ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 860, 24 August 1888, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

(Per R.M.S. Zealandia at Auckland.)

(Piiii PKESS ASSOCIATION.)

LATE EUROPEAN NEWS

GENERAL SUMMARY,

Dates from Europe up to July 27. _ Mr and Mrs Gladstone celebrated their golden wedding on July 25. Testimonials, letters, telegrams and presents poured in by the hundred. One hundrel and fifty members of Parliament presented an address. A German named Glotten was arrested on the 20th for threatening to murder Mr Gladstone, ali oh acc-unt of a manuscript he had seiit him which Mr Gladstone had mislaid. _v It is stated that Queen Victoria will spend three weeks with her daughter, the Dowager Eeiij ress, this autumn; at Ba en. • An American elm block, six inches square, -’was picked up off Kingston (according to a Loudon despatch or July 26), with this inscription.:— “ July 16th, 1888. The Ruby, of Dublin, bourid to Quebec, was wrecked off the Irish coast, sinking with all hands. Josian.” ■■ r" ; ' The Daily News, of July 26, declares the Mills Bill, adjusting the United Stat -s tariff, is more of a Protective than, a Freetrade measure. Mr Spurgeon; the r..calcitrant -Baptist divine, intends, it .is said,- to ally himself with the Presbyterian body. Seven thousand colliers at Pontypridd, South Wales, struck for an increase of wages on July 24. - The talk in London, on July 23rd, was that since the Emperor William’s visit to the’ Czar, De l Gisrs, the Russian . Foreign •Minister, and Bismarck ha.e gone over the European situation together several tim .a, and taken Asia into their deliberations. .’ The British Government - had suddenly decided to send 10,000 men iufco the Black. Mountains, cn the northern border of India, to punish the Akazirs for the recent murder of Oolouol Buttye and Captain Mua’on. The Rev W. S. Green left Queenstown, Jnly27th, to explore the glacier regions in i h s.Selkirk range of British Colombia. - In the House of Commons on July 17th the Radicals strongly objected to a clause in lhe LocarGoverument Bill assisting emigrutibu.. -The Government agreed to restrict the operation, of the clause to cases where local or- colonial guarantees for re,<aymerit are given. Samuel Smith- proposed to aid the emigration of children. The Government sympathised with the proposition, .but a technical objection was interposed. - . * .The 300th anniversary of the destruction of the Spanish Armada was obsrrved oh the 19th July at Plymouth, and the foundation of a National monument was laid. The .London Cobden Club is threatened with dissolution, owing to a faction in the Liberal party. In view of internal troubles, the usual annul! festival of the Ciub in July was abandoned, and the Association his decide 1 hereafter to confine its efforts to combatting Protection.- ; The condition of his father's health has caused Mr J. A. Bright to renounce his intended candidature for Parliament at Rochdale. : All orders to send reinf..rcemenis to the Capo were countermanded on July 17th, owing to the improved condition of affairs in Zululand. - Sergeant Wilson, of Can id a, won the London Municipal Prizi at , Wimbledon Many .Jother Canadians won money prizes. Private Faiton, of the 12th Middlesex, won

tile Queen’s prize with a s oi'e of 2SO. The S oteh Gam won the internati pal trophv .mi July 10. '1 he Irish-'team'won the Elcho shield, the score being—lr- land, 1652 points ;; England, 1642 ; So itlmd,; 1635. The Canadian team held .a parting reception ouJuly 1<), wheuthe Priucess Louise and the'Mar. •qu : s of Lome wore present. Mr- Cuny beare, M.R, was oil July 20th suspended for one month' for -writing a letter to the Standard den. uncing tiie corid act. of the •? Speaker in supporting the .Tory motion for- ft cloture in the debate on the second reading of the Bann Drainage B 11. . The committees on the subjeetbas published, it-s report, favouiii g the'aetioa of closing all drinking place* in Ireland on Sun lay. The Kev Mr Waugh 'testified before the Poor belief Committ e of the Bouse of Lords that thousands of children' werestarved or otherwise ;murdered in Erfgl rnd every winter in order to obtain the paltry -amount of insurance upon their lives. He said the system of insuring, children’s lives avas simply offering >'■ premium to murder. ’ , .Ti'ia alleged i ill-treatment of the exEmpress Victoria in Berlin was the sensation at that city ou.the 14th of July. The story started by the Pali Mall Gazette is pronounced false.in every particular by the St James’Gazette. - , . ... It is said that Cardiml Moran has sue ceeded in convincing the Pope that it is po'icy to refrain'from admonishing Irish . Catholic.B ■ ... The tenants on the Irish estates of Lord Hartihgton’a father forwarded 'the', vjarquis -a memorial on the 11th July, setting forth that a i inquiry before The Parliamentary Committee Would help to show whether' or pot the Parliamentary party was responsible for the murder'of his brother, Lord Cavendish. - • ' 'I here were large gatherings of Orangemen in various parts of Ulster on J uly 12th. A well-attended meeting was also held in Glas? govv. ' ' , A Papal encyclical letter was read in all tlie Catholic 5 churches of Dublin on Sunday, July, loth, expressing, grief that meetings hail .been held in Ireland, whereat dangerous opinion's regarding his recent: decree had-; been uttered. The Pope reiterates his affection for Ireland, but .the whole system of the Plan of Campaign and boycotting are condemned as unlauful. A letter written by A-chhishop Walsh accompanied the encyclical, in which it.says the agitation referred to had now ended under the resolution;of the Bishop. Father Galbgan was released from Limerick gaol on Ju'y .20. - / - Townsend’s action for libel against

the Dublin Freeman’s Journal has been settled out of court, tbe journal agreeing to withdraw its imputations, to apologise, and pay £SOO and costs. ' The editor, Mr O’Brien, a fellow prisoner with Maudeville in I’ullamore, addressed a public meetiug in Edinburgh on July 21. It was called to discuss Home Rule, but. was changed to an indignation meeting over the death of Mlandevil e, the suicide of Dr Ridley, and other irritating topics. The Home Rule Union intend to-campaign trie three .Kingdoms with vans, full of-Home Rule literature and many-' speakers. - Every hamlet will be visited. Au enormous eviction movement was begun at Rilrusli. County Clare, on the Vandaleur estates on July ISth. T e plan includes the eviction of 114 families. Captain Croker and the Sheriff of Clare were on the estates, with a force of 500 soldiers and : police The arrears owed by the tenants is £BO,OOO. Tiie Vandaleur troubles began in 1874, when' the. late Colonel was edefeated for Parliament, and never forgave the tenants for uot returhing him. Inspired by revenge, he raised the rents to the high st legal point. Of course the tenants rebelled, and. there have been troubles ever since. Th'ee tenants were evicted peacefully on : the 20th. James Madigan, of; Camicalla, however, strongly barricaded ' his Tesideuce . arid poured .hot ' water on tho evietora, who u-.ed crowbars, sledge-hammers, and axes in effecting an entrance. Madigan was arie-ted with two relations who assisted h.m. ; - : C? ' A-grand banquet was held in Londonron July 14 in honour of Canada-coming of age. Imperial Federation was the chief topic in toasting the Mother Country.-- Dalton Macartbv sail“ Canada above all wishes' ' an Imp rial federa ion.” L rd Knutsford replied- that while federation .was eure, the proposition must come from the colonies,’ then he was certain that England would give it close attention. The Canadian Premier,’ Mr Mo watt, and Sir Charles Tapper also spoke endorsing the Federation project. TYe Standard, in its comments next morning, echoed Lord Knutsfoid’s sentiments. ’ " - .Queen'Victoria has- refused to surrender to the German Ambassador, Count vonM unste.r, documents' left by the late Kaiser Frederick and coniided to the Queen by her daughter, the Empre;s. She; however, gave Von Muustor permission to read them. The Emperor William meets King Humbert in Oc.ober, when he will visit Rome, on the invitation of the Italian King. At the suggestion of Prime Minister Griapi, the Pope .h is p otested against tiie visit, declaring the Emperor’s presence in the Eternal- City an act of hostility to the... Vatican. The protest' was sent to B : srasrok,; It is stated in Berlin that the E nperor will visit the Pope a 3 well as King Humbert. ; - At Vienna, bn July 26th there were rumouis tbiit the. Emperor William-and the ; Czar had agreed to. propose' Prince Waldemar, of: Stoekholine, Denmark, to succeed Prince Ferdinand on the Bulgarian throne. The Kaiser hopes to be able to induce King; Christian to.cjusent to their choice. He refused on Pji.ice Waldeniar’s previous elec-, tion by the Sobranje. ,7 1 ' The French Government have - demanded tin explanation ftom the, British Government relative to the recent Be zure of two French fis' ing vessel . off. the .coast of Newfoundland. At the,semi annual meeting of the Direct Cable Company ill Loudon Oil the 20th July M r John Pender announced a decline of over £6009 in the past six month's. ' V :-r 1