THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL

Bruce Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 2177, 24 June 1890, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL

Auckland June. 21. The Mariposa, with the San Francisco mail, arrived this afternoon.

GENERAL SUMMARY,

A stone was thrown into the courtyard of Marlborough House on Saturday, May, 24, wrapped in a paper bearing the words : " Give us bread. You would reign ;" and signed " Thousands of strong Englishmen."

The Government proclamation forbidding the Tipperary meeting was defied on May 27. Messrs Dillon and O'Brien held a meetiog just outside the town of Cashel and spoke to immense crowds. The gatherings were several times interrupted, but were resumed with determined persistence. Bodies of police charged with their batons, but finally the policemen's efforts proving unavailing, a troop of hussars were called to charge. The affair then assumed the proportion of a riot. Many were injured by the police and soldiere, and some of the latter were also hurt.

Mr Gladstone predicts an early general election. In the course of a speech made at Hawarden on May 27 he denounced the bill for compensation to publicans who were deprivad of their licenses. The whole control of the license system, he said, ought to be vested in local bodies. It would arid £300,000,000 to the national debt to purchase publicans' licenses.

In reply to a delegation concerning the eigbt hours question which waited on him, on May 21, Lord Salisbury declared the limitation of a day's work to eight hours was impossible. The system meant ruin to small concerns. Time and wages shonld be regulated in accordance with the capacity of capital. He was opposed to anything like compulsory measures.

The English market was reported on May 24 glutted with beef, and 700 cattle awaited slaughter at Deptford. The American steamers hare abandoned cattle carrying charters. It is rumoared that the Queen wanted to make her daughter Beatrice Duchess of Sussex, but Lord Salisbury declared he would resign if such a step were taken. The English people, he said, regarded the peerage as no longer a mere appendage of the Crown, but ajrank created by the British Constitution only to be conferred as a mark of royal favour under the most exceptional cases.

It was bruited in political circles on May 10 that Mr Gladstone would probably sacrifice his own hopes of returning to power by joining L^rd Salisbury iv an effort to make a Land Purchase Bill that will be acceptable to Ireland and secure for it the support of the Liberal party.

M. Eochefort said to a London interviewer on May 10 he believed Boulanger's star had fallen for ever. As he himself had little hopes of retnrning to France he had concluded to apply for papers of English nationalisation.

A large nrolite of irregular shspe fell in Dr Grough Cupple's front yard, San Antonio Texas, on the night of .May 25. The ball, which was seen by several, was like a sphere of fire and made a terrific noise.

Sixty-seven well-to-do farmers from Holland have arrived at Mercede, California, where they propose to form a colony. They brought with them horses and farming implements.

The leading Chicago breweries have been purchased by an English syndicate and consolidated. The price paid down was 10,000,000d01.

An extensive goldtield has been discovered near Auroa, on the Elowah river, Dahlenga county, Georgia.

Tbe Mexican Congress passed a law on May 28 abolishing the various systems of coinage now used In that country, and establishing a decimal system.

The Tariff Bill was finally passed by the Lower House of Congress on May 21, after some debate and much confusion. The first amendment, on which a separate vote was demauded, was changing the phraseology of tin plate. The clause was adopted by a narrow margin— ayes, 150 ; noes, 140. The amendment providing that the duty on woollen and worsted yarns valued at not more than 30c per lb shall be two and a half times the duty on unwashed wool of the firat class, and 23 per cent. ad. val., was rejected. The bill now fixes the duty at twice the duty on washsd wool of the firat class, and 35 per cent, ad valorem. The amendment providing that on woollen and worsted good?, and all manufactured wool and worsted not otherwise provided for, unless not more than 300, per lb, there shall be imposed a duty of three timeß the duty imposed per lb of unwashed wool of the first class and 40 per cent, ad valorem was rejected— ayes, 143 ; noes, 141. This leaves the duty at twice the duty on unwashed wool and 40 per cent, ad valorem. The president has expressed an opinion to the effect that it was a mistake for Congress to revoke the duty on sugar, and also deprecated the inorease of duty on oarpet wools. He will probably send in a strong message before the Tariff Bill is finally disposed of.

The Allan steamer Parisian arrived at Quebeo on M»y 1 om Liverpool. She

ran on an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland rebounded a distance of 12 feet. She lay on her broadside fully a minute, but settla-l back into cle.r water uninjured. Great excitemeut prevailed on board.

It is stated that a new secret association has been f irmed in Montreal and Quebec, consisting principally of Irish and Canadians — a lirge number of the latter being Frenchmen. The membership has already reached 10,000. One object is to obtain money in Canada for Irish Home Rule; another to promote she annexation of Canada to the United States.