LATE ENGLISH NEWS FROM SAN FRANCISCO.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 766, 5 November 1886, Page 30

LATE ENGLISH NEWS FROM SAN FRANCISCO.

(Per Mararoa, at Auokland.)

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, November 1. The steamship Australia arrived at Sydney on the 27th ultimo from San Francisco, under Captain Webber, to take up the running instead of the Mararoa. The Australia is now running under the Hawaiian flag, having been registered at Honolulu. As she was leaving that port on this voyage His Majesty King Kalakaua, accompanied by his Ministers and some members of the House of Nobles, came on board the ship, and presented Captain Webber with a very handsome silk Hawaiian ensign flag, he being the first commander to carry the Hawaiian flag to Australia on a subsidised Hawaiian steamer. After appropriate speeches, the ensign was run up to the main amidst cheers. General summary dates from Europe are up to September 30fch. A block of buildings was burned at Leicester on September 29, the loss being £500,000. They were occupied by Mr Barrow, leather manufacturer, aud Mr Wright, boot and shoe dealer. On the 30th the Duo d’Aumale presented his domain of Chantilly to the Institute of France, to be held in trust for the French nation. % Dissensions have broken out between tne two Anarchist Clubs in London, and threaten to lead to active hostilities. Herr Schwabe, a Herman long residing in England, has presented an art hall to Hamburg. It is filled with valuable paintings. In a distraining for rent case, on September 30th, at Milltown, Malbay, County Clare, the married women of the neighborhood attacked and overpowered and imprisoned all the officers engaged in distraining, while their husbands secured the cattle and removed them from the locality. On the 30th September the Lord Mayor of London handed the United States Minister, Mr Philps, £IOOO for the benefit of sufferers by the Charleston earthquakes. Herr Franz Adam, the historical painter, of Munich, died on September 30fch. Lord Brassey publishes a letter in a London paper of the 29th September, in which he says that the victory of the American yacht Mayflower over the Galatea is due to the superiority of the American model over the British. It was rumored in Berlin on the 29th that a plot to blow up a train on which the Czar was travelling had been discovered at St Petersburg. . Seven parsons, including three Glasgow magistrates, were suffocated to death on September 25, while viewing a monster blast at Loch Fyne quarries. Seven tons of gunpowder was used. It appears that the crowd paid no attention to the warning to keep at a distance, but rushed past the persons giving the advice. An indescribable scene followed. People looked as if intoxicated, underging convulsive contortions, accompanied by laughing, crying, and screaming, as they returned to consciousness. Medical men say that after the explosion, which loosened about 500,000 tons of granite, a cloud of nitrous oxide gas ascended, and, in the absence of any wind, fell to the earth and enveloped the spectators. A number of persons escaped unaffected, while others detected a pungent taste and odour, accompanied by a difficulty in breathing. This was followed by convulsions and vomiting. Prince Bismarck’s organ, the North German Gazette, takes the Austrian press sharply to task for its attitude in commenting on the Bulgarian situation. It thinks an extraordinary desire is shown to destroy the peace between Germany and Austria. On September 28th a petroleum burning engine was successfully put in operation on the railroad betweeu Alexandria and Cairo, effecting a yearly saving, it is estimated, of £50,000. Soon after midnight on September 26th a crowd assembled and stoned the police at Shankhill, Belfast. The police fired upon the rioters, and a young man named David Moore was shot through the lungs, and was conveyed to the hospital in a dying condition. Twelve constables were seriously wounded with stones. Many arrests were made. There was also desperate fighting on the 29th at Barton s foundry, between the Protestant and Roman Catholic workmen, in which scores of policemen and rioters were injured. The first fatal case of cholera for the year, that of a woman, occurred in Vienna on September 27th. The disease is gaining ground in Pesth and Trieste. The farmers of Waterford, says a dispatch of September 27th, have resolved to prevent any hunting till Father Fahey has been released from prison. Advices from Constantinople to September 28th say that much comment, particularly in Russian and French diplomatic circles, has been excited by the fact that several transports recently touched at the Island of Thosos with large supplies and armaments consigned to agents of the British Government. It is felt that the English occupation and practical annexation of this island will take place at the first sign of the Russian occupation of Bulgaria. All the more uneasiness is felt because of Thosos belonging to Egypt, to whiah, through Mehemet Ali, it was ceded by the Sultan. A cable despatch from the Cape of Good Hope, through Dr Krenger, of Kiel, Germany, announces the discovery of a comet at the Cape, on the 26th September, by Professor Finley. The superintendent of the Royal herd at Windsor is endeavoring to repurchase the bull Conqueror, sold two years ago to Professor Brown of Ontario, Canada, as it is not possible to obtain a sire of equal merit in England. Conqueror is a son of the famous Lord Wilton. Duels have been frequent in France. During the week ending September 29, at Bordeaux, M. M. Duprat and Brulat, rival editors, fought for the second time to gratify a mutual grudge. As usual the shots were discharged without effect. A duel- also took place at Montpelier between M. Garieland and Captain Valicourt, caused by the former s criticisms of the recent manoeuvres of the French army. The weapons were swords, and the editor wounded the captain four times so badly that his life is dispaired of.

[ China has applied to Parisian financiers for a loan of 50,000,000 taels, to construct a railroad in the Empire. A riot took place in Paris on the 28th September at the unveiling of a statue of Armand Barbes, the ex-Republican colleague of M. Blanqui, at Carcassonne, in the Department of Aude. The Revolutionists attempted to take the control of the affair out of the hands of the Moderists, who had it in charge. Four hundred persons made demonstration at Leipsic on the 28th, marching through the ; streets with the expelled Socialist leader, Schemann, at their head, waving red flags and denouncing the Government. A persistent fight with the police ended in the capture of seven Socialists, Schemann included.

AMERICAN SUMMARYSan Francisco, October 1,

The steamship Australia, of the Spreckels and Co. line, leaves at date to take the place of the Union Steamship Co.’s s.s, Mararoa, withdrawn from the Australian-American route. Among the passengers are Captain Barron, of the firm of Barron, Mosham, and Co., Sydney. A terrific expiosion occurred at the Ditmar Powder Works, Baychester, on the Harlem River branch of the New York and New Haven Railroad, at 10 o’clock on the morning of the 30th, resulting in the instantaneous death of four men employed in the factory. Lord Lonsdale, treasurer for the actress Violet Cameron, now in New York, has been before the Police Court with an application to have De Bensande, the woman’s husband, arrested, because he threatened to shoot her unless Lord Lonsdale gave him £IOOO. The Knights of Labor in the West, and more particularly those in St. Louis, have decided that strikes should be discouraged, and that they should no longer be recognised as a necessity of the order. Business continues dull in San Francisco. Freights for wheat ships had fallen from 35sto 265, and even lower. The 28th of October has been fixed upon as the date for inaugurating the statue of Liberty Enlightening the World, on Bedloe Island' New York Harbor. The Ottawa Gazette of Canada contained, on September 24, an Order in Council prohibiting the importation of live cattle from eleven English counties and districts in London, on account of the prevalence there of pleuro-pneumonia. A new morning paper, to be called the Gazette, is announced in New York. It will be entirely devoid of sensationalism. Tho South Western Coast of Texas, particularly the region of the mouth of the Rio Grande, has been visited by. tremendous storms and hurricanes. The towns of Brownsville and Matamoras have been badly injured, many houses having been levelled in both places. General William Booth, of the Salvation Army, has arrived in New York to inquire into the condition of the campaign. The principal portion of his time will be spent in Canada. , . Charleston, South Carolina, is still being visited by earthquakes ; the shocks, however, are light, but they serve to discourage the people by the uncertainty of the situation. . Michael Davitt, the Irish _ agitator, is lecturing on Irish Home Rule in San Francisco, to raise funds for the benefit of the West Coast of Ireland fishermen. The cattle plague has made its appearance in various parts of the United States, Chicago, and the surrounding country, as well as Texas. The pressmen and feeders in New York City are on strike for 2dol a week advance wages. A commission has been ordered to take testimony in the United States in the Boucicault divorce ease. The ground for divorce is alleged infidelity with Miss Thorndyke, who Boucicault says, is his lawful wife, and whom he married in Australia. He says he was never married to Agnes Robertson, and never made any contract with her, but had announced her as his wife merely for appearance. It is not claimed there was a ceremonial marriage, either religious or civil. Mrs Boucicault claims there was a verbal contract. The New York Sun of September 26th says the Buddhist sect is gaining ground in the city and Brooklyn to an extent not dreamed of by average believers in Christianity. There was some little talk in newspapers, and anxiety felt by citizens, on account of a prophecy made by a Canadian astronomical professor, to the effect that on 29th September one of the most terrific subterranean upheavals ever known would take place on the North American Continent, and that California would be engulfed. Several legitimate scientific men handled Mr Wiggin without gloves, and in a measure restored confidence among the timid in the earth’s solidity. The earth trouble at Charleston suggested the prophecy, together with a desire for notoriety. An Atlantic dispatch of 29th says half a million of people in Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, and Alabama sat up all night watching for the predicted earthquake. There has not been such excitement throughout the Atlantic and Gulf States since the war.

SOUTH AMERICA AND THE WEST

INDIES.

Dates from Panama by the Star and Herald are to September 4. The Isthmian Government is about to establish a smallpox hospital at Panama. The disease is on the increase there, as also in Valparaiso, and Santiago and Chili. A tremendous hurricane had visited the Island of Jamaica, by which Kingston suffered greatly, as well as Movant Bay. The loss is estimated at £87,000. Thesouthernpartof the island was laid entirely waste. Five persons were killed and thirty injured. Nearly 16,000 are destitute. An English company has proposed to construct underground railways in Buenos Ayres, and a grand central station. Congress, it is believed, wiil grant the privi!ege. The St. Domingo revolutionists are being badly worsted. Advices to the 17 th September say that they were defeated m every battle, and their principal general, Labares, has been killed.

LATE CHINESE AND JAPANESE NEWS.

A despatch from Hong Kong, of September 29 th, says that the recent wholesale massacre of Christians in the province of See Chuen was fomented by the Roman Catholic Bishop, who insisted on nsing yellow tiles in the construction of a new cathedral, yellow being a color venerated as sacred by the Chinese.

The cholera is decreasing at Yokohama, but raging at Tokio and Seoul Cona. The British ship Ferntown, Captain Kelly, is supposed to have foundered during a. typhoon on the voyage from Saigon to Hongkong. Two women, one for unintentionally poisoning her relatives, and the other for trying to hang her husband, have been executed at Canton by the Ling Chi method, that is, being sliced up into a thousand piecss.