GENERAL SUMMARY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8456, 1 April 1889, Page 3

GENERAL SUMMARY.

Victor Stanwood, U.S. consular agent, was killed at Andakade, Madagascar, recently by the caotain of the American schooner Solitaine.

It is calculated that 70 lives were losfc in the recent gales in the Red Sea. The United States has informed Germany that her demand for the prosecution and punishment of Correspondent Klein cannot be complied with. Ex-King Milan will shortly start on a long tour. The Ausfcrain Cabinet fears that King Milan's abdication will result in Russian ascendancy. The private debts of the throneless king amount to 2,000,000 florins. The German Government have decided to prevent Dr Peters' expedition proceeding to the interior of Africa.

Great excitement was caused in San Francisco by the reported destruction at Samoa of the United States war vessel Nipsic by the German corvette Olga. O'Donovan Rossa has sued Cassidy, proprietor of the New York Catholic News, for criminal libel. Cassidy called Rossa " a traitor to Ireland." The King of Holland developed symptoms of blood poisoning pn March 6thj and his death was considered imminent. He suifered severely. Philadelphia wool men have sent a letter to the new Secretary of the Treasury, Mr Winsdom, asking, him to make a ruling to prevent scoured wool being imported under the name of

"waste," that he will confirm the 60 per cent. duty on wool tops, and that he will classify so called worsted cloths as woollens.

Viscount Mandeville, eldest son of the Duke of Manchester, failed on March 6 for £120,000.

He married an American lady, Miss Gynanga.

His bankruptcy is attributed to gambling and living in excess of his income.

Mr John Dillon, M.P., sailed from "London tor Australia on March 6. A large number of enthusiastic friends gave him a send off.

It has been discovered that a bloody vendetta prevails amongst the Sicilian colony in New Orleans. There are several thousand of these people in that city, and the feud, of which there have already been many victims, was brought from Italy. Bodies have been found by keen scented do^s in swamps on the borders'of Lake Pontchartrain and also in other out-of-the-way places, and mauy persons have disappeared, of whom no account can be given afc aIU Mr Parnell received tin oVatioh at the banquet of the Mighty tilub in London on March 8. Lord Spencer congratulated him on his vindication, and admired his forbearance and dignity. Mr Hoyte said it would be difficult for Government to prove it was not in collusion with The Times. Mr Parnell replied wifch a Home Eule speech. The Queen's drawing room at Buckingham Palace on February 25 was marked by the largest attendance of the winter season. The dresses were mainly dark toned, in deference to recent Court mourning.

The confession of Pigott as to the forging of the letters said to have been written by Parnell aud relied on by The Times in the late investigation to prove its case, created tremendous excitenjent, and from all sides a burst of execration. William Henry Smith, the Government leader in the House, has withdrawn the " Parnellism and Crime" pamphlets from all his news stands. Two warrants were issued for Pigott's arrest, but they were waste paper so far aa the Parnell case is concerned. Forgery is not an estraditionable offence, and the kind of forgery which Pigott committed for The Times is not literally criminal as if he had forged a cheque, bill of exchange, or similar instrument. Mr Balfour warned The Times that Pigott was not reliable. The Dublin tfreemali's Journal states that amongst figott's documents, after his suicide were found letters from Lord Salisbury, Lord Sfcalbridge, and the Duke of Argyle, the latter sending money to help Pigott to unmask fche Pamellites. The English detectives sent to Madrid for the purpose readily

identified the body of the suicide as that of Pigott, and the English Consul ordered it to be buried. Mr Parnell says he feels bound to care

for the fourchildren Pigott left. The Cologne Gazette demands the punishment and extradition by the United States of Klein, now in San Francisco, as a common criminal for the part he has taken in Samoan affairs, and against the interest of Germany.

Countess Zarlisb, daughter of Duke Louis of Bavaria, han.been condemned to perpetual exile by Prince Lutpotch, regent, for the prominent part she played in the course which led to the death of Archduke Rudolph of Austria.

At a dinuer given by Prince Bismarck to the members of the Lower House of the Prussian Diet, on March 1, the Chancellor said he regarded it as impossible that the Samoau question should have the effect of interrupting the friendly relations existing between Germauy and the United States. The geographical situation of Samoa and the imperfect telegraph communication rendered it impossible for him to;be responsible for alt-the acts of German agents in the Pacific ; but the parties iv the dispute were animated by the besfc'spirit, and there was no doubfc thafc Germany's commercial interests would nofc suffer. Talking of. tbe

monarchist principle, the Chancellor remarked, instancing the Carolina affair, that a policy depending on popular currents was a much mOre difficult ono than a policy conducted by a sovereign. The latter could withdraw without danger or recede a few steps, which was impossible in another case.

A despatch from Paris of March 6 says

that wheu the Government proposed to inquire | into the doings of the copper monopoly syndicate there the shares of the Societies dcs Metaux and Comptoir d'E-icompte fell heavily on the Bourse. There was a run on the bauk for a short time, but not serious. M. Deufert Rosheran, director of the latter financial organisation, had a quarrel with one Heutsche, a colleague, on the subject of engaging the Comptoir in the metal syndicate, and as a consequence, Rocheran, who had sunk his private fortune of 6,000,000fr in the speculation, blew out his brains with a revolver. Copper declined £4 per ton in London ou March 6, prominent operators fearing the collapse of I the French syndicate. On the same date a report from Boston was to the effect that the price of Chili bars, the average cost of 150,000 tons of the surplus copper in the hands of the syndicate, showed a loss of 5,000,000d01.

March 2 was the 79th anniversary of Pope Leo. He received a number of cardinals, who

tendered their congratulations. In his address the Pope referred to the oppressions of the new penal code and suppression of the funds of the fraternity, and also bitterly attacked the Italian Government. The Pope is in splendid health, and is preparing an encyclical on the necessity of peace for Burope.

King Milan, who abdicated on March 6, has been suffering for months from a nervousmalady, and became worse since the death of Rudolph, Crown Prince of Austria. He looks well out-

wardly, but is subject to paroxysms of violent excitement, followed by complete mental prostration. He declared he could not continue to govern except with danger to his reason and perhaps his life. The Servian policy will not be changed under the regency.

Joseph Gung'l, the famous composer of Hungarian dance music, died on March 4; aged 78. A private letter from Bonalya, on the Congo, received in New York on March C, states that Heury M. Stanley had started on his way to rejoin Kmin Pasha, and would not return by way of Congo. Tippo Tib did nofc join Stanley, as the latter requested in his letter already published, written at Ugamba on August 17, but sent Said Ben Mahded in the wake of Stanley to spy out tho country and to make raids for slaves in the new territory opened up.

ABIERICAN SUMMARY. Isaiah V. Williamson, a millionaire, died afc Philadelphia on Blarch 6. His benefactions in recent years reached a total of 160,000,000d01. He devoted 12 millious to the establishment of I a great industrial school for boys.

Au Euglish syndicate—fche London Assurance Company—has purchased for 2,000,000 the Barfcholomouy, Rochester, aud Genesese Breweries in Rochester and New York. The transfer was made on the 6th of March.

The amendment to the election law of California, known as tho Australian plan, camo up for reconsideration in the Legislature on March 3, aud was rejected by a vote of 46 to 26.

A goldfield has been discovered in Santa Clara near Kan Diego, and a mineralogist specially sent to examine it pronounces the find to be the richest in the history of tho Pacific Coast. The general opinion is thab this reported discovery is a lure to the floating population of California.

Miss Mary L. Buoth, editress of Harper's Bnazar, died on March 5 ac New York, aged 50. The Australian Ballot Bill was defeated in the Senate of the Sfcafce of Blame on March 13 by a majority of ono.

Bishop Murray, of Australia, who is about to visit the. Vatican, preached ou Sunday, March 3, at Sfc. Mary's CHthedrnl, San Francisco. The bishop took ior his subject on fche occasion, " The Progress of Catholicity iv Australia." He estimated that there were now 800,000 Catholics in Australia.

Two children, Minnie and Willie Peterson, when returning from school in the northern part of Aifckim County, Minnesota, were attacked and completely devoured by wolves, a few scattered bones aud shreds only remaining as horrible testimony of thoir fate. Jas. C. Flood, one ol" a San Francisco " bonanza" firm of mining millionareF, died afc the Grand Hotel in Heidelberg, C 3 years of age, of Bright';*, disease. He was a carpenter by tr-ide, and commenced business in San Francisco by keeping a liquor saloon. In 18S7 the firm met wifch | severe losses by unfortunate wheat dealings, i losing nearly 1,200,000 according fco some estimates, bufc notwithstanding Flood died worth mauy millions.

Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper was sold on February 25 to Arkell, of the New York

Judge, a comic weekly, for 3'X>,ooo.]ol. The German edition commands IOO.OOOioI additional.

On February 25 the mayor of New York gave notice that all telegraph and telephone wires in that city must be buried; if the work is not done by the end of that time, to have it done by the city at the expense of the companies. The Secretary of the United States navy has contracted with Messrs T. Pickering and Co., of New York, for the delivery of 2000 tons of coal at Samoa at 13dol 25c per ton. The shipment will cosfc the Government 44,000d01, and the voyage oefcupy four months. , The German newspapers are dissatisfied with Pjesjdent Harrison's inaugural address. Some of them say it sheWs an arrogant spirit, and does nofc display a particularly friendly feeling towards the other powers. The Parisian papers hold the document lightly. Le Temps points out the traditional systematic abstention of the United States from a foreign policy, while proclaiming the duty of the country to protect her citizens wherever established. Figaro and La Liberte canuot see a logical application of the Monroe doctrine to the Panama canal scheme. The Mexican press see in the address a menace to the peace of th 3 Spanish-American republic, and especially of Mexico. The Premier of Canada, Sir John Macdonald, proposes to appeal to the country at once on the annexation question, and then retire from the Government when the question is decided one way or the other. He suggests that Canada be elected into an independent kingdom under British protection, with one of the royal family as reigning head. The Orangemen held a mass meeting in Ottawa on February 23, and resolved to withdraw their support from the Conservative party if the Government persisted in refusing to disallow the Jesuits Compensation Act passed by the Quebec Legislature. It was resolved also that a third party be formed. The Jesuits have sued the Toronto Mail for libel, ahd i efcaindd 8 senator, a. member of Parliament, and three Queen's Counsels to prose 4 cute.

The Edison Electric Light Company's patents have been declared invalid in Canada.

Chili has passed a law excluding Chinese from fche republic.