San Francisco Mail News.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2453, 16 November 1886, Page 2

San Francisco Mail News.

United Press Association,

GENERAL SUMMARY.

(Dates from Europe to October 23). Tho Alameda was detained one day, owing to tho non-arrival of the English mails.

Prominent scientific men in Paris and London urge tho establishment of earthquake observation stations.throughout the world,

Mr Gladstone received a deputation of Irish ladies at Hanvarden on October 4, bearing a petition for Home Rule with tho signatures of:50,000 Irish women.,... Sir Arthur Sullivan's " Golden Legend" which was produced at Leeds on October 16, is pronounced to bo his best musical work.

A London despatch of the 22nd says that at a meeting of tho Inman Steamship Company's creditors it was resolved to sell the concern to the International Steamship Company for £205,000. The liabilities of the Inman Company, secured to creditors, amount to £174,500, and unsecured to creditors £91,000. The Company's., steamers aro valued at £165,000. The unsecured creditors will receive 10b in the £,

The proprietor of Anderson's Hotel, London, appealed on October 21 to the Lord Mayor to discontinue the annual Show, because it disturbs business and encourages riots.

The coalmine owners of Fifeshire, Scotland, refused on 14th October to give the men a ten per cent rise in wages, which they demanded The roiult will bo that 85,000 miners throughout Scotland will suffer from a lock-out. The Royal Eniskillen Fusiliers, stationed at Aldershot went 011 a riot on the night of the 6th October, in resistance to a draft being made for service in Africa, A Bavage fight ensued, and the Irishmen were only subdued after a number of soldiers and police were wounded. Excessively warm weathor prevailed all over the Continent on October 5. The Paris theatres are described as being ventable furnaces, and tho attendance fell off by one half, In London tho thermometer was 80. Two shocks of earthquake wero •felt throughout Balta, one of the Shesland Islands, on the night of October 4, The betrothal of Prince Albert Victor of Wales and Princoss Alexandria of Anhalt is authoritatively denied. Mr Parnell, with his mother and sister, will spend the winter in the south of France, and will not return to England before the re-opening of Parliament. An _ English tourist named Boyd mysteriously disappeared at Basie, Switzerland, on October 4, He was an Alpine climbor,' and public opinion is equally divided betweon the opinions that ho met with au accident and foul play. It is said that the Canadian Packet Railroad Company is pushing the building on the Clyde of six new steamers, to be used on the route between Victoria, British Columbia and Australia, China and Japan, and that the British Government will be urged to subsidiso these lineß.

According to the St. James' Gazette of October 11, enthusiastic Socialists declare that thousands of men regularly drill in London, and thoy bna6t that they are able to put 10,000 armed men into the street. Moderate Socialists feared that the enthusiasm and sedulous secret teaching is telling dangerously in the East End, where there is much poverty and ruffianism.

IRISH NEWS. A valuable petroleum spring was discovered on October 4 in Sligo, under a house which was being repaired. At ft meeting of the National League held in Dublin ontho 12th, the fortnightly receipts were stated at £2OOO. Tlio Secretary (Mr Harrington) said that many landlords wero making great reductions in rents, but that a large number of writs of eviction continued to be served and executed.

The Dublin Mail of the 13th October says that tho Rev. Angus Stopford Brook, the eminent Unitarian preaches has become insane, and has been committed to a madhouse.

Affairs in Ireland are now pursuing a course extremely satisfactory to the Government. According to dispatches of the 16th, General Sir Redver Buller's mission has accomplished much and the landlords are generally responding to Lord Hartington's appeal to deal tenderly with the tenants. Tliero are no such sweeping evictions as wore predicted. Even United Ireland admits that tliero has been an extraordinary reduction in judical rents, and says it only remains with tho tenants themselves to carry out Mr Parnell's 50 per cent reduction. Branches of the Irish National league in Counties Cork and Waterford have been making inquiries regarding the condition of the farms in theso districts and havo just reported. They say that the harvests have been bad, that oats are selling at from 3s to 53 a barrel, and that the heavy fall in stock has rendered the farmers unable to pay their rents. On account of tho bad harvest, the tarmera demand a reduction of from 45 to 50 per cent, on their rents, and whore the reduction is refused they will pay nothing. A number of landlords offer a reduction of 35 per cent.

HURRICANE ON THE ENGLISH COAST. Gales which began on tho 13th on the English and Irish coasts, accompanied by floods, extended far north-east, and continued several days. In Ulster the railway traffic was impeded. The British barque Bellaport was wrecked off Skelling's Island, on tho south-west coast of Ireland, and all hands perished. The British vessel Teviotdale was wrecked on Caemarthen bar, with the loss of seventeen lives. A number of Channel fishing beats, were stranded, and Brighton Beach was strewn with wreckage. The streets in many towns were flooded, and the corn standing in the fields was destroyed. . The damage was immense. There was also a destructive flood in Wales. Throughout the gale was accompanied by the heaviest rains within memory. Later reports received from all parts of the Ringdom continue the list of disasters, The British ship Mallany was wrecked in Bristol Channel, and twenty persons drowned. The shore was strewn with the debris of vessels. The bodies washed to land were stripped of valuables by wreckers. The Norwegian barqueFredericksland, from Musquash,' New Brunswick, bound for Swansea, waa wrecked off Padstow, and 19 lives lost; also the Albiane,' of the same place. Four lives were loßt, the other persons on board being saved by a lifeboat. Another large barque was seen to be in terrible distress on the 16th, the crew being huddled togethor on deok, She foundered

next morning, and it is believed tliafc from 12 to 20 persons were drowned. The gale prevented the, people onshore from rendering assistance, although they distinctly heard the cries of the doomed A Norwegian barque.tfaa wrecked off Tintangel in Wales.' Her entire crew consistihg of 15. perished. A further list of disasters caused by this Btorm. was reported on the 18th. The British steamer Aroos, Captain Whittlesly, from New York (September 29) for Bordeaux, was lost on Point de la Ooulro, in tho Northern mouth of the Qironde, The British steamer Kate, Captain Darkee, from Savannah (September 20) for Liverpool, arrived at Queenstown disabled. The Norwegian barque Oruen, Captain Neilson, from' Mobile, August 14, for Goole, towed into Cowes badly used up. Three or the crew had died, and the rest were suffering with ague, The British barque Rutland, from Quebec, September 15, from Greenock, was abandoned off Sunday Wand, the mate and carpenter being drowped.

THE CZAR SHOOTS ONE OF HIS OFFICERS. The story that the Czar killed his Chamberlain, Baron de Reutern, at the Palace of Gatschina, with a sabre or pistol, is confirniod'by despatches of Octobor 23. Tho impression is that,tho occurrence was due the ungovernable temper and almost insane fits .of ,passionate anger to whioh the Car IbVnotoriously subject, rather than to merely fear of a personal attack. Baron de Reutem waß brother of Mdlle. Reutern, with whom Grand Duke Alexis contracted a secret marriage ten years or more ago, The marriage made the present Czar and the late Czar furious, and the latter finally declared it void. Other accounts say that Baron do Reutern made an attempt to kill tho Czar, and that tho latter fired in selfdefence.