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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 9492, 14 August 1891, Page 6

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(Per R.M.S. Monowai at Auckland.) [Pas Press Association.] AUCKLAND, August 13. . GENERAL SUMMARY. Cardinal Manning and a Committee have drawn up rules for a union of Catholic workmen, which the Cardinal is organising on the lines laid down in the recent encyclical letter of the Pope. Its name will be “ The Catholic Association.” It is 'intended - ultimately to embrace all English-speaking Catholics. The Admiralty announced on July 11 that the primary purpose of the British naval manoeuvres this year will be to obtain more definite information as to the best method of disposing a squadron of battle ships and cruisers so as to gain information of an enemy’s movements. Lawyer Wm.' J; Judge, of 35, Nassau street. New York, recently in London conversing with the leading Theosopbisfcs of that city, will, succeed Madame Blavatsky, recently deceased, as the head of this new order of religionists. Mr Augustus Moore, editor of a London weekly paper, had a rencontre with Lord Craven st’Prince Dhuleep Singh’s reception on July 11. Lord Craven protested against Moore’s denunciation in his paper of Charles Paaton Cooper’s imprisonment in Paris for complicity in a celebrated scandal, and objected to the editor’s comments on his friend Cooper. At the first formal business meeting of the Congregational Council, held in Loudon, Mr Gooch, of Chicago, presided. He contended that the American pilgrim fathers and the congregational leaders were as truly called of God as were the Apostles. The line of his argument was against the new theology, aud in favour of orthodox views of the Bible. ■ The feature of the Council for the week ending July 18 was a speech by the Rev Mr Walker, of Melbourne, condemning Unitarianism. This church, he said, was making tremendous headway among Congregationalists. The Council -decided that. .Congregational ministers should not exchange with Unitarians.

The Duke of Cambridge issued an order on July IX forbidding the existence of an Orange Lodge in the army. The World's Fair Commission from Chicago, headed by the Hon Benjamin Butterworth, sent to visit the._different capitals in Europe in the interest of the great exposition, arrived in London on July 16; :tofd Salisbury received the Gomnjisoionera, who were presented by tha United States Minister, Mr Lincoln, on July 23. He expressed pleasure at meeting them and made inquiries in regard to the enterprise, aud mentioned that the names of the Royal Commissioners to supervise the British exhibits would shortly be gazetted. The Commissioners were invited to attend a garden party at Hatfield House. The story that Lord Randolph Churchill is about to sue for a divorce, naming the Duke of Clarence and Avondale as corespondent, is pronounced a pure fabrication. Lord R. Churchill will not return from Africa for six months at least.

Mr Mortimer, the British Vice-Consul at Los Angelos, California, issued his report in London on July 14. He takes pains to warn English investors of the dangers awaiting them in Southern California from false pretences, swindling and mismanagement. Charles Mitchell, the pugilist, got drunk and boisterous at the Sportsman’s Club. London, on the night of Jnly 21. When the servants interfered he attacked them furiously. He knocked several of them down and jumped on their prostrate bodies. One had a piece of his nose bitten off, and, another a mouthful taken out of his leg. Warrants were granted against Mitchell for assault.

A piece of Crown land was recently leased in Fall ffiall at a rental based on a selling price of .£500,000 per acre. It is reported that the negotiations which have been going on between England and Portugal for the purchase of the Mozambique country have finally resulted in Lord Salisbury making an offer of £8,000,000 for the whole of the Portugese possessions in South E ist Africa, to be paid in a lump. ■ The Weekly Citizen, of Glasgow, says that Andrew; Carnegie, the multi-millio-naire of Pittsburgh and New York, is inspecting saleable estates at various places. - It is believed thdt it is his intention to settle down as a Highland Laird. It was given out.in London on July 15 that Earl Dudley will marry Miss Rachel Gurney, a cousin of the Duchess of Bedford. ' The Earl’s friends oppose the match as the lady is "penniless. For the half year ending on June SO, Baring, and Co.’s balance-sheet shows the total assets at £5,965,000, cash on hand at ■short notice £2,000.,000, total acceptances £7,500,000. The whole commercial business of the old firm is retained. A private meeting of shareholders in the banking house of Baring Brothers, was held on Wednesday, July 8, at which Mr Francis Baring, who presided, presented the balance-sheet, which, he said, showed that they were doing a good business, though the actual results could not he shown till December. The figures were very small compared with the old firm’s accounts, the acceptances amounting to £3,250,000, against the old firm’s £20,000,000, but all was sound business paper. Lord Salisbury has declared that female suffrage ought to form part of coming electoral reforms. The Council of the Conservative Association, at a meeting on July 17, decided to intimate to Lord Salisbury that the party was so divided on the question that it would- be ; unwise to recognise .it as a Conservative principle.

Sir ‘John P6o Jor, speaking at a meeting of the Direst Cable Company; Stated that there had been a "positive/decline An Atlantic telegraphy since the operation of the M'Kinley Tariff Act, Eventually the United States would discover, he added, that they suffersd more than anybody else ; frdm,-the law, ’ ; .i The Duke oivMmfchAster threatens the tMarquis of-Ai Wcbary; the protectorufrKisa Bellwood, wiih a -horsewhipping. ■ -The - Duke formerly bold the same position in regard to‘jM,' eii &&ulatine? reports that the MOTcnester bwes the woman borrowed.iftoTgey. Mr Matthews.- HpMeSecretary, refuses to advise the release Bidwell Austin, imprisoned.Jlor life in 1873, for forgeries on tbe Bank of England. Austin is an Americau.

London Truth, of July 24, gives an account of a mutiny which it claims occurred in ■ the second battalion of the Coldstream Guards quartered in the Wellington Barracks near Buckingham Palace, when incidentally it furnished a guard of honour during the recent visit of the Emperor William. The mutiny took place on July 22., lb seems that the extra duty thus necessitated was far from pleasant to the Guardsmen, who long have been the pets of the British Army. After the Emperor’s departure, the men expected a day of freedom irora guard-mounting foil recuperation, and not getting it, rebelled. General-Harding was-finally called in; and by a judicious speech succeeded ih quitting the malcontents.

: The Gobden Club, at a meeting on July 11, adopted a report which declares : “ If it had not been suggested by some Home Protectionists, it was not likely that any Colonials would have been so unreasonable as to propose that we should, while admitting Colonial goods free of duty, tax simi-lar-...commodititjß..imported from- foreign, countries.”

A fire in the West Stanley Colliery Company’s mine at Durham caused damage to the extent of £26,000 and threw 500 men out of work. - :

F. C. Twenty man made one hundred and eighty-one miies and a half in twelve hours on a safety , bicycle on July 13, beating Holbein’s record by four miles. At Bisley, England, on JUly 3, the Canadian Rifles defeated the Cambridge team byAwonty-eight points. Lord Denman having given notice on Jnly 17 in the House of Lords of a motion for a return of the number of days on which the late Lord Granville attended sessions, and also the days on which the mover had attended during Lord Granville’s lifetime. Lord Salisbury interposed, and said the motion could only he described as unseemly. Ho-moved that

Lord Denman should nob be heard during’ the remainder of the session. Lord Denman retired, looking daggers at Lord Salisbury^ The London Chronicle attacks Sir George Baden-Powell, the English Behring Sea Commissioner, for indiscreet utterances in the Press and meddling with affairs that do not concern him, and calls on Lord Salisbury to give him a timely hint. Sir George Baden-Powell, it appears, had chosen to say that the M'Kinley law is a final effort-of the United States to compel Canada to yield her independence.' Sir Charles Bussell, the eminent English barrister, will shortly visit his sister in San Francisco. She is Mother Superior of an order of Catholic Nuns in that city, and is known in religion as Sister Mary Baptist. Sir Charles and she have hot met for thirty years. The Liberal and Radical members of Parliament are just now stirred up over a tumour that it ia intended to ask the nation, for a grant for Princess Louise ,of Schleswig-Holstein, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, who was married on July ,6 to Prince Aribert of Anhalt. They intend to oppose it to the utmost/ and it is said they will be joined in their opposition by many Conservatives. Judgment was given on July 20 an action brought by Mrs Maybfiok against an, Insurance Association to recover J 52000 insurance upon her husband’s life. The Court held that as she murdered her husband she could not recover.

Miss Leale, of Guernsey, was one of the competitors in the rapid-firing competition at the meeting of the National E’fle Association. She did not win the. prize, but stands high on the list. M'Meeking, a Canadian, won the Prince of Wales’ prize at the meeting of the National Bifle Association, Sisley, on July 18, with a score of 97.

Miss Gladys Evelyn, the persistent plaintiff in the recent action for breach of promise against William Henry Hnrlbert, editor of the Neiu York World, lectured on her woes at London Aquarium, on July 22. During the debate on the Irish estimates in the House of Commons on July 21, Mr Balfour intimated that a Local Government Bill for Ireland, based broadly on the same lines as the English and Scotch Acts, will be introduced next session. He asked whether the Bill would have the support ,of the Irish members. Mr T. Healy said.it would have, their support. .. • • Tho 'disonaslon on the Estimates has been made the occasion of long reviews in the Press, in which the improved condition of Ireland, the fact that agrarian crime has diminished, trade increased, evictions lessened : in./number, ..boycotting, almost ceased, the plan of campaign become almost extinct, and emigration decreased, are largely touched upon. During the week ending July 18, five of the principal banking corporations in Ireland have held annual meetings and declared dividends of 10 per cent. The London Standard, referring to the improvement in Irish affairs, thinks it due in a great degree to the discontinuance of subsidies from the United States. ' The tenants and others have become more selfreliant.

The London Times of July 13 says that It baa been decided that a Royal Commission la to represent Great Britain at the World’s Fair to be held in Chicago. The Commission will be composed of the Council of . the Society of Arts, which curies with it the prestige of having the Prince of Wales as its President, and Sir Bichard Webster, Attorney-General, as Chairman. Sir Henry Wood being Secretary of the Society of Arts, will consequently ba Secretary of the Commission. The grant given to the Commission is £125,000 less in amount than any previous grant made for a similar purpose. The Council is confident of having sufficient funds to ensure the success of the British exhibit. Sir Henry Wood Gays the grant was solely to cover the expenses of the Commission. British merchants who were represented as the recent Paris Exposition had spent 750,000d01s in exhibiting, and there is every reason to suppose, considering, the trade, between Great Britain and the United States, that British exhibitors who will be represented at Chicago in 1893 will contribute at least a million of dollars towards the expenses of their exhibits. On July 2.2 the House of Commons voted £300,000 for the relief of the suffering of the poor of Ireland. Mr Balfour stated that the Government’s intention was to make the expenditure of this sum a permanent means of promoting the welfare of the inhabitants. He approved the suggestion made to establish an agricultural department, and said that be hoped to be able to assist the Irish Land Commission with money to continue the work already begun. THE AUSTRALIAN’ MAILS. Mr Robert Creighton, of San Francisco, formerly c£ New Zealand, was in Washington on July 14, on business relating to the Australian mail service, with which he has been prominently identified for many years. " Up to the close of 1889,” said Mr Creighton to a newspaper interviewer. " the Australian mail line was supported by the Colonies of New Zealand and New South Wales. Last year the latter Government withdrew absolutely, but New Zealand continued it for another year, hoping the United States Government would step, in and contribute an adequate share to its support, as this country was the principal gainer by the service.” The Shipping Act of last session, he added, “may be regarded as a beginning in that direction. Tt by no means suffices, nor does it appropriate nearly as mucß money for carrying our bulky Australian mail, as the small Colony of New Zealand paid the American Steamship Companies for carrying its English mail to and from San Francisco. Doubtless the Congress will see the wisdom of extending this policy and building up American commerce with the British-Australian settlements, which are among the richest communities in the world.” Forms! notice of the Tost Office Depart-, ment iftviting, proposala' ocean -'mail ifisuVd at WcAhiugton on July 13a Among’Vpfcher new systems , pf the service j^eoin^S|jL : Franriece-’ to-the* tralian- Colonies, it is proposed as follows ; —-From San'"Francisco to Sydney (New South Wales), by Auckland' (New Zealand) and Honolulu, touching at Melbourne (Victoria) and Wellington (New Zealand), at the option of the contractor, on the return voyage, one in. two weeks, twentysix trips per year, in vessels of the second class; time twenty days. Bonds required, with bid, 50,000d015. Also, the same route, and number of trips, in vessels of the third class, for the first three years, in twentytwo days, and of the second class for the remaining seven years of theterm.in twenty days; bids to specify the rate of each class; bond required with bids 30,000d01. From San Francisco to Melbourne by .Honolulu and Wellington (New Zealand), touching at Sydney and Auckland on the return voyage at the option of the contractor, once in two weeks, twenty-six trips per year, in vessels of the second class, time twenty-one days; bond required with bid, 40,000d01. The same route and same number of trips in vessels of the third class for the first three years in twenty-three days, and for the remaining seven years in vessels of the second class in twenty-one days; bid to specify the rate for each class; bond with bid,SO.OOOdol. Note: On return voyages.the veesels.may touch at any port not .named in -the schedule if by doing so the outward voyages are not delayed. : ■ DAMAGE TO THE MANCHESTER f CANAL. ■ During a high tide in the Mersey on July 12, a temporary dam twenty feet wide collapsed, the debris blocking the Shropshire Union Canal and the Eastham section. Immense gangs of men were potto work to restore the dam. A second disaster, the giving way of another temporary embankment, on July 13, left nothing to protect the works from the ravages of the floods, which the high tides are sweeping in, giving vast masses of ddhris firmer lodgment, and destroying iu a few hoars the, product of years of labour, costing millions of money. The engineers now say that the resumption of the work of construction in the damaged section will be delayed for' months, pending the

removal of the dSbrts and the* erection et new barriers. The opening of the new; ' branch canal, which was near at hand, has ; been postponed indefinitely. Theshipping element of Liverpool is not at all diftiatii* fled with the situation. STANLEY. The London correspondent of the New York World has been investigating •: statement cabled to the United State*; that Mr and Mrs H. M. Stanley had parted: company, and that the African explorer' was rusticating by himself in Switzerland! prior to his departure for Australia. There j is no truth, the correspondent says, in.; either of these assertions. As late M! 1 Friday, July 17, the pair were together at] Interlaken, and no separation was oontem-: plated. It mask however, he stated, hej adds, that them are rumours afloat of | repeated quarrete between the two, the! origin of which, is attributed to'- StraleyV surliness. . . " .. f ,vfi. PABNELL DEFEATED; The resultof the election at.Carlow-on) July 7, for a successor in Parliament to the: late O’Gorman Mahon, was a crashing;' defeat for the Pamellite candidate in e; district which Mr Parnell admitted was] his stronghold, and where he said if he! were defeated, he would admit there wu, nothing left in political life for him to fall‘ back upon. Speaking at Carlow after the) . election, the defeated leader said he was, ; not disheartened, but would continue! his efforts in every Irish County and! city. Irish Americans have come to! the conclusion that the Carlow result; proves Mr Parnell has no longer any ! power, and that he ought to retire from; pnblio life. During the election Canon! O'Niell, a supporter of Mr Parnell, entered j a polling booth and voted, bat winastonished to see his own carats instructing anti-Farnellites how to vote. He' vehemently protested against the curate’s I action, claiming that it was an attempt to; intimidate people/' Had not the polio# interfered a desperate fight would .have! been the result. In the midst of the tor* i moil a man tried to strike Mr Parnell, but i was foiled in. the attempt. Mr Paneling; followers have now lost heart, and many; of them are on the point of going over t©; the M'Carthyites, on condition that the/; be assured that they shall retain their; seats at the general ‘election; Mr M'Oartu: declines to givethepledge,6n the ground j that the decision musk be left to-thn electors.

5 SPURGEON. On July 18 th« physicians In attendance" on the Eey-O. H. Spurgeon declared his ; recovery impossible. A. special, .prayer! service was held the same day in thaj Tabernacle. The, delegates. to the later- j national Council .met in the afternoon in! the Memorial HeJJ, the Bey B. Williams! Dole presiding. After an address of 1 welcome by the ‘.President, the Eev Mr'] Bean, of Melbourne, was elected President-; In the coarse of Dr Dale’s address, he 1 referred to Mr. Spurgeon’s illnese, saying t! " It is not time, and let us hope the tdm*| is far distant when we will have to speak I at length of Mr Spurgeon’s conspicuous: services. We simply desire to tell him ! how earnestly we entreat God to arrest thaj progress of his disease and restore him to health.” A resolution to that effect was unanimously adopted and ordered-to bs> sent to Mr Spurgeon’s family. / MBS LANGTRY’S BEAUTY MABBHD,. The following was cabled from London j on July 18 to the New York News; Agency-Some 'time ago Mr Abiagtoa-. Baird, Mrs Lily Langtry’s "protector,”: bought the York House at Regent’s Park \ for the actress, and also paid off her; debts in connection with the Princeaai ■ Theatre, of which he is at present tha lessee. On a recent occasion, Baird re-:': turned home unexpectedly, and found a; young gentleman dining with Mrs Langtry.; Without more ado/ he proceeded to showj him the door, then he "went for” th<r / lady, who is familiarly known as "thaLily,”and knookedher down, kicking her in! . the face in such a way that it is said sheis. now disfigured for life.. Mrs Langtry had to be carried to bed and attended byaj surgeon, who declares it probable tbatshiaiv will never be able to act again. The injUtedlj woman begah. an action tor assault againife: ‘ Baird, but when he had sobered up- he j repented of what he had done, went to* the ■ house and paid her £SOOO in Bank o£j England notes to salve her wounds, and ‘ prevent an action being brought. AMERICAN SUMMARY. ' A plan is.on-foot to unite the western, farms of the United States in a gigantic : wheat Trust, and so corner the entire crop | of the country, in which the prodooera; shall be the stock holders and the. speculators and buyers squeezed. It is formed; by the Farmers’ Alliance party. Tha Brush electrical, patents, for fha’ manufacture of storage batteries in the United States, were made solely valid by; a decision of the United States - Circuit Court on July 23. Complications are growing between tha: : United States and Canada, in. regard to the "domicile” of Chinamen. The Grand Jury in New York indicted, the city editor of the News, for publishing! particulars of the recent execution by’ electricity. The Press of the country considers it a test catoe.'

The new American steel steamer,: Charles Westmore, which sailed from! Dalutti, Minnesota, in the latter, part of* Jane, arrived at Liverpool, England, on July 21. The Westmore’s cargo .consisted of 95,000 bushels .■ of wheat. This is tha’ first grain shipped from a, lake port, direct to Liverpool,-, without being rehandled at an American coast port. The route was down the 'lakes from Dalntti, through' the Erie Canal, down' the.St Lawrence River, and across the Atlantic. The success of this voyage is evidence that’ the proposition to establish direct communication between: Europe and other parts' and Chicago, is'entirely feasible.' The . ..great^oa^^ Chicago collapsed on July 4, the - men going to work “on the employers* terms. The strikers dlcT two fcEmgS they did not count -dh while, they' were out. - They forced smali oontriactOrs into the. powe.ri f of;■ the master hihldirir, making the Buildings Association more of a monopoly than ever, and gave "a black eye ” to the Federation of Labour, costing that order several thousand members.