SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4027, 4 February 1892, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

6«aeralSttaaav7. ?■'■;■■ Great Britain ani Htr Colonies; Kr Slafiatene's Sirthday. : - UO.OOOaa&st&rrelto DeathBy Telegraph.—Press Association,]

Bas Fbahcisco, January 1.0. Severe 8no«-8t6i-in§, accompanied by intensely cold weather, have prevailed in many parts of the United Kingdom. On the Bth January the snowfall was bo heavy that railway traffio was greatly impeded and telegraphic communication interrupted. The post of custodian qf Windsor castle, made vacant by the death of Prince Victor of Hohen'ohe, the salary of whioh is £I2OO yearly, is a matter of Court dispute, ;Tho Prince of Wales wants the Queen to give the place to Ibe Duke of Teok, but the Queen is inclined to Prince Henry of Battenburg, ' ; • There is very litter feeling in many quarters against granting B ix years' contract forthe English Parliamentary priuting to a (ierraan firm, though the. buierest grumblers hardly express doubt that the contract if satisfied will be carried out, '

A panic was caused ata theatre'in Gateshoa.l, County. Deerhpm, Bog. land, on the 27th December. By.tho siglltofa;small blaze caused by a man in the audience dropping a ligh, ted .match on the sawdust which covered the floor,'a cry of fire was raised, and immediately. there' was a wild rush for the doors, which became so blocked that only a few succeeded in getting out, The staircase leading from the gallery. was' similaily obstructed. A eheckitoker who attempted to restrain the crowd was trampled to death, and wher the panic subsided the bodies of nine children were found lying on the Btrircase, among them thelittle sonof a constable who oarae to assist in the work of rescue. The attraction for the evening was the pantonine " Aladdin," the theatre being literally packed. The' occasion was made memorable by many aotß of heroism. One man who occupied a gallery seat jumped from the gallery railings to the balcony below and slid through to the stage, all the time having a child between hit teeth, Bbtoml women were rescued by other men in a similar manner.

Mrßorlas.a graduate of Oxford, was arrested in London on Wst December while in the .act of bombarding the House of Commons with a revolver. When arrested he informed the Magistrate that he-bad taken that way of showing bis contempt f r the members of the House. ; The' opinion is that Borlas'js mentally' unbalanced, . :-'-."

ilr'Labouoliore, in:- Truth, is indulging; in sonßational articles concerning Great Britain and her colonies, On the 30th. he said the manifest desti»y of Canada was annexation to the United States, and ulfiO that the talk of Australian loyalty to the British Crown was allbnnkum, . Tlie.inf)uenaa had become epidemio in, the eastern part of the county of Kont.Qn3oth DocembeK'ln Dovet the aitthQrifa took vigorous means to Btamp. it otjb ,ayoil. The disease being considered ooßtagioua, ;% applied the' law which punishes all persona afflicted with a obntagious disease; appearing, in,public. Three victims ot lafiippe, uot knowing 'suoh a law, wewrined £5 each, in addition to their other sflffwingg',;' Mr Ulildstone reached hii eighty, second year on Dt!C«ml)i>r 29th. He was at that time at Biarritz, a French vjatering place, on the Bay of Bißcay, seeking \o rep/uit ],j 3 in orq> l.q perform (he Parliamentary duties before liiq, The. municipal authorities ot that place waited upon him on the ocoasion of-his: birthday, and congratulated him dnthe anniversary. Fifteen members of the British Cjnb ajsp called and, presented him him jyith a floral crosn, • ■ Ijr Joseph Chamberlain assured a Labour Delegation that waited on him recently of the Gorflrntrient's willing. nesßto adopt legislation,. looking (o the amelioration of tl|e labouring classes tl)roughqiit the cqiwtry, antf tl)8 improvement qf their fellings, and th,at they wqn.lt) introduce me> sures tpallqw labourers to apquite email holding, and to gasjst therj} in procuring land, '

The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce decided on 18th December not to take part in the Chicago World's Fair as a 100 1 oentre, on the ground that the M'Kinley law bad deprived Liverpool of Chicago's trade, and American manufacturer!] -would copy English exhibits,

Much alarm is felt in shipping and commercial circles because of the resignation of the Underwriters at Lloyds'.' "ALondon. dEspatch, 11th December, says that three more'gentlomen engaged in the marine assurance jmsiness has concluded to withdraw, as their losses are very heavy. This Will mak&a total of 17- underwriters whp have; withdrawn from'the society of fcloydß' wjthiu aiw: wce,ke, and the effect upon shipowners and shippingis notgood. V! ". ■ , The Czar, says a .despatch of the 4th January, has given offence by dedaring publicly that no famine exists, and there has only been "5 partial failure of the crops, Thir expression of opinion, is very general: in orfyial circles, In several provinces'' of the "Empire tho Zemeiovs, pr. Dißtrict'Assemblie?, have, decide!}, to issue Joans at a low'rate of interest. Tije rjoeWrg' is (lesigned for the relief of tlje famine striplfen" pepaqts ind to prevent their selling or pawn? ing thoir tools qr farming implements, Nearlyaj) the flour,men of the north-western States of tho Amerioan Union hare contributed to the relief of the starving Russians, About j £1,000,000 has already been subscribed.

The Chinese Government will not be represented at the World's Fair hi Chicago. TheEmperoifereaeona f or declining to send tl)e exhibits, are that tholJnited States : |aV, discriminated against the citizens of that Empire, and that the Chinese could not. come to the Exposition without. being put in a humiliating attitude, needing a special passport to be granted by a tpeoial Act of Congress, ■ James Murphy and his sister Mary were found dead in a hQuae in Newry on 80tb'Depemb : eil ■ They were misers and'died of BtarvajiiolJ. v, sh© bodies laypn hßapso| : sraw, property'ffeFpjflnnpfbelongitjg pair to (he a'foohiti of JEip.OOQ. . • The" scahilal. arising fm the rjiaC9>« r y .of. adulterated fjonr in fjt, Petersburg, says a despatch of 3dth Dumber, is apt lo make trouble for a l&rge number of people. A consign* Mntthat comprised: 500,000 poods' (7i8Q0,000 English' pounds) of barley |°ur was, purchased from dealers in Mbar), with a view to regulating the prices of wheat in tlseSt Petersburg ■Market. &b well is tol afford relief to fomino" aofferers, An ! inyeßiig«tion

proved the ;ehtue consignment adoU terated with; chalk dust and other Bubstanoea,, These udulterations comprised fluch s large proportion of the consignment that the use of the alleged flour would constitute a very dangerous menace, to the health, if not to the Uvea of those who partook of it. In speaking of the gigantic fraud the Novoe Vremya remarks—"lf such-frauds can be perpetrated in the capital of the Krupive, the appalling accounts of similar crimes in the fnuiinu-atticken provinces cjiohot be over-estimated."

Oliver Payn, the French explorer who was captured in the Soudan '■■ by the Mulidi, fell fmm a camel recently hs is reported, while feeble from the effects of fevhr, and was buried alive to save further trouble, :'.."'■'

Mr Gladstone, replying to acorrespondont inquiring the position of the Labour question in Parliament if the Irish members are withdrawnj says; —"The fear that British labour will be unable to fight its own battle without the Irish members is entirely visionary,