ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SAN FRANCISCO

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3143, 25 July 1881, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SAN FRANCISCO

(by telegraph.)

Auckland, July 25,

The Pacific mail steamer Australia left 'Frisco on July 4; landed mails and passengers at Honolulu on the 10th ; proceeded on her voyage the following morning, and arrived at Auckland this morning. Passengers for New Zealand —Messrs Johnson, Groom, Lushington, and 13 steerage. Cargo—l27B cases salmon, and 6 general merchandise. GENERAL SUMMARY. • Mr Gladstone hopes to prorogue Parliament the first week in August. In Spain the free traders and protectionists are holding large meetings. The former cite with approval the example of America. Baron Maznier, who was recalled to Berlin from Copenhagen for attending the banquet given to Sarah Bernhardt, has become insane. The master ship-builders in London hare yielded to the demands of the men and a strike has been averted. Thirty thousand Staffordshire nail makers have struck for thirty per cent, more wages. Earl Granville's despatch to the British Minister at Washington regarding the Fenians in New York will not be completed before July 16. Mr Galling, the well-known correspondent of the Times, left England on the 26th for the purpose of penetrating into Siberia, and of describing the condition of the exiles there. The health of the Empress of Germany is improving. The Cornell Club (American) intend to try to retrieve their lost honors by rowing against the best boat clubs in England at the metropolitan amateur regatta on the 15th. A letter has been received, according to a despatch from Liverpool, threatening to blow up tbe house of the Duke of Westminster, and the residence of Mr Gladstone. It is said that Mr Parnell will cross the Atlantic to avoid making speeches tbat would land him in gaol. Earl Granville has sent a despatch through Sir Edward Thornton expressing the concern of the Government for the attempt on President Garfield's life. The American consuls throughout Ireland have been instructed to report carefully to Washington concerning the character and extent of the disaffection, and particularly relative to the prevalence and conduct of the Irish American element. Ex-Alderman Clancy, of Ottawa, Canada, exhibited a flying machine on the 28th instant. At the average height of twelve feet he made a flight of a quarter of a mile. The machine is the result of thirty years thought and labor. A man named Arthur Lefroy was found in one of the Brighton railway carriages on June 27 wounded on the head and bleeding. He reported that his fellow travellers were a countryman and an old gentleman, and that shortly after passing Croyden he heard a shot, and was stunned. The police found several bullets embedded in the carriage, and in Bolcolbe's tunnel they found the corpse of T. J. Gold, a retired business man, who had been in London to collect dividends, with his throat cut. He was stabbed in various places, and only a pocket-book containing cards was found on bis person. Lefroy, after having his wounds dressed, started for London. He is a newspaper proprietor, aged twenty-two, and has been arrested for the murder. The London Times, commenting on the reassembling of the monetary conference at Paris advises the withdrawal of the British representatives in a body, as there is no expectation in any ca?e of England's agreeing to anything which will affect her adhesion to the single gold standard views. The presence of the English delegates in congress is most unfortunate, and calculated to injure the reputation of the English Government. Ireland is quiet. Mr Sevton, the manager of the League took the stump on Sunday, the 27tb, in Kina'd County, but in a sweeping indictment against the Government made no attack on the Land Bill. Meetings were also held in Cork, Water ford, and Mayo, but they dealt almost exclusively with the Coercion Act, and assailed Mr Forster. The agarian agitation is nearly extinct. The hay crop just harvested is the best Ireland has had since or before tbe great famine, and the potato crop promisee to be extraordinarily abundant. The fisheries never more profitable. In Kinsale the peasants are using car loads of fish for manure. Then ag;iin the landlords have withdrawn the ejectment writs in hundreds of cases, and for the sake of peace and quietness are taking Griffiths' valuation. A boat's crew of tbe Cornell (American) College baa arranged to row in Vienna on Auguet 5. In the monetary conference the Austrian delegates are instructed to maintain a friendly interest toward bimetallism, but not to depart from the reserve hitherto displayed. Disturbances by French and Italians have occurred at Marseilles and in other parts of France, and also in Italy, which are likely to lead to national complications. An article in the Liberta (Rome) says France is anxious to retrieve the shame of her defeat in 1870, and convinced that she is not sufficiently strong to measure herself with Germany seeks in every way a pretext for picking quarrels with Italy. The writer advises patience and honest Government, and says it must be for Italy to choose the occasion of going to war with France, and not leave the latter to force war when she finds it most convenient. Mr Parnell's visit to the United States in the autumn will have a two-fold object, to "pass the bat," and induce a more moderate tone among the Irish Americana. O'Donovan iiossa and others of tbe same ilk in New York are, by the violence of their utterances, making Mr Parnell's position exceedingly uncomfortable, A $mm wtWt mm& WAvMftoi

was ehot dead at his house, near Castle Island, Kerry, on the night of tho 28th. The New York Herald's London special gives the following particulars of the murder on the London and Brighton railway, referred to elsewhere. The act was committed on one of the most frequented roads leading out of the metropolis, and excites the keenest interest everywhere. Lefroy, the stabbed party, told a strange story to the railway officials how, after leaving Croyden, be heard a shot fired, and felt a blow ou his head, upon which he became insensible, and only recovered consciousness on reaching Preston Park. He said he found himself the only occupant of the compartment, with a pool of blood at his feet. Ho could not tell who fired the fchot. Lefroy was taken to the police station at Brighton, where he gave the above particulars, and had his wounds dressed at the county hospital, when he was permitted to leave for home. His real name is Henry Mapletou, and he claims to be the author of the play " Pins and Needles," now being performed in the United States, and also the author of several burlesques and operas-b&uffe now being played in Melbourne and other parts of Australia. Tbe murdered man Gold was in the habit of travelling on the train in question. Some articles were found on the person of Lefroy, and also beside the murdered man, which it is thought will implicate the former. Prince Bismarck is ill again, and is confined to his residence in Berlin. A Paris despatch aunounces the death of M. M. Jules Arland and Shanislans Dufaure. Russia will endeavor to re-open negotiations with the American Government looking to the restriction of the right of an asylum. Tremendous storrris have, ravaged the eastern and western American States, being particularly severe in Illinois, Ohio, Missouri, and New Hampshire. Horses and men are reported to be killed by lightning, and the wires are everywhere prostrated. San Francisco, July 3. Telegrams from Washington convey the shocking intelligence that an attempt has been made to assassinate the President. Yesterday, at 9.30, while waiting for the train at the Baltimore and Rotomae railway depot, President Garfield was shot twice by one Charles ! Gintean, a disappointed office-seeker, who is presumably demented. One ball passed through the arm, and the other took effect in the back adjoining the kidneys. At first accounts the President was gradually sinking, and his physicians expressed but little hope of his recovery. The occurrence has profoundly moved the nation, and here as elsewhere the 4th of July celebration will be passed, despite tbe elaborate preparations that had been made. Men of all parties unite in denouncing the attrocious deed, and in tendering their sympathy to the illustrious victim. Latest. Washington, July 3, 10 a.m.— The result of the consultation oftbephysicans is that the symptoms are more.favorable than at any time since the shooting. The pulse is 116. No attempt has been made to get the bullet, as the phisicians think it has lodged where it will not necessarily interfere with the ultimate recovery of the President. Sam Williams, for many years one of the editors of the San Francisco Bulletin, is dead. The wheat crop in the United States for 1881 is estimated at 460,000,000 bushels. The Cornell College crew (American) were badly beaten in the race for the Steward's Cup on July 30. They were a bad third. A contagious malady like leprosy has appeared at Toulouse, France.