ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Times, Volume XLX, Issue 8167, 19 August 1887, Page 5

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

(Per Mariposa.) (UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.) London, July 28. Sir Charles Tupper, High Commissioner for Canada, accompanied by Sir John Rose, late Canadian Minister of Finance, and Mr Baden Powtll, M.P. for the Liberal division of Liverpool, had an interview on July 27th with Mr Goschen, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and urged the adoption of the Canadian-Pacific Railway as a route for the British mails to China and Australia. The Chancellor promised to favorably consider the matter. The Lord Mayor of London gave a banquet to the members of the Conference on the 25th of July. There were a large number of Americans present. The Earl and Countess of Aberdeen have arrived at their home at Dollo .Hill. They speak in warm terms of the reception they got in the colonies and the United States, and regret the shortness of their visit. The American-British ship Barremaine, from Shields to San Francisco, is reported (July 21) as lost, with all on board. Woodside, of Philadelphia, beat the English bicycle record for tern miles, on July 22nd, covering the distance in 2Smin 34seo. It was reported in Glasgow cn July 22nd that the ship Frith of Olna had been lost in a cyclone in Java waters. ■; . An exploring expedition, headed by Mr Joseph Manson, started from London for . Central Africa on July 23rd. Mr Andrew Carnegie, the millionaire, pays the bulk of expenses. „ One hundred members of the House of .Commons have formed a committee for the purpose of endeavoring to cheapen the post and telegraph charges between the Mother Country and the colonies. Professor Tyndall has published another jmti-Gladstpne letter on July 25th, called

forth by the candidacy of Sir George Trevelyan, for Bridgeton Division, Glasgow. In it ho says, “Imust renew my solemn protest against the scattered Royalists of Ireland being handed over to the tender mercies of the Hierarchy y. Irish National League.” . Brindworth, the corn merchant of Bristol, failed on July 19th, with liabilities reaching £50,000. r Mrs Wilson Barrett, actress, died in London on July 27tb, after a long illness. Her stage name was Heath, . , At the Electric banquet held in London on July 27, telegrams were read from all quarters of the globe. John Nash Peake, a colliery owner at Staffordshire, has failed, with liabilities between £IOO,OOO and £200,000. Lord Rosebery, speaking at the Liberal banquet on July 18, declared Sir Henry Drummond Wolff made England’s name and honor a laughing-stock in the back quarters of Constantinople. . , Mr Robert Verdin, Unionist M.P. tor Northwich Division, Cheshire, died on July 24th, and the Liberals are confident of Winning the seat made vacant. The yacht Thistle, one of the contestants for America’s Cup, sailed from Glasgow for New York on July 25th under storm The 12th of July was celebrated by Orangemen throughout Ulster with great fervor. The Rev Dr Kane presided over a monster meeting in Belfast, and many violent speeches were made. The city was crowded with Orangemen from the rural districts, and several skirmishes took place between them and Catholics. The Earl of Erne presided over a meeting at Lurgan, where everything passed off peaceably. Monsignor Persico, a Papal Commissioner to Ireland, dedicated a chapel at_ Wicklow on July 17, and praised the patriotism and religious feeling of the Irish people. Archbishop Walsh, of Dublin, is endeavor, ing to induce the Government to suspend further evictions in Ireland until the Land Bill is passed by Parliament, and suggests that aoonference on thesubjeot should be held by the leaders of the various parties. An Irish landlord writes to the Times warning that a feeling in favor of Home Rule is spreading among Irish proprietors. A ■ twelve-year-old colored child has been sentenced to be hanged in Charleston for poisoning a white bady she was tired of attending. The town of Hanford, in Tular County, California, was partially destroyed by fire on July 13. The loss is estimated at about £160,000. H. P, Gregory and Co., of San Francisco, have issued circulars t j the mercantile community throughout the city, calling attention to the Centennial International Exhibition to be held in Melbourne, in August, 1888- The forlvarding of exhibits is urged, as American manufacturers will thus he enabled to introduce their goods into the Australian colonies.

Returns show this year’s vintage in California to be only two-thirds of that in 1886.

The Pacific Mail Steamship Company threatens to build its new steamships abroad and sail under the English flag, unless the United St'at> s Government increases the pay for mul transportation. An association is about to be formed in Sullivan County, New York, to be known as the Empire Sheep and Land Company of North America, whose object will be to clear up the timber lands in several of the New York counties and seed them down in permanent grasses, in order to breed sheep of a superior quality for both wool and mutton. The celebration of the fourth of July, in San Francisco, was the most perfect thing of the kind seen in the city for ten years. Among the incidents of the anniversary on the coast was the igniting of 1001 b of red fire on the top of Mount Hood, the highest peak in Oregon, and the display of the Confederate flag over a house in Portland, in the same State, the removal of which had to be forcibly made. The Earl of Aberdeen was feasted by 200 Irish-Americans and other citizens, on July 'J, at St Paul, Minnesota. He evaded with great taste all efforts to draw him out on the Irish question. Mr Matthew Gurnee, a wealthy manufacturer of New York, died on July 18 in terrible agony from hydrophobia, caused by a bite of a pet terrier. . Oscar J. Harvey, Treasury Chief of . the Division of Washington, was arrested on July 9 for a series of brilliant and audacious forgeries. ■f.mong the arrivals at San Francisco by the Mariposa from Australia on July 9th were Sir John Thurston, LieutenantGovernor of Fiji, and Assistant High. Commissioner of the Pacific, who, it is reported, will proceed to Washington to interview the British Consul on matters with the Hawaiian trouble ; also Mr P. Comiskey, a New Zealand capitalist interested in the frozen meat industry, and Mr A. G. Horton, one of the proprietors of the New Zealand Herald, of Auckland. The gentlemen last named have left for London, via New York. Canadian Pacific officials say that a Company has contracted to carry car loads of Australian wool from Victoria (8.C.) to Boston, and other points on the Atlantic seaboard. This wool was until this season brought in vessels to American ports on the Pacific and shipped over the Northern Pacific Railroad to Boston and other points. A new order was issued in at Ottawa, Ontario, which prohibits the importation of meat and cattle from the United States into Manitoba and British Columbia, except for breeding purposes or in transit from one point to another. The Dominion cutter Critic seized the boats and seines of the American schooners Argonaut and Colonel J, H, France, off Prince, Ed ward’s Island, on July ,25 th. The schooners set sail and escaped. Dr Davison, Dominion Commissioner to run boundary lines between Alaska and the North-West territory, recommends Canada to establish customhouses, as the district is likely to become thickly settled on account 'of the mineral deposits. ..At present there is unrestricted freedom in trade.

The Dominion Government proposes to send a Commissioner to Asia for the purpose of promoting the trade of Canada with China and Japan. All efforts of the present Dominion to extend Canada’s foreign trade have been utterly barren of results. There is trouble on the coast of Newfoundland between English and French fishermen, and the warship Daores has driven the former from the fishing grounds they usually occupied. A terrible accident occurred at a crossing on the Grand Trunk and Michigan Central Railway, in St Thomas, Ontario, about 7 o’clock on the evening of July 15tb, caused by an excursion train on the Grand Trunk from Port Stanley running into a passing freight train on the Michigan Central, made up of a number of cars laden with oil. This took fire, and the ilames were communicated to the excursion train, many of the passengers on which met with frightful deaths. The number who perished is stated at 100, and the injured at 40. Warehouses and dwellings in the vicinity were burned, and the property loss will reach 60,000 dollars. The main cause of the disaster was the failure of the air brakes.

The Baltimore American of July 21st says some time ago an Artist Club, of 600 members, at Sydney, New South Wales, resolved to pay Mrs Cleveland a very pretty compliment of sending her ah elegant painting illustrative of Australian scenery. One of the members, a Mr Robert Pullin, was commissioned to go to W ashington and present Mrs Cleveland with the painting. Mr Pullin recently arrived at Washington, and at once addressed a courteous note to the President, explaining the object of his visit and asking him to accept the painting for Mrs Cleveland. The artist referred to the warm feeling his people entertained toward the United States, and expressed a hope that the bond of friendship should ever remain firmly cementedbetweenthetwooountries. Hewaited an entire week without receiving any recognition whatever, when he finally received a very formal letter from the President, declining to accept the painting. Mr Pnllin was chagrined, and addressed a second letter to the

President, expressing his mortification that an act which meant to show such respect and admiration should be so indifferently received, and stating that hia countrymen could not help feeling .the indignity that had j been put upon them. This letter {has! never been answered, nor has Mr Pullin received any recognition whatever from the White House. The picture is to be given to the Corcoran Art Gallery, of Washington. Mr Pullin retnrnsto New South Wales, via San Francisco. The painting is on canvas four feet by two, and is a representation of an impressive bit of Aua* tralian scenery, the locality being the Three Kings, about 200 miles from the coast of New South Wales, beside being geologically and botanically true. According to a Zanzibar despatch, July 19th, Emin Bey was in good health in March, and projecting an expedition to further explore the Kalklabbi River, an immense streamhediscovercdin September, 1836,rising in Usongora Mountains and flowing into the southern part of Lake Victoria Nyanza, Though he may meet the Stanley expedition in Usongora, Muanga, the king, refuses, it is said to grant him permission to leave his country, but he is permitted by messengers toobtainsupplies by his Kalklabbi expedition. A dispatch from St Thomas, West Africa, received on July 21st, says the West African Company had heard a report that Stanley the explorer had been shot dead by natives, with whom his expedition was fighting in order to obtain supplies. Another acoountsays thesteameron which Stanley was proceeding to the relief of Emin Bay sank, and the explorer was drowned. The report of the death emanated from a missionary at Matadi, who got it from a native up-country. No direct message has been received from the expedition. The rumor is utterly discredited in - London and New York. The latest authentic news from Stanley was from Aruwinie, and was sent under date of June 2nd. It would be impossible for the natives to reach Matadi and Aruwinie alone. It lis 1000 miles through the roughest country. American and English papers are loaded with narratives ot Stanley’s career. It appears his real name is John Rowlands, and he was born in 1840 near Denbigh, Wales. In the shooting matches in the first stage of the Queen’s prize at Wimbledon in July, Dodds, of the first Dumfries Regiment, and Gardiner, of the First Cumberland, tied for first prize, and subsequently shot off the tie, Gardiner winning the bronze medal by 14 points against 11 in three shots. Gillies, of the 19th Canada, and Heath, of the First Manchester, tied for the Prince of Wales’ prize of £IOO and a badge. Gillies won in shooting off the tie. The rifle contest for the Kalapore Cup took place on the 20th, when the English team won with an average score of 710; Canadian team second with 663. The second prize, which the Canadian team received, was £BO. San Fbvncisco, July 27.

A proposition to make San Diego, in South California, a port of call for the Australian mail steamers to and from San Francisco, is being favorably entertained by J. D. Spreckels and Co., the contractors and owners of the line. Messrs Spreckels and party visited San Diego recently in relation to the matter. W. H. W. Markham, assistant-paymaster in the British navy, was arrested in Kansas city, on July 14th, charged with forging the name of his superior officer for amounts aggregating about £3OOO. The crime was committed over a year ago when his ship was cruising off the coast of China. He left the vessel ostensibly for Yukatan, and all clue to him had been lost before his misdeads oame to light. The case was formerly handed over to Scotland Yard detectives, who have been seeking him ever since. Markham went to Shanghai, where he left the service, and spent the money liberally In company with some San Francisco adventuress named Gussie Bland, travelling as Mrs Dr Forest. When he found out incidentally that a search was being made for him he fled to California, and eventually brought up in Kansas, where he was arrested, and where, under the assumed name of Graylor, ho was acting as agent for a well-known insurance company . His lady friend returned to California from China on the steamer following the one on which he took passage, and it was through her the detectives found their man.

Harris Hirsch, familiarly called Rabbi Hirsoh, a Polish Jew, died in New York on July 28th, at the advanced age of 109 years. The President of the Citizens’ Savings Bank, Leavenworth, Kansas, defaulted to thoamount of 50,000 dollars and levanted on July 27th. A movement is on foot in Boston by various English and Scottish Associations to naturalise their members, and all British subjects residing in the city who may be eligible for American citizenship. '" Those intere-ted in the movement say the proposed action is necessary for their own protection, and furthermore it is a duty too neglected. It is calculated by a .careful estimate that there are at least 27,000 an. naturalised British-born men in Massachusetts.

A man named Lee Shellenberger, who murdered his little daughter in Nebraska City, was hanged by lyuoh law on July 24th. He was strung up while a curse was on his lips. The lynchers were mostly German farmers living in the vicinity of the murderer’s home. After banging they dispersed, singing in oborns a German song. James Russell Eads, a young man of fine acquirements but unfortunate associations in San Francisco, committed suicide there on July 12th. He is said to have bei n well connected in Adelaide, South Australia irom which place he came some time ago to California.

A tragedy occurred on the Erie railway on July 21st, about ‘23 miles north of Jersey city, when a belated Chicago express rushed around a curve without warning into a gang of railway laborers, killing 12 or 15 at once and wounding as many others. The scene of slaughter is described as horribly sickening. John Taylor, who succeeded Brigham Young as President of the Mormon Church, died at 8 o’clock p.m. on July 25th, in Utah. Taylor was in his 77th year, and joined the Mormon Church in 1839. He was made one of twelve in 1848, and was a missionary for 20 years. He afterward edited various church papers and publications. Sir John Thurston, Governor of Fiji Islands, whose (supposed) mission to the United States Government has been so freely commented on by American papers, was in Washington on July 26th. The New York Post’s correspondent says this fact is about all the foundation there is for the current statement that he has come to make some arrangement with the United States Government as to the Samoan Islands. The State Department officials say they have no knowledge of any diplomatic purpose which the Governor has to accomplish by being here, and therefore are compelled to credit his own statement that he has come simply on his way to Europe to see the country and for pleasure. Articles for a prize-fight between Jacob Kilraiu, of America, and Jem Smith, of England, wore signed on July 26. According to the agreement, the encounter will take place in Spain, on the 3rd day of January next, within 100 miles of Madrid. Both men deposited forfeit money, and dates were made for future payments. Matton will train Kilrain, and Jemmy Hoare trains Smith. The principals will each appoint an umpire, who iu turn will select a referee. Only 50 spectators will be allowed on the field of battle. The ground will be selected by mutual consent. From the United States one expedition to witness the coming solar eclipse will be dispatched to Japan in charge of Professor Davis H, Todd. Another, under the direction of Charles A. Young, astronomer of Princeton, New Jersey, will co-operate with Dr Otto von Struve, Director of the Imperial Observatory at Pulkowa, Russia, in the vic nity of Moscow. Mr Joseph Kennedy, one of the oldest residents of Washington, was deliberately butchered by a man named Daily on July 30. Daily accused him of having wronged his father. •

The manner in whichMrsLangtry, the English actress, made her declaration during her late visit to San Francisco to become a citi-

zen of the United States has been declared irregular by a circuit of the Court, and the proceedings are annulled. She will have to commence de novo. The celebration of the anniversary of the fall of the Bastille on July 14 by the French colony in San Francisco was brilliant affair. Nation Oscar M. Kilton, living at McCoy Dock, County Oregon, was lynched on July 7th for the murder of his wife. The question of dividing California into two States is being strongly agitated by southern counties. The headquarters of the movement are at Los Angelos. It is bitterly opposed by the Northern section. Dr. A. J. Bowie, a pioneer physician of California and an esteemed leader in the medical profession, died in that city on July The barque Lizzie Iredale, out about 150 days at date from Newcastle (N.S.W.) for San Diego, California, lias been given up for 10 A fire broke out at the Standard oil works at Constable Hook, New Jersey, on July 19, which caused the loss of one hundred-thou-sand to half a million dollars’ worth of property. Two large warehouses, three tanks, four big docks, and over ten thousand barrels of oil were destroyed. Jennie Collins, the famous founder o' charitable institutions for working girls in Boston, died in that city on July 21. Violent eruptions occurred on the island of Galita, in the Mediterranean, off the coast of Tunis, on July 25, Streams of lava issued from craters, and the glare from the flames emitted was visible for 50 miles. Reports up to July 27th on the condition ot the Crown Prince Frederick William of Germany are to the effect that he is progressing rapidly. He has no difficulty in speaking, but hia physicians advise him to exercise care. Emperor William, Bismarck, the Queen of Spain, aud Senor Candour del Castillo have received the Pope’s gold medal in memory of the Caroline Islands arbitration. The Arabian press announces that King John of Abyssinia has asked Queen Victoria through the British Resident at Aden to, meditate between Italy and Abyssinia. The Porte has dismissed his reserves, A despatch of July 27th says the arms manufacturers at Suhl, Germany, have received orders for 500,000 side-arms for the TnrklshArmy. The Afghan boundary question was settled on July 20. Russia gives up the territory between the Kustik and Murghab Rivers, accepting in return the English frontier on the Oxus River, renouncing her claims to the districts to which she would be entitled according to the terms of the arrangements of 1883. The natives report, according to a Bombay dispatch of July 20, that Russia is secretly negotiating with the Government of Yarkund, in Chinese Turkqstan, for permission to pass troops across the country. Later despatches says Colopel Ridgeway, the British Boundary Comtpissioner, is on his way Home. The Ameer is discontented with the boundary settlemept, and says the concessions to Russia have been too liberal. The German papers think the settlement augurs peace in Central Asia,