GENERAL SUMMARY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 7004, 28 July 1884, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY

_ A tremendous riot occurred at a recent election at Cape de Verde Islands, in which several parsons were killed and wounded. Tha Government candidate won.

Gerald Massay, English poet and scholar, who has been delivering alarmist political and Freethought lectures in San Franoisco, gees to tha Colonies by the Zealandia. General G. A. Sheridan, an American orator and a leading member of the grand Army of the American Rapublic, who is making a tour of the world, is a passenger by the same steamer.

The amended Chineso Restriction Bill passed the United States Senate on July 3 by a vote of 43 to 12.

Two days, July 4 and 5, were devoted to the celebration of the American national anni vorsary this year. The procession in San Francisco, specially in its military features, was a grand affair. By way of fun on the 4th of July, some miners of Swan City^ Colorado, put giant gunpowder under the Post-office and blew it out of sight. Fortunately no one was hurt.

Mr Amos T. Learner, of New York, is appointed United States Consul at Sydney, A new Cunarder has baen launched, of 12,000 horse power. This meana trips across the Atlantic in less than six days to New York.

Monsignore Capel is making many converts lor tha Catholic Church amongst leading Americans. Colonel Bliss, of Now York, a. prominent man in politics, is the latest one received into tha fold.

A movement is on foot by the Republicans in several States to boycott Harper's Illustrated Weekly because the papar supports Blame for the Presidency. Butler has accepted the anti-monopoly greenback nomination for President. Hia letter of acceptance, however, ia looked upon as a marvel of ambiguity. - Tha Spanish Cortes' passed by a unanimous vote on July 2 a motion proposed by Sanor Rivera, to the effect that the Senate has listened with feelings of pain to the reading by Senator Cuell of an article from a New York paper announcing that tho Spanish Government was negotiating for the salo of Cuba, and protests with indignation against any project having in view the separation of Cuba from Spain. The Government will make any sacrifice rather than give up the island. The spread of cholera in France is causing great alarm on the Continent.

Labouchere, the editor of London Truth, is sued by Bishop, the mind-reader, for libel. Truth asserted that Bishop was a common swindler, and had robbed the Victoria Hospital of £300, tho proceeds of one of his entertainments ostensibly for the benefit of the Hospital. The report says many members of the aristocracy are assisting Bishop with money and advice.

Princess Louiee went to Germany on the 27th for her health. She is still suffering from the consequences of her fall in Canada. The demand for the Queen's book haa almost ceased. The librarians' ara offering it for 4s.

Two hundred and six miles of the BennettMackay cable was 'laid from the English shore on July 5, when the Durady returned to Queenstown to coal.

At a. conference of the members of the Houses of Lords and Commons, hold in London on July 4, it was unanimously re solved that the introduction of the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill in the House of Lordß should be made at once.

Lord Edmund Fitzmaurics announced in the Commons on July 4 that tho whereabouts of Sheldon, an Englishman captured by outlaws in Kansas and held for ransom, had not been discovered.

The Irish Catholic bishops have asked the British Government to intervene for the preservation of rights of British subjects, which they claim are threatened by the proposed spoliation of the property of tha Propaganda. The Court of Appeal in London rendered a decision in the Park Club baccarat case. The proprietors and members of tha governing committee had been fined £500, and players £100, and an appeal was made; Tho Court of Appeal affirms the judgment against the proprietors and committee, but quashes that against the players. The Philadelphia Cricketers won a game with a team of gentlemen from Leicester in London on June 24 The Leicester team scored 152 in two innings to 269 by the Philadelpbians in one innings. The smallpox epidemic was reported on June 23 as spreading in London. The cases daily reported showed a rate of 75 per week. Patrick Joyce was arrested on the steamship Illinois, at London, on June 21, having in his possession an infernal machine of a new and ingenious pattern. It resembled a wooden log, but waa found to be hollow, a hole having been pierced through it leading into a chamber containing a liquid Bupposed to be explosive. There was an outer wooden casing 16 inches lou f ,' and 4 inches thick, within which a brass tuba waa inserted. On the removal of the metal cap the liquid was found. Except by careful examination, it was impossible to suppose the article anything but a log of wood. Moody, tha revivalist, took his farewell of England at Exeter Hall on June 25. 4000 converts were present. A proposition to form an open-air volunteer male choir for evangelistic purposes as a memorial of Moody's work was responded to by hundreds of converts They Choirb» kn°Wn a3 th° "Exeter Hall M»la

An Irishman, hailing from Brooklyn, applied at tho police-station, Plymouth, on June 26 for protection from the Invisibles, by whom he asserted he was tracked. He was held for examination.

.^J°Un^ "T -7**. a«ested at Ems with a dagger and a knife i Q his possession. It is believed ho bad designs on the Emperor's life, .f M.'n eesdals'-^'^" L ornierly of the diocesa r™ °S' Ue,-. dl, ed f m Saa Francisco at the German Hospital, after much suffering. He was compelled to eke out a meagre subsistence by newspaper work, which he did chiefly on Marriott's Nows-letter. Ho was 72 years of age at his death. Somo scientific friends paid all his expenses in a reserved room at the Hospital, and gave his remains a respectable nterment.

Bathildo s statuo of Liberty has been handed over by the Franco-American Committee iv Pans to the United States Minister, Marton, and wiU bu shipped to New York late in July, where it will be erectod on Badloes Island in tho harbour.

The British sloop-of -war Pegasus was ordered to proceed from Singapore to Acheeu with provisions and clothes for tho crew of tho Dutch steamer Nisero, wrecked in December last off tha Acheen coast, and still held in captivity by the rajah. Hostile measures will soon be used by England and Holland to compel the release of these men.

Tne German Colonisation Budget Committee continued on June 24 the discussion on tho Stato subsidy for a direct mail servico between Germany, Australia, and Eastern Asia. Princo Bismarck was present for tho first time in 12 yoara. He declared tho Government had formed no plana for the establishment of colonies. "If German subjects," ho said, " founded colonies on unclaimed territory it would devolve on the Government to protect Such iroia England." Bismarck said he feared no oppo?ition j but strong measures of protection would ba necessary against English colonists. Tho se-siohs were stormy, and on tho 26th it was resolved to indefinitely postpone consideration cf the question of subvention for this session. It is i ffic'ully stated from Bordeaux that theprospects of tho French wine crop now indicate that the season's yield will be abundant and of excellent quality. Tho vines look batter than at any time beforo during tho past 10 years. It ia stated that 17,000 acres in Gironde have, been planted in American vines. The great Sullivan-Mitchell boxing match,, fixed to take place at Madison square Gardens, New York, on June 30, did not come off, for the reason that Sullivan was -too drunk to fight, aud Mitchell was ill with malaria. The latter, however, offered to come to the scratch if Sullivan was ready. There was grea.t indignation felt by the 5000 spectators present, and the general shout was, "Sullivan, you've lost your reputation."

John W. Rennie, ex-amateur champion boxer of Scotland, issued a challenge in New York on June 27 to box any man in the United States. He further offered to,take Mitchell, tha Englishman's, place, and meet John L. Sullivan, the American champion, upon whatever terms may be agreed. Rennie stands sft lOJin high, weighs 2201b, and seems impatient to measure his strength with some fitting adversary.