SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 7005, 29 July 1884, Page 3

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

ADDITIONAL SUMMARY.

{Peb United Pbess Association.)

Mr Redmond has brought under the notice of the House of Commons the alleged seizure and sale by M'Arthur and Co., of Auckland, of 250,000 acre 3of land in Samoa belonging partly to Mr Prank Cornwall and partly to the native Princess Maudema and the Samoan people. He asked what decision had been arrived at- by the Government in the matter. Mr Ashby said that the case wa3 one in which the complainant was left to his legal remedy, and not one in which the Government could interfere.

Paymaster Uenry Watt, R.N., who was preBent at the attack on Rangitikei, is dead. The capital of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company has been increased by £500,000 in 20,000 shares, 10,000 of which will be offered in Australia, and the remainder allocated amongst the existing shareholders. THE EGYPTIAN CONFEBERCE. Before a vote was taken on the Angle-French agreement, in the Chamber of Deputies on June 26, M. Perry promised the decision of the Conference should not entirely determine the position of Prance without the consent of the Chamber of Deputies. He concluded: "We are aiming at neutrality in Egypt for the Canal. England has given an assurance that it shall be neutral under these circumstances. Prance, in joining the Conference, fulfilled a patriotic duty."

THE SOtJDAN. A Cairo dispatch on June 26 officially con firms the fate of Berber. The city was surprised by the rebels at daybreak on May 26, and after much fighting Hussein Jfasha'Khalifa, the governor, surrendered, A massacre of the male inhabitants followed. Women and children were spared. A few men escaped. . - . . The Paris Figaro correspondent, Pain, who recently left to attempt to penetrate to El Obeid, was attacked in the desert by Arabs and robbed. He endeavoured to reach the river, but nearly perished from fatigue and thirst. His dragoman expired from the effects of sunstroke. A fellah found Pain in the desert in almost a dying condition, and carried him to Edfor, where he was arrested. The authorities refused him permission to telegraph to the French consul. Pain will sue the Egyptian Government for false imprisonment. A. dispatch from Cairo dated June 30 says : Colonel Kitchener has returned to Assouan. He reports the country quiet. He denies that the Bishareens have joined El Mahdi, and Bays the sheiks are now assembled to decide what course to pursue. Colonel Kitchener believed that Berber had fallen. He says the gravity of El Mahdi's movements have not hitherto been grasped. The rebels have issued a freah warning _ that they will give no quarter, and their threats have created great terror among the population. The Colonel expects heavy fighting will take place among them after the feast of Rohmadn. The people of Korosko are openly hostile to the troops. The' Khedive has issued a firman making Colonel Kitchener special Commissioner to Abassat and the Bishareen3.

The latest dispatch from Cairo, July 5, says that the Governor of Dongola telegraphed from Debbes that he had fought a great battle with rebels, and killed 4000 of their number, himself losing 2000. The news is not believed. The minaret of a mosque at Cairo fell, killing a dozen persons. THE FRANCO-CHINESE DISPUTE. Hanoi dispatches state that the Chinese regulars, with artillery, entrenched themselves at Lang-son in violation of the treaty, and attacked the French forces on Monday, June 23, while they were on the march, killing and wounding 44. General Megreilt immediately eat out with reinforcements. General Millot telegraphs : ' 'The French numbered 700. We were on our way to Lang-son. Though greatly outnumbered, we routed the Chinese. The French lost five officers." After Cabinet Council on the 26th, the Government telegraphed to General Millot to suspend the departure of troops from Tonquiu. Admiral Courbet's squadron has been ordered to join the naval division under Admiral Lispes, commander of the French squadron in Chinese waters. Admiral Courbet had a Conference with M. Patrenotre_, French' Ambassador, on the 26th, respecting measures for obtaining satisfaction from China for the affair at Lang-son. In'the House of Commons on June 16 Mr Gladstone moved that the Franchise Bill be ordered to a third reading. He denied the bill was intended to make a permanent liberal administration of the Government. He said he had tried his best to avoid a conflict with the House of Lords; but should a conflict arise, which ha would greatly regret, he had no doubt of the issue.—(Tremendous cheers.) Sir Stafford Northeote objected to Mr Gladstone's references to the House of Lords. The bill was then ordered to a third reading by a unanimous vote. The result was received with prolonged cheering, JEW-BAITING IN RUSSIA. A dispatch from St. Petersburg on June ■23 Bays that Jew-baiting in Southern Russia continues in all its vigour. Riots at Adzes 3 have been followed by others at Simpheropol, and now Nijni Novgorod has • followed their their example. The people were infuriated by some alleged misdeeds of Jews, and attacked their houses, threw their furniture into the streets, abused their women, and chased the terrified men through the thoroughfares. The Jews made for the headquarters of the military and police, but they were followed and intercepted, and all their appeals for mercy were unavailing. When caught they were beaten with sticks and struck with stones. In some cases they were hanged to lamp-posts, and in others kicked into the gutters and there left to die. The people were frantic, and the police could not control.them. The police are charged with not having seriously attempted to do so. Tha cause of the outbreak is not yet fully known, but it is supposed to be owing to the alleged habits of usury followed by the Jews, and general prejudices. There wore in all 11 Hebrews killed and 40 wounded. PROTECTION IN AMERICA. The New York Herald, alluding to the New York Customs authorities demanding duty oh the Ascot Cup wen by Keene, says : " If there can be found another nation on the face of the earth (savage or civilised) that ever performed , such acts of egregious stupidity as the American nation by due process of law, let us hasten to learn their name." The World says: "It is a pity Jim Keene cannot bring into this country this magnificent 5000dol Ascot Cup, won by his American racer Foxhall, without having to _ pay an .aeJ valorem duty of 45 per cent. It is also a pity that Keene is not as well able to pay the duties on the Cup as he was a year ago."