MAIL NEWS VIA SAN FRANCISCO

Daily Telegraph (Napier), 10 March 1881, Page 3

MAIL NEWS VIA SAN FRANCISCO

San Fbancisco, February 15. A story is current in London that the Government has interfered with the Land League correspondence, and has opened many of its letters. It is understood that Mr Parnell will sail direct from Paris for the United States, as a document found on Davitt just before he was arrested in Dublin criminates him and many important persons in the present agitation. There is strong talk about Mr Parnell's continued absence in Paris. The Irish party in Parliament are now thorougly disorganised, Messrs Kelly and Harry have not been in the House for a week, and their whereabouts is unknown. There is a disposition in the leading Leaguers to leave for America, but the Irish press implore them not to desert their cause. A great anti-coercion meeting has been held in Hyde Park. The meeting afterwards formed into procession, and halted in front of the Guards, Carlton, and Reform Clubs groaning the members. Precautions were taken by the Government, bnt no display of force was made. General Colley's first defeat by the Boers was a crushing one. The Boers might have annihilated him had they pushed their advantage. General Colley left all his wounded to their mercy. The steel and iron company of Liverpool have gone into liquidation. The liabilities are £358,000. Lieutenant Percy Ropier, R.E., waa found murdered in Brompton Barracks on February 11, and was. it is believed, killed by the Fenians. A covention held at Rome, Garibaldi being president, adopted a resolution demanding universal suffrage in Italy. A mas 9 meeting of Socialists has been held in New York to arrange for efficient political organisation. The attendance was principally German. Captain Ead's Nicaragua Ship Railway Bill has been laid on the table of Congress. The Russian Government has consented to the occupation of an astronomical station at Valadiovstock by United States naval officers, so as to obtain the measurement by telegraph of the longitude in Japan and China. The distress is so great among the Ural tribes in Russia that parents are selling their male offspring for grain, leaving the females to perish. The Land League has decided to invest in the United States the £600,000 now in Europe. Three steamers have been chartered to convey troops to Port Natal. The garrison in the late sortie from Putschafstroom killed thirty Boers. Ex-President Davis is about to publish a " History of the Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government."

Tremendous quantities of snow have fallen in the Western States, and travelling by railroad and otherwise is virtually suspended. A full meeting of the Executive Committee of the Land League was held on the 14th, Mr Parnell presiding, at which it was resolved to carry on the League in all eventualities. The steamship mail subsidy has been defeated in the United States Senate. London, February 15. It is rumored in Cork that the Fenians in America and the United Kingdom are aiding the Boers with men and money. It is also said that one hundred American adventurers bad gone to the seat of war. Large bodies of Boers are reported moving South of Newcastle, apparently to attack the reinforcements.

One hundred seamen have been ordered to the Transvaal from Sheerness to form a naval brigade. The Times says that, at a meeting of the executive officers of the Land League in Paris on Sunday, Mr Parnell stated that the funding' of £70,000 of the League's money had finally been arranged. A manifesto would be issued explaining everything that had been done in regard to the fuuds to members of the League, and this would be published soon after his return to Ireland. Mr Parnell said it was also intended, immediately after the passage of the Coercion Bill, that the Irish members of Parliament should hold a conference in Dublin. They would thus place themselves at the head of the people, and meet the blow the Government is aiming at the organisation.