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Otago Witness, Issue 2004, 21 July 1892, Page 15

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4 , (Pee United Pbess Association. ) Auckland, July 14. The R.M.S. Monowai arrived this evening from San Francisco. Passengers : For Auckland — Mr and Mrs R. Kerr (and child), Mr and Mrs Hayhurst (and children, 2), Mr and Mrs J. J. Wercher, Miss Brown, Messrs A. Nicholl, G. S. Wicksham, W. A. Malderson, J. F. Merton, J. T. Arundel, Dale, and Major Calhoun; and nine steerage. Fifty-eight for Sydney, including Madame Emily Soldene. Beautiful weather was experienced on the voyage until after passing the Samoan group, when the wind changed, blowing hard for the remainder of the passage. GENERAL SUMMARY. Mr Gladstone, speaking to a meeting of Nonconformists at Clapham on June 18, said it was certain that the good sense of the Ulster men would utterly repudiate Lord Salisbury's incendiary documents. He also denied having uttered the declaration attributed to him that the Protestants of Ulster wero fools or rogues. There was no evidence to show that after Home Rule had been gained for Ireland advantage would be taken of this fact to establish the Catholic Church in that country. Le Petite Journal, of Paris, has made the discovery that the true reason of Lord Dufferin's appointment as English ambassador to France was to break up the Franco-Russian alliance by bribing the French press. The London Telegraph, commenting on the transfer to the American registry of the steamers City of Paris and City of New York, expresses the hope that for the future the Admiralty . will not permit the Atlantic greyhounds to slip out of their handn. Mr Gladstone had a long conference on June 21 with Messrs Justin M'Carthy, John Dillon, and Timothy Healy, advising renewed efforts to re-establish union in the Irish party, and poiuting out the evil effects to the Home Rule movement from the continued strife of Irish factions. He urged concessions on each side.

A London despatch of June 20 is to the effect that some very curious hints are being put about as to the possibility of the speedy retirement of Mr Gladstone from active political life. They are persistently repeated iv well-informed quarters. The exPremier, it is said, is seriously thinking of seeking quiet in another place when the general election is over. To this he is urged by domestic influence and his physical infirmities. This is not to be wondered at, considering his age. The Mark Lane Express of June 29 says it is expected the British wheat crop this year will be one million quarters under that of 1891. Barley promises well, and there will be a good yield. The continual drain on" English wheat is likely to make the average price under 30s. Dr Potts, from Canada, speaking at the annual conference of the Methodist New Connexion held at Ashton-under-Tyne, on June 15, denied that Canada desired annexation with the United States. The overwhelming majority in that colony believed in the British connection now and for ever. The London Standard of June 15, commenting upon the statement that the Government of India had decided not to be officially represented at the Columbian Exposition and would not make a grant for Indian exhibits, paid : "It is surprising that any British subject fahould think of taking part in an exhibition iv a couutry which by it& protective tariff appeirs bent upon excluding all Engli&h manut.icturus from its markets" ; and adds : " It is doubtful if any foreign Government would arcept the invitation of the United States to tike part in the exhibitiou if it was known a measure of the character of the M'Kinley Bill would have Ween made law in the States." The Belfast Telegraph of May 30 publishes the promised plan of resistance to the mandates of the Irish Parliament, should such a body be established. The article is written by a prominent Irish Unionist. It says the men of Ulster will not allow elections to occur. The election writs will be publicly burned by the sheriffs of counties and the mayor of Belfast immediately after they arc received. Judges and magistrates taking commissions from the new Executive will not be recognised. The police will be reorganised with special constables sworn to replace the regular police. The Queen's taxes will be paid, but not those levied by the Dublin Parliament. The custom house will be seized, and held till the question is settled. The article concludes :—": — " In the event of war, the North wjll be in a better position both as regards credit and geographical position than the South. Belfast is inaccessible, while Dublin is open to direct and immediate attack."

The lilling-houao at the Mare Island navy yard, located in the Straits of Carquinez, Tolano County, California, was blown to atoms on Monday, June 13, and 13 sailors belonging to the United States war cruiser Boston, engaged in filling shells with black quick-burning powder, were literally torn to shreds. Two others who survived the explosion were terribly mangled. Nobody can tell exactly the cause of the disaster, and there are many theories concerning it. An investigation was held, but the verdict was "Pure accident." A few years ago a Radical member of Parliament attacked the Government for proposing to buy from an Australian named Breunan a torpedo which could be steered from the shore. A bargain was concluded by which W. H. Brennan received L 25.000 cash down and an appointment in the public service with a salary of LISOO a year and valuable contingent advantages, which he has since enjoyed. The torpedo at that time was admittedly barely out of the experimental stage, and since then it has been " perfected " at a generous country's expense. Its state of perfection was demonstrated on Saturday, June 11, in the presence of the Duke of Connaught and a group of notable military and naval experts. Two Brennan torpedoes were fired in the Solent near the Isle of Wight at a supposed enemy's ironclad. Both went wrong. The first stopped midway iv its course -and could not be made to go any farther, and the second early in .its journey suddenly threw up its tail in the air and iguominiously buried itself in the mud. AMERICAN SUMMARY. Four persons were killed by lightning during a brief rainstorm at Lincoln, Illinois, on Julie 23. Public feeling has been aroused in San Francisco in opposition to the wholesale immigration of Japanese into that city. Every vessel from Japan brings a large contingent, and they are underworking and underselling the white men and women everywhere. Gangs of counterfeiters are troubling the Federal detectives and the San Francisco police just now. They turn their hands to all kinds of deception, putting afloat imitations of the new silver currency, greenbacks, winning lottery tickets, &c. One of the gang was traced recently to Stockton (California), where he was receiving false coin from a confederate at San Francisco, a parcel of which fell iulo the hands of the police. He proved to be a man named Howells, and worth 500,000d01. As a specimen of increasing bolducst> in highway robbery, a recent affair at Berksley, the university town of California, in Alameda County, may be mentioned. Two attaches of the Judgson Manufacturing Works named Gillson and Martinson were seated in a street

car in charge of 15,000d0l on their way to pay off the men at the works. At a station where the car only stopped a moment, two men suddenly placed six-shooters at the heads of those in charge of the coin and made them give it up. The robbers escaped with it, though they had to elbow their way through the passageway of the car, which was crowded. All this was in the open daylight, and there is no clue to the thieves. The Rev. Benjamin Vancleave, an itinerant Methodist preacher, iv charge of the Noberly circuit, in Corydon, Indiana, was assailed by a dozen men on June 12. They dragged the unhappy preacher from his bed and lashed him so with hickory switches that his legs were gashed, his back streaked with blood, and black ami blue. It appears there was a difference in the church, and those who were opposed to the minister's methods took this way of getting even. A Christian scientist or faith curer is in the line of prosecution at Santa Barbara (Cal.), for causing the death of a young man named Fred. Hem. The victim was seized with typhoid fever, and Eliot, the supernatural healer, would allow him neither nursing nor medicine, asserting to all comers that he could restore the patient to health by the efficacy of prayer. As a consequence the man died, although according to physicians ordinary medical treatment would have saved him. Andrew Carnegie, the Scotch-American iron and steel millionaire of Pittsburg, Pa., has reduced the rate of wastes for his employes from 15 to 20 per cent. This will cause another storm in the labour world, and result in damage to the Republican party at the coming Presidential election. John Redmond and his friend John Powers, of the Dublin Independent, the Irish emissaries, were warmly welcomed in Now York on the arrival of the steamship Etruria on June 12. Redmond told the Reception Committee that his mission to the United States was one of peace. J. A. Vanhorne, a prospector who was lost on the Mojave desert, near Foryuma, was brought into Tueson, Arizona, on June 9 in a very weak condition, but it is thought he will recover. Vauhorne had a terrible experience, having gone eight days without a drop of water. Tuo only thing that saved his life was the cacti of the desert and some canned fruit. He was found about 30 miles from where he left hia waggon. His body was partly covered with sand, and near him were the bones of two human boings, who had evidently died from want of water. Martin Weir, his partner, was also a great -sufferer in making his way out of the desert for a rescuing party, and in his search for Vanhorne he lost 301b in weight, Both men are physical wrecks,

A strong and persistent demand for Cali fornian dried fruit has developed jn the English market, and a good deal of activity has been imparted to the trade. The result of the late State election in Oregon is a clean sweep for the Republican party. A mass meeting of coloured people was held iv Boston on June 8 to denounce the outrages on the African race in the Southern States, and also to procure the elimination of the word " white" from the Chinese Exclusion Bill. Under the" new treaty of commercial relations between Spain and the United States, Philippine Islands sugar will be admitted into the latter country duty free, an important measure for the Philippines. A plan is on foot to unite Longlsland, New York, and New Jersey by a tunnel. The tunnel will be cut across Jersey, passing under the Hudson river and New York city, and continuing under the East rivor to Brooklyn and Long Island. Harold So wall, United States Consul-general at Apia, Samoa, called on President Harrison on June 4- and requested to be rolieved of the duties of his office. The President requested Sewall to delay his resignation for a short time at least. Ms is Medy Morgan, one of the b< st authorities on live stock in the United States, and a reporter in this line for all the leading New York daily journals, died on June 1 at St. Francis Hospital, Jersey City, from the effects of a surgical operation performed on the preceding Monday. She was 6* years of age, and was born in Ireland, her father being a wellknown and wealthy county gentleman near Cork. She managed her father's stock farm for a _ number of years during his illness, assuming that responsibility when she was only 12 years of age. Her life was one of strangeadventure. Miss Morgan died worth 100,000 dollars. She intended to retire from active work when she reached the age of 65. THE ULSTER CONVENTION. The great Ulster Convention to consider the negative side of the Home Rule question was held in Belfast on June 17. Work generally was suspended. The city was decorated, and many mottoes expressive of the Ulsterites' determination never to submit to the rule of an Irish Parliament were displayed. Ten thousand delegates were present when the convention was called to order, after which the 46th Psalm, " God is our refuge and our strength," was read by the Rev. Dr Brown, cx-moclerater of tho General Assembly. Robert M'Gragh, president of the Ulster Liberal Unionist Association, moved that the chair be taken by the Duke of Abcrcorn. The motiou was carried. The Duke took the chuir and addressed the convention. He described the meeting as a solemn one, deeply enriuvst, and animated by love of country, family, home, religion, and, above all, by a determination to live as an integral part of the United Kingdom. Hu said the meeting was not a sham, but a throbbing reality that would never have Homo Rule. This declaration was received by prolonged cheering, the immense audience rising to give vent to its feelings. At tho conclusion of his speech, Sir W. G. Ewart proposed resolutions declaring that Ulster avowed its fixed resolve to retnin unchanged its present position as an integral portion of the United Kingdom, and protested in the most unequivocal manner against the passage of any measure to rob it of its inheritance in the Imperial Parliament, under which its capital was and its honour and rights are safeguarded ; that it would have nothing to do with a Parliament certain to be controlled by men responsible for the crimes and outrages of the Land League, the dishonesty of the Plan of Campaign, and the cruelties of boycotting, and many of whom have shown themselves the ready instruments of clerical dominion ; that the attempt to set up such a Parliament will inevitably result in disorder, violence, and bloodshed such as has not been experienced in this country ; that Ulster will take no part in the elections or proceedings of an authority which, should it ever be constituted, Ulster will be forced to repudiate ; and fellow couutrymen hitherto in favour of a separate Parliament are appealed to to abandon the demand which hopelessly divides Irishmen, and unite under tho Imperial Legislature in developing the resources and furthering the best interests of tho couutry. Upon the conclusion of the convention proceedings proper the delegates proceeded to the Botanic Gardens, where an outdoor demonstration was held at three platforms, and resolutions were adopted similar to those adopted at the convention. A NOTABLE MARRIAGE. Count Herbert Bismarck and Countess Margarite Hoyos were married at the Evangelistical Church, Dorothea Strasse, Vienna, on June 21. The church was filled with a brilliant assemblage. There was a burst of cheering when Prince Bismarck and Count Herbert arrived at 11.30 a.m. Another , burst announced th>s arrival of the bride, escorted by Prince Hohenlohevon Bulow, of the German Embassy at Rome. Count yon Schoieweloff, the Russian Ambassador to Germany, was the only ambassador present Both the Bismarcks father and son wore the red and green ribbons of the Austrian Order of St. Stephen, and the Prince was loudly cheered by the populace on his way to the church. As the bridal party left after the ceremony it was loudly cheered. The wedding breakfast took place .at the Palfy Palace, at which the bridegroom toasted Count Schoieweloff as his father's truest friend. The Count, after replying to the toast, went to Prince Bismarck, clinked glasses, and whispered to him. The honours and ovations paid his grandfather's old Minister have, it is said, incensed the German Emperor to a fearful degree. James M'Millan pluckily jumped from Auckland wharf on the 13th while fully dressed and rescued Frederick Smith, a seaman, just as he was sinking a second time.