THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Otago Witness, Issue 1778, 19 December 1885, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

♦ Auckland, December 13. The Alameda, from San Francisco, arrived at 1,30 p.m. with the English mails, 60 passengers, and 1200 tons of cargo. She left San Francisco at 4.10 p.m. on the 23rd November, arrived at Honolulu on November 30, at 5.30 a.m., and left at 9.27 a.m., after a detention of 28 hours. She was detained at Tutulia one hour. The whole time occupied was 18 days 23£ hours, and the running time 17 days 18 hours 33 minutes. The Zealandia sailed from San Francisco on November 22, at 2 p.m., arrived at Honolulu on November 30, at 1 p.m., and sailed on December 1, at 12.20 p.m. Passengers : For Auckland — Mr and Mrs Mann and two children, Mr Marricott, Messrs Morris, Prescott, Heamany, Muldre, Manning, Maurice, Branfield. For Sydney — 32 saloon. Wocxjy ear's circus are through passengers for Sydney. The Alameda sails for Sydney shortly after midnight. Among her cargo for Auckland are 46 bales broom corn. The Alameda has undergone extensive alterations and improvements to fit her for the rou.fce. There is no sign of the Zealandia. The, Penguin, for the South, with the Southern mail, leaves Onehunga at 6 o'clock, but cannot cross the Manukau bar till 4 o'clock in the morning. GENERAL SUMMARY. The s.s. Iberon, from Boston (November 10) for Liverpool, was totally wrecked on the 21st in Damain's Bay, on the south-west coast of Ireland. The Rev. N. W. Morrel, of St. Albans, a

ritualist, who was recently reported to have gone to Rome, appears to be living in retirement on an income from £30,000 left him three years ago by a Miss Mirx, one of his parishioners. Her surviving relations propose to contest the bequest on the ground of undue influence. An extensive fire in Portland street, Manchester, on November 21, destroyed property valued at £100,000. The special staff of Irish constables organised in London early iv the dynamite scare, have been ordered back to Ireland, as their services are no longer needed. A desjpabch from London of November 1 states that a terrible cyclone swept over the Philipine Islands the. day before. It was reported that tfOOO buildings, including numerous churches and schoolhouses, were, destroyed or damaged, and 22 persons killed The. London Exchange Telegraph Company received a telegraph despatch from Paris on November 21 stating that the French Government had resolved to terminate the Madagascar expedition. It was mentioned that in all probability French troops would also be soon withdrawn from Tonquin. A despatch to the Times from Calcutta, dated November 12, says that 500 people have been drowned and 150 houses submerged iv Orissa by a cyclone, and 1241 square miles in the Moorshedebad and Sudder districts devastated. Viscount Raleigh died on November ]4. Hardwood's cotton-mills, Bolton, have been burned, with a loss of £10,000. Lady Lampson procured a divorce on November 19 from her husband, Sir Geo. Curtis Lampson, Bart., on the ground of infidelity. Free fight? occurred in a political meeting held by the Conservatives at Burton on November 14, in which Mr Charles Allsop, M.P., who presided, was beaten almost out of recognition. London papers of the 18th November mention the elopement of a beautiful heiress yet in her teens, a ward in chancery, and under the guardianship of the Hon. Guthorn Hardy, with the latter's steward, a man named Anderson. The lady's name is Ridgway. Anderson, in order to evade the severe penalty of the law against abducting or eloping with a ward in chancery, caused Miss Ridgway to bind herself to him as a domestic servant. The case of Adams v. Lord Chief Justice Coleridge came up on November 10, in the Court of the Queen's Bench, but Sir Henry James begged the Court to allow an adjournment, on the plea that an understanding had been arrived at outside the Court. Adams is to receive a large sum for damages and costs of the suit brought by him on account of a libellous letter written by the Hon. Bernard Coleridge, but said to have bsen inspired by the Lord Chief Justice himself. The depression which has existed for some time in the shipbuilding trade on the Clyde is increasing in severity. There are so many men out of employment that the Relief Committee find great difficulty even in supplying food for the distressed people. Forty-seven stowaways were discovered on the 10th in the hold of a vessel bound for America.