AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2056, 20 July 1893, Page 14

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

The young Date of Newcastle and his fciGnd Gambier, l ßolt6n arrived in San Francisco on June 11. They are travelling around the world, afld adding to their collection of photos of animals. Their pext objective point is Honolulu and the Hawaiian Islands. A startling disclosure .was made at the Chicago Fair grounds on June 10, that 30 pieces of priceless Jace, sent for exhibition by Queen Marguerita, of Italy, were missing. Cablegrams were sent to Rome apprising the Queen of her loss.. The company is under bond for 100,000dol for the safe return of all laces to Italy. Thirty thousand acres, belonging to the Hesperia. Land and Water Company, Los Angelos, California, have been sold to an English syndicate-for £750,000. The land is situated in San Bernandinio County, California, and is irrigated by water pipes from the sources of the Moogave river several miles distant. The famous blarney stone, which for centuries occupied a place in the wall of the historic Blarney Castle, in Ireland, arrived at the Chicago World's' Fair on June 16. It was shipped there by Lady Aberdeen, and will form one of the attractions of her Irish villages.

At the request of the Timber Trades Association of the United States, Mr Henry White, charge d'affaires in London, has obtained from Mr Gladstone as a gift, and has forwarded it to the United States, one of the axes used by him in felling timber at Hawarden Castle. President Cleveland has consented to serve as arbitrator in the dispute between Brazil and Argentine over the possession of Parana. Walter Besant, the English novelist, arrived in New York on July 18 by the steamship Etruria. With him came S. 8. Sprigg, another delegate from the English Society of Authors to the Literary Conference to be held in Chicago in July. Mr Besant will probably gather the material for a new novel while in the United States, based on old-fashioned life and manners in New England. Three members of Queen Victoria's Lite Guards were sent to the Chicago Poorhouse on June 19 at the request of J. H. Burst, United States inspector of immigration. The privatesHow, Cody, and Brooks— came to Chicago to take part in a military tournament. They were discharged the other day and had no money, so they called on Inspector Burst for a paasage to London, and the inspector thought the company, having brought them out, should send them back ; and, pending a decision of the case at Washington, he asked the county to take care of the men, who were entirely penniless. The Hon. William M'Kinley, author of. the Protective Tariff Bill, has been nominated by the Republican State Convention of Ohio, which met on June 8, for the governorship of that State. Should he be elected it' will be taken for granted he will be the nominee of the Republican National Convention for the next term of the United States Presidency.

Leland Stanford, United States senator^exGovernor of California, and, since 1879, head of the Pacific Coast railway road interest, particularly the overland system, died at Hespalos, Alto, at his residence, situated in the' county, on June 21. He was found dead in bed, aftet having retired early in the evening apparently in bis average health. One brother is, or has been up till lately, doing business in Melbourne, Australia. Mr Stanford leaves behind him,_ as a monument, the splendid Palo Alto University,, endowed with at least 20,000, OOOdol. His estate is estimated as worth 70 millions. The Paoifio Steamship Company have been beaten in a competition with the North American Navigation Company, and will devote their entire attention to the Pacific Ocean.

Mrs Frank Leslie, widow of the publisher of 11 Frank Leslie's Mazazine," New York, who married Willie Wilde, a brother of the aesthetic Oscar, now seeks a divorce from him on the ground of his general worthlessness. At the time of the departure of the Alameda from San Francisco there was a slight feeling of uneasiness amongst the public of that city arising out'of the tightness and uncertainty of the money market. The doors of the Paoifio Bank were closed that day, and the thirty days' rule for the withdrawal of deposits has been put in force at the People's Home Savings Bank. These banks are both under one management. President R. H. Macdonald was, however, regarded with some suspicion on account of his questionable banking methods,- and the result was not unexpected. The other, banks are reported to be well fortified against contingencies; All the savings banks report that they have ample funds in hand. Charles H. Richmond, an aeronaut, made a 3000 ft ascension at New Jersey on June 5 and lost his life by the parachute failing to work. , At the Criminal Court of Pittsburg, Pa., on I June 3, a nolle prosequi was entered in all the cases against the Carnegie officials for complicity in the Homestead troubles of last summer. Later Judge White, without a motion being made, issued an order releasing from bail all of the strikers wh(r-had been indicted for offences growing out of the strike. This ends for good the prosecutions in the matter. A genuine lobster of the Eastern Atlantic has made its appearance in Pacific waters. A specimen was taken in Monteny Bay, Cal., on June 3, and pronounced to be of the same kind planted there five years ago. '