Arrival of the English Mail. VIA 'FRISCO.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1438, 20 September 1881, Page 3

Arrival of the English Mail. VIA 'FRISCO.

Pin: P.M.S. Zealandia arrived in Auckland on Sunday, bringing European news up to the 27th August. The following is a General Summary. Jud.ih, Lee, Simmons, ana Co., of London, have failed for £100,000. The Great Ebor Handicap Stakes were won by Mother Shipton, at York, on August 24 ; Hygroscop, 2 ; Dreamland, 3d. Brown Bess, the favourite, failed to secuie ;i place. Although there will be no general amnesty of the suspected in Ireland, it is stated that Father Sheehy, Mr Kittle, and about six other prisoners, arrested shortly after the passage of the Coeroion Act, will be set at liberty before Parliament ii»es. Michael Davitt will also probably be enlarged. During the debate on the motion to go into Committee of Supply, Mr JPorster stated that he had made an aualysis of the subscriptions to the fund of the Laud League, with the following result :— Total receipts this year, £10,707, of which £4800 was from the Irish World, N.Y ; other American subscriptions amount to £4543. There was from Great Britain £81, and .from Ireland £162. A new company will shortly be formed with a capital of £4,000,000, for reclaiming: the waste land in Ireland, amounting to ono-fifth the superficial area of the country. The dynamite scare in England is increasing, and all sorts of stories are , in circulation. Among others that a clookwork machine has been secreted in Westminster Abbey. That the Duke of Edinburgh has been specially marked out for destruction, and that it was intended to blow up the Prince of Wales and his friends during the recent y atoning excursion to the Isle of Wight. | A grand demonstration in honor of the birth of a son and heir to the noble house of Bute has taken place, both in ' Cardiff and Rothesay. The express train from Manchester came in Collision on the Bth near Blackburn with the Liverpool and York express. Five persons were killed aud twenty- seven severely injured. The July returns of the British Board of Trade show a decrease in imports of £1,201,000, and increased exports of £159,000 as against last July. The Suprome ■ Couhcil ot the, Fenian Brotherhood of Ireland ha^e split on'tho dynamite qtiestiori ; some insisting oh"endorsing the infernal 'machine question/ and others opposing it, _ Meanwhile the re is much 'excitement -" tardtiglioufc the

country, and a serious conflict between the soldiers and civilians has taken place • at New Ross, At a weekly meeting of the Land League in Dublin, August 9th, subscriptions of £2579 were announced, the whole amount from America and New Zealand. Protectionist meetings had been held at Exeter Hall. At one, a resolution was adopted for a tax of one shilling and a quarter on corn, and forwarded $o the Government. Trelawney, a friend of Byron and Shelley, died in London on the 18th August. He has left MSS, of personal adventure that read like Oriental romances. Among the members of the House of Commons who intend visiting the United States this autumn, are DrLy on Play fair, Sir Sydney Waterlow, Samuel Morley, Mr James Brice, and Thorold Rogers. Mr Brice comes aa far as Francisco. Mr Parnell is agitating for the protection of Irish manufactures. Samuel Lord, of Liverpool, a cotton broker, has failed for £30,000. Colonel Clough, who distributed stamps for the Irish Law Courts, and who defrauded the Government out of £10,000 by forging stamps, has been sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. The New York Herald's Paris special (August 22) says private advices received in this city state that the explorer, Stanley, is lying dangerously ill half-way between Stanley Pool and the mouth of the Congo, Africa. He has so little faith in his own recovery that he has made his will. The International Exhibition of Electricity was opened in Paris on August 10. President Grevy and other notables were present. An ' ingenious electrical boat, and a so-called Tissandier baloon, attracted a great deal of attention. Five hundred Edison lights are to be aflame in a room specially prepared. President Grevy and his Ministers were treated to a telephonic musical entertainment. Four wires were placed in communication, with the Opera House, and the voices of the chorus were distinctly heard. A commotion was caused at the rooms on the 15th, by the agent of Edison seizing the Maxim lights under an injunction. The Maxim representatives resisted the seizure, and made an appeal for protection, but without success. A cable special, August 26th, from London, is to the effect that the harvest, outlook in Great Britain grows more and more desperate. Reports irem Lincolnshire and the wheatfields of the East Hiding of Yorkshire state that grain stacked in the fields is, in many places, quite destroyed. Throughout the southeastern counties cut graiu is turning black or sprouting, and standing wheat id being thrashed out by heavy rain. Root crops, in some districts in Ireland, are generally under water, and the potato crop is seriously damaged by rot. Farmers are everywhere disheartened. On the Scotch and Yorshire moors grouse shooting has been almost abandoned owing to ateady rain. P. W. Crowe, of Peoria, Illinois, makes the astounding statement that infernal machines, of which he was manufacturer, and about which so muoh has been said, coot just 70 dollars for the entire lot, and that the scheme for sending them to England was a put-up job, by which a member of the United Irishmen's Society secured a reward of 10,000 dollars, he having notified the British Consul in New York of their shipment. The 10,000 dollars obtained from the British Government has gone into the Irish Fund, to be used against the Government. Sir Vernon Harcourt is said to have acknowled this statement of Crowe's to be a fact. The following cablegram was received at the Executive Mansion, Washington : — " Osborne, August 17. — To Mrs Garfield, Washington : I am most anxious to know how the President is to-day, and to express mv deep sympathy with yourself.— Tub Qubex." — Reply.—" Washington, August 17.— Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Osborne : Your Majesty's kind inquiry finds the President's condition changed for the better. In the judgment of Ins medical advisers there is a strong hope of his recovery. His mind is entirely clear, and your Majesty's kind expressions of sympathy are most grateful to him, as they are gratefully acknowledged by me. — LUCRMIA It. GAKKIbLD." Advices from China are to the 21st of July. Governor Hennessy goes Home, aud will be succeeded by Sir Henry Turner Irving, last Governor of Trinidad. Twenty-eijrht of the Occident pirates have been captured between Fooehow and Amoy. >Sixty persons are dying 1 daily at Bankok from cholera. A Chinese telegraph from Shanghai has been commenced. Mining- in Shantung is pressed forward energetically ; us is also the tramway scheme from Shanghai. The Chinese papers are discussing the probabilities of a war between China aud Japan. The inhabitants of Wun Chin and Tai Chin (province of Clung Kiaug) have revolted, and defeated the Imperial troops sent against them. Keng Ching (province of Canton) lias likewise revolted. The Japan Gazette, of August l]th, says the Government has passed a resolution refusing the people the right of trial byjury. The sons of the Prince of Wales are expected in Japan on or about the 29th September, and great preparations are being made for their reception. A daughter was born to the Mikado on the 3rd inst. William Gale, the English pedestrian, completed the great feat of covering 1 6000 quarter miles in 6000 hours in New York, on the Bth instant. He contined on the track until he had added fourteen additional quarters to his record. , Mrs Garfield was notified by Dr Boynton, on the 20th, that nothing but a miracle could save her husband. She replied, "Then that miracle will occur. My husband will recover. He must." , San Feancisco, August 28, 2 p.m. — At the time of the sailing of the' stearaer^-the. oondition of President Garfield ,was considered hopeless, and his death was looked for hourly. All the symptoms were uniuistakeably those of blood poisoning. The partroid and other jrlands •of the body had swollen and inflamed, and incisions made in the one named showed accumlation of pus in many cells. Fits of delirium were frequent; he was restlessat night, and his stomach rejected food, while, at the same time, he received no nourishment from enemata. He expressed a strong desire to be moved from the White House, either to his own home at Mentor, or to be taken a trip down the river, but his physicians are 1 of opiuon such a step would be immediately fatal. All the members of the ,Cabinet are preBeht, awaiting; the end. At date, it is '57 days since' the wound was inflicted. The British Consulate at Philadelphia has telegraphed to the Home Government the substance of < the address of the so-called Irish Revolutionary Convention, which has ( been holding secre.t sessions, in that city for spiiie' days, ' _ The address, f without thej slightest qualification,, proclaims, the jhte.ntion, tq des'^rpy; British vessels wherever they can be found, mA deckles that itiS just as>weU to begin work whioh ia ,mqas ■ easy of accomplishment, and by' the time arftiw English - merchant vessels t w?e ;, destroyed the world may witness the .beneficent sight of *allt 'shipping merchant a*ri<l|inr surance'companiejs of 'England 1 pWentjiig a petition* to Gladstone" td^reconsiderthfe' lush question. '" "\Lcfiy\l>,