SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVI, Issue 11108, 6 November 1896, Page 6

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

GENERAL SUMMARY. (Per E.M.W. Mariposa at Auckland.) During’ the year 1895, according - to the Boat’d of Trade’s report, 1024 persons were killed by railway accidents in England, 83 of whom were passengers. The London Times, Oct. 12, expresses the belief that the rival claims of Sir W. V. Harcourt and Mr Asquith for the position of! the leadership of the Liberal Party will compel the re-call of Mr Gladstone to try to uniljp the party. A new expedition on novel lines was organised at Glasgow on Sept. 20 under the leadership of Maurice, an explorer. Ths purpose is to determine, by special means, the exact location of the North Pole. It will start north in May, 1897. Professor A. A; Andrce will start again on his Arctic'balloon trip in July, 1897. A fire occurred in the People’s Palace Variety Theatre, Hamburg, on Sept. 30, during a performance, causing a panic, during ’which several persons wore crushed to death, and a number seriously injured; The building was completely destroyed. Amongst the things suggested for celebrating, in. June next, the completion of sixty;' years of Queen. Victoria’s reign, is a ■pedal review - of colonial and other forces is Hyde Park. In %' speech at Leven, on Oct. 2, Mr H. Asquith, Secretary of State for the Home Deportment under Lord Rosebery's Administration, said that when he left office in June, 1895, no medical reasons existed ■for releasing the Irish dynamiters. ' If the Liberal Party had released these mdnfiand a bow plot had been discovered so quickly, there would, have been a, universal roar of incredulity and indignation. Regarding Ammonia, he urged that coercion should be ■noMl, and' that the Sultan should he removed; but he admitted that force employed by England would not he safe without the co-operation of Russia. Alderman George F. Phillips, sheriff of the County “of London, and brother-in-law of Sir Edward Lawson, the principal proprietor of the Daily Telegraph, was elected Lord Mayor on Sept. 29, to succeed. Sir ■Witter Wilkin. A terrific gale swept the city of London and the British coast on Sept. 23 and 24., Trees in. the London parka were levelled, and great damage was wrought among coast and fishing craft. The loss of life was cßgbt The Red Star steamship Ehynland, at Queenstown, from Philadelphia, was swept fore. and aft by heavy seas, and the mail-boat Jrtmning between Dover and Calais was badly damaged. In a collision between ah express and an excursion train op-- Sept. 21, at the March Cambridgeshire, Station, Great, EastemEailway, seventeen persons were seriously injured. The foundations of a new Homan Catholic Cathedral at Westminster, the dearest project of Cardinal Vaughan, have been completed. Forty - two prominent Roman Catholics subscribed .81000 each towards the erection of the sacred edifice. ;■ . London is now well into the autumn fever, visitation. There are 4475 patients in the hospitals, op whom 3649 are suffering from scarlet fever. The Chicago wheat pit was a scene of mild excrement on Oct. 1, the market advancing to a point 21 cents above the final figures of the day before. The ad-' vancC was not all held, some of the big holders dumping to make a present dollar. The reason for the “ bulge ” can be told in two words;—foreign news. It was not the higher price'' quoted at Liverpool and on the Continent, but reports of wheat engagements for shipment to India from Liverpool, hitherto an unheard-of transaction. > ‘ Reports of similar engagements from San Francisco lent force. to the statement that the Indian crop was - a failure. The close showed substantial ad-' vanoea all round. A fleet of ships arrived at San Francisco during the first week in October to load wheat for Europe.