ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 976, 14 November 1890, Page 31

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL A T AUCKLAND.

general summary. (Per R.M.S. Mariposa.) (per press association.) m p Gladstone informs the Jewish ifhroniole of London that the reports of the Jewish suffering in Russia pained and horriW him. aad recommended press reports ; nd if the f aots be ® stabl i sbed t to rouse the oonicience of Russia and Europe on the de Winton oensured Mr Thompson, the agent for the British East Afrios Company, for his recent insult to the German flag by trampling it under foot «ben he took charge at Vitu, and sent an apology to the German Government, which was aocepted. The Papal encyclioal to the Italian bishops protests against tho Government violating the liberty and rights of the Papaoy and Catholioism, and accuses the Freemasons of reversing modern society. The Boersen Zeitung of Germany says In the next German estimates an additional credit of 80,000,000 marks will be demanded for barracks, strategic railways, and defences. Easton, who suicided in bt. Paul’s Cathedral duriDg tho servioe, left a ietter saying be killed himself in the Cathedral to destroy false Christianity. During the first two weeks in October 480 oases of cholera, with 259 deaths, were re. ported in Spain. The epidemio is declining. Russian economists are awakening to the ’ fact that the American, Indian and Egyptian grain is clearing the Russian produce out of the market. The London Star Bays the summoning to Rome of the four Archbishops of Ireland is believed to be the final effort on the part of the Vatican to assist the Tories. In this criticaltime, when the elections are near, prompt measures are necessary to propitiate Lord Salisbury. The Vatican is convinced it is to its own interest to maintain the Tories in power. Boulanger denies his Socialist leanings. He declares he was always a Republican, but is an enemy to the present French regime, as he is for a Monachy in any form. The Russian Government will immediately begin the construction of the Dew Siberian railway. The Grand Duke Nicolas of Russia is in a critioal condition with cancered brain. A case of extraordinary destitution occured in London ; 47 men, women, and child ten were huddled together in a wretched hayloft,loathsome with dirt and disease. The police evicted them. Mr Gladstone says everyone voting for Conservative candiaates for Parliament will be responsible for tho employment of bullets and batons against legal peacoful meetings in Ireland. A report is published in South German papers that the silver wreath purchased with money subscribed in the United States and consigned to Charl6a Gibson, an American now in Germany, has mysteriously disap. pesred on its way to Gibson. It was the intention of the donors to have the wreath placed upon the tomb of the late Emperor Frederick. A tragedy, founded on a romantic Ronmanian legend, has been written by the •Queen of Roumania (“ Carmen Sylva ”), and was read by tho distinguished authoress at the Grosvenor Hotel, London, on October 7tb, before Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, and others. No mention was made as to the production of the tragedy. An explosion of petroleum occurred on October 11th at Soignolles, a Department of the Seino et Marne. The force of the explosion was so great that 27 persons were thrown to the ground and were severely burned by the flaming oil which was scattered about the place. Many of them Were so badly injured that they will die. A four-storied building in Middle street, London, occupied by Rowley and Brock, bar, cap and helmet mannfacturers and Government contractors for military headgear, was destroyed by fire on October 13th, ?? t. BIX P etso ? 3 were burned to death and jo burned seriously. The fire broke out in We workshops on the upper floor. There Wore 30 persons in the buildings, and two wicutes after the fire was discovered the hole building was a mass of flames. The , 6 hpfend so rapidly that the workpeople and every avenue of escape except that by windows cut off, and through these i l um P ed to the ground. Five women were killed by jumping from the 11 . WB, When those in the building found t C lr eaoa pe by the stairways was cut off, of th Waa a soe;t ® of wild confusion. Several e cool-headed occupants of the upper thsir »• R. rocured pieces of sheeting, which in th * le< * *°B e ' ;ber > and making one end fast ofkhf r -°? sthrew inaprovised ropes out In , Wlnt *°ws, and by this means descended. ionnffi^ 6 lnstaDC ® B . however, through the hnrri^ lent stren gß* °f the sheeting and the tied tv. manner in whioh the knots were jjgjj’i * 1 ® ro P e Patted, and those who were htod . V? esca P e the flames were precipiTho ° i e S lound and badly injured. In* *kl eamer Milverton, belonging to thei> Wort® r<’ Guttapercha, and Telegraph 1 Wd £?n y ’ °/ London > having on and Sn,Jk * es oahl o for the Central New V i Am . erioan Telegraph Company at 12 fni. vr ! sai j ed from London on October betwvnr, n ,P ariao - This cable will be laid Chili fen v*. orri N° s ! Peru, and Valparaiso, the Am Q . n § at Iquiqui, as an extension of “Amencan line via Galveston. forinv 'tk 6 au l’ s ° n September 28, toril aerv i°°> created a terrible shock Wets ° er ? P? eaen t. At first the reports ** two ne ® t ® d w ‘ fc h a dynamite explosion, d'^ 1 ” i abo^3 assn med alarming great d«_ lme „ ons > reverberating under the * freethinker^ 6 man wbo *°°k his life was he^ e k^ natr fhan dramatist, Haddon ChamIdUr" lil! r f tt ! n * Dew play called “The NewVn i “ * a *° he produced in London, |l*A£ rk - ai >d Melbourne. [ We C ,„r tI P ers ' B tent at Bucharest that I Wa Prince of Roumania will be

betrothed shortly to the Frinoess Viotoria of Wales. The Queen of Roufnania was given an enthusiastic weloome by the women and school children of Llandudno, in Wales, on the 29th September. The fashionable watering place was decorated in honour of the occasion. Bnsinesa was suspended and the day observed as a general holiday. Two thousand Bohool children marched to the Grand Hotel, where Her Majesty and suite! were staying. The Queen repeatedly waved her hankerchief to the little ones. The children were afterward entertained at a fete at Happy Valley, Her Majesty visited Queen Viotoria at Balmoral. A row of almshouses is being erected at Welbeck by the Duke of Portland, at the request of his wife, to commemorate the successes of . his racehorses. Madame Marie Roze, the English prima donna, will bid adieu to the English public next year, and will reside with her relatives in Paris. Sir Thomas Elder, who has been staying in London for some time past, has offered to furnish all expenses for the final laud exploration of Central Australia on the sole condition that the route and nature of the scheme should be submitted for his approval. Miss Minna Fischer, the well-known Australian singer, who visited New Zealand with Miss Amy Sherwin, is said to be causing a sensation by her singing at Covent Garden Promenade Concerts. The United States cruiser Baltimore has arrived at Kiel, Belgium, from Stockholm. During the stay of the vessel at the iatter port courtesies were extended to the officers, and extended to the hour of her departure. Thousands lined the banks cheering and waving a farewell as the man-of-war steamed out to sea, and girls in boats threw countless bouquets on board.

MESSRS DILLON AND O’BRIEN. Messrs Dillon and O’Brien arrivod at Cherbourg on October 15th, and left for Paris in the evening.

The United Ireland prints an account of the escape of Messrs Dillon and O’Brien, written by Mr O'Brien himself. He says : “ We rowed from Dalkey on Wednesday at midnight to a yacht lying two miles off the shore, and the next morning found us 90 miles away towards the Welsh coast. On Friday and Saturday we lay in a dead calm. On Sunday morning we landed at Land's End, when the wind again died away, and we were forced to lie all day in a brilliant sunshine within two miles off shore. The Trinity House cutter passed quite close to us, and, the crew of the Royal Adelaide, off Falmouth, actually exchanged greetings with our sailors. The fog buried us from sight on Sunday night. Four steamers were blowing foghorns around us during the night. We cleared the Lizard in tho morning, and darted across for the French coast to outwit tho British shipping; we were becalmed again on Monday, and obliged to beat up the Channel. A brisk gale sprang up on Monday while passing Guernsey. After midnight we were apparently pursued by a revenue cutter, which, however, was unable to weather the gale and abandoned the chase. In the morning we were running free before the wind for Cherbourg, where we landed at 11 o’clock. We had leached our last day’s supply of fresh water. All arrangements worked perfeotly, thanks to a prominent Dublin citizen who superintended,them, and we had unparalleled good luck.” The Siecle publishes a sort of manifesto from Messrs Dillon and O’Brien, in which they describe their flight from Ireland, the motives for their action, &c. They say when they arrive in America they will separate, Mr Dillon visiting the cities and towns in the North, and Mr O’Brien going over the Western and [Southern States. Mr O’Brien says he relies for support in his mission to America on the Irish Roman Catholics, the 1 Archbishop* of Chicago and St. Paul’s, and

on the Irish American Catholic clergy in general.' He also hopes for sympathy from Cardinal Gibbons. The Boulangist organ, La Presse, states that it knows that Mr Parnell is angry because of the flight of Messrs Dillon and O’Brien, but they emphatically deny that there is any dissension in their party. The Paris correspondent of The Times interviewed the Irish fugitives. Mr Dillon expects to raise £IOO,OOO in America, and expects a year’s imprisonment when he returns. Mr O’Brien’s sole object in refusing to face his accusers to the' end in Tipperary was to keep his engagement to speak in aid of the Irish cause in America. He was confident his mission to that country would meet with success. The Nationalist party was in perfect acoord, and Ireland had implicit confidence in Mr Parnell. The death of Gladstone or the bankruptcy of the National League were the sole hopes of the Tories in their fight against Parliamentary agitation for Irish Home Rule. Messrs Dillon and O’Brien will remain in Paris eight dayß, when they will take passage for New York. Mr Dillon said he and Mr O’Brien will remai in America four months and then return to Eogland and surrender themselves to the police. Ho laughingly added that they hsd been prisoners so often that a few months more or less did not frighten them. Upon being asked what course he thought the British Government would pursue in regard to himself and Mr O’Brien, he said, “The Government will be ashamed to ask for our extradition. I believe we furnish the only instance of English Members of Parliament being refugees in a foreign country.”

PRESIDENT HARRISON AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. A telegram from Washington, dated October loth, is as follows:—“President Harrison and party returned to Washington this morning at 8,45 o’clock. His journey was ia one sense very pleasant, and

in another very trying to endurance. From 1 the moment of departure on Monday, the ! 6th, he has had his attention and time devoted to people. His journey through ! portions of West Virginia, Pennsylvania, I Ohio, Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin was marked with ovations auch as only American people can give to a man I whom they have elected to rule thorn. Sunday was the only quiet day, and that was enjoyed at Indianopolis. On Monday the President started on his return to Washington, and at brief stops always made brief speeches. At Mansfield he spoke to a large crowd, ana he took occasion to speak of the two Sherman’s “twinsin greatnoss.’’ At Wooster, in McKinley’s district, he spoke briefly, and other places were passed withou; speaking. At Missillon a great crowd had gathered. In his address, referring to the industries of the city, the President said—“lt is well that your inter-* changing industries and pursuits lean upon and help each other, increasing and making j possible the great prosperity which you enjoy. I hope it is true that everybody , is getting a fair return for his labour; , we cannot afford ia America to have any , discontented classes, and if fair wages , are paid for fair work we will j have none. I am not one of those ( who believe that cheapness is good . for them. (Cheers.) I am not one of those , who believe it can be to my interests or to , yours to purchase in the market anything below the prioe that pays the man who makes j it fair living wages. (Great cheers.) We , should all live and thrive in this country. | Our strength, our promise for the , future, our security for social happi- ( ness, is the contentment of the * great ’ masses, who toil thus in kindly interoourse and relationship between capital and labour, 1 j eaoh having its appropriate increase. We 1 j shall find the highest good in the capitalist 1 { and employer everywhere extending to <

those who work for him a kindly considerstion with compensating wages.” At Canton 500 people were at the station. Here the President spoke of the -McKinley tariff and the benefits to the working men which it will procure. At Alliance the people were advised to look well into the qualities of the men they sent to Congress. A rapid run was made to Pittsburg, where Senator Quay got on the train. The run was then made to Washington without anything passing worthy of parliamentary note. The President was eight days on the trip, and in that time was travelling a dietance of over three thousand miles, and made forty speeches. The party are well pleased with the hospitality whioh they everywhere received. As soon as the President breakfasted, he and Mrs Harrißon paid a visit of condolence to the family of the late Justice Miller. The President also ordered the flag on the White House at half-maßt.