart injured. Tho authorities are making arrests in connection with tho'affair at Somerset village. Quebec has been destroyed by fire. Galdivar, late president of San Salvador, has been compelled, to fly from the country. ■■"■'■" . The London police were informed on June lßtth that two dynamiters had arrived in ' England from the United States, and an activo watch was instituted.

Ifc is said that Cunningham, the dynamiter, has shown signs of insanity since his confinement in Chatham prison, An inspection of the boilor and engines of the Arctic steamer Alert, returned by the U.S. Government to the English Admiralty, found them all salted up, and in a generally rusty condition. The fact is soverely commented upon by tho Press, Lieutenant John Loomes Shook, Assistant Naval Constructor U.S. Navy, who was on special duty at the Royal College, Greenwich, England, committed suicide at Blackheath by shooting himself. The cause was disappointment in love, The British steamer Waverley, with a cargo of spelter, was seized by the French in Chinese waters, on the ground that her cargo was contraband of -war. Alfred Aylmard, notorious in connection with the Boer rebellion, was one of the leading spirits in fomenting the half-breed rebellion, of which Riel was only the figure-head. Archbishop Oroke returned to Dublin from Rome/on June" 3. He deprecated political manifestations and demonstrations. He received addresses declaring that, he had vindicated the 1 cause of the Irish people at Rome, and had stood firm to his faith and fatherland. The Archbishop in reply, advised the signers not to put themselves in the power of socalled, but really sham, friends of law and order. ' Such addresses, ho said, were useful in showing the unity of the priests and people. Ho was anxious to see this old land restored to its prestinegrandness, which Orangeism had broken down, and all classes working loyally together. The Anglo-German Fiji Commission lias agreed that: Germany shall not establish a penal settlement in the Southern Pacific.

A dread is general that the United States will bo visited by a scourge this summer. Tho World's Exposition at New Orleans closed on Ist June, owing 62,318 dollars in excess of the congregational appropriation of 335,000 dollars. ' By a fire at Sullivan's printing house at Cincinnatfci, sixteen girls employed there were killed and five injured, A number of the Zealandia's passengers, bound to San Francisco, left the steamer at Honolulu, apprehensive that war had broken out between England and America, and they were in danger of being captured in an English bottom. They preferred paying 75 dollars additional, and going on in an American vessel. Tho total exports of domestic breadstuff's from American ports during the four mouths ending on April 30th was 45,078,690d015. The polygamists in Idaho arc forcibly resisting th« authorities, The English ship Earl of Dalhousi«, 1700 tons, was capsized in San Francisco harbour while in tow. She sank in seven fathoms of water. California is suffering from a plague of locusts, which eat.the grass out by the roots. News from Winnipeg gives details of a gallant attack on Riel's camp. The rebels were driyen'from their rifle pits and ambush at bayonet point by General Middle'ton's Volunteers. Riel sent a messenger stating that unless the troops rehired thefirjsoners would be massacred. The troops, however, charged W$ scattered tno rebels, iffld. rested the prisoners. The winter wheat prop in the United Slates is reported.to be the, worst in ten years, There will be scarcely twenty-six and a half million bushels for the Pacific Coast alone.