ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL

New Zealand Mail, Issue 852, 29 June 1888, Page 31

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL

AT AUCKLAND.

LATE EUROPEAN NEWS. (Per s.s. Alameda.) (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. ) '• GENERAL SUMMARY. Auckland, June 23. On May 23rd the Liberals elected Evans, their candidate, to Parliament over Guest in Southampton, and gained a strongly Conservative borough. The election was held to fill a seat made vacant by the resignation of Admiral Sir John Commerell. Evans was absent in America, but his wife took jiersbnal charge df the cahvasoj Aided by her son and Several distinguished ladies, including Lady Anne Blunt and Mrs Jane Cobden. Ihe lady workers of the Primrose Club were very active in securing votes for Guest. While the contest was very earnest, it was at the same time good-natured. The voting, after one of the closest struggles ever made at an election in Great Britain, stood—Evans, ,5152 Guest, 4266. The Liberals could scarcely believe their good fortune, and celebrated the victory most effusively. The first credit of £2,600,000 for national defences will be followed by others. The war scare in Great Britain continues.

Morgan Owen, of the recently-discovered Welsh gold mines,,states that the aUriferoua area is 10 miles iii length by 50 miles in breadth. Some of the xmtpiit of his immediate properties are said to have contained from 500 oz to IOOOoz of gold to the ton. The metal assays are almost chemically pure. There have aUo been rich gold discoveries on.the estates of Lord Newborough and Sir Watkin William Wynn in North Wales. Dr O’Callaghan, R.C., Bishop of Newcastle, has resigned. Canon Wilkinson succeeds him.

Kane won the Mile Bicycle Championship at Birmingham, on May 23, in 2min 45sec. Temple won the Mile Handicap in 2 min 44sec. - . - -

Matthew Arnold’s will, dated July, 1883, ’ consists of a single clause, leaving everything to his wife. The estate is valued at about £IO,OOO. Blaine, who recently declined nomination by, the Republican party, will make a coaching trip with Andrew Carnegie throughout England and Scotland, journeying 700 miles.

On June Ist the Queen knighted Chief Justice Gall, of Ontario, and President Wilson, of the University of Toronto. The Baring Brothers' Canadian Pacific bond issue is a success. Thirty millions sterling was subscribed by 11 o’clock on June Ist, neatly ten times the amount asked. The bonds are quoted at 4J to 4g premium. The provisions of Lord Salisbury’s Bill for the reform of the. House of Lords would practically make that body a permanent senate for life, the Peers ultimately dominating, that the life Peers shall not exceed the herevytary peers in number, and their r- Cations must be judged by the V .aign. The entire nation would also take a . and in criticising the candidates for peerage. ' 1 . . r Paul Fecbter, son of the great actor, was killed in Paris on May 31 while fencing with his brother-in-law. The foil entered the brain through the eye, killing him instantaneously. Bubear has issued a challenge to Ro3a to row in -England for £2OO a-side. The great libel suit of O’Donnell against the London Times is sot down for. June 19. Many famous names are embraced in the witness list.

Six women employes were burned to death in a fire among some drapery stores in the Edgeware-road, London, on May 31. A number of representative Quakers have issued a letter disavowing sympathy with Mr Gladstone and the tactics of the National League. Tile new trains on the Great Northern Railway will cover the distance between London and Edinburgh in 8% hours, and brtwe r -n L union uu l Gl sg >w in 9. Spurgeon will not return to tbe membership cf the Baptist Union, as has been stated. The first edition of Ignatius Donnelly's “Great Cryptogram ” book on the Baconian theory regarding the authorship of Shakespeare, is now selling in London. The book is being much criticised, and nobody buys it. Donnelly lectured before the Oxford students on May 31. The Irish Bishops have not yet given their adhesion to the Papal rescript. The investigations into the frauds in the Equitable Life Insurance office of New York, begun fn Belfast, have extended to Dublin.

Prominent merchants have been arrested id. the former city in consequence of the disclosures. Byrne, the manager of the Equit--1 able agency in Dublin, has absconded. _ The Tipperary Militia, while marching to theif annual enoampmonfc on May 22nd, groaned and li6'6tod the name of Balfour and Cheered those of .Pdrnfcll ptd O JWiefh The Birmingham Daily,Post, Gnamberlain s personal of-gan, published Oil May, 22nd the-following as liia Irish .programme r—■ Extensive public works aided by the Irish Exchequer, land purchase on Irish credit upd worked .under Irish Authority, reform of the Executive adtifftiiatration... . and municipal government, aud tlie establishment of Provinoial Councils with local legislative P °Madame Wilson, M. Grevy'a daughter, has concluded to take up her residence in New York. She is driven out of Pans by social humiliation, consequent on the decoration scandals. . ... From various reports received m Dublin tip to May 24 it is estimated that 103 fishermen,hat;c' boeti Ib'sfc iii thS recent gaits off tlie.coast of Ireland; , . ■, Desperate rioting occurfdd at ..Dcinglcn; County Donegal, on May. 24. The police used their clubs at first without avail, and finally charged upon the mob with drawn swords. A number were injured on both 81 A S * meeting of 20,000 strong was held at Limerick on May 27, at which Editor O Brieu attacked the) Bishop of l hat Diocese for his efforts to make a practical application of the Potie’s teSqMbfl. Hti w'ap'enfiprsecl by, those present. It is i’titnctfeci fcbiit A iitirtibo? of Irish priests, who became prominent advocates of the Plan of Campaign, will bo drafted to the oolonies ;as missionaries, and kept out of the reach of political CYests wr several years. *' , It is asserted that Air Gladstone and Lord R. Churchill will attempt the collaboration of Anew scheme for the government of Ireland* to force tipoii Lord W# hdlding dver his head the Unionist vote. Pyne, ALP., was released from prison on June 7th last. The crowd cheered him as he left the gate. The Pope is preparing a brief for transmission to Ireland, explaining his rescript. At the celebration of the Queen’s Birthday, in Dublin the troop 3 were reviewed. At Limerick the military were cheered, while counter cheers were given outside the barracks for William O’Brien and the Plan of Campalgh; ;i , . i, A cohimi tse of , Frentshriida Has been formed, under the title of “Le Unioli. Mediterrienne,” to prevent the conversion of the Mediterranean Sea into an English lake. It is expected to organise a league of France, Spain, and Italy to use their combined strength to combat England and Germany in acquiring the control. About 6000 persons assembled in Phoenix Park, Dublin, on May 20, to take action on resolutions adopted by the Irish Catholic members of Parliament With refthence to the recent Papal rescript. No pfiesto were present. Lofcd Alayor Sexton presided. Meiiera John Dillon and Wiliam O’Brien and other Parnellites made speeches, and a manifesto of Irish members Was endorsed, with acclamation, Mr Dillon denied that the rescript was only a moral doctrine. He said the Vatican would treat no other country in Europe in the same way. The Irish would neither submit nor .bow to Rome ; they would show the world they were able to discern between spiritual and political domains. Air O’Brien said it was heartrending that aueh a rescript in the name of Rome should be thrown in the teeth of the Irish people. A courageous, respectful, but firm protest was necessary. Lord Salisbury wrote to the Mayor of Birmingham on May 24 to the effect that the British Government will take no part in the French Exhibition, as it is organised to celebrate the revolution against monarchy. Herr Tizsa, Premier, in reply to Herr Helfy, in the Hungarian Diet on the 25th of May, advised the-Hungarians not to take partin this exhibition in France for fear that peace between France and Austria should cease ere it was over, and the exhibitors incur loss, and even losses to the national flag. This remaik created great sensation in Vienna. The Fronch Ambassador was instrutted to ask Count Kaluoky, the AustroHungarian Foreign Alinistcr, to explain Tizsa’a speoeh. The Paris bourse was excited on Alay 2S over these utterances. Kalnoky made a satisfactory explanation on the 30th. _ A new line of steamers is to be started, between Hamburg and India. The police authorities ot Vienna have forbidden the public singing of “ Die wacht ana Rhein,” the anti-Semites having made it a party song. Tlie issue of the Panama Canal loan was ordered by the JSenate on Alay 25 in form, and passed by the Chamber of Deputies. The Military Bill was also passed, fixing the duration of service in the army at thiee yea.s, six and a half in the reserve, six in. the territorial force, and nine aud a half in the territorial reserve. A number of anarchists iuvaded Rochfort's editorial room on May 30th, and threatened him with violence unless ho retracted an article published in Le Transegeant. Ho defended himself with a revolver till the police arrived and drove out his assailants. The Papal Nuncio visited M. Goblet on June Ist, and congratulated him upon his response to the Tizsa statement. A banquet was given on Alay 21st by the Russian Ambassador in honor of President Carnot. Henry Villiard, formerly connected with the Northern Pacific Railway, is now in Berlin, and. according to the Zeitung, -is planning a German expedition to the South Pole. The Socialist war in Germany is being carried on with great activity by the members of the .Society, and corresponding severity on the part of tlie Government. A score of Socialists were recently sent to prison in Hamburg, and 33 have been tried in Leipsic, ■for distributing seditious tracts. Heavy sentences follow the conviction.

THE MELBOURNE EXHIBITION. The United States Navy have selected the Secretary of the Navy, Air Whitney, to aot as Secretary of the United States Commission at Alelbourno for the approaching ExHe will leave for his post of duty at date, June 2.

A conference of San Francisco merchants was nefjf o H May 9th in relation to the ExLibitum, at wliiofc Hugh Graig presidod, and Chief Commissioner MoCo£pin was present. A letter was received from Spre«eis Bros, offering to make a reduction of 50 p<=* CBnt. in the freight charged on all goods intended for the Exhibition shipped by the Oceanic steamships from San Iran* fc'is6 B: A fifrfifllaf was ordered to be prepared for efiaftibatioh among the business then Hi &al!fo«fiS, A gotfd deal of interest fs mahifAsfCtj, #n(d dxfeibifcs from Arfiefioa Will probably be ntiitiefOWS fiffet JuiOrO’sting.- Cmef Commissioner McCopphi liad got!# ftf-Watm* ingtonfor the purpose of inducing She o|crotfiry of the Navy to put a United State# war vessel flt his disposal to convey himself and his Deputy COmmiesiohefs, as Well as American exhibits, to Melbourne: It is doubtful if tho Government will indulge' him in this parade, as war vessels are scarce with the Department just now. A mooting of the Executive Committee was held on May 29, but only five out of fifteen members appeared. It was announced fhas' everything possible bad been done by the Com'missioners to excite interest in the exhibition; but so fair they had succeeded iii eulfslihg only 2ff exhibitors from California, comprising mn'ch'ineYy, flour, _ mining, leather, wine, and gb'ods interests. The Chairman, Hugh Craig, spoifo in Strong terms of the apathy in regard to the matter which he and his associates had encountered. Assistant Commissioner Thomas B. Alerry will probably leave for Alelbourno by steamer at date. Chief Commissioner McC«pp?d will not go forward till next iSontli.