ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 9185, 6 January 1891, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL

AT AUCKLAND. (per press association.) Auckland, January 5, Arrived, at 7 a.m. —R.M.S. Alameda, from San Francisco. She bad fair weather, but the passage was delayed by the vessel losing one of her propeller blades on the 14th December. She called off Apia to land Herr Von Chamberlain De Cedercrantz, the new Chief Justice of Samoa, from Sweden, with his aide-de-camp, Lieutenant Ulfeparre. Tho passengers for New Zealand are— Mieses Higgineon, Beddome, Perry, Messrs Baillon, Cbolmely. Evans, Macphereon, Moad and wife, Noakes, Beddome and wife, Connor, Fowler and wife, Stephenson, Edge. Rev Mr Watling and wife, Count Wachtmeister, and five steerage. GENERAL SUMMARY, January 5, A young man named Harry Alcorn, of Hasbrock Heights, New York, was bitten by a mad bulldog ou tho hand. The wound did not heal, and six weeks afterwards he fell ill, became mad, and died a terrible death of hydrophobia, barking like a dog. in a drinking riot at Farmington, Virginia, two men were killed and twelve wounded. The participants were liquormen, many of whom used revolvers with deadly effect. It is reported that Canada will shortly inaugurate a vigorous foreign policy, as a result of tho McKinley Tariff Bill. Government intend to establish commercial relations with South Africa, China, Japan, and Australia. Seventy Syrian craftsman have arrived in New York from Europe. They will make exhibits of their handicraft for the World’s Fair at Chicago, in 1893. It is stated that a number of wealthy Syrians in New York are shortly to establish a colony in Pennsylvania, to be called the •‘New Damascus.” The body of Mrs Theresa Trantmnn was cremated at Freshpond, New York Crematory, December 10th. Tho cremation of a woman is unusual. .It is probable that a BUI will be introduced to legalise tho union of New York, Brooklyn, Long Island and Staten Island into one great municipality. Oarsman Teemer is now at San Francisco, awaiting the arrival of the Australian scullers. Ho rows Henry Petteraen next month for three miles for anything over 500 dollars. Advices from San Francisco, under date December 13th, say a despatch from Ottawa announces that the first partial surveys for the proposed submarine cable from Vancouver to New Zealand, via Honolulu, are about completed. The detail work is by no means finished, but in a general way it is known what character of sea bottom the cable will have to be laid apon. It is stated that a chain of islands in the South Pacific has been seized by tbe British Government for intermediote stations between Honolulu and New Zealand, so that no auction of cable will have greater length that 2200 miles. The longest stretch will possibly be between Vancouver and Honolulu, but this will be one of the easiest sections to la}', as the bottom is a good one. Last week tbe United States Senate passed a joint resolution, authorising the Immediate and thorough survey of the line for the cable from Sao B'roncisco to Auckland and Sydney, touching at Honolulu and Samoa. The resolution also provided that a vessel of the American Navy, manned by the United States Hydographic Office should be specially detailed to do tbe works and should prosecute it till every condition was ready for the layiug of the cable. The resolution further authorised the formation of a cable company on the plan of the American Canal Company, which is now building at Nicaragua. The canal measure will undoubtedly become law. The Czarewitch ot Russia and Gland Duke George Alexondrovitch, his brother, are expected in San Francisco shortly. The Royal party, at latest advices, were travelling via India. King Kolakaua, who is now in tbe States, is believed to be on a mission to get the States to annex Hawaii, and it is considered that the Washington authorities are favourable. It is believed the sugar planters have prompted the mission, so that they can benefit by the advantages of the McKinley tariff. Report says that no seals will be caught in Behring Sea next season owing to the great slaughter going on. The States are working hard to provide measures to prevent the extermination of seals.

The English delegates on the Argentine Financial Committee have advised the Bank of England, recommending the funding of the national external bonds of the .Republic for three years, during which the paper currency will be withdrawn. A young Scotchman named James Rogers, who worked for eight dollars a week as clerk at Omaha, has just succeeded to the title of Lord Dunvel (?) and a fortune. Ho married an Omaha girl. The committee having the matter in charge has reported in favour of the draft of a Republican Constitution for Brazil. From Vienna it is learned that Kossuth is not pufferiog from depressing poverty, as has been reported, but is in comfortable circum* stances.

At Monte Carlo a middle-aged Russian was playing heavily when he suddenly fell dead at the roalette table. The body was removed by the attendants, and in a few minutes play was going on as usual. The Board Room of the School Union, County Cork, was lately beseiged by a great crowd of small farmers and labourers, who came to implore the Guardians for either food or employment. The applicants, some of whom carried black banners, numbered fully 1500. The latest trial of Nihilists presents the same features which have been noticed in former ones—that is, the arraignment of women, and the severity of the sentences pronounced against them. It is said that Nihilism would die out but for the participation of women. The Reichstag will be asked for 50,000,000 marks for the army, partly to provide new munitions of war, and partly to alter the uniforms. Henceforth no glitter of headpiece or arms will be permitted. A sombre uniform is considered necessary since the invention of smokeless powder. The decomposed body of a man has been found near Ixellas, Belgium. The appearances indicate that it is a ease of suicide by meaua of prussic acid. The police believe that it is the body of Padlewski, the Nihilist, who recently murdered General Seliverskoff, a Russian police agent, in Paris. Advices from Capetown state that excitement over the situation in Maniooland is increasing. The Portuguese are said to be meditating an attack on the forces of the British South Africa Company. The natives favour the British in preference to the Portuguese. At Clermont-Ferrand, France, a wedding procession was leaving a church, when suddenly two shots were heard, and the bride and bridegroom fell dead. The assassin subsequently committed suicide. Ho was a rejected lover. The Duke of Veraqua, the only living real descendant of Christopher Columbus, and the Minister of Interior in a former Cabinet, is very ill, and will probably only live a short time. President Carnot has signed the Bill granting to Greece the ' benefits of the

“mostfavourednation" clause until Feb* ruary, 1802, on condition that Greece reoip* rocates by admitting French wines free, and reducing the duties on laces 75 per cent and on velvets 50 per eent. Since the ParnelhGladstone disruption a story has been afloat to the effect that when Messrs Parnell and Gladstone were negotiating an alliance, Mrs O’Shea and Mr Gladstone took dinner at Thomas* Hotel. Another story is that Captain O’Shea was offered £30,000 to leave the country before the divorce trial.

The Emperor William, in the course of a conversation after a Parliamentary dinner given by General Caprivi, condemned all dogmatic discussion, and animadverted upon the futility of Social Democratic Congresses. In the Italian Parliament King Humbert said that Italy was faithful to her foreign alliances. In conclusion, he said :—“ Follow* ing my father’s oxamp c, I always respected the rights of my ancestors’ religion, but X will never suffer m3’ sovereign authority to be derogated from in that religion’s name.” The utterance was greeted with enthusiastic applause.

It is the intention of the French Govern* ment to construct an entrenched camp at Toul, Department of Meurthe, on the left hank of the Moselle Canal, on the railway from Paris to Strasbarg. The defences of the camp will bo capable of resisting tho strongest German artillery. An analysis of Dr Koch’s lymph, which Ims been made in Paris, reveals tho fact that the remedy is composed of ptomaines of tubercular bacilli (which is a virulent poison) and cyanide of gold and glycerine. M. Lebon, a wine merchant of Naao>*, sent a barrel of rum to a friend at Maisa* lon on 25th November. Tho friend took oat the head of tho caak, and found that the cask contained all that was mortal of Madame Lehon, who had disappeared Mysteriously three weeks before. When the police arrived they found that Lebon had already killed himself. Four workmen and two relatives of the woman have been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the crime.

The latest developments of Dr Koch’s dis* covery of a cure for diphtheria and tetanus had been limited to test experiments with animals until 6th December, when the remedy was applied to several human sub* jects through transfusion of blood from animals not susceptible to the diphtheria bacillus, or tetanus. It was found that the blood of rats and mice had a destructive effect on the virus of diphtheria, while the blood of rabbits transfused had a similar effect on tetanus. Before transfusion tho blood must bo freed from ooagulum, and otherwise prepared. A patient in a Vienna hospital, who was under treatment by the new method, died suddenly as soon as tho reaction following inoculation sot in, and a seventeeu-year-old girl, who was inoculated with lymph for lupus, at Innsbruck, died from paralysis of the heart. AMERICAN SUMMARY. At Macaulay, British Columbia, a discovery has been made In mounds of races of dwarfs, and also of ancient war weapons. Albert a reporter of the New York Mail, has completed a journey of 6000 miles, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, by water in a paper canoe. Herr Oedercrantz, the new Chief Justice of Samoa, is considered in San Francisco too young to fill such an important position. Ho said the natives would have a king, as under the old order of things, but the Chief Justice would decide who is to be king. Tin plate mills are springing up on every side in the United States. One plant alone, costing half a million dollars, is to beorectod in Brooklyn. Tracey’s Terra Cotta Works in San Francisco have been burnt. The loss is 70,006 dollars. Barnum, the great showman, is believed to be on bis death-bed. Re has influenza. Albert Smith, junior partner of a New York brokers’ firm, has been sent to prison for 10 years fop 70 forgeries, aggregating 350,000d015. The discovery was made aoci* dentally by a clerk of the firm. A wealthy Spanish banker in Guatemala was lately lured into a notorious thoroughfare by a woman, and murdered by threo : men, who took away great wealth, which he carried with him. The body was packed away in a trunk. Twenty-nine persons were undergoing treatment by Dr Koch’s lymph at New York on the latest date. A semi-official communication from England to America says the English are not disposed to yield a single item in the present claim re tho Alaska fisheries, as opposed to America. The late financial crisis in London is said by a returned New York financier to be as tight a squeeze as London oonld stand without going under. English capitalists have lost nearly 300,000,000 dollars in South American speculations in the last five years. The Russian Government will probably promulgate the new auti-Jewish law at tho beginning of the coming year. Ono of the most important clauses forbids selling, leasing, or mortgaging to Jews any real estate in any part of the Empire. Another olause provides that Jews shall be dispossessed of any real estates they may bold. Jewish artisans are also to be deprived of certain rights, and are to be kept strictly within tho limits assigned to tho Jev i*h population. Repressive measures will bo taken against Jews infringing the new law, as well as 1 against Christians who may be found abet* ting them. A meeting of influential persona was held in the Guild Hail on the 10th ult, to consider the condition of the Jews in Ku c sia, and to take action to alleviate their distress. The Lord Mayor presided. A telegram from the Archbishop of Canterbury was read, in which he expressed the hope that a resolution would be adopted that would convey to the Government of Russia an earnest prayer for immediate reconsideration of the regulations affecting the Jews. The Duke of Argylo sent a letter expressing sympathy. The Duke of West* minster moved the adoption of the resolution declaring that renewed sufferings of Jews in Russia from operation of severe and exceptional edicts against them and disabilities placed upon them are deeply deplored, and that in this last decade of tbe nineteenth century religious liberty is the principle which should be recognised by every Christian community as among the natural human rights. The resolution was adopted, and a committee appointed to convey the views of the meeting to the Czar. A despatch from New York, December 12th, says physicians who have been spending most of their time at tbs bedsides of patients in hospitals in town for tho past week watching experiments with Koch’s lymph are beginning to reap their reward. At tbe German Hospital probably tbe most interesting case is that of Welhelmina Kleinert, a charity patient;, who has been for years Buffeting from lupus on one side of the face. A visiting physician, who saw the woman inoculated, la describing it, said that it was a singular case in some respects. A rapid me in temperature is the result usually observed in fouror five hours after inoculation, but in this patient’s case the temperature went down about two degrees. This was not remarkable, yet rare, but it was noticed that the temperature did not rise above normal even after negative reaction. Most important, however, was tbe result observed in tbe woman’s disease. Tho lupus affection gradually swelled out and became first pink and then red, as though it had been painted. This was the condition of the patient to.day. It hi expected that soon the sloughing process iu tbe exterior swelling, and tbe formation of granules in the skin beneath, which is the first indication of healing,will follow, for so far as tbe experiment has gone tbe case has behaved like oases of lupus that hive been reported from tbe German Hospital. The swelling already shows signs of collapse. Captain Lyall, master of tbe British steel ship Buckingham, bound from Mauritius to New York, was murdered at sea ou October Xith by two Lascar sailors. His wife was with him. He was buried at sea. Tho sailors are in gaol at New ffork.

Several immense financial failuresocourred in Tennessee, Chicago, Denver, New York, and Arkansas, about December 9th. The Franklyn Bank of Nashville failed for 20CI,00Cdois, and tbe American Bank of Arkansas for nearly SOD.OOOdoIs. A religious revolution on a small scale is reported from Kouigsburg, Prussia. A Lutheran pastor became a convert to tbe Roman Catholic Churob, whereupon fifty families renounced their denomination rather than separate from him, and declared their willingness to follow his lead.

By some it is proposed that Canada should admit American manufactures free of duty, at the same time taxing English goods, and America would then reciprocate. Joe. Thompson, the well-known sportsman of Melbourne, is building a big race track at San Francisco. His first outlay will be 100,000 dollars. At its opening □ext autumn he expects to see 15,000 spectators. Secretary Windom, of Washington, has drafted a Bill for the government of the merchant marine of tbe United States, providing lor the appointment of a board to supervise marine matters. One provision of the Bill directs that all steamers benefiting by the Bill shall be fitted to act as cruisers or transports in time of war.

Win. Clarke, owner of clcctrio light plant, came to Milwaukee and drew 2b,000 dollars from a bank. When near a depot ho was knocked down by two men who had been following him, and relieved of the money. The robbers escaped. At New York success teems to have crowned the remarkable surgical operation of transplanting a bone from a dog to a boy's leg. The boy and dog. at tbe Charity Hospital are one. Their flesh has grown together, and everything indicates that their bones have begun to unite.

A very rich vein of iron ore has been discovered in Kherson, Russia. It is estimated that the yield will be sufficient to keep fifteen iron factories at work. The Minister of Mountain Works has ordered engineers to sink shafts and to begin mining as soon as possible. The fire in Cuba street evused a great commotion on Xmas Eve. In addition to the Bacon Factory being entirely destroyed, L2OOO worth of C. Smith's, the Cash Draper, stock was damaged by water. A salvage sale will be commenced this morning at 3 o'clock,