Arrival of the SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3703, 6 January 1891, Page 2

Arrival of the SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

General Summary, [By Telegraph.] (Per United Press Association). Auckland, January 5. The committee having the matter in charge has reported in favor of the draft of a Republican Constitution for Brazil, From Vienna it is learned that Kossuth is not suffering from depressing poverty, as has been reported, but is in comfortable circumstances. At Monte Carlo a middle aged Russian was playing heavily h 9 suddenly fell dead at the table. The body was removed by the attendants, and in a few minutes play was going on as usual. The Board room of the Sohool Union, County Cork, was lately besieged by a great crowd of small farmers and laborers, who came to implore the Guardians for either food or employment, The applicants, some of whom carried black banners, numbered fully 1500. The latest trial of Nihilists presents the same features whioh have been noticed i.i former ones—that is, the arraignment of women and the severity of the sentences pronounced against them. It is said that Nihilism would die out but for the participation of women.

The decomposed body of a man has been found near Ixelles, Belgium. The appearances indicate that it is a case of suicide by means of prussic acid, The police believe that it is the body of Padlewski, the . Nihilist, who recently murdered General Seliverskoff, a Russian police agent, in Paris. Advices from Capetown state that excitement over the situation in Manicoland is increasing. The Portuguesejare said to be meditating an attack on the forces of the British South Africa Company. The natives favor the British in preference to the Portuguese. At Clermont-Ferrand, France, a wedding procession was leaving a church, when suddenly two shots were heard, and the bride and bridegroom fell dead. The assassin subsequently committed suicide. Ha was a rejected suitor. The Duke of Veraqua, the only living real descendant of Christopher Columbus, and the Minister of Interior in a former Cabinet, is very ill, and will probably only live -a short time.

Since the Parnell-Gladstone disruption a story has been afloat to the effect that when Messrs Parnell and Gladstone were negotiating aa alliance, Mrs O'Shea and Mr Gladstone took dinner at Thomas' Hotel. Another story is that Captain O'Shea was offered LBO.OOO to leave the country before the divorce trial. The Emperor William, in the course of a conversation after a Parliamentary dinner given by General Oaprivi, condemned all dogmatic discussion, and animadverted upon the futility of Social Democratic Congresses. In the Italian Parliament King Humbert said that Italy was faithful to her foreign alliances. In conclusion, he said :—" Following my father's example, I always respectea "~ the rights of my ancestors' religion, but I will never suffer my sovereign authority to be derogated from in that religion's name." The utterance was greeted with enthusiastic applause. An analysis of Dt Koch's lymph, which has been made in Paris, reveals the fact that the remedy is composed of ptomaines of tubercular vaoalli (which is virulent poison) and cyanide of gold and glycerine. M. Lebon, a wine merchant of Nancy, sent a barrel of rum to a friend at Maisalon on November 26V The friend took out the head of the cask, and found that the cask contained all that was mortal of Mrs Lebon, who has disappeared mysteriously three weeks before, When the police arrived they found that Lebon had already killed himself. Four; workmen and two relatives of the woman have been arrested on suspicion of being conoerned in the crime.

The latest developments of Dr Koch's discovery of a cure for diph*, thoria and tetanus had been limited to test experiments with animals until sth December, when the remedy waa applied to several human subjects through transfusion of blood from animals not susceptible to the diphtheria bacillus, or tetanus. It was found that the blood of rats and mica had a destructive effect on the vims of diphtheria, while the blood of rabbits transfutedhad a similar effeot on tetanus. Before transfusion the blood must be freed from coagulum, *and otherwise prepared. A patient •in a Vienua hospital, who was under treatment by the new method, died suddenly as Boon as the reaction following inoculation Bet in, and a seventeen year old girl, who was iunoculattd with lymph for lupus, at Innisbruck, died from paralysis of th| heart.

AMERICAN SUMMARY. At Macaulay, British Columbia, * discovory haß been made in of races of dwarfs and also of ancien war weapons. * Albert Rappley, a reporter of th» New York Mail, has completed a journey of 6000 miles, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, by water in s paper canoe. • Herr Cedercrantz, the new Chief Justice of Samoa, is considered in San Francisco too young to fill such an important position. He said the > natives would have a king, as under 1 the old order of things, but the Chief Justice would decide who is to be the king. Tin-plate mills are springing up oil overy side in the United States. Oner plant alone, costing half a million dollars, is to be erected in Brooklyn. ' Tracey's Terra Cotta Works in San Francisco have been burnt. The loss is 70,000 dollars. Bamum, the great showman, is believed to be on his death-bed. Ha has influenza. Albert Smith, junior partner of a New York broker'a firm, has been sent to prison for ten years for 70 furgerios, aggregating BSQ.OOO dols. llio discovery was made accidentally ■ a clerk of thewm. ■A wealthy /flbaniah banker in Aatemala lurtd into a , a JtorJ2u^taj|ajrfu^i^gMMMM|Hi

and murdered by three men, who took away great wealth, which he carried with him. The body was packed away in a trunk. Twenty nine persons were undergoing treatment by Br Koch's lymph at New York on the latest date. A semi - official communication from England to America says the English are not disposed to yield a Bingsfcitem in the present claim re the fisheries, as opposed to America. The late financial crisis in London is said by a returned New York financier to be as tight a squeeze as could stand without going under. English capitalists have lost nearly 80,000,000 dollars in South American speculations in the last five years. The Czarewitch of Russia and Grand Duke George Alexandrovitch, his brother, are expected in San Francisco shortly, The Royal party, at latest advices, were travelling v , India. King Kalakaua, who is now in the States, is believed to be on a mission I to get the States to annex Hawaii, and it is considered that the Wash- f ington authorities are favorable. It l 13 believed the safiar planters have prompted so that they ] can benefit by the advantages of tho M'Kinley tariff. Report says that no seals will be 1 caught in Behriug Sea next season owing to the great slaughter going j on. The States are working hard to provide measures to prevent the extermination of seals. 1 The English delegates on the Argentine Financial Committee have advised the Bank of England, recommending the funding of the national of the Republic for which the paper Currency will be withdrawn. 1 A young Scotchman named James Rogers, who worked for eight dollars a week as clerk a* Omaha, has just succeeded to the title of Lord Dunvel (?) and a fortune. He married an i> Omaha girl.