SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 8756, 1 April 1889, Page 5

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

(Pec s.b. Mariposa at Auckland.) [Per Press Association.] [Dates from Europe to March B.] GREAT BRITAIN. The Queen’s drawing-room at Buckingham Palace, on Feb. 25, was marked by the largest attendance of the winter season. The dresses were mainly darktoned, in deference to the recent Court mourning. EUROPEAN ITEMS. Countess Larish has been sentenced to perpetual exile from Bavaria for the part she took in the events leading to the death of Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria. At a dinner given by Bismarck to the members of the Lower House of the Prussian Diet, he said in his speech that he regarded it as impossible that the Samoan question should interrupt friendly relations between Germany and the United States. The new French Ministry under M. Tirard won a decisive victory on March 6 over Bonlangism in passing the measure for suppressing Ligues des Patriotes. Its organisers will be prosecuted for treason. The Cologne Gazette demands the extradition by the United States of Klein, now in San Francisco as a common criminal, for the part he has taken in Samoan affairs and against the interests of Germany. Countess Zarish, daughter of Duke Louis of Bavaria, has been condemned to perpetual exile for the prominent part she played in the affair which led to the death of Archduke Rudolph of Austria. At a dinner given by Prince Bismarck to members of the Lower House of the Prussian Diet on March 1, the Chancellor said he regarded it as an impossibility that the Samoan question should have the effect of interrupting the friendly relations existing between Germany and the United States. The geographical position of Samoa, and the Imperfection of telegraphic communication, rendered it impossible for him to be responsible for all the acts of German agents in the Pacific; but the parties in the dispute were animated by the best spirit, and there was no doubt that Germany's commercial interests would not materially suffer. Talking of the Monarchist principle the Chancellor remarked, instancing the Carolina affair, that a policy depending on popular currents was a much more difficult one than a policy conducted by a sovereign. The latter could withdraw without danger, or recede a few steps, which was impossible in the other case.

March 2 was the seventy-ninth anniversary of Pope Leo. He received a number of Cardinals, who tendered their congratulations, In his address the Pope referred to the oppressions of the new penal code and the suppression of the funds of the fraternity, and also bitterly attacked the Italian government. The Pope is in splendid health, and is preparing an Encyclical on the necessity of peace in Europe. King Milan, who abdicated on March 6, has been suffering for months from a nervous malady, and has become worse since the death of Rudolph, Crown Prince of Austria. He looks well outwardly, but is subject to paroxysms of violent excitement, followed by complete mental prostration and insomnia. He delared he could not continue to govern, except with danger to his reason, and perhaps to his life. The Servian policy will not lie changed under the Regency. Joseph GUngl, a famous composer of Hungarian dance music, died on March 4, aged seventy-eight. Ex-King Milan will shortly start on a long tour. The Austrian Cabinet fears that King Milan's abdication will result in Russian ascendency. The private debts of the throneless King amount to 2,000,000 florins. The King of Holland developed symptoms of blood poisoning on March 5, and his death was considered imminent. He suffered severely. AMERICA. The Philadelphia wool men have sent a letter to the new Secretary of the Treasury, asking him to make rulings to prevent scoured wool being imported under the name of “ waste,” and that he will confirm the 60 per cent duty on wool tops, and Classify the so-called worsted cloths as woollens. Viscount Mandeville, the eldest son of the Duke of Manchester, failed on March 6 for ,£120,000. He married an American lady. Miss Gznanga. His bankruptcy is attributed to gambling and living in excess of his income. Great excitement was caused at San Francisco by the reported destruction at Samoa of the United States war vessel Njpsic, by the German corvette Olga. O’Donovan Rossa has sued Cassidy, pf the Hew York Catholic News, for criminal libel. He called Rossa traitor to Ireland. A Chinaman has been arrested for debauching twenty-five white girls at Milwaukee/Wisconsin. The discovery of a rich goldfield is reported near the southern boundary of San Diego County, California, on Mexican territory. ft has been discovered that a bloody vepdetta prevails amongst the members of the Sicilian colony, in New Orleans. There are several thousands of these people in that city, and the feud, of which there have already been many victims, was brought f?om Italy* Bodies have been found by keen-scented dogs in the swamps on the borders of Lake .Pontchatrain, and also in other out-of-the-way places. Many persons have disappeared, of whom no account can be given at all, Victor Stanwood, the United States Consular Agent, was killed at Andakabe (Madagascar) recently by the captain of the American schooner Solitaire. The United states has informed Uey* many that the demand for the prosecution and punishment of the correspondent Klein cannot be complied with. Ipaiah V. Williamson, a millionaire, died at Philadelphia on March 6. His bepe, factions in recent years reached a total of I£O,OOOLDOdoIf. He devoted 18,000,000d01s t,pthe establishment of a great industrial school for We. . _ , ~ An English syndicate has purchased for 2 jOOO.jOOpdols, the Bartholomeny. Rochester, and Hene,=ese Breweries ip Boehester, New Ypjrk. The transfer wap made on Maf c h P-’

California came tip for reconsideration in the Legislature on March 3, and was rejected by a vote of forty-six to twentysix.

A goldfield has been discovered in Santa Clara, near San Diego. A mineralogist specially sent to examine it pronounces the find to be the richest in the history of the Pacific Coast. The general opinion is that this reported discovery is a Into to the floating population of California. Miss Mary L. Booth, editress or "Harper’s Bazaar,” died on March 6 at New York, aged fifty. The Australian Ballot Bill was defeated in the Senate of the State of Maine on March 13 by a majority of one. Bishop Murray, of Australia, who is about to visit the Vatican, preached on Sunday, March 8, at St Mary’s Catholic Cathedral, San Francisco. The Bishop took for his subject on the occasion " The Progress of Catholicity in Anstralia.” He estimated that there were now 800,000 Catholics in Australia. Two children, Minnie and Willie Peterson, when returning from school in the northern part of Aitken County, Minnesota, were attached and completely devoured by wolves, a few scattered bones only remaining as a horrible testimony of their fate.

James C. Flood, one of the San Francisco "Bonanza" firm of mining millionaires, died at the Grand Hotel in Heidelberg, aged 63, of Bright’s disease. He was a carpenter by trade, and commenced business in San Francisco by keeping a liquor saloon. In 1887 the firm met with severe losses by unfortunate wheat dealings, losing nearly 1,200,000 dols according to some estimates, but notwithstanding this Flood died worth many millions.

Frank Leslie’s illustrated newspaper, was sold on Feb. 25 to Mr Arkell, of the New York Judge, a comic weekly, for 800,000dols. The German edition commands 100,000 dole additional. On Feb. 25, the Mayor of New York, Mr Grant, gave notice that all telegraph and telephone wires in that city must be buried, and if the work is not done by a given date, it will have to be done by the city at the Companies’ expense. The Secretary of the United States Navy has contracted with Messrs F. Pickering and Co., of New York, for the delivery of 2000 tons of coal at Samoa, at ISdols SScenta per ton. The shipment will cost the Government 34,000d015, and the voyage will occupy four months. The German newspapers are dissatisfied with President Harrison’s inaugural address. Some of. them say it shows an arrogant spirit, and does ndt display a particularly friendlyYeelmg tewards other Powers. Paris papers holdthe document lightly. Le Temps points out the traditional systematic abstention of the United States from foreign policy, while proclaiming tho duty of the country to protect her citizens wherever established. Figaro and La Liberie cannot see a logical application of the Monro doctrine to the Panama Canal scheme. The Mexican Press sees in the address a menace to the peace of the Spanish American Republic, especially Mexico. It expresses fear and blames the policy. The Edison Electric Light Company’s patents have been declared invalid in Canada. Chili has passed a law excluding Chinese from the Republic. CANADA. The Premier of Canada, Sir John Macdonald, proposes to appeal to the country at once on the annexation question, and then retire from the Government when the question is decided one way or the other. He suggests that Canada be elected into an independent kingdom under British protection, with one of the Royal Family as the reigning head. The Orangemen held a mass meeting in Ottawa on Feb. 23, and resolved to withdraw their support from the Conservative party if the Government persisted in refusing to disallow the Jesuits Compensation Act passed by the Quebec Legislature. It was resolved also that a third party be formed. The Jesuits have sued the Toronto Mad for libel and retained a senator, a member of Parliament, and three Queen's Counsel to prosecute. AFRICA. Letters arrived in New York on March 6 from the Congo to say that Stanley, the explorer, had started to rejoin Emin Pasha, and would not return by way of the Congo. He had suffered from the treaohery of Tippoo Tib, whose chief object was to pick up slaves. The Wiseman expedition to Africa is likely to be a failure. There are no recruits. It is calculated that seventy lives were lost in the recent galea in the Bed Sea. The German Government has decided to prevent Peter’s expedition proceeding to the interior pf Africa. A private letter from Bonalya, on the Congo, received in New York on March 6, says Henry M. Stanley had started on his Tray to rejoin Emin Pasha, and would not return by way of the Congo. Tjpppo Tib did not join Stanley, as the latter requested in his letter already published, written on August 17. but gent Said Ben Mahded in the wake pf Stanley to spy out the country and to make raids for slaves in the new territory opened up, PARNELL V. Tm TIMM. Mr Famell received an ovation at a banquet of the Eighty Club in London on March 8. Lord Spencer congratulated him on his vindication, and admired his forbearance and dignity. Mr Hoyt said it would be difficult fop the Government to proye it was pot in collusion with the Tima. Mr Parnell replied with a Home Rule speech. Tim confession of Pigott as to the forging of the letters said to have been written by Mr Parnell, and which were relied on by the Times in the late investigation to prove its case, created tremendous excitement. From all sides of the House there was a burst of execration. Mr William Henry Smith, Government leader in the House, has withdrawn the (< Parnellism and Crime ’’ pamphlets from pH his news stands. Two warrants were issued for Pigott’s arrest, but they were waste paper so far as the Parnell case is concerned. Perjury is not an extraditional offence, and the kind of forgery which Pigott committed for the Times is not literally criminal as if he had forged a cheque, a bill of exchange, or a similar instrument. Mr Balfour warned the Times a year ago that Pigott was unreliable. The Dublin Freemaws Journal States that amongst Pigott’s documents after his suicide were found letters from Lord Salisbury, Lord 8 taly bridge, the 4 Duke of Argyle, and the Earl of Derby, the latter sending money to help Pigott unmask the Parnellitea. The English detectives sent to Madrid for the purpose readily identified the body of the Suicide as that of Pigott, and the English Consul ordered it to be buried. Mr Parnell says he feels bound to care for the four children Pigott left. THE COPPER MARKET. A despatch from Paris, dated Match 6, says that when the Government proposed to inquire into the doings of the copper monopoly syndicate there, the shares of the Societe des Metaux and Comptoir 4'Escompte fell heavily on the Bourse. There was a run on the Bank for a short time, but not a serious one. M. Dsnfert Rocherau, Director of the latter financial organisation, had a quarrel with Heutach, a colleague, on the subject of engaging the Comptoir in the metal syndicate, and, as a consequence, Rocherau, who had sunk bis private fortune of six million francs in the speculation, blew out his brains with a revolver. Copper declined M per ton in London on March 6, prominent operators fearing the collapse of the French syndicate. On the same date, a report from Boston was to the effect that at the then price of Chili bars, the average cost of the 150,000 tons of surplus copper in the hands of the syndicate showed a loss of 6,000,000d015.