ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 9139, 10 November 1890, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

GENERAL SUMMARY, (Per R.M.S. Mariposa.) (per PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Mr Gladstone Informs the Jewish Chronicle of London that the reports of the Jewish suffering in Russia pained and horrified him, and recommended press reports ; and, if the facts be established, to rouse the conscience of Russia and Europe on the subject. Sir Francis de Winton censured Mr Thompson, the agent for the British East Africa Company, for hia recent insult to the German flag by trampling it under foot when he took charge at Vitu, and sent an apology to the Gsrman Government, which was accepted. The Papal encyclical to the Italian bishops protests against the Government violating the liberty and rights of the Papacy and Catholicism, 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 St. Pam's Cathedral during the service, left a letter saying he killed himself in the Cathedral to destroy false Christianity. During the first two weeks in October 486 oases of cholera, with 239 deaths, were re. ported in Spain. The epidemic 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 says 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 critical time, 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 Monaohy in any form. The Russian Government will immediately begin the construction of the now Siberian railway. The Grand Duke Nicolas of Russia is in a critical condition with cancered brain.

A case of extraordinary destitution oooured in London; 4V men, women, and children were huddled together in a wretched hayloft loathsome with dirt and disease. The police evicted them. Mr Gladstone saye everyone voting for Conservative oanoi.iates for Parliament will be responsible for the employment of bullets and batons against legal peaceful meetings in Ireland. A report is published in South German papers that tbs silver wreath purchased with money subscribed in the United States and consigned to Charles Gibson, an American now in Germany, has mysteriously disap. peared on its way to Gibson. It was the intention of the donors to hove the wreath placed upon the tomb of the late Emperor Frederick,

A tragedy, founded on a romantic Roumanian legend, has been written by the Queen of Ronmania (“ Carmen Sylva "), and was read by the distinguished authoress at the Grosvenor Hotel, London, on October 7th, before Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, and others, Ho mention was made as to the production of the tragedy. An explosion of petroleum occurred on October lltb at Boignolles, a Department of the Seine et Marne. The force of the ex. plosion was so great that 27 persons were thrown to the ground and were 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 Brook, hat, cap and helmet manufacturers and Government contractors for military headgear, was destroyed by fire on October 13tb, and six persona were burned to death and 13 burned seriously. The fire broke out in the workshops on the upper floor. There were 30 persons iu the buildings, and two minutes after the lire was discovered the whole building was a mass of flames. The fire spread so rapidly that the workpeople found every avenue of escape except that by the windows out off, and through these several jumped to the ground. Five women employes were killed by jumping from the windows. When those in the building found their escape by the stairways was out off. there was a scene of wild confusion. Several of the cool-headed occupants of the upper rooms procured pieces of sheeting, which they tied together, and making one end fast in the rooms threw the improvised ropes out of the windows, and by this means descended. In coma instances, however, through the insufficient strength of the sheeting and the hurried manner in which the knots were tied, the rope parted, and those who were seeking to escape the flames were precipitated to the gtound and badly injured.

The steamer Silverton, belonging to the Indiarubber, Guttapercha, and Telegraph Works Company, of London, having, on board 1750 miles of cable for the Central and South American Telegraph Company at Ne?r York, sailed from London on October 12 for Valpariao. This cable will be laid between Ohorrillos, Pern, and Valparaiso, Chili, touching at Iqulqui, an an extension of the American line via Galveston. A suicide in St Paul's on September 28. daring the service, created a terrible shock to all who were present. At first the reports were connected with a dynamite explosion, as two pistol shots assumed alarming acoustic dimensions, reverberating under the great dome. The man who took bis life was a Freethinker. The Australian dramatist. Had don Chambers, has written a new play called 11 The Idler," which is to be produced in London, New York, and Melbourne. A rumour is persistent at Bucharest that the Crown Prince of Koamania will be betrothed shortly to the Princess Victoria of Wales. The Queen of Koumania was given an enthusiastic welcome by vhe women and school children of Llandudno, in Wales, on the 29th September, The fashionable watering place was decorated in honour of the occasion. Business was suspended and the day observed aa a general holiday. Two thousand school children marched to the Grand Hotel, where Her Majesty and suite were staying. The Queen repeatedly waved her hankerebief to . the little ones. The children were afterward entertained at a fete at Happy Valley. Her Majesty visited Qaeen Victoria at Balmoral. * -- A row of almshouses is being erected at Welbeck by the Dnke of Portland, at the request of his wife,- to commemorate the sue. cesses of his racehorses.' Madame Marie Roze, the EogUsh prima don'aa, will bid adieu to the English public next year, and will reside with her relatives in Paris. : - v " Sir Thomas Elder, who has been staying in London for some time past, has offered to furnish all expenses for the final land ex-

ploratinn 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, v ho visited New Zealand with Miss Amy Sherwin, i* said to bo causing & sensation by her singing at Covent Carden Promenade Concerts.' The United States cruiser Baltimore has arrived at Kiel, Belgium, from Stockholm. During the stay of the vessel at the latter port courtesies were extended to the officers, and extended to the* hour of her departure. Thousands Hoed the banks cheering and waving a farewell as the mau-oE-war steamed out to sea, and girls in boats threw count* less bouquets on board.

MESSRS DILLON AND O’BRIEN. Messrs Dillon and O’Brien arrived at Cherbourg on October 15tb, 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 : “ Wo 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 Satuiday wo lay in a dead calm. On Sunday morning we landed at Laud’s Knd, when tho wind again died away, and we were forced tolieaU day in a brilliant sunshine within two miles off shore. The Trinity House cutter passed quite close to us, and the crew of tho Royal Adelaide, off Falmouth, actually exchanged greetings with our sailors. The fog buried ns from sight on Sunday night. Four steamers were blowing foghorns around us during the night. We cleared the Lizard in the morning, and darted across for the French coast to outwit tho British shipping; we were becalmed again on Monday, and obliged to beat up tho Channel. A brisk gale sprang up on Monday while passing Guernsey. After midnight wo were apparently pursued by a revenue cutter, which, however, was unable to weather the gale and abandoned the obaao. In the morning we were running fsce before the wind for Cherbourg, whore wo landed at 11 o’clock. We had leactud our last day’s supply of fresh water. All arrangements worked perfectly, thanks to a prominent Dublin citizen who superintended them, and we bad 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, &o. They any when they arrive iu .America they will separate, Mr Dillon visiting the cities and towns iu the North, and Mr O’Brien going over the Western and {Southern States. Mr O’Brien says be relies for support in hia mission to America on the Irish Roman Catholics, the Archbishops of Chicago and St. Paul’s, and on the Irish American Catholic clergy in general. Ho also hopes for sympathy from Cardinal Gibbons.

The Boulangist organ, La Preese, states that it knows that Mr Parnell is angry because of the flight of Messrs Dillon and O’Brien, hut 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 laise £IOO,COO in America, and expects a year’s imprisonment when ho returns. Mr O’Brien’s solo object in refusing to face his accusers to the end in Tipperary was to keep hia engagement to speak in aid of the Irish causa in America. He was confident his mission to that country would meet with success. The Nationalist party was in perfect accord, and Ireland had implicit confidence in Mr Parnell. The death of Gladstone or the bankruptcy of the National League were the solo hopes of the Tories in their fight against Parliamentary agitation for Irish Home Buie. Messrs Dillon and O'Brien will remain in Paris eight days, 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 England and surrender themselves to the police. Ho laughingly added that they bsd been prisoners so often that a few months more or less did not frighten them. Upon being aeked what course ho thought the British Government would pnisue in regard to himself and Mr O’Brien, he said, “The Government will bo ashamed to ask for our extradition. I believe we furnish the only jnstanoo 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 in one sense very pleasant, and in another very trying to endurance. From the moment of departure on Monday, the Cth, be has had bis attention and time devoted to people. His journey through portions of West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, and Wis. cousin was marked with ovations snob as only American people can give to a man whom they have elected to rnlo them. Sunday was the only quiet day, and that was enjoyed at Indianopolis, On Monday the President started on bis return to Washington, and at brief stops always made brief speeches. At Mansfield he spoke to a large crowd, and he took occasion to speak of the two Sherman’s “twinsin greatness.” At Wooster, in McKinley's district, he epoke briefly, and other places wore passed without speaking. At Missillon a great crowd had gathered. In his address, referring to the industries of the city, tfao President said—“lt is well that yonr interchanging industries and pursuits lean upon and help each other, increasing and making possible the great prosperity which you enjoy. I hope it is true that everybody is getting a fair retnrn for hia iobonr; we cannot afford in America to have any discontented classes, and if fair wages are paid for fair work we will have none. I am not one of those who believe that cheapness is good for them. (Cheers.) lam not one of those who believe it can be to my interests or to yours to purchase in the market anything below the price that pays the man who makes it fair living wages. (Great chcors.) We should all live and thrive in this country. Our strength, our promise for tho future, our security for social happiness, is tbs contentment of the‘great’ masses, who toil thus in kindly intercourse and relationship between capital and labour, each having its appropriate increase. shall find the highest good in the capitalist and employer everywhere extending to those who work for him a kindly consideration 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 m-n which it will proourc. At Alliance tho people were advised to look well into the qualities of the men they sent to Congress. A rspid ran 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 tho trip, and in that time was travelling a die. tance of over three thousand miles, and made forty speeches. The party are well pleased with the hospitality which they everywhere received. As soon as the President breakfasted, he and Mrs Harrison paid a visit of condolencs to tho family of the late Justice Miller. The President also ordered the flag on the White House at' half-mast.