ARRIVAL OF THE San Francisco Mail.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2100, 21 September 1885, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE San Francisco Mail.

(Per Zealandia at Auckland.)

London, August 28, Several thousand unemployed working men assembled at Hackney on the 27th, and adopted a resolution demanding that Government assist them to emigrate. A British man-of-war left Aden on the 28th August to occupy Ambo, situated on Tugooralo Bay, East Africa, Tho object is to anticipate the occupation of the place by France. Mr John Ruskin is slowly dying from cerebral disease, accompanied by insomnia,

On the evening of August 2G, an infuriated mob invaded a hall at the Eastend of London, where several Mormon missionaries were preaching, and made a complete wreck. The Elders fled for their lives, but several were captured and terribly maltreated. The cause of the attack was stories set afloat that these missi onavies had been systematically kidnapping young women, and shipping them to Utah to be "sealed" to rich Mormons.

_ The Highland cians gave a grand reception to Princess Beatrice aud Prince Henry of Battenburg, A hostile crowd assembled at the Hall Depot, on August the 25, to meet General Booth, of tho Salvation Army. He* was hooted, and several attempts weret made to reach his carriage. The police had great difficulty in preventing the mob from injuring him, He was struck several times with missiles.

The yacht Kallafish was run into and sunk by a steamer off Oban, Scotland, on August 22, all on board, including the owner, and his wife, except two, were lost.

San Francisco, August 29. Charleston, South Carolina, was struck by a cyclone on the morning of August 28. One-fourth of the houses in the city were unroofed or damaged, Shipping interests in New York are in a deplorable state. Hundreds of unchartered craft are in the docks. Freights are expected to go even still lower in the next two years.

Lee and Hanlan had a three mile race at Jamaica Bay, Long Island, on August 22. Hanlan won by two lengths. A volcano has burst forth near Bishops Creek, Nevada. Owing to the small-pox epidemic at Montreal the theatres are closed, and disinfectants aro used for watering the,, streets. Masses are being celebrated in the Catholic churches,

The Peruvian Government forces were defeated by the rebels at Conta, on August 18, after a five hours' battle. The Peruvian commander shot himself.

A New York Tribune's London cablegram, of August 17, says The passage of the Criminal Law Amendment Act remains the last pretext for continued publication of the filthy matter by which the Pall Mall Gazette has earned infamous notoriety, but publication of this sort of literature continues. Public meetings are called in Hyde Park by posters on walls and circulars, the text of both being indecent. The Archbishop of Canterbuiy has published a disavowal of his alleged approval of the so-called the Gazette, The AttomeyGmral is investigating the alleged case of abduction of a girl by somebody connected with this business, but the Gazette daily fills its columns with accounts of what it calls "ftew Crusades." "It has,", says the despatch, "apparently renounced all hope of regaining a respectable position." The Gazette's " revelations" have been dramatised at Yienna. The play is in. five acts, called "Protect our Daughters." On August 22nd, a tremendous procession (called by the Press" a morality parade") was made to Hyde Park, the number taken part being estimated as high as 150,000. The affair was under the auspices of the temperance societies, Good Templars, Band of Hope Lodges, Salvation Army, various trade and labor societies, ladies' national societies, and Young Men's Christian Association. One of the waggons in the procession earned 24 little-girls dressed in white, holding aloft banners bearing the inscription: "Shall our innocents be slain ?"