SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3310, 16 September 1889, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

General Summary. Balfour's Prison Bill passed tho House of Commons 011 August 23, aftor a boated debate, by a vote of 113 to 69. Fierce attacks wore mado 011 tlio Secretary for Ireland bySo.xton Parnell,' and Blane, fcilavin, the Australian hiavy\veight, deposited, on August 12th, £IOO with the Sporting Life, London, with a challenge to John L. Sullivan. Slavin means to light for £IOOO and the world's championship, under the London prizo ring rales. IleiT Loebninonn. editor of 'the London Journal, a weekly newspaper printed in Germany, shot bis wife and child on August 19tb, and then coni. raitted suicide. lloss Kaymond, a notorious swindler of two continents, wis arrested in London 011 August 20th for cashing a fictitious draft, Tho Earl of Dunraven has written a letter to tho New York Yacht Club , regretting the recent misundeiwamiing in regard to the America Cup challenge, and expressing a hope that a race mill his yacht the Valkyrie may be arranged in 1800. Extensive forgeries of 1000 franc notes were discovered at Toulouse on August 7th. Tho notes had been extensively circulated. A ouiiiber of pernqns were arrestod, but a large railway contractor, who yras implicated, escaped. %e action o( the Pritisli Bouse t-t

Commons, says an Ottawa despatch, ofgranting 100,000 for establishment of h mail service bntween Vancouver, 8.C., ami tlong Kong, is creating a stir in political circles in Causda. Poatmaster-Grecral Haggard says the Government lws received advice that the information in the despatch is correct, uml that tho action of tbe Imperial -Government was the direot ■ outcome of Canada's anxiety in tho Council in iho action of tho Canadian Commons last season in agreeing to pay tor a share of tho subsidy of W J315,000. Tho establishment of a lino . of steamers on this route is now almost an accomplished fact, and there is little doubt that it will revolutionise British trade froui India. The service between Halifax, Quebec, and Hong Kong will be fit intervals of four weekß, Tlio vessels will call at Yokohama and Shanghai, and tho contract runs for ten years. The Admiralty clause provides for the conveyance of troops and supplies at cost, Tho American - Pacific Railway will also present an alternative route for Australian mails. At present these mails when sent via Amorica travel via New York and San Francisco, and a special high price is paid for the United Stales transit. Under the proposed contract it will be possible to ssnd them via Quebec or Halifax and Vancourer on the payment of tho ordinary coastal rates of transit to the Canadian post-offices, and possibly the mail route across the Pacific to Australia will be diverted from San Francisco to Vancouver. Adisastrons tornado visited Southern Hungary on July 28tb. Twenty one miles alornj the Danube, many houses and churches, a ferry boat at Pcsth, and a circus at Iziged, all crowded with human beings, were swept away. Hundreds were drowned, and tbe bodies lay strewn in every direction. The path of the tornado presented ait awful scene of desolation, It was nearly half a mile wide, in which the dead and dying people arc embedded ,Jj in wreckage. The course of the X disturbance is sevoral thousand miles. Many bodies of men, women, and children, and, cattle were recovered from the Danubo and other rivers. Several fine churches were ruined. . During a public concert in Rome on Angust 19, a bomb was exploded near tho Austrian Embassy, and eight persons were injured, A formidable rivalry has been started to the Standard Oil Company in Pittsburg, Pa. Large capitalists have built immense refiuories at San Diego, Col, whero oil transported from Pittsburg will be reliued and shippefc , thence to Australia, China, Japafy India, the Islands, and other places in the Pacifiie Ocean.