Arrival of the SAN FRANCISCO MAIL at Auckland.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3726, 3 February 1891, Page 2

Arrival of the SAN FRANCISCO MAIL at Auckland.

ENGLISH SUMMARY. London, December 27. Russia will establish diplomatic relations with Mexico. The Java coffee crop ia a total failure, Charles Keene, the London Punch caricaturist, is dead. A strike of London postal clerks has been decided on. Germany's polioy is stated to be to thoroughly explore and carefully colonise Africa. The French Graiid Orient has declined the proposals for co-oper-ation of the Gorman Freemasons. Medical circles are much irritated at the free traffic in privileges la connection with Dr Koch's lymph. Forty miners hav« keen killed by an accident at the Trinity Mine, Ostrau, Poland. Goneral Booth is called an egotist and a purloiner of Herbert Mills, thunder. A memorial fountain wub unveiled at Hawarden in commemoration of the golden wedding of Mr Gladstone. The main boiler of Irven Ward's factory, Liverpool, exploded on the 29th December, through the inattention of the engineer, and oaused three deaths.

Gorman soldiers at Berlin are interdicted from visiting 97 restaurants because they are conducted by Socialists. Mr Farnell has decided to publish bis side of the O'Shoa Btory. He claims to bo thoroughly able to vindicate himself. The number of lives lost by the burning of the steamer Shanghai, off the China coast, is over 200—all by drowning. Mrs John W. Maokay,, of Ban Francisco, has- paid £70,000 for Sanford houso, London. A serious outbreak of smallpox has occurred in the German seaport.of Hadresleben. * The Powers advise Portugal to I avoid collision with England. | The Portsmouth theatre was burned on Christmas night, after the performance. The Russian Government has ordered the repulsion of 11,000 Germans and Austrians (tho latter, mainly Galicians) and Poles. La Guerre, one of Boulanger's organs, states that General Bout&ger is dead politically. The Spanish Minister of Finance has decreed that Spain must follow tho protection niovemant of A'merioa and Europe. Commissioner Smith, of the Salvation Array, London, has resigned Suspicions are rife regarding the funds of General Booth's sohemo. The Pope has finished the draft of an encyclical on the social question at which he has benn working for a year. He says a restoration of justice is hooded to prevent misery of Bweat?; ing and the'tyranny of riches. He is convinced that Papal Church should lead the "present SooiaU Democratic movement. The steamers Britannia and Bear collided in the Firth of Forth on January 11. The Bear sunk, and twelve of her crew were drowned. The Britannia was taken in tow, but soon sank also. All her crow were saved, There was a great fire in the heart of London on Decomber 30th, near Blackfriars bridge. The total losses aggregate over £400,000. A large number of warehouses and valuable .buildings were burnt. MrParnell'sfrionds turned out itt foi'ce at Limoriok on January 11, twenty thousand assembling to haw Mr Parnoll's speech. He blanSd Mr Gladstone for causing the split in the Nationalist party. As ,'soon as the Irish question "was secured he would cheerfully retire from tho Irish leadership, and the future would vindicate him fully. Dr Pasteur says that Dv Koch may not cure only, but his treatment will prevent consumption. Ten deaths have occurred through tho Koch lymph. No women aro now employed a& night in any German factory. The Empress Eugenie was a heavy loser by tho rccont depreciation of the South American securities. The cold was so iutonso at Montor, France, that hungry wolves uppaarod in flocks in the suburbs. The faotion have caused muoh families booause of tho incertain authority over hinds. It is reported that Gladstone says ho fears his ond has como in publio life and politics. A dissolution of tho British Parliament is expeotcd in the spring

AMERICAN SUMMARY^ Ban Francisco, January 10. A Spanish vessel, tho Angilita, was captured off Florida by thu United States ro'-enua nteamor McLano, without papers and character suspicious. A prize crow was sent aboard the vessel to take her to port, when the Spanish captain showed light, but 1 he was sent aboord tho McLano. A dozen men were hurled 4.00 foet down a shaft at the Utiou mine, Savandrass, through tho breaking o£ the cable. Ten wore killed. Tho business section of San Antonio, Texas, was burnt on Christmas Day. The Now York Herald feasted 2000 news boys on Christmas Day. / The Michigan law jKovidinp toxr

cumulative toting was declared illegal by the Supreme Court. Miss Whitebeek, an actress, sues Mr Bloke3lee, of Chicago, for 20,000 dollars for breach of promise. The New England Organ Co.'s factory has been burnt, the loss being 200,000 dollars. A fight in a negro church at Oamaro, Alabama, on Christmas Eve, it-suited in one death and man}' injntics. Manuel Garcia still keeps Cu!>a in terror, though a reward of 10,000 dollars is offereJ for his capture. An English corporation, with a capital of 25,000,000 dollars, will establish 20 Hgricultural settlements in Brazil. 4.00 Italians landed in New York recently destitute. They will be returned Isaac Sawtcll has been condemned to death at Dover, \N.H., for the murder of his brother for monev-