The San Francisco Mail.

Clutha Leader, Volume XII, Issue 596, 18 December 1885, Page 6

The San Francisco Mail.

The Alameda with the San Francisco arrived at Auckland on Sunday af terfaoon. The following ia a summary of the news* — .

The s.s. R>eron from Boston (November 3.6) for Liverpool, was totally wrecked on "the 21st in Damain's Bay, on the south west coast of Ireland. '

The Rev. N. W. Morrel, of St. Albans, -a' ritualist, who was recently reported to 'have gone to Rome, appears. to be living "in retirement on an income from L 30,000 left him three years ago by a Miss Harx, of his parishioners. Her surviving relations propose to contest the bequest *on the ground of undue influence. An extensive fii*e in. Portland street, Manchester, on November 21, destroyed property valued at LIOO,OOO.

The special staff of Irish constables 'organised in London early in the dynamite scare, have been ordered back to Ireland, as -their services are no longer needed.

A despatch from London of November M states that a terrible cyclone swept over 'the Philipine Islands the day before. It was reported that 8000 buildings, including numerous churches and schoolhouses, were destroyed or damaged, and 22 persons killed.

The London Exchange Tefegraph Com:pany received a telegraph despatch from ■Paria on November 21 stating that the - French Government had resolved to terminate the Madagascar expedition. It was mentioned that in all probability French troops would also be soon v/ith- - drawn from Tonquin.

A despatch to the Times from Calcutta, <Jated November 12, says that 500 people have been drowned and 150 houses submerged in Orissa by a cyclone, 1241 square miles in the Moorshebad and Sudder districts devastated.

Hardwood's cotton-mills, Bolton, have been burned, with a loss of LIO,OOO.

/ " Lady Lampson procured a divorce on November 19 from her husband, Sir Geo. - Curtis': Lamp3on, Bart., on the ground of infidelity.

Free fights occurred in .a political meeting held by the Conservatives at Burton <on November 14, in which Mr Charles Allsop, M.P. , who presided, was' beaten • almost out of recognition. London papers of the 18th November mention the elopement of a beautiful "heiress yet in her teens, .a ward in chancery, and -."under the guardianship of the Hon. Gathorn Hardy, with the .latter's steward, a man named Anderson. The lady's name is Ridgway. Anderson, in order to evade the severe penalty of the law against abducting or eloping with a ward in chancery, caused Miss Ridgway to bind herself to him as a domestic servant.

The case of Adam 3v. Lord Chief Justice Coleridge came up on November 10, in the Court of the Queen's Bench, but Sir Henry James begged the Court to allow an adjournment, on the plea that an understanding had been arrived at outside the Court. Adams is to receive a large sum for damages and costs of the suit brought by him on account of a libellous letter written by the Hon. Bernard Coleridge, but said to have been inspired by the Lord Chief Justice himself.

• The depression which has existed for some time in the shipbuilding trade on the Clyde is increasing in severity. There are so many men out of employment that the Relief Committee find great difficulty even in supplying food for the distressed people. Forty-seven stowaways were discovered -on the 10th in the hold of a vessel bound for America.