San Francisco Mail News.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2518, 7 February 1887, Page 2

San Francisco Mail News.

f EstEIEOTRIO TELEaRAPH.-CoPJBWfIT } ' (Reuter's Telegrams.) r 5 '':■ London, January 15, •• \0 . The mealing to organise-a Londoo 3 Liberal Radical. Union was a gtijjti succees, the malcouteute being overwhelmed. The surprising featffivt' 6 .of the evening wis the on thirst-of; 9\hlsßßß.'"and'Hooting when'it wan at I tempted to sing political Bqn§B to. the . ■ 4 tune of "God Save the Queen,". 18 ' Anumb^rofshop8 t were'wr'eoked ati 0 Norwich duvirig.a riofco^urjemrdcywl. II working man. ' -'''■ V 9 Mr Gladstone is reported to b<e ia a 7 very low State of health. ;HHB suffer--1 ing from cold, compUcatfed'by.dlas* 0. rbm . . ..'';■'

A strike of 40,000'' mes in Norttt Sunderland is contemplated■ ,• owing: to. disputes about wages. ■••_,,.'..'" . A thousand timplate workers, who were on strike at Pontipool, England, , have arranged terms with their master, and resumed work on the 18th of January | A terriblo snow storm prevailed t. throughout the Midland Counties, England, on Bth and Bth January, The . highways and railways were impassable and in many places the mails were . blocked; Some loss M'life occurred, In a letter written on Utb Jan, Mr John Bright pooh-poohs the idea oAftderation, which he says is conceived ft Jingo spirit, flo recommends sensible , men to let the subjedt rest. i The Government has decided to I purchase 40,000 additional horses and 50.0,000 Manchester relating rifles to l be ready by the Ist March, . An exolosion of Gas occurred at

Cambridge Barraoks, Portßmouth,domg considerable .damage. Six soldiers were extricated from the ruins. ..of the building. All thoße rescued were more or less injured. ..;•■' ;:; Three petitions in bankruptcy -were . filed on the sth January against JbelL, 'MonarchSteamship Co., and•••a'Court •'*" receiver of the corporation funds haß : ■ been appointed, '.-■ ..'. /.i, [f}y t A London telegram of the 9th Jami- : ' ary says there is a slight; ware in England arising from the : imobiiizatioa , of the British Army' Corps. '{Officers ' i on furlough belonging t'oregitnentg nod i on orders for foreign semce i .to have been warned tololE'them* i .selves in readiness to reporUkemßelveg - .' for,duty. This is considered as iad|. . eating that preparations are advancing j for the formation of a..ihird-army t corps. It has further transpired that j the War Office is pußbinc fbHjAfd ""

arrangements pointing to the armpud navy regents and the auxiliary force*, being called out". Tbe'acfcivity of tb» Admiralty is still, more pminoas. In Liberal circles it is believed that these. preparations really mean-war, but the authorities explain, thvffi.aeparfc of the arrangenienfcfor celebratlng'the Queen's • Jubilee. Naval peusionere were" .-■ ordered to" notify the Government what '. "ehipß they would prefer to serve upfltjk or the ports tbey would prefer to be employed at, in veiwof being called into possible active service, Ohio papers are full of graphic accounts of one of the most horviblo and heartrending accidents by a collision on rails that ever occurred in that state. I' happened near' iiepub< lie, about eight miles west of Cleveland, at 2 o'clock on the mot nirig of the 4th January. The eastern • bound expiess train, runuins; at the lightning : Bpeed of 63 milns per hour, struck » i freight train was stationary, on , the line. The enyinea of the two i trains reared in the air, and then ■ settled on the track, driving intone i another till the cylinders tnflßudi The force of the collision jammed 1 the baggage car into the'tender of , the first train, an express car into a • baggage car, and a smoker into the 3 express. There was a mass of wreck i which in loss than five minutes took 3 fire, roasting alive the occupantß- - vVhen all was over, here and thesL, D could be seen pools of blood, atra I pieces of half - burnt,. half-frozen 3 human flesh. Some 25 or 30 mea 1 were killed by tho collision or burnt. ■ s to death, A leading English journalist, who a has recently returned from o ,tour ii through Ireland, states that override . 1 areas in the west and south he found I. the population in aetata of incredible d privation, thousands of men, women, w and children in the remoter districts '•'. being destitute of money, food, and il clothing. They were sunk in thfl e deepest misery, and were dying of a starvation. The authorities ..wero... n unable to cope with such.widespread g sufferiug, and are without money or" 't supplies for the famishing, '• Fifty six men who. were.arrested

last August, at tho time when .father _■ Tooney wag taken into ;custody for' ■"' resisting the collection of rent? apd : evictions on the Clanricarde eatates/ Galway, were sentenced of :: imprisonment oj froml2 to 18 ■ The Skinner's Company, iJ&nft; have offered- their Irish; estates-{p; Londonderry to the; tenants-at tha price o? tho aggregate 18;years^'rejtt-' ' tal in eaoh case, and liayft'.proDM.^;'':' to settle with the tenants for-' kjffii' : .'t of rent at 30 per cent reduSn,:i Mr. O'Connor, when presiding; over a Home Rule meeting at Bradford advocated -faimesß in carrying out the plan of the campaign, and advig<}d/ the, appointment of a judge ; tp .art'aa a medium between landlord, 'and tenant. ' ' '' '■'■ • '■/■:■■■>*'' has:re. ceiyed letters from Catholic missionfiriea at Lpganda, Africa,:'giving" a story of a massacre of native cfrisi' tia'ns in that place, The wnteWwy' that King Monga recently' discoyjeMd a servant studying tho and being greatly enraged. \: