SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3191, 29 April 1889, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

' General Summary. Tito; Baltic Timber Yard, near Buckingham Palace, London, was burned down on March 28th; lose £60,000.

An express train from Soutliport to London on March 'Both, loaded with persons on their way to witness the Oxford and Cambridge boatrace, was derailed at Peniston and wrecked. One person was killed and four soriously injured. There was a heated debate in the House of Commons on March 21st on the motion to reduce Mrßalfour'B salary by £SOO, It was lost by 127 majority. Mr Morley produced amass of details to prove that the Government assisted The Times' casa through Housten and Pigott. Mr Balfour said it was an unfounded libel, and asked how the witnesses had been intimidated. He was called to order by the chair. The intention of giving" a liberal banquet to _Mr Parnell, with Mr' Gladstone in,the chair, was abandoned owing to inability to obtain ut building in London spacious enough to hold the expected assemblage, Tho great Eiffel tower was opened in Paris on March 31. ' Mr Stead, of the Poll Mail Gazette, hid a narrow escape from death. He was inspecting the tower in company with M. Clemenceau, when a sudden storm of wind and hall came up. Mr Stead was only thirty yards from the top of the tower when he fell over Bomo loose planks and lurched forward, narrowly eraping a fall of 800 feet to the ground by clinging desperately to some projecting . ironwork till M. Clemenceau and some workmen oame to his 'assistance.

All reputable paper firms in London deny-the report that a syndicate of the paper manufacturers in England representing £2,000,000 has bein formed to raise the price of paper. ■ England has demanded of Morocco £50,000 indemnity for tbemassacro and pillage of the MoKenzie factory in July,' Lord Beaumont has applied to the House of Lords, of which he is a member, to have his marriage with Viola, the daughter of Madame Elsie, formerly milliner to the Queen, annulled.

The Pope's income for 1888 amounted to £504,000, of which £878,100 came from Peter's pence, and £IBB,OOO from money invested out of Italy. The outlay of the Vatican amounted to only £340,000. This is a highly satisfactory balance sheet, but does iiot.tako into account £480,000 which his Holiness reoeivod in money presents during the Jubilee A special London cable message to the Montreal Gazette of April 2 says, Lord Salisbury intends to again direct the attention of the House of Lords to the projected fortifications of Esquimalt, British Columbia, and point out the necessity for their immediate completion, in view of the Hussion fortifications and naval mbvein,ents v at Vladivostook, The action will be taken on the report of Sir George Baden Powell, who had just returned from a visit to British Columbia."

Cambridge won , the University boat race on March ■ 80th by two lengths. '■ Tho course was'from Putney to Mortlake, four miles and two : furlongs. Large crowds witnessed the race. ,Thert was-a light breeze; hutvthe water was smooth; with.a tendency to. fog. On-a excellent V (tart made Cambridge .a

phceiook'thV lead, and at Hammersmith Bridge/one mile and threequarters from the- starting point, was still ahead, -both crews rowing well. At that time a, -heavy '. rain was falling, and the Oxford' orew'shortly after became confused and steered badly,' splashing a good deal and almost collapsing. Near Barnes' Bridge, five furlongs from the finish, Oxford made a final spurt, but failed to'reach the Cambridge boat.