THE SAN FRANCISO MAIL.

Otago Witness, Issue 1555, 27 August 1881, Page 18

THE SAN FRANCISO MAIL.

' 5 (Per s.s. Crrr of Nbw York, at AuckiiAnb.)

Auckland, August 24th. The City of Nev York arrived at 2 a.m.. She sailed from 'Frisco on July 30th, at 2 p.m;, and on the first day out experienced a' heavy sea ; froni Tonga Group to Auckland : had strong 'sou'-westera: and a 'heavy ' southerly 'swell. A.' H. Hagan, a cabins passenger, died on the voyage. Passengers for Auckland— Messrs Grand, Price,' Jarvis, Manders; Hadfield, Mrs Hadfleld ; and child, Mrs Weldon, Miss Agnes Prendergast, and " six steerage. Amongst her cargo are 1170 cases of salmon, 25 .casks quicksilver, 50 sacks barley, and .200 boxeaapples. - , ,

. SUMMARY OF NEWS.

: The London Standard reprints from the IrishAmerican papers, published in ' New York, a 'column and a-half ol extracts praising the outraged' against Entrland ' ' '

The shooting at Wimbledon began on July 12th'. The Canadian team ' numbers 20, commanded by Colonel Gibson, who is accounted the beet shoft-itt^ Canada. The University match terminated in favour of Oxford. The heat is intense. The thermometer on July 15th stood at 127deg. Several riflemen' were ;; overcome, and had to go into the hospital. , Scotland won the International trophy, Bcorihg 1774; England, 1744 ; Wales, 1086. The contributions to the Irish -Land League from America have fallen off so materially; that' Mr Sexton,' ' M.P.j president of the League, has suggested that the Irish farmers should be asked to subscribe a portion ' of their abatement. v , A daughter of the English Major-general Fyers fell into the sea. at Hyers, France. His wife and two daughters attempted to ' rescue her, and all four perished. ' ,' , Mr Labouchere's resolution of censure directed against Prince Alexander of Buljraria was not permitted to be put in the House of Commonß. The American homoeopathic delegates to the Convention'in London have been banqueted. Sir Evelyn W6od haS been raised to the peerage for his services in the Transvaal

All England has been occupied during the month with a great libel case. The plaintiff (Miss YV^fterforce) sued a prominent citizen named Philips for having said that she poisoned his father, and that she was an adventuress and swindler. Tne plaintiff contradicted herself a hundred times in.her testimony, and she will be prosecuted for perjury. A steamer steered by electric apparatus^ has arrived in the Thames from the Clyde. The steering, gear worked well, but the compasses were made useless by electricity. In Ireland trial by jury has become a farce, owing to the lax law known as the O'Hagan Act. In somo cases the jury announced before the charge was delivered that they had made up their minds to a verdict of >' " Not guilty." The evidence of crime is disregarded, and if the Crown's case is absolutely conclusive of a prisoner'- guilt the jury generally disagree. The London Board of Trade return shows that the value of imports has decreased £6,500,000 as compared with June last year. The, exports increased £322,000. Mr J. R. Keene has presented 6000fr to the poor of Paris out of his Grand Prix winnings. , The Cassagnac-Lullier {duel was a sanguinary one. It was fought with svyords, and was continued till the last drop of blood waß drawn. The body of the vanquished combatant was placed at the absolute disposal of the victor. , The death of the Rev. Daniel M'Carthy, Roman Catholic Bi-hop of Kerry, ia announced. I Although Arthur Lefroy, the alleged murderer of Mr Gould, was sent, away from London at 7 o'clock in the morning, large crowds assembled at the London Bridge station, and but for a strong guard of police the prisoner would have been put out of his misery. Hehadlivedfor afortnightinawretclied coffee housein Stepney, almost without food. He looked nearly starved when arrested. Hm arrest was due to the lodging-house keeper, an old woman named Smith, who recognised 1 him from the "Hue-and-Cry" pictures. She will get the 1111 11' 1 whole reward (£200) for her shrewdness. The police say that he eeemed, wheu captured, to have shaved off

S?eKtthfmenMing attitude, of the mob near the Wi Kan lS!ley was stricken by erysipelas 'on the 18th JnlV and the disease' spread rapidly. Canon Farrar iSmCtered the sacrament. The Dean died on July IMb Th 6 Archbishop of Canterbury arrived in time i 2 «.'f ewoarting words. . Canons Farirar and Jones and thePeTn'Stefswereathisbedsi^ His tat audible wardswere : " I have laboured amidst many frailties Jndmuch weakness to make Westminster Abbey a SeftUentreof religious life in a truly liberal spirit." -Don Carlos, the Spanish Pretender, has been exnelled from French territory. It.ia supposed that he .was intriguing against the Republic) which he U6 The Spanish hostility towards France is very bitter) and ia the Madrid Cortes the probability of war is openly discussed, and the coming elections are commit th^finTreading of the Irish Land Bill in the House of Commons the majority of the Conservatives and some Parnellites, including Mr Parnell himself, abstained fromvoting, as did Mr Goschen, Mr Heneajre, and some other Liberals. Pasha attempted to commit suicide cy opening his veins with a pair of scissors. -The County Cork farmers and agriculturallabourers came. to, terms. The potato crop throughout the country promises to be plentiful. ,a .; ,An anti-slavery decree has' been issued by the KhedivT of Egypt. Actual' slaves remain so, but no addition is to be made. ' . , -.'Another comet has appeared in the west, and is labelled by astonomers comet "0," being the third will shortly leave for Moscow. As precautionary measures, troops have been stationed all along the line.' Four hundred police act ■»««««* Sixty-three persons perished in 11 off the coast of England in the gale of the 21st of Nihilists held a congress in Berlin under the very nose" of the Government, which, although fully warned of the fact, were unable to discover the place • The 6 Jew-baiters at New Helling, angered at the denunciation of the Zeitung, a local paper, assaulted j the editor, sacked some of the shops, and demolished the Zeitung office. Over 30 rioters were arrested. The New York Herald's special of July 21st has the following 1 ' fresh particulars of the recent attempt to assassinate the Czar:-" As telegraphed, General Baranoff, chief of the police, had received an anonymous letter stating that the Emperor was to be assassinated on July 16th. The letter contained nothing more. General Baranoff made inquiries in every direction, and ascertained that, a young student had committed Buicido undo* extraordinary circumstances. The mau thrußt himself through with a sword without havtairinjureda vital part, andthen lodged abulletfrom a revolver in his left temple. Finding tins he made a gaping wound with his s*ord. This determined attempt at suicide awakened General Baranoff 8 suspicion's. He found the man apparently dead, but iri fact he was still breathirie and in a swoon . By the aid of 'the doctors he caused him tocome to his senses The student, for such the man was, declared that he formed one of a band of 20 Nihilists who had all sworn to kill the Emperor. The lot ,had fallen to him, but his heart failed him, and he determined to kill l himself .iistead. He lived until July 18th, and before breathing l his last revealed to General. Baranoff the names of all his brother Nihilists, who were promptly MAM A nedaVbom St' Petersburg says another Nihilist was found murdered in the cemetery, with his , throat but fronfear to ear. The deceased was in cornmuni; cation with the police, when his brother Nihilists discdve?ed\is treachery. They sent him a circular letter invitiuir him to dinner, and on returning at night, they assassinated him and carriedhis body to the cemetery. The letter of invitation was found in .the' victim's pocket. It howeverenabled the police to make an important' arrest. "'■,'.' , ' '' A great landslip near Segriswell, in the canton of Berne, is steadily moving towards Lake Thurm. It makes three 1 metres daily.' Its course'is three miles wide and it's depth unknown.-- The'cities areout of dancer, but the farmhouse's have been deserted. ■• A" terrflo Btorm pasped over Lake Geneva. The Viqes and crops' in'thp vioinity suffered immense damage from large,hailßtoneß. • . A' party of Americans travelling from Paso dsl Norte to Ch'imbahua, in Mexico, discovered' 12 dead bodies rail Americans), a portion of the surveying expedition of the-Mexica^Central railway.. They had been mur- ' converts are arriving by thousands at New York from Europe, en route to Salt Lake. • The British barque' Beatrice, oil-laden, ' was struck by lightning ofl ' Ready Island, near Philadelphia, fend turned .to the.,,water*B edge. The electric fluidf ran down the mast into the hold and fired The reported Tichborne claimant's ' daughter, Jennie Oeden Ferris, writes to the New York Star that her father is playing a game of deception on the-'Callfornian people, and • that he admitted to her in'Brdoklyn that heintendedto personate the lost Indian outrages continue in New and Old Mexico. "In the latter the Apaches tortured and killed a great 'many mining prospectors arid others, ex-Governor Pugh's'sonbeing.ainonKstthem.' • • Griscomo, ari.imitator of Dr Tanner, has completed ■a 45 days' fast at Chicago. ' ■ • >■ N'e'ws 'hast .been received of the missing .whalers Mount Wallaston and Vigilant. Both were lost in the ice in the Arctic, and all on board perished. The .Esauimaux described to Captain Millard, of the .whaler Thomas vPope, wtio 1 brought the news, the unhappy ■mrtlculars very minutely v They said that the bodies of the dead crewhad swollen, and>then burst open. Theyvwere'evidently frozen to death during the winter of 1879-80, and had, been acted on by the heat of the succeeding summer. Nothing[has been heard of Bennett's Arctic exploring yacht Jeannette. . ' A railroad train was recently boarded by some 13 desperadoes' at a point in New Mexic6 and thoroughly sacked The' conductor was shot, also a stonemason, one of the passengers, who tried to defesd him. Edison is preparing .to, light a district of New York by electricity. The houses will probably be lighted on October Ist. ' The editor of the Times at Little Rock, Arkansas, was assassinated because the politics of his paper di > <not please' certain outlaws.