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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2146, 16 November 1885, Page 2

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. . c San Francisco, 24th October. Owing to the' Bhort crop in England, contracts have been made by dealers there for Californiah hops, There is great excitement in the Now York petroleum market, owing- to the struggle between' Wall-street and the Standard Oil Company. ■ • The ftew York Times thinks that the Grant Memorial Fund will be a failure. The Chinese cigar-makers in San Francisco have Btruck against the employment of white labor in the same' establishment as themselves.' ' ; Samuel Newton Brookes, the supposed father of Walter Lennox Maxwell, arrived at St. Louis 011 the 22nd, to see if the murderer is his son. . , The Irish.Americans'of New York have subscribed 15,000 dollars' to the Pamell Parliamentary Fund. The Hudson river at New Yor is swarming with salmon', as the.result of experiments made by the Fish Commissioner. ' • H. W. Shaw, better know " N Billings, died in California on instant. Of CO convicts who made despeiak break for liberty at Rusk Texas, 4th October, 35 escaped. The ; rest were shot by their guards. The Apaches- have broken out into hostilities, and have committed great outrages in Arizona, The troops appear powerless to oppose fchein. Apples are a drug in the American market this season. . The owner of thoGenesta has refused 20,000d01s for the craft.

Westwood, New Jersey, was destroyed by a tornado on sth October. The printing establishment of Broker & Co., San Francisco was destroyed by fire on Bth October. The loss is 500,000 dollars,

The Postmaster-General is besieged with protests against tho present arrangements for carrying the foreign mail, and petitions praying for an immediate return to the old system. In Montreal and Toronto compulsory vaccination and the condemnation of Riel to death are provoking trouble, Assaults and riots are frequent in Ottawa, The resolution of tho Montreal Board of Health, calling upon the Central Board to close the churches on account of the smallpox epidemic, has raised'tremendous opposition amongst the Catholic clergy, who absolutely refused to comply with any orders of this kind. The Panama Isthmus ceased, to be duty free on 9th October. A despatch' from London, dated 15th October, says the trouble betwoon Burmall and the Government of India will probably lead to the annexation of the former to India. The matter was sen'ously discussed at tho Indian Office at date, and it is generally believed that a sufficient force will be sent to Mandalay to dispose of King Theebaw and'annex the country, in order to prevent future complications whenever the king wants to raise money to give a great feast, Lord Salisbury declared on the 13th that the French Government had disavowed the action of the French Consul in Burmah, and that the French had no designs there, Advices from Askadad say that the English Engineers at Herat are preparing for the construction of a railway to Candahar. Despatches of the 18th October say that Lord Salisbury had a long conference 'with M. Waddington, the French Minister, in reference to the complications between Burmah, Prance, and England, It is evident that King Theebaw is relying on France for assistance against England, but is mistaken, France offers no opposition to British annexation of Upper Burmah, or to the establishment of a British protectorate over Mandalay, the capital of Burmah. English soldiers serving in the Indian army, whose time of service has expired, has been ordered to remain in India until the settlement of the Burmese disputo. The Indian Government's ultimatum to King Theebaw demands that the British envoy be given a fitting reception, and and that the action against the Bombay Trading Company be suspended until he has examined the disputed points. Meantime, a combined military and naval force, numbering 10,000 men, has been fitted out at Calcutta to proceed to Rangoon. Despatches of the 18th says that Nyounjok, half brother to Theebaw, who has far some time been residing in Calcutta, will go to Rangoon as British nominee to succeed the .Ring, unless (helatter submits to the English. Despatches of the 28th from Mandalay say that every available man has been summoned to service. The Burmeso Ministers have decided to stop the British envoy with the Indian Government's ultimatum at the frontier. The Times' advices are to the effect that complete anarchy prevails in Burmah. It is expected that the Dacoit tribe will storm Mandalay, A very hostile feeling is shown in Burmah towards all foreigners, and a general massacre is expected. The Italian Consul at Mandalay has been threatened with imprisonment, The authorities at Woolwich Arsenal have been ordered to supply 10,000,000 rounds of cartridges and 10,000 rifles for the expedition to be sent against Theebaw, Despatches from Calcutta, 22nd October, say that contingents of the" Indium army have been rapidly transported to Rangoon, where the expeditionary force is to be assembled for the invasion of Burmah, The Burmese Government is actively preparing to resist the advance of the British troops, and engineers are busily engaged in erecting earthworks, planting torpedoes, building firfe rafts, loading hulks with stones and sinking them, and placing chains across the river to obstruct navigation. On 23rd October the Burmeso Envoy at Paris handed a note to Lord Lyons, in which he stated that he had Bent a despatch to his Government advising that arbitration be accepted, and was certain they would be glad to restore friendly relations, The European residents in Burmah, he said, were perfectly safe. The people of that country had no desire to be hostile to England. The Journal Des Debats urges the French Government to protest against British annexation of Burmah. Pl'ince Jerome Napoleon .(Plon Plon) has started on a voyagearound tho world, Two hundred respectable citizens at Stradbally, Queen's County, were arrested for boycotting. They were convicted, but elected to go to prison rather than furnish bail. The Magistrate hesitated to commit them, and finally gave them a fortnight in which to consider the matter. . Mr Parnell talks confidently of carrying every Parliamentary seat in Ireland in the interests of the Nationalists, except one Division in Dublin and. ten in Ulster. A pilgrimage of Catholics to tho shrine of Edward the Confessor, Westminster Abbey, lias taken place, the object being to pray for the conversion of England. The Duke of Newcastle has become a Catholic. Mr Parnell, speaking at an open air meeting after the Wicklow Convention, said Home Rule would stop all disloyal proceedings and outrages and thirst for disunion. The Irish, he claimed, would then .become like their countrymen in the British colonies,, be loyal citizens and props to the constitution. The Daily News blames Mr Parnell for not. denouncing boycotting, but admits that his speech , otherwise was fair and

moderate It is possible, the News says, tHat the force with which he spoke■ was as much Churchill's. as ParnellY The Telegraph said Mr Parnell had an almost regal.courtat Wieklow, amid the frantic adulations of his followers, when he successfully inaugurated the first of the series of conventions, . "What we witnessed at Wicklow,"it continues, "is conspiracy to paralyse'the Parliament of Great Britain, in order that the Irish House of Commons may tax British.productions, and maintain a host of police and volunteers in armed menace of British peace and security." The Times says that it is a " fact that .the Government of Ireland is rapidly passing out of the hands of her Majesty's Ministers." The' English Farmers' Alliance have adopted a resolution, stating that to avert the ruin of farmers, land owners must forthwith reduce rents, and that the Government must formulate a measure which will prevent the raising of rents on improvements of tenants. Late despatches say that the Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury, has got the Tory party in good trim for the campaign, while Mr Gladstone has not succeeded in unifying the Liberals to the extent expected. He proposed to work through the campaign with a committee of twelve gentlemen, three to bo elected from each of the four representative Liberal Clubs in London, in order that all shades of Liberal opinion might be represented. This operated well for a time, but such a number of provincial candidates have absolutely refused to abide by the decision of the committee that the trouble became serious, and a second committee, composed of Lord Hartington, Joseph Chamberlain, Hon. Samuel Morley, and Sir Henry James, was appointed to adjust the difficulties growing out of the refusals to abide by the decision of the jarger general committee. Notwithstanding thi?, numbers of candidates refuse to accept the committee's decision, and persist in their candidature.