NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Kumara Times, Issue 2537, 21 October 1884, Page 2

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

[united press assooiation.l San Francisco, September 26. A piece of plate and a purse of gold was given to Captain Jones, of the Greely Relief ship Loch Gaury. Eastbourne, the famous Sussex watering place, is crowded with Americans scared by the cholera from the continent. The British gunboat Wasp foundered off Tory Island, north-west coast of Ireland on September 23. Fifty-two men including all the officers were drowned. Only six persons were saved by clinging to wreckage. The vessel struck at three o’clock in the morning, during a haze. A new steamer for Cunard line, the Etruria, was launched in Glasgow on 22nd September. A great banquet followed the launching of this vessel, built to be the fastest steamer afloat. A furnished house in Hampshire has just been taken for the Tichborne claimant, who will soon be released. An ample allowance has been subscribed for himself and his two daughters. The Grand Duke of Hesse intends to spend six weeks at Balmoral, and this jws a discussion of the Madame

Kalonine affair. This lady has announced her determination to fight her case in the courts as a finale. She has refused ail bribes and returned the first instalment of her allowance. The case will be heard on October 16. It is not expected that the infant Duke of Albany will survive the winter. A rumor was in circulation on the 22nd that the Prince of Wales and Duke of Edinburgh had announced their intention to vote for the Franchise Bill at the autumn session. Bismarck is about to visit the Prince of Wales at Abergeldie Castle. An English Church paper savagely attacked General Wolseley and Lord Northbrook for starting on their Egyp. tian mission.on a Sunday. Queen Victoria is at Balmoral for the autumn. She is said to be in an extremely gloomy state of mind, and visits John Brown’s grave daily. Over 3000 people at Leicester were recently summoned for defying the vaccination laws, the feeling against which is incredibly bitter all over England. & The Rev, Mr Trackletan, Presbyterian clergyman of Tallamore, has brought a suit for 60,000, and Mis Brown for .£25,000, against the Dublin Freeman’s Journal, for damages. That journal printed an article in its columns stating the clergyman eloped with Mrs Brown to Paris. A fund will shortly be started at the suggestion of the United Ii eland newspaper, on behalf of the Birmingham, dynamiters, Daly and Egan. Fifteen thousand persons attended the funeral of Duggan, at Dublin, on September 14fcb. Among them were O’Brien and Davitt. Admiral Conrbett, commanding the French naval forces in Chinn, is claimed to be an Irishman, his father being a Cork man, who, on emigrating to France, added a u to the original name of Corbett. At a meeting of the. National League at Ballinasloe, on September 21st, Mr J. M. Kenny, M.P. for Ennis, declared Ireland would never be contented till she was free. The Irish members of (he Commons were opposed, he said, to a Liberal Government, because they expect more from the Conservatives. Resolutions were adopted in favor of an independent Government, and a peasant proprietary. Parnell was cheered as the future premier for Ireland. The Lord Lieutenant proclaimed a nationalist demonstration, announced for Barralow, County Kerry. The municipal authorities of Limerick formally resolved on the 26th not to pay the extra police tax, or send a deputation to Earl Spencer, Lord Lieutenant, whom they denounce as a tyrant. The vote stood at 18 to 2. Extra police were appointed by the Government on the plea that the local authorities did not furnish sufficient protection against outrage, and the cesb of their maintenanance was assesed upon the communitiies to which they were assigned. This is the tax that Limerick refuses to pay. Sir Stafford Northcote in an address to the conservatives of Edinburgh said, the action of the Government on the Franchise Bill demonstrated their desire to raise grievances against the House of Lords. In a rowing match at Southhampton, on September 17, for £6O, an eightoared crew boat by two minutes the cutter’s crew of the U.S. flagship Lancaster. The cutter’s crew handled fourteen oars. The Southampton crew, although the American had a slight lead at the start were soon ahead. The victors were winners by 200 yards; time of winning crew, 42mins. 27secs. Betting at start three to one on the Americans. In the evening an amateur club entertained both crews. Bailey, coxswain of the American cutter, said they were never beaten before. The crew of the Lancaster stood ready (o back their cutter crew for from £IOO to £IOOO, against any other boat in England, Mrs Weldon, who won her own case against Drs. Winslow and Temple for illegally confining her in a lunatic asylum, is again before the London Courts in various capacities of plaintiff, defendant, and counsel. Since her first success the lady is said to have become a monomaniac on litigation. A London despatch dated September 24, says the lately divorced Lady Colin Campbell, recently applied to a London newspaper for a position as correspondent in Egypt. Being denied, she has sought retirement at the home of her mother, Mrs Edwin Maghliu, in Ireland. At a meeting of the Land League, Dublin, on September IG, William Redmond denied that Irishmen were becoming apatneuo to national movements, and expected in the coming winter the cause uo.i.-., receive as much,

support as it ever had. He stated that until the visit of himself and Sexton to Boston, the Irish-Americans were entirely unaware that financial help, was needed to forward the interests of the Irish national cause. The authorities have ordered increased precautions at Dover to prevent the landing of dynamiters endeavoring to reach London from the Continent. English detectives accompany each steamer crossing the channel, subjecting each passenger and all luggage to the closest scrutiny. A despatch dated London, September 24, says the Cabinet is greatly impressed by the attitude of the country, and have resolved to create fresh peers, if a small majority rejects the Franchise Bill a second time. A special from London dated September 23, says a curious political rebellion is now in progress in the County Mayo. That County is now represented in the Commons by Mr John O’Conor Power and Mr Isaac Nelson. Mr Parnell desires these men to contest the County again at the next general eleotion, but a number of Mayo Nationalists object to dictation, and propose quite a different programme. They have decided no longer to submit to Parnell’s aristocratic sway, and will put nomination candidates of their own selection. Their choice has fallen on Captain Boycott ; who was recently the most execrated man in Ireland, and John William Yally. The growing popularity of Captain Boycott is one of the most curious facts in current Irish history, and moderate observers consider it a sign of the waning influence of the Irish National League. Local Parnellites ridicule the idea of any successful opposition being possible in the County.