SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2200, 30 April 1896, Page 36

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

(Pas Axaubda, at Auckland.) The Tines of April 2 hae aa article diseuioing Mr Chamberlain's suggested commercial league to include the United Kingdom and British colonies which gives the statistic* of Colonial revenue, from which the Thunderer oonclndee that considerations of revenue alone would not prevent the colonies from entering rnch a league. .The London Biandard'p story about Chirm's eesrion of Fort Arthur to Itusiia is officially denied hi St. Petersburg. Unfavourable reports -regarding the Pope's health were in circulation on April 1. The defences of Georgetown, British Guiana, especially at the month of the Demerara river, are now reported complete. Glowing despatches have been received from Wood^took, E&glsnd, describing the homecoming of the young Duke of Sarlborough and his American bride (Coneuela Vanderbilt). The young ooupls were saluted all along the lirfe, and everywhere there were cheers for Eugland and Anar-iea. The depdfc at Woodstock was bung with crimson, and the platform covered "with'phuh carpet. LHtle girls threw masses of flowers at the feet of the Duke and his bride, and the sehoel children sang Bongs of welcome, Finally the horses , were removed from the carriage, and strong-armed villagers drew the bappy couple te triniaph to the palace gates. ■ Thjs London Times announce! the death of JSeuhor Persiva, a Portuguese vineyard owner, Who leaves a fortune of £2,000,000, and of Joseph Spattle, the Austrian gyiweoologist. • The London Chronicle says that Lord Chief Juifeioe Baron Russell of Killowen will visit America for the long vacation, and will take part in a oonferenoe of jurists at Saratoga. It was reported that the Marquis of Salisbury had gone to the Riviera at the request of the Queen, who wished that Princess Beatrice and jPrincess Louise should be made duchesses in Ibeir own right. It is added that her Majesty k also desirous of conferring a dukedom on the Premier, which honour he declined a few years »go.

Mrs Laogtry hftfl 10M to Sir Charles R. Wilson, president of the Grand Trunk railway pf Canada, her beautiful home in -London, 21 Font street, near Cadogeo place, presented to her' by the. .late Abingtoa Baird, the wellknows sporting man. The home originally tost £32,000. - American tourists are beginning to flock into England. Mutinous conduct on the part of the 13th Hussars was reported from Duodalk on March 84. The cavalrymen* hatted to pioeee 28 laddies and bridles. Several soldiers were arrested. The Associated Chambers of Commerce of gfee * United Kingdom have passed a resolution favouring arbitration in internatioaal disputes. Ths chambers are also bringing pressure upon the Government to protect British interests in Hadagaecar m vi©w of the decision of France to terminate the existing treaties made by Bsad»gaec»r with other Powers without leave of the Powers concerned. To farther this an tKttntt with the United States is suggested, that country being largely interested. Mr Joseph Cbamberlara, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has been named as the Unionist candidate for Glasgow University. The Rev. J. R"gnrg, of Chands street. Strand, etjHng himself a "professor of the National University of Illinois," and who sold a B.A. degree for 80^1, MA. for 75d01, D.D and LL D. for 105doJ, has been exposed by Mr Laboachsre (ef Trufch) as an American fraud. The expecure was headed "Academian Honours from Perhcpulia." London newspapers are fall of letters of complaint from travellers ef the robberies of luggage going to France and Italy. The rail* iray official* are Ksplioated. Tho d<*ri«ion arrived at by Parliament to kllow the opening of Museums nod art galleries in Sundays has afforded ' much satisfaction te Jhe London public.

Both seotkms of the Irfifa party in Parliament are doicg everything in their power to force a war by representing that the increate ia fche Britiak navy is a OMMce to AeierteaiM, wheroaa, aeoordißg to the Saturday Rtrriew, the pro'gntmaM km «l«cid*d upo» in Noveaofeec. At a drawing room, held on March 11, Prises Charles of Denmark and ' Princess felaud of Wales were* introduced to Court niwtei. The oetemaoy tsefc place ia tka throne roan. The Prisons of Wales took no paitu to conceal her satiaf&tiea. The Ameer of : Afghanistan ii 90 much ple»aed with the reoof&oa of NasrollAh Khan (bis seee&d soa) by tbe British Court that he it Bering the Qomo £120,000 worth of gifts in Charge of speckd earey*. St. PauT* O»tboar*l k agaiß taken ap by Royalty and the aristcoraoy. Oa Sunday, March 8, the Priwie of Wales oceupUd fcba dean*! pew, and tho Docbecs of York during the afternoon service ef the same day sat in the Bh« ir.

Tbe Secretary of State for War (the Marquis r>f L*n9dowue) has finally decided to form a regiment of gcafctemen. An outapekss opposition, beaded by the Locdon Tines, is being made to the Governmeat's proposition to allow the Doke of Cambridge ,» large peoeien in addition to the i£H 000 which ha already draws as a Royal Dnke and honorary oolonel of the Guards.

I*dv He^ry gotaenetfa suit for libel sgaimt Wiiliaaa WaWorf Aster was settled out of court, on Mart* 16. Aster apologised; The apology Was printed in the Pall Mall Gazette and 20 ttther English paper* &t Mr A.Bfcor's expeosft. She defendant aiw paid all law costs Incurred. 'Astor bad said in the Gazette that Lady SonterfetV methods were "enough to drive anybody mad," alludlnc to tbe incorrigible, vagrant, and drunkardj jfane Cakebreed, whent bti Ladjship had undertakes to refsrm, but who had developed tymptonu of insanity while in hm hands. The British eteimer Matadi, whioh sailed from Sierra Leom, wag totally destroyed at Bonni by an explosion of gunpowder. Some of the paesongers aad crew were saved, but ■many ara missing.

- Terrible gales occurred in the weit of England asd Ireland on March 16. The force of the wind* and waves was such that the piers at Liverpool have bean washed over and flooded. Tho Maaebetter Ship Cantl was made uncavigaWe by the stem, and ita walls were severely tried by the waeh of the waves. Tha dying equadroa htd to make for Qaeenstown lor a hnrfcour in come distress, the vessels having shipped large quantities of water* No ■prlous damage resulted, however« RUSSIA AND FRANCE. The New York Herald's St. Petersburg carrespondent on March 23 stated tbat Fracoe will certainly have the support of Butsla in whatever policy she chose* te adopt in Egypt. The fteliiW in Sfr. Petersburg Bjainet Bogltad mri

Germany ii bitterly expressed. The Paris correspondent of the London Time? of the same date declares that Franca is repeating in her present position the mistake she made in 1882 upon the occasion of tbe bombardment of Alexandria and the occupation of Egypt by the British.

An Odessa despatch to the London Daily News of March 23 cays the Novoe Yremya and Novoeti admit that England h»s a misrion to proteot the Nile Valley, and that Dongola, Kassala, ' and Berber, the three keya to the Soudan, must eventually fall into England's hands.