ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 168, 17 July 1891, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Auckland, July 17. Arrived at 7-30 a.m. — S.B, Mariposa from San Francisco. Passengers for New Zealand t Mrs Houghton and son, Messrs A. Campbell and S. Brown and Mrs Fawks. Among the passengers for Sydney are John L, Sullivan and hia wife. General Summary. Mr Gladstone's physician fears that he may not recover from the eSeots of his recent influenza attack. The steamship Fiirst Bismarck made the trip from Queenatown to New York in 5 days 21 hours 10 mins,, beating all previous records. Mr Parnell was compelled to obtain a special license to marry Mrs O'Shea owing to delays interposed by a olergyman at Brighton. The Dockers Union has issued propaganda in the agricultural districta dissuading agricultural labourers from flocking to seaports in the hope of getting better wages, Alarmed by recent Wesleyan discussions on inspiration and sabbath, keeping, Mr Spurgeon with a number of other ministers signed on June 22nd a manifesto declaring i for thorough Oalvinigm and accepting both old and new testaments as the word of God, declaring that the two must stand or fall together. The Court of Appeal refused on June 20 ! to grant an application by Miss Gladys Evelyn for a new trial in her suit against William Hulbert. Mr Herbert Spencer's work on education and Professor Bain's "Education as Science" have been proscribed by the authorities of the English Churoh training colleges. Captain Hawkes of the British, army has been sent to gaol for three weeks with hard labour, besides being heavily fined, for criminally assaulting Mijs Clara Burgess, a member of his household, Mrs O'Shea's daughters opposed her marriage with Mr Parnell, but as their mother is rich and their father poor it is believed that they will eventually undergo a ohange of feeling. Mr Rudyard Kippling is reported to be dying of consumption, He was sent from London to Italy as a last resource on June 16th. The expected strike by the laundresses of London began vigorously. Thousands of female employees of laundries went out for 8 hours and 42 pence per day. Later they formed a procession, and inarching from laundry to laundry smashed the windows of the establishments where non-union labour was employed, and dragged out such of the women as manifested a disposition to remain at work, When the police appeared thev were jeered at by the belligerent femalaH who went right ahead with the work of lflH tiinidation.' Lieut, Robinson and four of the crew of the U.S. revenue cutter Bear, and A, 0. Moore of the Russell party, were drowned on June 14th, while trying to make a land" ing at Icy Bay, Alaska. The Irish envoys to the United States in the interest of Mr Parnell, are hopeless of making any headway in their mission and ;have decided to return. Mr Paruell himself intends to visit America in August next. Charlie Fust of Germantown, Pennsylvania,' has constructed a balloon by whioh he expeolß to reach Europe in thirty hours from Pennsylvania. He starts about the sth August. Mr William MoKinley, father of the j present high tariff law, was nominated for Governor of Ohio on June 17 by the Republican Convention. When Mr Blaine's name was mentioned as a prospective presi- 1 dential candidate it wag|hailed with thunders of applauße. A German squadron, consisting of the Leipsic, Alexandrene, and Sophie, under the command of Admiral Valois, en route from Japan and Chili, put into San Francisco harbour on June 6, and remained tili next evening,