LATEST NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6668, 2 April 1883, Page 6

LATEST NEWS.

San Feancisco, March 11. The Board of Trade of Trade of this city has memoralised the Legislature to ask Congress to continue the Australian and New Zealand Mail Steamship Service through Sau Francisco, as the Atchison, Topeka, and t-anta FiS Railroad Management is seeking to divert it; to their western terminus at Guaymas, a Mexican Pacific Coast port.

Mr. George H. McKenzie, member of the Manhattan Chess Club, New York, and the chess champion of America, will be sent to London by his club next month, to contest at the tournament there.

The English ship Mysterious Star, was seized on February 24 at San Lorenzo, in the State of Ecuador, by order of the Dictator, Vientemilla, and partially dismantled. The reason assigned was that Captain Jenkins afforded aid to revolutionists. He had arrived in Panama to seek assistance irom a British maa-of-war.

Henry Seybert, a Philadelphia philanthropist, died recently, and was cremated on. Marcu 7. He left his entire estate, upwards of 500,000 dollars, to charitable institutions.

Northam Park, country seat of the Earl o£ Stafford, was burned March 7th, but the valuable collection of paintings, plate, and furniture was saved.

John Richard Green, LL.D, author of a History of the English People and numerous historical essays, died March 7. He was examiner in the School of Modern History, Oxford.

It was reported, March 7, in Dublin that Patrick Egan had left Paris with the Land League securities. The police believe te has gone to Spain. The House of Commons passed a Bill on the 7th instant to prevent the shooting o£ trapped pigeons. I'he Prinee of Wales has been created a. Field-Marshal of the German Empire.

The trade between Germany and Italy is growing so fast that extra trains are now running on the St. Gothard railway. It has been ascertained that the rumour of. Mr. Parnelt's intended resignation of his seat for the purpose of proceeding to America isuntrae.

There was a Socialist outbreak in Paris on March 10th, at the Esplanade des Invalides,. which, at one time, assumed disquieting proportions. Louise Michel climbed the ladder of a bill-poster near the Rue Tavert and. harangued the crowd : she was arrested, and six others were also taken in by the police, among'them M. de Keratry, formerly. Police Prefect. Later in the day, the crowd formed before the Palais Bourbon, and refusing todisperse were charged by the military. An attempt was made to erect a barricade, bufc it failed, and the mob fled before the cavalry. A more serious affair is expected on the IStb, and preparations are being made to meet it.

The Loudon grain market is reported (March 10) dull and receding.

An experiment was made with the electrical tram car in London on the 10th instant. It ran a distance of four miles satisfactorily and fulfilled the requirements of the Boasd of Trade.

Mr. Trevelyan announced in the Hobs» of Commons, on March 10th, that the oopdition of Ireland was more tranquil than,-for some time past. .S

The " Invincible 3" ranks ax?increasing in Dublin, notwithstanding tlvi'readiness of the men, now in prison, to b<r€ray each other. It is understood Patrick Egan had appeared as a witness in the breach of promise case of Mip Hyland against Biggar, M.P., counsel^for the defence would have asked, him whether he had used any of the funds of the Land League for Miss Hyland's case. Parneil states that lie does not know where figan is, but the balance of the Land League funds, £25,000, is quite safe. Frank Byrne was released by the French authorities on the ground that his complicity in the attempted murder of juror Field and Judge Lawson, amounted merely to introducing arms into Ireland. It was claimed nhat even if the arms were intended for the purpose of murder, tha offence was a political one.

Lady Florence Dixio, in a letter to the Times of the Stb, charges Biggar and Parnell with failure to account for £152,000 of the Land League funds. She claims that while this money remains unaccounted for, the parties named and their followers have no right to mock the sufferings of the distressed in Ireland by their sham championship of

the starving peasantry. On the Sth", Gladstone declined to give a day for discussion of the "Kilmainham trtaty negotiation." Sir Stafford Northcote declined to proceed further, but said the inferences to be drawn from the declination were obvious. ~C