SAN FRANCISCO MAIL. (PER MAIL STEAMER AT AUCKLAND )

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8214, 22 June 1895, Page 4

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL. (PER MAIL STEAMER AT AUCKLAND )

l)r Parkhursb, the preacher apostle of reform, h»3 won a victory in New York. Thomes Byrnes, the head of the police force, and tho chief objeob of Dr Parkhureb's attacks, has, with leveral inspectors, been forced to retire. President Rosseveldt, of tho Police Commfssion, joined forces with Dr Parkhurab. Byrnes retires on a pension cf 3000dol por annum. Commander Dallingbon Booth and his wife, i f the Salvation Army, renounced tbeir allegiance to Queen Victoria in Jersey City, on May 23, and became citizens of the United State*. An immeoae gathering of Confederate veterans took place in Piouston, Texas, on May 23, and the proceedings showed the tire was burning in each bearb as ardently as ib did in the sixties. It was proposed ab the meeting bhat the South boycott all books conveying false information concerning the Confederacy, ita conception, and its motive?. The recent edition of ibe • Encyclopaedia Britannica* was mentioned as particularly erroneous in fchia branch of bintory. A majority of tho United States Supreme Courb have agreed to wipe the income tax law recently passed by Congress off the Statute Book. Mr A. D. Willis, a member of the New Zealand Parliament, who h a9 been making a trip rround the world, arrived ab the Giand Hotel San Frnacisco, early in May, and immediately proceeded to enlighten the representatives on New Zeolnud ideas co'-c-rning governmental facts and theories He told at the woman sulFi.ijie, the Government ownership o railways and telegraph lines, of Govern menb insurance, of Governtnon*) banking, co-operation, of public workB, of the doing awny with large land holding*, and said thab Uenry George's single tax theory and other things only dreamt of by the resb of the world are known in the practical overy-day life of New ZeahnJ. The local papers devoted columns bo his conversation with their reporters The widow of the late Robert Loui3 Stevenson of Samoa, arrived in San \ Francisco on May 9. She comes to fulfil some of the literary bequests of her huaband, whobe posthumous writings will go to Professor Colvin o 1 Eng'and. El zibetb Eddy Stanton and other strong-minded women propose to revise Genised, Exodus, Levit cu?, the Paalran of David, the Song of Solomon, the Gospel of fct. Matthew, and iho Acts of the apostles in the old Bible, and bring f Kth fj,om them and their com* pnoioo pieces a new Word of God, which will be published aa "7 he Woman's Bible." Mrs Stanb n and her colleagues assert tbab the old edition places the box as inferior to men, and la the greatest obstacle the coming woraau has to encounter in the struggle for equality. Deductively the creation of Adam and Evo was nob an error of the Alnvghty, but of the translator who first attempted to give His Word to tbe English speaking rases. Mrs Stanton's helpers in the preparation of the new work are laid to include Lady H. Somerset?, M bb Frances Lord*), Mri Stanton Blatch (whoisMrdStnnlon'sdaughter), and rs Alee Cliff Scatchern, all ol England, and the following Americans : Frano-8 E. Willard. Rev. Pbcebe Hftnaford, Rev. O'ymania Brown, Mrs Robert G. Bugerstall (wife of tbe great Freethinker), Ellen B. Dietrick, France3 Brown, Matilda Jo3lyn Gagr, Sarah A. Anderwood, Mary A. Livrr more, Li lie D. Blake, Mra L. B. Chandler, Josephine K. Henry, C. A. F. StibbiD, Helen M, Gardener, Clara Beanck Calby, and Mrs A. B. Grannis Mra Chamber is to have the revision of the Book of Timothy wherein the lines run : " Bub I suffer nob women to teach, nor to usurp authority over man, bub to lie in Pilence." Mablda Gage will revise Mil tbe w and Kevelations, while Mrs Stanton herself will edit and supurgate Genesis in the eightieth year of her age. She will celebrate tbab anniversary in November. Tbe task set is no light one, but the promoter hopes thab the book will be completed this year, and thinks ib wi 1 contain aboub 400 page?. Tbe drawing room on the 18th was a great disappointment to ilcbvtanlev. The Queen shirked her work, with the resulb thab the Princess of Wales had to take ib in band almost ab tbe last moment) ; Bnd aUI/ough the presentations to Her lioynl Highness woie by Royal command, and were considered fquivalenb to presentabi n to the Q jeen herself, there was much grumbling among the young women who had spent) days ia practicing how to bend low, etc. The limes of May 21, in a leader on tbe Pacific ma.l subsidy scheme, aays thab if there is one feature by which the history of the twentioth century is likely to be distinguished beyond all obherg it biJs fair to be the development of the open shorei of the Pacif c by a movpmenb of the world's civilisation, like that already seen on the shores of tbe Mediterranean and the Atlantic. The article considers tbab the Government are justified in bestowing an annual subsidy of L100.000 on the Pacific mail and Cible service, and it euggetts that tbe amount now absorbed by Bechuaoa. land migbb be liberated by giving Bechuanaland to Cape Colony under ft protectorate to a chartered company. Lord Rosebery and the Marquis of Ripon received a deputation from the Associated Chambers of Commence ou May 24. Sir A. K. Rollib explained the object of the viBib, and said ib was mosb de8itable thab tho Government should grant adequate holp and en. couragemenfc bo the proposed steam ship aod cable Hues via Canada to Australia. He concluded by urging that Greab Britain should contribute her share, L75.000 yearly, to these schemes. Lord Kosebery did nob reply, bub informed tbe depubation thab the Government were considering tbe matter, William Alexander Louis Stephens Uouglaa, Duke of Hamilton, is re. ported bo hare died at Algiers. He was the premier duke of Scotland, and ,

thn hereditary Keeper of EJolyrood Palace. The deceased dnke was married in 1873 to the oldesb daughter of the Duke of Manchester, and leaves a daughter. The surviving brother is unmarried, and thus ib is likely the i title will die out. A great demonstration was held in Fhajaix Park, Dublin, on Sunday, May 12, in favor of the amnesty of Irish political prisoners. Archbi«hop Walsh sent L5, with which ib is pro posod to start) an amnesty fund. Timothy Harrington, the Parnellile M.P for Dublin, in his address said t'ut whether tho Irish political prisoners were guilty or innocent of tho crimes charged, they had fully expiated them. A resolution was adopted by the meeting to the effect tlmt the further detention of the prisoners is vindictive and revengoful and cruelty unworthy of a civilised Government). If the case of Miss " Birdie " Sutherland, a chorus girl in the Gaiety Theatre, against Dudley Churchill Majoribanks, eldest son of Baron Tweedwouth, for breach of promise ever comes to trial it will (according to a London despatch of May 18) be the tuosb seneational affair since Miss Foitescue, the actress, won LI 0,000 from Lord Garmoyle on a similar charge. Miss Sutherland's real name is Annie Louise Watkins. She tirst met Dudley Majoribanks at bhe Princejof {Wales Club. It was a case of love at finb sight He proposed and was accepted. When his parents learned of tho affair they were very much disturbed. Mr Majori banks wont to Canada on a visit) with his mother to the Ksrl of Aberdeen, Goveruor-Genenil of C\uia(?a. The young man did not return wih his mother to England, but remained in Canada, and the match was broken off. Miss Sutherland then placed the case in the hands of a well-known theatrical lawyer, who retained in her behalf Sir Edward Clarke. Mr 0. P. Gill and several other legal lights have also beeu retained.