Arrival of the SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3590, 18 August 1890, Page 2

Arrival of the SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

(Per R.M.S. Mariposa.)

.London, July 25. The HoiUlr Chaplin, Minister of Agriculture, delivered an address at tba Lincoln Agricultural Show on July 24th, in the course of which bo said, the recent rise of prices of agricultural products was due to the advance in prices ofspver.in amsequence of the passage ot the Silver Bill by tho National Legislature "of the United States. •''•''•

The C'aundian-Pneifij .Railway Company offered on' the London Stock Exchange, on the 21st July. £1,000,000 4 per cent perpetual bonds.

" Intelligence reached Dublin on the lltb of July of a. horrible affair at Ballyneale, when John. Hard murdered his mother and chopped her body to pieces,' When discovevecl be was found lying beside the remains eating a portion of them.

A cable message, dated the 17th- of. July, reports an increase in mould and vermin in 'some English hop plantations, Estimates received in New \ork shows a probable shortage of a quarter to a third in Germany, and half in the west of the Oontinot, as compared with last year, During the week onding the 20th of July there were further ravages by tho potato blight in Ireland, The Rev Dr Lyons, of Ciwtkhaven, Dioeeso of Boss, Cork, writing on the 17ih of July, Bays that in-all the town land of his. parish, bordering on the Bea, the failure of tho potato crop is complete, He adds that in places further inland the state of things is not altogether bo bad, but the'continuation of dry weather will be absolutely necessary to save any crop, Re adds:" I feel quite bewildered,-as I apprehend the consequences that are likely to ensue from this failure of the potato crop here,. I see nothing less than starvation staring these unhappy farmers in the face." Distress reports have also come from other districts of Cork.Liuierick.Kerry, and Waterkd. Since they were received tho weather has been wetter than ever, and tho blight 'has spread to a frightful extent,

A despatch from London dated July, 20th, speaks of ib as the heaviest rainfall known in any one week since 1878, The pecuniary loss to farmers is something terrible. Between 3hoppercon and London tliore wore hundreds of acres of meadows in which tho cocked hay was four fifths under water, Two bright hot days in the middle of the week revived h«pes that after all the wheat might be saved in something not too far below theaverago crop; but subsequent tropical rains and arctic tomperature have dissipated these, This is likely to bo the worst crop, yield since the disaster of 1879, Tho stock of English wheat is now all but exhausted, and under the influence of this and

the disheartening prospects of the growing crop prices have advanced about another h per quarter during tho week. The same stories come from the Continent, but some are liisposed to believe that Russia has no durable crop, 1 A despatch dated Paris, July 25th, says tho crops throughout Prance, except in the section oast of the

Rhone, have been dnsin-yed by in-

eessaut rains, and tho losses are estimated at over 500,000,000 francß. Dealers in grain discount tho scarcity and tho price of bread is rising, , , A despatch from Berlin (July 6). reports that the inability of Major Wissraann to return to Africa is due to the morphine habit that he contracted during'Mb long service in the Dark Continent. He suffered from .insomnia to such an extent that be was obliged to use morphine, Tho Belgian Congo State Company is about to send a new expedition to Congo State for exploration purposes, It will consist of sevou Europeans, 150 native soldiers, and a great number of oarriers, The object is to explore, the sources of the rivers' that water that country, and also to find the truth concerning the reported existence of a great body of water called Lake Uru, supposed to be in the interior of the Congo State. The oxplorors will follow a routo hitherto untrodden by white men, Ex-King Milan, of Servia, thinking his divorce absolute, has contracted, it is said, a marriage with a very rich young American lady, who will pay his debts, amounting to £600,000. Four women were arrrated oh board the steamship Majestic at Queonptown from New York on July 17, and on being searched their bustles woro found craramod with tea, tobacco, spirits, and other contraband goods, The enormous'size of those adjunots to their dress attracted the attention of tho Customs offlcors, Eyraud, murderer of Qonffe, in Paris, who lately returned there under the extradition laws from Havana, Cuba, made a full confession of his crimo on July 2nd, Ho' said the crime was premeditated and committed for robbery. The prisoner is reported to be in a pitiable condition, and sullors intense pain from an internal disease with which ho was attacked while in gaol in Havana, He persists in asking tho Judges uf Instruction to hurry on tho oase. He says that death by guillotine would

bo preferable to jjen,a( servitude at his age, -and, h,e only begs to'hV allowed, to go out of life as soon as possible, ,'".-■.