San Francisco Mail.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2908, 26 May 1888, Page 2

San Francisco Mail.

Adckland, May 25. Dates from Europe, per s.s. landia, are up to May 4. - ™ The Canadian Club of London gave a banquet, on the evening of May 4, to Lord Stanley, of Preston, appointed Governor-General of the new Dominion.

It was reported in London on May 2 that Russia is moving additional troops toward the Austrian frontier. _ A new Egyptian loan was issued in London on Thursday, May 8, in bonds,' amounting to £IBB,OOO, at Of per cent.

All the eminent literary and political, personages of London have concurred in the proposal to raise a memorial in Westminster Abbey to Matthew Arnold, and also to found a scholarship in his name in the University of , Oxford. ' The Bill introduced in the House of ~ Commons to close shops at 8 o'clock in the evening for five days in the week, and 10 o'clock on Saturday evening was defeated on May >2, by a vote of 278 to 95. Sir John Lubbock moved the second reading. Mr Bradlaugh denounced the Bill as absolutely immoral in principle and absurd jk;, detail. 'lf

The Barings have declined to proceed in the business of floating the stock of Walkers Brewery, Liverpool. The trade increased more than 500,000 . dols since the idea of selling the stock ■was first made public. The London police gave out that they are informed that a gang of dynamiters, sent by the Clan-na-Gael Societies from America, are on their way to Great Britain. A special watch has been placed at all points. Reports find credence in London that the Prince of Wales purposes visiting America in 1889, accompanied, by the Duke of Sutherland. m The London Times of April2lst has a sensational story from Rio de ' Janeiro, dated Marcli 81st, stating that' a rich Brazilian poisoned 800 Indians in one province and 800 in another, because they lived on land needed by the whites. The poisoning was done by charging the wells with': strychnine aud chlorate of Mercury. . An important emigration movem® has been started by Lord LothianT Secretary of State for Scotland, for the transfer and settlement in the Canadian North-West of families from districts in the western highlands of Scotland and the' Scottish Isles. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has consented to advance funds for one-third of the expense, if the other two-thirds are raised by public subscription. The scheme is experimental, and if successful will be carried out on a large scale. The London Times of April 24th prints a letter in which Dr Morell Mackenzie announces that he brought a libel suit against the Cologne Gazette and Krenii Zeitung. The suit grows out of criticisms concerning • the treatment of the Emperor. Helen Crosmond, a prima donna, and daughter of Madame Rachael, committed suicide by shooting, in London, on April 25th. She M signed a contract with the Drury ]jPe, Company, but, owing to a misunderstanding, tore it up in a fit of temper. When attempting to re-open negotiations she found a substitute had been engaged. She grow despondent, and took her own life. A Gatling Gun Company, with a capital of 800,000d015., subscribed in London, has been lormed, with the object of transacting the business of a gun trust in the Eastern Hemisphere. The Lanark election on April 27 was a victory for the Gladstone votePhillips (Liberal), 3847; Bonsfield (Tory), 2917. The labor candidates received 617 votes. The Socialists have begun an active agitation in Berlin against the Prince. Thousands of pamphlets, iiwF which insulting epithets and threats of assassination occur, are in circulation. Extraordinary precautions have been taken forthe safety of the Prince. Mounted police accompany liirn everywhere in public.