ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8582, 8 September 1893, Page 6

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, September 7. Arrived—Monowai, from San Francisco, after a smart passage of eighteen days fifteen hours, with eighty-nine passengers for the colonies. Passengers—For AucklandMessrs Richardson and wife, J. H. Holmes and wife, O. C. Holmes and wife, McKellar, Robertson, Mathieson, Thatcher, Hounell (2), Riddel!, Mrs Twedale, Mrs Massey (2), and twenty-four steerage. GENERAL SUMMAP.Y. LONDON, August 19. The Dublin Vnited Ireland stated on August 17th that the Home Secretary had become convinced of Dγ Thomas Gallagher's \ insanity, and ordered his release from ! prison. When a question on this state- j ' ment was asked in the House of Commons, J the Home Secretary, Mr Asquith, said | there wan not the slightest grounds for the report. Mrs Langtry, it is said, has not had her usual good fortune at the races this summer; j this leads to reports that she will go on the English atage in the autumn in spite of the fact that she must cancel her American engagements. John Ruskin has almost recovered his health, but has relinquished all literary Work, and is taking rest. James Walker who, in the beginning of,i 1887, was (sentenced to twenty years' penal ■ervitude tor shooting a soldier during rioting at Belfast in 1886, was released from Mountjoy Prison on August 11th. It is now ascertained that two of the Armenian Christians executed by the Turkish authorities were guiltless. The British representative at Constantinople need his influence to convince the Ottoman authorities that the trials were uufair, but his efforts were in vain. Michael Davjtt haa abandoned the idea of re-entering the British Parliament at present. He intends to make a tour of Australia to collect funds for the Irish cause. Edmund Yates, the London correspondent of the New York Tribune, stated that the American millionaire who has gained gonre notoriety by putting down £5000 aa a firit instalment to a fund of £20,000 for the "ground rent" campaign is not Andrew Carnegie, the Scotch American capitalist, as no many said it was. The Queen intends to make the investiture of the Duke of York as Knight of the Thistle a ceremony of considerable state. It will take place at Balmoral in the autumn. A London despatch, dated August 13th, •aye that the recent mysterious murders of women give rise to the fear that " Jack the Ripper is at work again. Three women were slaughtered in the open air. In each case the victim was silently and ■wiftly killed with a knife, and the murderer vanished without leaving a trace. Discovery of the crime followed within five minutes. The victims were not mutilated as in the Wbitechapel coses, but the detective* ascribe this to lack of time. In one case the woman was thoroughly respectable and of good family. Arrests were made in each case, but the only evidence against the prisoners was that they bad discovered the crimes, and nobody else was known to have been at the scenes of action. The crimes were more widely separated than those of Whiteshapel, though all were in Essex. The authorities admit being completely baffled. The annual manoeuvring between the Red and Blue squadrons of the British navy began with a declaration of war at 10 o'clock p.m., July 27th. The object of the manoeuvres was for one side to obtain command of the Irish Sea and on the other to prevent it. A series of slight mishaps to vessels were reported. William W. Astor, the American millionaire, is not yet in possession of Clivedon, which he bought from the Duke of Westminster. The Duke ia entertaining large parties there each week. Astor is said to be paying through the nose for his residence in England. Hβ is spending immense sums on the Pall Mall Gazette, it being estimated that his bill is £1000 per week. The Hungarian wheat crop this season is expected to be l,ooo,ooojwt above the estimate ; the quality is excellent. Italian peasants resist the destruction of phylloxera infested vineyards in the province of Novbra, on the ground that they are thereby deprived of employment. Many were injured in conflicts with the police, and a great many rioters are under arrest. The Italfan Government refueed officially to recognise the nomination of Cardinal Btarto as Patriarch of Venice on account of the Pope's decision not to re-establish Mons. Vivende in the Quiriual. The Pope is much irritated, and blames Rampolla, his Secretary, whose position is in danger. Dom Hildebrende de Hemptimus, 0.5.8. Abbott of a monastery in Belgium, has, by papal brief, been appointed Primate of the Benedictine Order, the first instance of the kind in the history of the Benedictines. Since his snub by the Sultan the Khedive is disposed to quarrel with everybody, especially those under English influence, ,as Ids Prime Minister Rioz Pacha, is known to be. , Great loss of life resulted from a severe earthquake along the Italian Adriatio coast on August 11th. The shock was most severe in the province of Foggra. The Chinese Government will not recede an inch from their territory in the Pamir region, and defies Russia, who has demanded an explanation. President Cleveland has written to the Pope congratulating him on the occasion of lua golden Jubilee, and transmitting also to bis Holiness a book containing official papers and documents written by him during his first term of office. Repeated earthquakes which occurred on and about August 12th have destroyed onehalf of the town of Wattinata, on the Adriatic coast. Several persons were killed end four wounded. Great floods occurred in Galicia and Northern Hungary on August 14th, doing damage amounting to many millions of ilorins. It is thought that sixty persons were drowned at Rymanow. Spain will issue a now loan of 600,000 do), vecured by Cuban bonds, in lieu of collecting duties in gold. THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT. A despatch from London on August 12th cays the appointment of the Duke of Connaught to the Aldershot command created great disgust in British army circles. { What makes tilings doubly grievous ! is the knowledge that Lord Roberts was willing to waive the fact that Alderahot ia inferior in official dignity to hia recent post, and undertake its vorlc himself. Lord Roberta is literally idolised by the Army, and hie taking up the task where Sir Evelyn Wood's splendid I talents left it would have thrilled the whole service with enthusiastic confidence. The Daily Chronicle is the only London paper that dares freely to express the disgust of the Army and public at the ielection of the Queen's eon. It openly declares the appointment a most ill-advised one from which both service and the Royal Family will suffer harm. At the same time there ore noue but amiable feelings towards the Duke himself. Laboucbere has begun a vigorous attack on the " job," and while, of course, nothing can now be changed, it will undoubtedly be a powerful card for Radicals iv their contest with the aristocracy, FRANCE AND SIAM. The ratification of the Franco-Siamese agreement was exchanged on August 4th, and M. Pairo, the French Minister, resumed his post at Bangkok on the 7th. The French flag was hauled down at Kesichiog, and the Siamese Customs officials were 'allowed to return. Before leaving London for the holidays on Friday, Lord Rosebery eaiti to his political friends, " We were nearer to war with France a week ago to-day than at any time since Waterloo." Now that crieis has passed the facts about the momentous two days of July, 28th and 29th, aro gradually coming out. Englishmen leara with genuine alarm how slender is the thread by which the eword is suspended over tto European States. Lord Dufferin lias been offered the Order of the Garter maae vacant by the death of ">«*. Uerby, in recognition of the •kilful and successful manner in which lie conducted delicate negotiations with Franco ou the Siamese question. France is now in the midat of an election campaign, and the Siamese question drifts into the

background. The Government has cancelled all warlike preparations at Toulon and La Rochelle, except one battalion of infantry, which will be sent to reinforce the troops in Cochin China. The Papal Nuncio in Paris intimated to the French Government that the Pope was greatly pleased at the French occupation of the Mekong Valley, which will afford a better guarantee for the eafety of the Catholic missionaries. The Bang- , kok correspondent of the London Times telegraphed on August 3rd, as follows :— "By Admiral Humann'e command the captain of the French gunboat Lion made an unreserved apology to Captain McLeod of the British cruiser Pallas for having steamed down with his crew at quarters and guns out upon the Pallas, which was lying outside the blockade line. Captain McLeod'a prudence and coolness alone averted an armed conflict. This and other similar instances of the Lion's conduct justified the Pallas in preparing to prevent being taken at a I disadvantage." In replying to a question in ■ the House of Commons, ou August 4th, the j Parliamentary Secretary for the Navy said I no demand had been made by the French I for withdrawal of British warships from the blockade limits in Siamese watera. Their removal outside the limits, he added, would not have been permitted by ! her Majesty's Government. The statement was greeted with loud cheers. Canada. Mayor Desjardine, of Montreal, declined on July 30th to receive the officers and men of the Italian warship JEtuo., which arrived on that day. The reason 4 he assigned is that being a good Catholic himseli he can take no part whatever in the reception of a warship of the country whose government is under the ban of the Vatican. Stansbury, the Australian oarsman, has .declined to ace -ptGaudaur's challenge to row for the championship of the world unless the race comes off in England. He will leave shortly for that p ace to row the winner of .the Sullivaa-Bubear race, and if Gaudaur chooses to tollow him, he will row him there. The steamship Miowera, of the Canadian Pacific line, left Vancouver, 8.C., August 17th, for Australia via Honolulu, carrying twenty-six saloon and thirty second class passengers and 1200 tons of cargo, mostly lumber and fish. On the 15t)h Dr. Barton, Attorney-Gene-ral of New South Wales, was entertaiued at luncheon by a number of leading citizens. In response to the toast "Prosperity to Australia " Dr. Barton spoke in hopeful terms of the success of the line, expressing himself as satisfied that a large trade would result. The sealing schooner Viva reached Victoria, 8.C., on August 17th, with a report that the British schooner Minnie and the American schooner South Bend had been seized by a Russian man-of-war, their papers confiscated, and the vessels ordered to Yokohama to report to the British Consulate. The Russians said the vessels were just twenty-eight miles from the shore, but they insist they were forty. AMERICAN SUMMARY. Ormonde, the celebrated English stallion, purchased by Mr McDonough, of San Francisco, from the Duke of Westminster, arrived in New York from England on August Bth in first-class condition. The following mares bred to the stallion, m England were also in the consignment :—Cottage Girl. Wind Flower, Kissing Court, Maiden Belle, Countess of Langden, China Rose and Mirandola. All the animals were temporarily placed on a farm in New Jersey. It I is the largest importation of superior English stock made lor some time. A sail boat, called the Flying Dutchman, Captain Garmender, which left Shelburne, U.S., on June 19th, for Falmouth, England, was met in midocean on July 19th, about 800 miles due east of New York, by the British ship Virgean, Captain Crowley, and furnished with supplies. He had suffered much since he left Shelburne, but would not turn back as Captain Crowley advised him. " Its fame or manslaughter," he said, " I'm going to cross the Atlantic or sink in trying. The boat is only 20ft over all. The Northern Pacific Railroad passed into the hands of receivers on August 15th. This action was forced on account of hard times and diminution in transportation business. The Western Telegraph Printing Company was incorporated in Chicago on July 28iL with a capital of 4,000,000 dollars. It will work a patent that will not only supersede the telephone as at present but revolutionise telegraphy in general. In the opinion of experts the Morse system is doomed. It is not intended that any instruments shall be sold except to telegraph companies and railroads. Having heard that it is the intention of certain ultra-benevolent Americans to raise a purse for the Duke de Veragna, a descendant of Columbus who has fallen into straita financially, another Spanish titled pauper the -Marquia de Barbolia comes forward and claims that h<e also had Columbus for an ancestor. Therefore if anything is raised for de Veragua he asks to be given a share of it. The revision of pensions at the United States Bureau has led to the suspension of 8472 claims, and the recipients are wild with rage at haviug their allowance stopped. In one instance Hoke Smith, Secretary of the Interior, was burned in effigy by the angry ex-pensionerd. There have been great frauds in granting these pensions. Commander Ballington Booth, of the Salvation Army, with Mrs Booth and her two children, returned from England to New York on August 13th. The Commander says that General Booth promised he would visit America next October. In a state of religious frenzy a Philadelphia woman named Rachel Boyle cut off her lip, broiled it, and then presented it as an offering to the Almighty. She was. taken to the Hospital. It is gravely proposed by a San Francisco newspaper that the United States purchase British Columbia from the British Government, paying therefore £100,000,000 in silver bars. Canada has yet to be heard from on this wild project of colonial dismemberment. There is a general movement in the farming and vineyaid districts .of California to supersede Chinese by white labour. It is causing great trouble to vineyardiets and ranchmen, as while the Chinese are forced to cease work, the white men most active in displacing them will not work in their stead. A mind reader, named Andrew. J. Seymore, of Rockhold, Illinois, is in Cbautaqua seeking a suitable place to be buried alive and to remain interred a given length of time. He professes to have the power exercised by j a certain class of Dervishes in the East ! Indies. Daniel who had a notable career in Irish and American politics, died at San Francisco from paralysis. McSweeney was one the "auepects" thrown into KilimuLham gaol with Parnell and others. He was locked up for fourteen months under the Coercion Act. McSweeney originally settled in San Francisco in 1650, aud before his Irish instincts made him a "buspect" to the British Government, had resided in the city continuously till 1877. After his release he sought a conspicuous office under the United States Government, but in vain. The British steel ship Cedarbank, Captain Moody, from Newcastle, N.S.W., with coals for Spreckles Bros, and Co., was towed into San Francisco harloar on July 27th in the condition of a fioatiug volcano. The vessel will be saved, but the cargo ia totally lost. For thirty-seven days the captain and crew battled with the flames, and as the vessel neared land, managed to subdue the fixe to such an extent that the tug boat took the vessel into port for a normal tonnage. Had the captain ef the tug known the Cedarbank was ablaze below he might have claimed heavy salvage. Aβ it was, the discreet and cool captain of the coal ship negotiated for his service while the steel deck was so hot he was unable to stand long in one place, the crew sitting on rails. DESTITUTION IN AMERICA. The Secretary of the American Federation of Labour, estimates that 100,000 men were out of employment in New York on August Bth, and arrangements were.being made for a parade before the labour yearly celebration on September 4th. It will be a melancholy prelude to that usually gay affair, and the I promoters of the parade of the unemployed will be a peaceable army of supporters of families who humbly ask their brother man to give them leave to toil, but for which there is no opportunity. There are 7000 cloak makere out of work; of 9000 bakers 4000 are idle; showing a greatly reduced consumption. Of 20,000 cigar makers, 10,000 are out of work on

' I account of the greatly decreased demand. 1 It is estimated that 50 per cent, of the ? Central Labour Federation, composed of 8 waiters, piano-makers, clothing-workers, y &c, axe out of work. Mayor Harrison, of * Chicago, said in a speech of the Bth :— b " There were 200,000 people in Chicago * unemployed and almost destitute of money, 3 Vlf Congress doee not give us money, we * we will have riota that will shake the * \orld." Over every railroad reaching Chi- - < cd£O from the West there dailycome hundreds i B j bdbnging to this wmy of unemployed. If 9 they continue to pour into the city as 1 Western despatches indicate, in armies of I from 3000 to 6000, it may become a matter 1 that will demand either transportation or ? action on the part of a Commissary Departa ment. Work in connection with the 1 World's Fair has come to an end, and ' building- in the city is trivial compared with ; » the work incident to the fair. in Denver, > Colorado, thousands were being fed daily at » different " Missions" on beef soup, plenti- ! fulJy seasoned with onions and other vegel tables. Pork and beans and bread and ; i water meals cost about ten cents each. ! ' Quietness is the rule with the huDgry " masses ; they take their seats and patiently < > await their respective turns. T . _