MAIL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2341, 1 February 1893, Page 2

MAIL NEWS.

B (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) b AUCKLAND, January 80. c Arrived— R.M.S. Alameda, from San !. Francisco, Honolulu, and Samoa. Pas1 seogers— Misses Daniels (2), Mesdames '• Reed, Sinclair, Grevemiht, and Latham, i- Messrs. Sinolair, Healey, Eeed, Latham,. v Bileborrow. Ducroz, Grevsmiht, and four '• in the steerage. The dates of the depary tares were— San Francisco 9tb, Honolulu >f 16th, Samoa 23rd. Strong gales were d experienced for the first three days, and >• thence fine weather. Mr. Howdell, chief r, officer, who was injured on the vessel's 3. last outward trip, is doing as well as can »• be expected. c European dates to January Bth. d DEPRESSION IN TRADE; • >y Extreme depression is felt in tbe ship- }• ping industry. Tbe total number of ie vessels laid up in English and Scotch sf ports is 479, of a tonnage of 856,000. Besides these, there are laid up in continental ports 99 steamers, with a total tonnage of 100,000. As the resnlt of the laying up of so many vessels, there are 50,000 men idle, whioh means a loss of Q £50,000 in wages monthly. The distress in London, growing out of the enforced idleness of many thousands, is having a reaction againßt tbe tyranny of organised labor. A manifesto issued by the Free a Labor Association was received with many _* expressions of sympathy among the unemployed. The document sets forth „ that in London alone, 100,000 men, with v 300,000 women and obildren dependent upon them, are out of employment at tbe present time, ohiefly owing to the conr* tinned strikes. ' CHICAGO RUFFIANISM. ** The reign of terror continues in Chicago; Ct Dwellings and saloons are invaded almost with impunity. On December 24th " burglars entered a saloon on Archer ?B? B Avenue and commenced to plunder it. i Q * They were surprised by the proprietor, . Burnbeok, who bad a revolver in his hand. ' c " Shoot if you dare," they said to him. 2 He did, and killed them hotb. On the , morning of the 23rd a police officer saw a ' ' light burning in a part of the Kinnon's _ ' Central Building, occupied ns a post office. , He crossed the street, and as be neared ' the door, was stopped by a man who stood on guard, and who, drawing a revolver, *' told the policeman to " hold up bis bands." '• The polioeman did not obey, but made a •' rueh for the man, who shot him in the '' right arm. A moment later two men jumped from tbe post office window and made their escape in the darkness. The 7 same night three masked men cleaned out '• Heflfron's saloon, 3071, Main street, besides rifling the pockets of all tbe guests '.' present, and walked off unmolested. 1 SEVERE WEATHER ON THE CONTINENT. On January 4th the cold was Bevere, and increasing, on the Continent. Heavy '• enow fell in tbe Hartz mountains, and '• several railways were suspended. AH the a lakes in France, Germany, and Austria '• were frozen and ice fetes were organised J in several oitieß. In Vienna tbe snowfall 1 was so great that thousands of poor people were kept busy many hours cleaning tbe streets. The harbor of Trieste presented an . arctic scene. A whole family were drowned near Rifhorn. while orossiag the . river Allier on the ice. In France many j people were frozen to death. Tbe town of Digion was snowbound. In Italy tbe . weather was very s&vere. Borne was [ snowed under, and several soldiers were [_ frozen to death. On tbe ioeoffCronstadt, the inhabitants of Cahlenberg and hun- . dreds of other villages in Austria found it I impossible to get out of their houses on account of the bdow blockade. All kinds . of domestic and wild animals perished ! wholesale, and hundreds of deer sought the houses for shelter and protection. , THE POPE AND FREEMASONBY. , The Pontiff issued on December 16 a omsbing letter on the question of Free- ; masonry, whioh caused profound excitei ment throughout Europe. His Holiness begins by declaring that no one can be a true Italian who allows the continuous offences against tbe Church and against the sovereign who holds tbe spiritual sceptre of the world or against the Papaoy, wbioh has created tbe great edifice of Christian civilisation. He adds that tbe Masonio sects are oarrying on at present a warfare for the purpose of destroying religion and the Holy See of St. Peter. Freemasonry would be the ruler of Italian Borne. It was the cause of many disasters which had befallen the country, for the ,laws of the Gospel have been ignored, and what may be oalled the laws of revolution substituted, in accordance l with wbioh Atheism is. taught in schools.- - He recommends tbe establishment of J private schools wherein religion is taught f as a step toward breaking the power , which Masonry possesses over the people. He insists that Freemasonry is ruining religion and promoting Socialism and Anarchism. INCENDIARISM AT MILWAUKEE. Milwaukee was in a state of terror daring tbe latter week of December, being menaced by inoendiaries, who threatened to apply tbe torch in every direction. On , December 28th property to tbe value of j 500,000 dollars disappeared in tbe flames, v and on the same day a bomb was thrown b into the main building of the Southside is plant of tbe Milwaukee Street Railway - Company, setting tbe structure on fire and *, ' completely destroying it. " DISASTROUS CYCLONE. Ol A terrible cyclone passed two miles Ii above the eumimfc of the Mississippi on t c December 18tb. Tbe house of S. B. * Young, Baptist- minister* was completely J demolished. He and bis family were taken from tbe ruins all dangerously P 1 wounded. Five others were killed. tc

ABIBTOOHATIC "JA>B3V"\v A London despatch of Mumfit II sayS the sickaaing success oMbefttttae at Witley Court, the Earl of Dudley's estate! v has evoked expressione of indignation aattv disgust from all olassesr The three dayr^' elaaghter was ooncluded on the Saturday preceding. Daring tbe meeting tbe Prince of Wales, the Dake of Devonshire, the Earl of Dudley, Earl of Oadogan, and five others killed 4000 bead of gaie. ThJ birds were killed off like hens in a coop. Most of them were so tame that the beaters had to throw them into the air to start them off. Sportsmen throughout ' SnliTmS^" 8 P' o * 6 . B^ fondly against suoh a murderous exhibition. The leaden hunt m theur Tower Hill speeches, making a demand upon the titled'' sports! men" that the spoils be divided aSonL the starving Londoners. ""wmg