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Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 111, 3 June 1885, Page 4

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

THE PRINCE OF WALES' VISIT TO IRELAND. | BY. TELEOKAPH.] | UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. J Auckland, 2nd Juno. Tho Prince of Wales and party left Dublin for the South of Ireland on 13th April. A large number of persona assembled at the City Hall to see the Royal visitors depart. Jaet boforo they came in aiorht, tho Lord Mayor, Mr. John O'Connor, happened to drive paat, and was unmercifully hissed by the crowd. Ho flew into a violent passion, which enly inoreaaed the hissing and derigive shouts. He then stopped his carriage, and mounting tho City Hall stops, oalfed for cheers for Parnell. The call met With faint response. Mr. O'Connor then addrossed the orowd, and said they would be sorry for hissing him. Ue would telegraph to Mr. Parnell at Cork the proceedings of the day, and they would see what would come of it. Soon after this the Prinoe and Prinooss of Wales wero driven past the City Hall, and were greeted with tremendous ohoering. The exouso given for Mr. O'Connor's oonduot is that he was intpxioated. Tho Prinoo and his party arrived in Cork on tho 15th. As the train drew into the station it was greeted with hearty cheers, but the triumphant reoeption of Dublin was not repeated. As an open, oarriage containing the Prince was crossing Farnell Bridge, one of the orowd threw an onion at his Koyal Highness, which missed him, but hit ono of tha footmen behind the oarriage, and tho orowd oheered. During tho afternoon the police arrested ■ man who threw stones at the Loyalist procession. The mob speedily formed and attempted to rescue the piisoner, but he was taken to the Police Court, where he wag promptly released on bail. Early in the ovening the Nationalists held a mass meeting, when inflammatory speeches wero made, and the latest London newspapers, containing accounts of the Koyal progress, were burned. After the mass meeting the Nationalists scattered through the oity in parties numbering from 50 to £00 men. Doors and windows were smashed, flags and decorations wero torn down and heaped on blazing bonfires, and many gnn stores wero broken into for tho purpose of arming tho men. Policemen, when encountered singly or in small squads, were attacked and savogoly beaten with their own truncheons. The polioe resorted to the freo uso of their rovolvers and bayonots. It was hand to hand fighting of the most dosperate sort, the police standing back to back, and roueiving and inflioting terrible injurios. At midnight the streets were principally in tho possess-on of the mob. Quiet was resumed on the morning of tho 16th. At 4 o'clock many arrests wero made, and the hospitals wero full of wonnded policemen and rioters. It is thought the presence of the Prinoess and her ladylike graoiousnoss to the poople along the streets wero eloments that conquered the Irish gallantry. Mr. John O'Connor, Nationalist member of ParliamontforTipperary, marched At tho head of the procession of rioters, who olosoly followed the local party and Bang " Qod save Ireland " every time the Loyalists started up " God save the Queen." A dospatoh from Cork of lGfch April says tho streets aro quiofc, with soarooly any trace of the preceding night's riots, and mentions that the reports of tho riots were exaggerated. The Prinoe and Princoss loft Killonary for Dublin on the 20th, and had a loyal demonstration on their arrival at the lattor olty. A slight attempt was made by the Nationalists to oreate a disturbance, but the police succeoded in defeating it. A ball was given on the evening of the 21st by tho oitizons of Dublin in honour of tho distinguished visitors. On the 21th of April tho party landed from tho Royal yaoht at Belfast. Notwithstanding rain falling fant, vast Crowds assembled to weloome the visitors, and much enthusiasm prevailed. Londondorry was visited on the 25th, and the reception was enthusiastic The reception given to the Prinoe at Omagh on the 27th was a brilliant affair. The Nationalists had prepared to make a counter demonstration, and wero arrayed in procession, but the polioe charged upon them, and oaptured their blaok flags and drams, and dispersod them completely. Tho Government also prohibited the proposed Nationalist demonstration at Tyrone. Thero was groat ozoitemont in oonsequenoo, and at one time rioting was seriously fearod. Tho Prinoe and Prinoess of Walos embarked on the evening of the 27th at Laino, on tho Antrim coast, ten miles north of Carriokforgus for Stranraer, in Wivtonshire, Sootland. Later despatches montion that the Prinoe made a oonoiliatory and flattering speech at Carriokfergus on the 27th April, and followed it next day by a statement that he is Btrongly of opinion that tho offico of Viooroy of Ireland should bo abolished, and its duties transferred to tho Secretary of State for Iroland. The Parnellitos are disappointed at finding that tho Prinoe's tour has been on the whole such a auooesa. They now suggest that Mr. Farnell should make a similar tour as an antidote to tho Royal progress, and show hovr muoh greater would be the popular enthusiasm evoked by the uncrowned King of Ireland than by the ooming King of England. Tho Eoyal party arrived in London on tho 28th. THE ST. LOUIS MURDER. Further details of the Preller tragedy show that tho murder was committed on Easter Sunday afternoon at the Southern Hotel, St. Louis, betweeu 3 and 4 p.m. Maxwell has been ascertained to havo purchased six ounces of chloroform from Mr. Fernow, a chemist. A smell of chloroform was noticed in the room whero the remains of the murdered man were found in the trunk. The trunk in which the body was found was purohasod by Maxwell at Breeyor's store. On the Monday afternoon a man answering to Maxwell's description exactly enterod Fourth National Bank and ohanged a bundle of Bank of England notes, getting 1920d015. in * exchange. It has been proved that Maxwell was hard up previously, and was endeavouring to sell atereoaoopio views, &0., also that Preller was in tho habit of oarrying largo sums of money on him, which have disappeared. Tho body of the murdered man h ia been fully identified as that of Preller by tho hotel employ 6s and by an intimate friend of the docoased, who was quite a young man. He had gone out to America to represent tho firm of Mr. J. H. Dixon, worsted manufacturers, of Bradford. Prellor's father is a silk agent, oarrying on business in Bond street, Cheapside. At the inquest on the body, the post mortem showed that tho internal organs were all healthy but the stom»oh, whioh was inflamed, and suspicion of poison being administered was entertained. Preller was ooming to New Zealand and Australia. He had letters of introduction to E. Moyße, Evangelist, care of W. L. Lees, New Zealand, and John Magill, oare of A. Campbell, Napier. Maxwell appears to have known Proller in New York, Philadolphia.and Baltimore, bnt avoided him there till Proller got out West. It has been ascertained that Maxwell was a graduate of Oxford. The St. Louis police authorities are somewhat exercised over the heavy expense whioh ttie search for and extradition of Maxwell will entail. The cable message to the authorities at Auckland, New Zealand, consisting of 133 words, coot 3dol 4 cents a word, or 44-ldol 22 cents. It was tho most expensive police messiico ever sent from a telegraph office in this country. It is proposed to start a subscription in St. Louis to defray the expenses of the capture of Maxwell. On May 6th tho St. Louis authorities learnt that Maxwell had been arrested at Anokland. On the 7th tho following appeared in San Franoiaco papors :—" Extradition papers were prepared nere to-day to be sent to Anokland, New Zealand, for Maiwoll, the Southern Hotel murdorer. No agent for the State has yet been appointed to po for Maxwell, there being some doubt as to tho mannor of his being appointed . There is no neod for hurry, however, as the officer who goes cannot leave San Franoisoo before 6th June, ,' when tho next Auckland steamer sails. Tho Chief of Polioe telegraphed to Seoretary Bayard that an officor will leave San Franoisoo for Maxwell on Gth June, and urging Bayard, in conjunction with the British Minister at Washington, to see Maxwell is not roleasedon a technicality until tho offioor arrives in New Zealand. The Herald's London correspondent writes that there is a painful episode connected with this murder. On the morning whon intelligence of the murder appeared in the London papers, the father of Preller was ooming into the oily by train from his residence in one of the suburbs, and opening his papor his eye lighted on the aocount of a dreadful murder in the United States. Ho proceeded to read the aooount to his fellow passengers in the train, when ho suddenly stopped aa he oame to the name of tho viotim, and found that it was that of his own son.