ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 8446, 23 July 1888, Page 5

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

(Per RYvI.Z. MaripoT). at Auckland ) (I-EII PiIZJS ASSOCIATION.) GIFs'ERAL SUMMARY, Dates from Europe up to Juno 30th. The British Government has added to its possessions a tract extending from Zanzibar to Abyssinia, with a seaboard of 1700 miles and 70,000,000 population. Important changes are about to be made by the Vatican. The present policy of intolerance is to be abandoned. Mousignor Galimberto will probably be appointed Papal Secretary. On June 2!) Austria moved her troops to the Galician frontier, to check the Russian move of forces. On Jane Oth Grover Cleveland was re- j nominated hy the Democratic National Con- j vention, at Buffalo, for President of the | United States, with Allen G. Sherman for Vice. On June 18th the Rnpnblieau O invention at Chicago nominated Benjamin Harrison for President, with Levi P. Morton for Vice. Mr Gladstone- is about to issue a manifesto to the electors. Is io also reported that he has a new proposition for the settlement of the Irish question, which ho will introduce into the. House, and which provides a National Assembly for Ireland, and continues Irish representation ia the Imperial Parliament, the National Assembly to control the Irish police. The Government lias decided to close Parliament about the middle of August. There will be no autumn session.

Mr Balfour will introduce a Bill extending the operations of the Ashbourne Act, including a provision to enable the land commissioners to continue operations.j The rumor is revived that Albert Victor, the heir-apparent, is to marry the Princess of Anhalt Deasan. The Princess of Wales has made a special visit to Dessan to see the young woman. At the sale on June 30 of the Queen’s horses, the yearlings sold at an average price of 474 guineas. The majority of the Royal Committee on Education recommend a greater amount of teaching of the Christian religion in Board schools, also an increased aid from rates to private schools over which the ratepayers have no control. An influential minority opposes the recommendations. Lord Robert Edward Grosvenor died at Constantinople of typhoid fever on June 17, aged 19. Ho was the third son of the Duke of Westminster.

It has been decided, because the British Government refuses to pay a pension to Matthew Arnold’s widow, to solicit funds for a bust in Westminster Abbey, provision for Mrs Arnold, und also a scholarship in English literature at Oxford. A division in the House of Commons on June 19th, on the question of the control of the police, resulted in the defeat of the Government. The Marquis of Hartington and the whole body of the Liberal-Unionists voted with the Opposition, The proposition on which the Government was defeated was to have the appointment of the chief constables by the quarter sessions placed in the hands of a central Government. The Liberal amendment, which prevailed, places the appointment under the control of the new County Councils. The Liberals propose to follow up this victory by challenging the whole administration of affairs. i)r Martiuean, a leading Unitarian, received tho degree of Doctor of Laws from Oxford on Juno 20th.

The ship Dotheboys TT ilI, from San Francisco, arrived at Liverpool on June 28th, and raports that the captain was fatally stabbed by the steward. The appeal ofMrDillonagainstthe jndgm nt under the Crimes Act was decided against him on June 19th, and his sentence of six months’ imprisonment confirmed. Mr Dillon pretested on the ground that hia appeal was tried without a jury aud no evidence was called. Mr Condon, M.P., was released from gaol in Cork on J uue 20.

Father Oillignn, who was tried under the Coercion Acton a charge of attending a proclaimed meeting, was on the 21st June adjudged guilty by the Dublin Court and sentenced to imprisonment. The Pester Lloyd thinks the Emperor William’s proclamation resembles the programme of Pastor Stocker. Dr Mackenzie left Berlin suddenly on June 20th. lie asked an audience of the' Emperor William and was refused. This is regarded as significant that the anti-English feeling is becoming intensified in the Em peror’a mind. The lace Emperor Frederick by will bequeathed the Castle of Charlottenberg and the Palaces in Berlin and Hamburg to the Empress Victoria. A great sensation was caused in Berlin on June 21st by the publication of the late Emperor’s private papers. They discuss family aud political affairs, iucludiug the overtures made to the Emperor Frederick to induce him to abdicate in favor of his son William. It is asserted that the notes arc genuine. They show that William urged his father to consent to a regency. Tuo intrigius of Pastor Stocker and General Wnldonsce to got William into the pictistio movement are .also revealed. The Empress Victoria is thought to havo consented to the exposures. The Emperor William opened the Reichata" on Monday, Juno 2D, with grand ceremonies, similar to those attending the opening of the Reichstag in IS7I. Nearly all the German Princes were present, and added to the brilliancy of the affairs. The Poles did not send an address. The British and Contiucn. tal press accept the Speech from the Throne as a guarantee that the tranquility of Europe will not be disturbed. The Natloual Zeituug says the Emperor and his consort will bo crowned in the autumn at Kcenigsburg. The datcis not fixed as yet, but it is thought October IS, the anniversary cf the battle of Lcintic and of the birthday of the late Emperor Frederick, will be the time. Prince Bismarck and many members of the Federal Council were present in the Reichstag at the opening of the session. The President read an address in reply to the Emperor’s speech, and it was adopted unanimously. Three cheers were given for William 11. President Garnet received a telegram from the- Emperor William on June 20, thanking him for his message of condolence, and expressing the hope that good relations will be continued between France and Germany. THE LATE GERMAN EMPEROR. The death of the Emperor Frederick HI. took place at Potsdam on June 15, at twelve minutes after 11 o'clock. Duringthe early hours of the preceding night the Em-

peror’s physicians reported the patient in a comparatively favorable condition, but it was not until about 4 o’clock on the morning of the loth that unmistakable signs of the end began to appear. At that time the patient grew restless but continually weaker, and the members of the Imperial family were hastily summoned and remained waiting in an adjoining room in readiness to be warned that the Emperor was passing away, but no immediate change occurred from that time to 10 o’clock, when the following bulletin was issued: Fredericksrbue, June 15, 10 a.in. The Kaiser is now in a light slumber. He wakes at intervals and is I conscious, and gives no indication of pain, (iis pulse and breathing are very weak. .Soon after the substance of the 10 o’clock bulletin was known, cumcthcannounccmentof iheEmperor’s death. It created a great shook, although for many hours it was expected. The Emperor died without a struggle, and wit’ii a placid face. The only Minister present at the last moment was Meuergenome, the Court chaplain, who administered consolation to too dying man. Of the Royal family there were around the bedside the Empress Vi itoria, the Grown Prince William, Prince Henry, Princess Victoria, Princess Frederica, the Dowager Empress Augusta, Prince Bismarck, Dr Morell Mackenzie and assistant physicians, and many members of the Household avers also present. The room i-i which tiro Emperor died is not 10 yards from the apartment, in which he was born. It is of medium S'ze. On the walla are portraits of the Emperor William, of all the Emperor’s children and half-a-dozen engravings of Fiodcrich the Great. At the foot of the bed on an easel stood a portrait of the Empress. Confused accounts of the Emperor’s last hours say that suffocation was averted narrowly ; several times there were convulsions, followed by swoons. Nature gave the sufferer but little rest during his last hours. The Empress held the Emperor’s right hand, and the Crown Prince and Princess stood on the left side of the bed while life was passing away. The Emperor took Bismarck’s hand in his own fsobie grasp and joined it with that of the Empress as a token of his desire for a reconciliation of all differences between his wife and the Prime Minister. Until late in the afternoon of Juno 14th the Emperor wrote with a pencil on little square paper tablets his last wishes ; he also wrote regarding some family arrangements;—"l feel that Mackenzie has done all that human science, watchfulness, and skill could do to prolong my life, and I thank him. I have tried to do my duty to my God and my country, and feel that tho end is now near. God's will be done.” The sumo laurel wreath that his father had given Frederick after the battle of Woerth was laid on his body, which, after a post-mortem was clothed in the uniform of a Field Mar. shal. Immediately after the Emperor’s death tho Empress Victoria rose from the bedside, and, taking Dr Mackenzie’s hand, said, “ The lirat words which I shall speak will be to thank you for having lengthened my husband’s life.” Preparations for state balls, concerts and other festivities in honor were stopped, and the period of mourning is prolonged for the same time as for a soa of the Queen. A number of public and private entertainments were also stopped.

A rumor was current in Berlin on June 16 that, despite the entreaties of his mother, the new Emperor caused an autopsy to be held on the body of tho dead monarch, tho result showing that at the time of bis accession to the throne bo was the victim of a malignant form of cancer. Under the Prussian constitution Frederick was, therefore ineligible to reign, and the widow’s title as Empress Dowager was brought into question, as wel as thejkgality of the acts of the late Emperor, Sir Morell Mackenzie now admits that the Emperor Frederick’s malady was cancer. A despatch of the 15fch says, Dr Mackenzie had made a statement that there was fistula at tho base of the larynx, and pneumonia rapidly developed. The Emperor was informed by the doctor on Wednesday that he had abandoned all hope of the Emperor's recovery. In a final report on the dead Emperor's case, made immediately rfter death, and prepared by the command of the Emperor William, Dr Mackenzie said —“ In my opinion the Emperor died of cancer of the larynx.” Ha adds thatproner diagnosis was very difficult, as tha disease' attacked the cartilage of tho larynx at the outset, aud afterward developed quickly in the lower part of tho larynx. Another despatch says Professor Bergemann made an external and internal examination of the remains before they wore arrayed for lying in state. He found unmistakable signs of cancer in the larynx. The post-mortem examination was confined to the dissection of the neck, larynx and lungs. In the larynx, which was found destroyed by suppuration, was a cavity about the size of a fist. The National Zeituag says the autopsy proved that tho larynx was completely destroyed by cmcer, and that putrid bronchitis existed. The painful sensation from which the Emperor suffered during tha last days of his life appears to have been due to the collapse of the larnyx, owing to the destruction of the cartilage. The direct cause of death is given as paralysis of the tongue. The post-mortem occupied one hour. The Emperor’s coffin is of oak, covered with purple velvet, and ornamented with gold handles and rails. In every detail it is like the casket of the Emperor William. The funeral services were hold in Friedrioksleuve on Monday, June 18, and were of a simple character, devoid of pomp, and to a great degree of a military character. The Impeiial family attended a special funeral service in the Jasper gallery at G o’clock on Sunday, and requiem services were held in Berlin churches at 7.30 tha same evening. By the Emperor's will, which was opened on the eveniug of the day of his death, his body was buried in the ground of tho Palace of Sans Sensi, where hia children, Waldemar and Sigismund, are interred. The Emperor lay in state in a room adjoining tho one in which he died, it having been settled that tho funeral was to be of a strictly private character. The Imperial and Royal r-da-tivesand representatives of foreign sovereigns were admitted to the church. No grand preparations were made like those for the Emperor William’s funeral. Representatives of Germany abroad were notified to inform foreign Governments that owing to the limited size of the Garrison Church at Potsdam, where the service was held, no large delegations had been sent. The general mourning was limited to six weeks, and public amusements were suspended for only two days after the funeral. It was a favorite idea with the Emperor that the public should not bo deprived of their business or pleasure for any considerable space of time on his account. He hoped to live in the hearts of the people as beneficent, aud not as a sorrowful memory. The procession started at an early hour from Fricderickskron Castle, but the ceremonies attending the departure of the remains of the Emperor were not over before noon. Tiie Emperor-Dowager Victoria selected the service, which consisted of the singing of hymns and other religious exercises. The obsequies were in express accordance with the programme, and the procession an epitome, as it were, of that of the late Emperor William. An immense aud sorrowful throng witnessed the passage from Priedrickskrou to Friedrichs, henoe, At tha latter place all the pomp ceased, Tiic ceremonies within were simple and p’aiu. There was no attempt at display. At the close of the burial service there was a volley of artillery. The Empress approached the coffin and bade her husband a solemn farewell. Among the most observed in the procession were the Emperor William, the Prince of Wales, and the King of Saxony, who walked after the hoarse. Count von Solberg bore the Imperial crown in the procession, Herr Makbach the sceptre, Don Lucius the orb, Court von Schellendorf the sword, Herr Fribourg the great seal, and Herr von Schold the electoral sword. General von Blamcnthal was the Imperial standardbearer, supported by Generals Misch and Wiuteifisld. The pall-bearers were Generals von Der Gowaz, von Freskow, von Obernitz, and von Pope, all of whom are Knights of the Black Eagle. Tho Generals of the army carried the canopy and acted as attendants

to the bearers of the Insignia. Detachments of the military formed a striking feature of 1 the procession, forming the vanguards and 1 rearguards of the Emperor, the Saxon King, Princes, and representatives of the foreign monarchies. After the followers of the royal mourners! came the Attaoncs of Eegions and various Imperial dignitaries. At the church Chaplain Koernon and a numher of assisting clergymen conducted the services. Tho late Emperor’s desires and instructions were explicitly honored. The funeral address was made by the Chaplain. As the final benediction was pronounced, ca’ntes of musketry and artillery were followed by the resumption of the tolling of cathedral bells. “ I know that my Re dsemcr livebh ’’ was sung both at the Cathedral and the Castle l-Viadoriokskroa, The scene was impressive beyond description. AMERICAN NEWS. Sax Francisco, July 1. Mr Frank MeCoppin, Commissioner of the Melb time Exhibition, and Assistant-Com-missioner Campbell, leave this port by the Mariposa, for Melbourne. It is expected that after all California will make a. very creditable display. The number of exhibits from this State will bo about 40, not including tho exhibits to be made by the produce exchange or that of canned fruits, which will be sent early in September. The Maripora carries a good number of articles intended for exhibition.

G. orge Charles Churchill Spencer, Duke of Marlborough, wai married in the City Hall, Now York, on June 29th, by Mayor liewett, to Mrs Lilian W. ITammeraley. A small number of noted society people were present. Mrs fliimniersley has an annual income of 150,000 dollars. The couple left for Europe on June 30th. Up to 10 o'clock on the morning of June 25tli, the record of cases of prostration by heat in Now York was unprecedented. In a June day, at noon the list reached a total of twenty, all more or less fatal, and directly caused by the torrid atmosphere. Many victims expired without the slightest premonition of their fate. Some of them in the prime of life were in the best of health and spirits on the previous day and corpses on the next. Children in crowded, reeking tenements, died off like flowers that wither in the sun. Aged persons in many quarters, attempting to’move about in their ordinary pursuits, sat down only to gasp their last. Several persons died at their breakfast table. The temperature was coollerin the evening, but the death-list of the 25th was very large. The range of tho thermometer was from 91 to 99. According to the Panama Star and Herald of June 6 the locks are now being constructed for De Lesseps’ Panama Canal, but are now designed to be a permanent mature. They are adoped through the necessity of completing the work and opening the canal within the required time. The building of these looks requires the outlay of prodigious sums of money. They number ten, and are located five in the Pacino and five on the Atlantic side of the Isthmus. The general width of the canal proper is a very small fraction over Gift. In the work of the canal building there are now employed 5000 laborers, and in the locks about 10 0 skilled laborers, beside a small army of clerks. Tho first Chinese newspaper in America was started in New York on June 9th. The editor advises his countrymen to stay at home, as there are too many Chinese in America.