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Otago Witness, Issue 2008, 18 August 1892, Page 33

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Auckland, August 12. Tho R.M.S. Alameda, from San Francisco, arrived to-day. Passengers for Auckland : Messrs Andrews, Dormer, Huddlcy; and two in the steerage.

GENERAL SUMMARY.

Isaac Cook and Sons, prominent cotton brokers, of Liverpool, suspended payment on July 7. A syndicate was formed to take 110,000 bales of cotton held by them at the rate of 2500 bales daily. Their liabilities are estimated at 3,750, 000d01, and asset 3 the same. Tho firm is one of the oldest in the trade, and the failure caused a great sensation. The failure is attributed to slow collections.

The Queen attended Buffalo Bill's (Hon. W. F. Cody's) Wild West Show at Windsor on June 25, attended by Princess Beatrice and her children and Princess Christian. After the performance Buffalo Bill, Major Burk, and Mat Salisbury were introduced to her Majesly. She presented Buffalo Bill with a gold seal containing her monogram surrounded by tho Royal motto. She gave Salisbury a handsome scarfpin consisting of her initials studded with diamonds and surmounted by the Imperial Crown.

Harlen's oil and drug store in Belfast, with eight adjoining houses, including Clarke's auction mart, containing a number of rare and valuable pictures and other works of art, and also Moat's warehouse, were destroyed by fire on June 29. The damage is placed at LIOO.OOO.

The steamer Tra,vc, from Now York (June Til) for Southampton, passed Scilly on June 20. She signalled that she was slightly damaged after leaving New York by collision with a vessel which foundered. Thereafter the Trare succeeded in rescuing the captaiu and crew. The foundered vessel ia the barque Fred. B. Taylor, of Yarmouth.

Nicaragua Canal construction bonds are being sold largely in San Francisco. They are for five years at 6 per cent., and are accompanied by a bonus of 20 per cent. Persistent search for Walter Howard, a wealthy young Englishman, who mysteriously disappeared from his ranch, near Montemorelos, Mexico, early in June, resulted on the 251h in his mutilated body being found 12 miles from tho town of Liners. He had evidently become lost in the dense tropical forest, and while wandering about in the darkness had fallen over a cliff. His father is in Hongkong, China, and his relatives in England were notified by cable of the accident.

The steamer Miranda left New York on June 27, having on board members of the expedition organised by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia to search for the Greenland exploring party under the command of Lieutenant Aubcrt E. Fearse, whoso wife accompanied him to the Arctic.

A Mrs Alice L. Taylor, of Mount Pleasant, lowa, a persistent worker and writer in the cause of temperance, was brought to book for absorbing her husband's pension. He has been confined in various Illinois insane asylums since 18G0. Mrs Taylor compromised with the Government by paying 8100dol,

A conclave of Catholic archbishops is called for October next in New York city, to discuss tho differences existing on the school question, and the meeting is looked upon as the most momentous conference of Catholic dignitaries ever held in the United States.

After a lengthy trial for an illegal autopsy on the body of tho mind-reader Bishop, Drs Iron and Frank Ferguson, defendants, had a disagreeing jury on June 19 ; nine stood for conviction and three for acquittal. The complaint was made by the mother of the mind-reader, who insisted the doctors had cut up her sou while he was in a cataleptic fit and from motives of scientific curiosiby only.

Bishop Lot Smith, of the Mormon Church, was killed by the Navajo Indians in Arizona on June 15. Smith was imposing on the Navojos in some land matters, and they summarily settled the business by taking his life. The white settlers appear to be satisfied with their action.

A heavy-set youth, calling himself Jive Tipotip Victoria Flosse Zulu Hingan Omsha, and claiming to be the son of Cetewayo, late ruler of Zululand, turns out to be an impostor and a spy and a coach for burglars. He was a glib talker and lecturer, and church people took him to their arms. As it was he and his pals had reaped a rich harvest all through the Western States.

In the Moorish palace of the forthcoming Chicago World's Exhibition will be shown a million dollars of gold in one pile. Muscular men with muskets will guard the treasures. Should public curiosity become inconvenient and disposed to overstep reasonable bounds, the entire pile will, by simply touching an electric button, be made to descend into a burglar-proof vault below.

Riverside (California) is to have an institution for the cure of the alcoholic habib by what is known as ihe Keiley process, or innoculation with bichloride of gold.

An experimental agriculturist of Oakland (California) announces he has a growing plant germinated from mummy seed 1000 years old. The blossoms and seeds are exactly like those of the pea plant. It grows high without leaves, and has a corrugated stem. The botanical experts aro at a loss to classify it.

The proposition to transport the Obcrammergau Passion Play to Chicago from the Black Forest. Germany, for an attraction during tho Columbian Exposition in 1893, is being unsparingly assailed by the American Protestant pulpit, particularly the Methodist branch of it.

On July 19 the firM; special train of fruib for London left Sacramento, California, under charge of the Californian Fruit Export Association. It will be due in New York on July 26, and Ihs fruit will be transferred to the steamship Majestic, the fast runner of the White Star line, in t liulf-an-hour. This vessel is fitted up with a refrigerating capacity for five carloads. Among the lot is a box of choice pears for Queen A'ictoria, one for Senator S^riford in Paris, aud one for the editor of the Journal dcs Debats. The fruit goes consigned to AVjarason and Co., Loudou, where a regular auction day will bo established for Californiau fruib. The head of the London consignees is the Lord Mayor. Weekly trains of fivo. cars each will be sent to London regularly following the shipment of the 19ch.

The American Museum of Natural History, New York, has secured the entomological collection of the late Harry Edwards, well known as an actor in Australia and California. It was about the only tiling of value belonging to the estate. Tho collection, which included over £50,000 specimens from all parts of tho vvoilvl, was begun by Edwards when he was six jcars of age. Ib is very rich in lepidoptcra of North America, aud especially the butterfly of the Pacific Coast.

Russian Jcv.-s aro settling in the New EngI.iv.i Sl>itc?, taking up fainis that have been lying idle. The experiment is said to be working unsuccessfully.

A new piece of ordnance was tested at Reading, called the Haskell multicharge gun, on July 18, which penetrated the best armour X>lates 6in thick. The United States Navy will adopt it after the penetrative force has been increased to Biu.

A party composed of S. J. Bierdlove (an old prospector and miner), his son, and a Pennsylvania capitalist named Fish, are reported to bo lost in the Great Desert of Colorado. They were in search of the fabulous wealth supposed to exist in the Coopah Mountains.

Captain W. T. Andrews started from Atlantic City, Now Jersey, on July 18, on a trip across the Atlantic Ocean in a dory, scarcely 14ft long, but of good width aud depth. Palos, Spain, is his destination, and he exj^ctsto consume 50 or 60 days reaching there. He will go alone. The venture is properly called a foolhardy one.

J. George Young, an English electrician, died from a singular cause in New York on June 25. He had a mania for " testing electricity." His method was to use a battery with hand wires and au instrument that he could insert between his teeth. The constant use of this form of taking electric shocks acted upon his system much as morphine and other similar poisons, till nervous apoplexy was induced and finally death.

The police authorities in London lately equipped a number of policemen with electric lamps instead of the oil lantern with which they have been hitherto supplied. Tho experiment is a complete success. The lamps weigh only 4oz each, aud last seven hours. They will shortly be adopted for the whole police force.

The Marquis of Salisbury will accept, on retiring from office, the dukedom which he declined in 1886, aud also on the occasion of tho Queen's jubilee in 1887. The London Star of July 11 says the Rev. John Edwards, rector at E-ssenden, has fled to avoid arrest for an act of indecency, lie was domestic chaplain to Lord Salisbury. The papers are very guarded on the matter and the exact nature of the charge is not made public. It appears, however, the clergyman had much influence over members of Lord Salisbury's family, including the Rev. Lord William Cecil, Lord Salisbury's second son. Ifc is supposed Edwards has fled to the United States.

A London despatch of July 17 is to the effect that Princess Mary of Teck is certain to be made Duchess of York. The Queen is desirous that the Duke should marry Victoria, daughter of Prince Christian, but the doctors advised against the Duke's marriage with his first cousin. The Duke of York proposed to the Princess at Cannes in April last and was refused. He proposed again in London and then the Princess wrote to the Queen asking her advice. Queen Victoria's reply was— •'Accept, with my blessing." The wedding will be publicly announced in August. The Dublin Independent (Parnellite) of the 20th July says the nine elected supporters of Parnell's principles will be simply independent, owing allegiance to no English party. A small Anarchist meeting was held in London on July 17, under the auspices of the International Club, at which resolutions denouncing the execution of Ravachol were passed. Very few Englishmen were present. The speeches of the orators, all of whom were foreigners, were of the usual violent typo. The Anarchist scare has nearly died out in Londou. William Waldorf Astor, concerning whose death in London a bogus despatch signed " Clement " was sent to New York, was able to take carriage exercise on the 16th July. The Astor family, the richest in the United States, believe they have been the victims of a cruel conspiracy, and their legal advisers are in correspondence with the Post Office and also with the cable companies with a view to discover " Clement " who sent the bogus death despatch. Astor has bought the famous Henrietta mansion in Carlton House terrace, London. The price is not told In the English tenuis champion contest on July 16, Miss Shackle won the Queen's Cup. J. Pirn beat O. S. Campbell in the semi-final for the London Championship. It is learned from Portsmouth, England, that the most recent steam trials' of the new machinery fitted to the warships has not been satisfactory. This is particularly the case with the Hercules. Mrs Ann Montague, now in prison at Dublin for killing her three-year-old daughter, gave birth to a son on June 29.

As a result of a dispute in regard to the question of boy labour, the shoemakers' federation (Leicester) decided 'on a lockout on Juno 29. It is estimated 90,000 persons will be affected by the shutting down of the various factories. The situation is very serious, aud the mayor and other prominent and influential persons are trying to arrange a compromise. Tho British colony of Natal, Africa, has acceded to the Universal Postal Convention. Earl of Drogheda, deceased, will be succeeded by his cousin, William Ponsonby. Edmond Yates' special cablegram to the New York Tribune of July 18 says there is no foundation for the statement which has been going the rounds of the papers that the Prince of Wales proposes to attend the autumn manoeuvres, which take place in Hungary in September. Tho prince is going early in August to Hamburg, aud will return to England about tho second week in September, when he is oft' to Scotland on a long visit to tho Duke and Duchess of Fife at Braemar. Probably in the course of the autumn the betrothal of Priucess Milita Victoria of Edinburgh and the Duke of Augustenburg will be announced officially. Mdlle. Varisco, formerly the fia,icec of the Crown Prince of Roumania, has sent to Princpss Marie of Edinburgh, who is now the fiaiicee of the Prince, the love letters she had received from him. The English Court, according to a despatch, is quite excited over ihe scandal, and the matter is considered to be without precedent. The young Duke of Aosta, nephew of the King of Italy, and son of the late Princo Amadeus, ex-King of Spain, is slid to be favourably inclined towards Princess Maud of Wales, who is a few mouths his junior. France, however, shares the general aversion of English and German royalty to intermarliage with Italians. E. L. Sheldon, European manager of the Jarvis Conklyn Land and Mortgage Trust Company of America, died suddenly ol heart failure in London. His wife, Mrs French Sheldon, gained some reputation as an African explorer. Letters wrilteu by Baron Wiingeheim are soon to be offered at auction in London, They describe the private life of the Duke of Kent and father of the Queen. A despatch says the documents are startling. They represent him not as a gallant but as an absolute libertine, and his " affairs" are substantiated by most minute details. Waugcheiui was the Duke's tutor. Switzerland has decided to graiil a croJit of 2,100,000fr to fortify Sb. Maurice ona of tue St. Gothard chain of forts. Two million francs more will be required to complete the chain, which extends irom Luiiibtig In Genoa, and which will ha\e cost abuut 10,000,000fr. la eatisfaction of the maltreatment o£ the

Americans, Messrs Chambers and Bonal, in the Moorish capital, the British Minister obtained a letter of apology from the Pasha of Fez and a letter of regret from tho Sultan, together with a gift of a sword to Mr Bonal.

A terrific cyclone swept tho province of Ravigo, Italy, on July 19. Tho village of Polesella, of 4000 inhabitants, was almost completely destroyed, and many of the villagers were buried in the ruins of their houses.

A morning paper reported on July 6 two deaths from Asiatic cholera in London.

FIRE AT ST. JOHN'S,

An extensive and disastrous fire broke out in St. John's, Newfoundland, on July 8, in a house on Long street, and was only got under control the following evening. In its course it rendered 15,000 people homeless, and wiped out the following streets : — Military road, Buckworth street, Prescotfc street, Queen's road, Cochrane street, Gower 6treet, King's road, Cathedral Hill, and Long's Hill. The Government House was not burned. A strong gale from the west prevailed at the time, and this drove- the flames very rapidly across the town, sweeping everything before them. Tho fire stopped at Water street west at Browning's. From this point west, once thickly studded with dwellings, there remains only a forest of chimueys. The insurance on tho buildings destroyed and on the stock will amount to 4,000,000d01, which sum ■will cover about half the loss. One man and six children perished. Among tho prominent buildings now in ashes are the Masonic Temple, Orange Hall, Roman Catholic Cathedral and Bishop's Palace, St. Patrick's Hall, English Cathedral, Athcnraum, the Kirk, New Methodist College, Commercial Bank, Union Bank, Atlantic Hotel, and Linesberg's brewery. Tho Executive Committee assigned tho Drillßhed, Parade Riuk, Browning's bakery, and Clouston's factory as retreats, where the burned out people procured food and shelter. Sheds were also erected in the park.

A place called Cat's Cove, seven miles from Brijjus, Newfoundland, was burnt on the 9th. Twenty-six houses caught from wood set on fire by ashes on the railway. The fires in the forests swept with terrible speed and effect along the country, and villages in the path of the flames couM not be saved. The condition of affairs was thus made terrible. Nowhere was there anything like order. Passing vessels anchored on the coast, and sent their crews ou shore to assist the people, who were so thoroughly demoralised aud exhausted that they could not help themselves ; and the men of St. John's, who had abandoned their own homes to the flames, were called upon to assist their fellow islanders inthe surrounding villages. Several persons have died since the St. John's fire in consequence of fright and exposure, and several have been sent to the lunatic asylum, their nrinds having become unbalanced owing to losses.

The insurance agents held a meeting on July 12, and reports showed that tho losses covered by insurance placed in Sb. John's agencies amounted to 4,250,000 dollars. The estimated total losses are about 15,000,000 dollars. General Ross ordered from London to send a company of Royal Engineers from Halifax to St. John's, N.F., to blow down the walls found either dangerous or difficult to remove by ordinary means. Tho number of families burnt out is 1874, making 9000 homeless people

ETNA IN ERUPTION.

A despatch from Catania, Sicily, of July 11 gives the following description of the recent eruption of Etna. On the lObh the outburst assumed alarming proportions. During tho night huge quantities of lava were thrown out of the volcano, and formed a double stream which advanced rapidly towards Nicolosi and Belpasso, to within six kilos off the former place. Great damage was done to the surrounding country. A severe earthquake was felt in the vicinity of Nicolosi during the night. Twelve houses and portion of a church were destroyed. The populace of Nicolosi assembled outside the cathedral and knelt in prayer, being afraid to enter. The eruption of the mountain continued unabated on the 11th. Rapid earthquakes were felt for miles, and the stream of lava became gradually heavier. An immense shower of cinders descended on the city of Catania, the capital of the province of that name. Roofs were crushed in, and a few smaller buildings collapsed. Traffic in Catania and vicinity was abandoned. The population of the island are not easily frightened by earthquakes, which are common, but were thoroughly alarmed, and the authorities had their hands full in checking a wholesale exodus. One death is reported and many cases of injuries to people. Reports of July 12 say the eruption was becoming more violent, and the fires in the craters were showing greater activity. Loud explosions were taking place. Severe shocks occurred on the 12th, which reduced to ruins the village of Giarore, a place of about 18,000 people on the coast of Sicily. It is feared that many perished. The whole country suffered severely from the shock. The immense column of smoke hovering over tho mountain had grown so dense on the 16bh as to cover everything in the vicinity with a mantle of darkness, and the crater.3 were invisible. The largest crater is still ejecting immense masses pf boiling lava, the htreams of which are steadily growing wider, and as steadily creeping with terrible persistency foot by foot upon certain villages lying upon the mountain slopes. Later despatches from Rome say a number of villages and several dwellings have already been destroyed. AU the cratc-rs were active. One ejecting a continuous stream of lava eeveral yards deep and very wide. The stream presented the appearance of a river of fire, and is beautiful to look at.]

ACTIVITY OF THE POPE

The Pontiff has issued an encyclical letter directing the mass of Trinity to be celebrated at the Columbus celebration in Italy in honour of the discoverer. He believes Columbus was animated by a spirit of religion in all his trials and movements. His Holiness also propojcs tlio ecclesiastical reorganisation of the churches af the East. The Latin congreg-.lion and Oriental congregation of the Propaganda, in conjunction with France and Turkey, will move towards tlio re-establishment of the ancient Patriarchgeneral of Cons' antinople in the person of Mgr. Azarian, the present Armenian patriarch, residing at Constantinople, an eminout prelate, who enjoys the confidence of the Sultan, and the sympathy of France and Russia. The Pope has been occupying himself with tin's question since 1883.

A FEARFUL DISASTER.

Despatches from Palis of July 12 convey intelligence of a f-lidc of ice ami earth on the night preceding in the mountains overhanging Si". Jftrvais les B.iia<!, Suvoy. Without; a marat'i'.Vs notice a large numb' r of house" w< re buricl. Tuo disaster occurred early in the morning when everybody was asleep, A glacier, which extruded from the north-west side of Mount Blanc, became detached and swept down the side of the mountain, carrying the b-.ihs at tho hamli-'u of LifnyeUu with it. The \ iik-^'3 waj almost totally dcmolii he-.1. The inmates of the batha were awakened at 2,15 a.m. by

a sound as of rushing waters and a loud crushing noise. Before they were able to leave tho buildings a ma3s filled with the debris of tho village and largo blocks of ice crashed against them. Three bath houses were totally destroyed and one partially, while the fifth sustained no damage. The avalanche continued into the valley, destroying everything in its course, and the wreckage was swept on for miles into tho Kiver Arve, down which corpses and wreckage have been floating. The latest estimate of tho number of killed is 130. St. Jcrvais les Bains is a watering place, with sulphur springs, and a favourite resort in summer. During a search for the dead by this calamity on tho 13fch 126 bodies were recovered, most of them torn aud mangled horribly. In many cases the heads were wrenched off the bodies, and in others the arms and legs were cut off by large masses of ice. Some were crushed out of all semblance of humanity. When the glacier sailed down into the Bowhant, on which mountain stream St. Jcrvais les Bains is situated, the current was dammed, and tho water rose rapidly behind the huge fall of ice. Finally tho pressure became so great that the dam was broken, and an immense volumo, with tremendous masses of ice, started down the ravine. Many victims overtaken in their sleep were instanbly swept into the torrent and drowned, and their bodies afterwards mutilated by floating debris or crushed out of all shape. Of the 57 employes of the baths, only nine were saved alive, and seven of these were said to be mortally injured. In the hamlet of Bionassy, which was swepfc away entirely, 35 persons were killed.

FATAL EXPLOSION.

Tho Giant Powder Works, situated about 11 miles from San Francisco, blew up with such tremendous force that the concussion fractured the window panes of all the principal buildings in the city. It was felt 150 miles at sea. There were four explosions. Tho number killed was over 100, and, with the exception of three white men, all were Chinese employes. The first explosion, that led to the others, was due to the carelessness of an employe watching tho tanks in which sulphuric and nitric acids were being mixed with glycerine. If these tanks were not carefully watched there was always a danger of an explosion from this process. Parsimony is alleged against the company in hiring at small wages Chinamen who were ignorant of the nature of the business. Suits for damages are being spoken of on all sides by property owners of Berkley, who have sued for an injunction again&t the re-erection of the works. The directors, who have selected a site more remote, lose 10,000dol by the catastrophe.

STRIKES IN AMERICA,

The prospects of a satisfactory settlement of tho wages difficulty now existing between Andrew Carnegie and his workmen were growing dimmer on Juue 28. The ironworkers assert positively that they will nob accept any reduction, and the firm are equally determined in their stand. It is stated en what is considered the best authority that every union man in Carnegie's works is to be discharged in June, and that the firm are determined to run a non-union mill thereafter. The firm have taken precautions to protect tho plant, the property being entirely surrounded by a high board fence. Search lights have been placed in the mills. A sensation was caused on tho 28th by a report that hot water would be thrown from fire-plugs in case the men attempted to surround or enter tho mills. Tho cri&is will affect some 50,000 operatives. The men will not reccdo from their position on any material point. They have a defence fund of 250,000d01, which will be increased to 500,000d0l if necessary. In an interview on July 1, the secretary of tho Carnegie Steel Company outlined the policy of the firm. The mills at Hamstcad have been closed, he said, for repairs, and will rental v closed for two or three weeks. About the 12th or 20th of July there will be published and posted a notice that any of the old employes may return to work, and must make application by a certain day as individuals. All who do no_t apply at the time specified will be considered as not desiring to work, and their places will be filled by new men. Then tho real conflict will commence. It will be easy to get new men into the mills, because tho railroad jjasses directly through the property. The number of iron and steel mills that closed on June 30 is estimated at over 400, ordinarily employing 100,000 men ; and the glass factories that shut down on July 1 employed 250,000 men. Affairs at tho Carnegie Works reached a

climax on July 6, when 300 armed men were brought to the homestead to overawe the strikers and to take possession of the works. They belonged to the Pinkcrton detective office. A bloody battle ensued between these hired mercenaries apd the workmen, which lasted all day. Many lives were lost on both sides. Tho strikers fought with desperate bravery, and finally defeated Pinkcrtun's men; who begged for mercy, and said that they had misunderstood the object for which they were sent. It was only by judicious management on tho parb of the leaders of tho strike that tho annihilatiou of the entire 300 was prevented. Several companies of the Stato militia have rendezvoused at the homestead.

THE PRINCE OF WALES.

Five years ago the Prince started a stud farm at Wolverton for the purpose of improving the breed of hackneys aud hunters, and has since spent a lot of money on it. On July 10 he held his first bi-onuial sale, and there was a great gathering of aristocratic buyers, despite the distractions of the general elections. Tho Duke of Portland bought several horses on behalf of tho Queen, and tho sale realised altogether L 6655, a sum which was liot largo considering tho number and quality of the. animals sold. The same despatch says tho Prince is spending a good deal of money in extending, altering, and beautifying his socalled "Bachelor Cottage," at Saadringham, which is to bo tho Norfolk residence of tho Duke of York, otherwise Princo George of Wales. The house is quito largo enough for a young married couple. The Prince is gradually taking off his mourning, and he is now accepting invitations to dine out with friends. Ho would like to go on a cruise in tho autumn with the Duke of York, who is now in command of the cruiser Melampus, but it ia not likely that Ministers will allow him to do so. Warships have been known to founder at sea ero now, and if H.M.S. Melampus should go down with tho Prince and his son aboard tho unpopular Fifes would come to the throne of England. The average loyal Englishman never ceases to shudder at such a possibility.

CANADA AND NEWFOUNDLAND,

The Hon. John Robertson, Premier of British Columbia, died in London on Juno 29. lie was in poor health when ho left Victoria for London on business connected with the frontier colonisation scheme, in which he took a great interest.

The lobster factory of James Houlshan, at Derry Head Cove, Binn Bnj', Newfoundland, was raided by the British warship Buzzard ou June 29. The boiler and boats wore removed, and tho factory wood pile burned. The warship then suddenly lcit. There will bo no more lobster business at Derry Head Cove. The Canadian-Pacific Company will bridge the Niagara shortly in pursuanco of a scheme to securo direct railway communication with New York city. The line is to be constructed from Woodbbank to Niagara Falls, and the agents of the road are now purchasing a right of way between Well and Ontario aud Woodsbank. Tho new bridge will bo constructed between the present cantilever and now suspension bridge structures, and will consist of a single arched steel span resting on buttresses on either bank somo 200fb apart. Mr Rudyard Kipling arrived in Montreal with his wife on July 2'J. His first act was to suub some gentlemen who called on him at his hotel.

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The estimated population of the colony on the 30bh June was 681,475, inclusive of Maoris (41,993).

Sir William Jervois, when tho Ruahine left Hobart, intended to visit Mildura, in Victoria, thence to Adelaide, to inspect some property in which he is interested, and assist at starting meat chilling works in South Australia. He comes to New Zealand afber the completion of this business.