SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5570, 16 September 1889, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

<{».. . In tho Spok-mo tiro sovno msuranoos were: South British, I/iS.OL^duls ; New f Zealand, LM, (.)!«) uols ; Union, L\S,Oi>o.lols. : Everything is bustling in regard ." to the Nicaragua Canal. The projected t plan of the Company is to attack the Isthmus from two sides at once, and inside of two years Lake Nicaragua, draining a watershed of 8000 square miles, will be" thrown open to the world. In about two and a half years more or in 1894-95 the whole of the canal will be ready for business. D.ivid Smith Terry, an ex-Supreme Judge of the State of California, was shot and "killed at Lathrop Station, on the Central Railway, by U. S. Marshal Neajjle, on the morning of 14th Aug. The circumstances attending the tragedy appear to be that Justice Field, of the U.S. Supreme Court, whom Terry hates bitterly because he imprisoned him and his wife for contempt of Court in a recent phase of the Sharon case, was in the same train with Terry and his wife (nee Sarah Althea Hill), and all parties got off at Lathrop to take the 714 breakfast. Mrs Terry on seeing Field hurriedly left the breakfast and went towards the cars. While she was gone Terry approached Field and slapped his face. He was about to repeat the insult when Marshal Neagle, who had been detailed as a bodyguard for Judge Field, drew a pistol and shot him through tho heart. He fell dead just as Mrs Terry returned to the room with a satchel in her hand, and which on beiug subsequently searched was found to contain a pistol. Her lamentations were heart rendering, and her execrations of the Marshal and Judge Field were fearful. Public opinion is divided on the subject, but the general feeling is that Terry ought to have been arrested by the ofiicer and not killed. Neagle, who did the shooting, was promptly arrested, but was subsequently released on a writ of habeas cirp"* by tho judges of the U.S. Circuit. Court, and brought to San Francisco. The federal authorities have taken the case out of the hands of the State altogether, which is regarded as presumptive evidence that Neagle's trial will be only a mere matter of form. The feeling runs so high against the dead man in certain quarters, that the Supreme Court of California, of which he was a member at one time, and considered one of the most upright men that ever sat on the bench, refused to adjourn in respect to his memory, aud denied the privilege of the entering of the memorial resolutions on the Archives of the Court. The British sealing schooner Triumph arrived at Victoria, B.C., on the afternoon of July 28, and reported the seizure of the British sealer Black Diamond in Behring Strait by the American revenue cutter Rush, and the confiscation of 150 skins on board. The Triumph entered the Sea on July 11, and on the 18th she was sighted by the Rush, an officer of which boarded her and informed Oapfc. M'Lean that he had orders to seize any schooner sealing in Behring Sea. The Triumph was then ftuarched, but no skins were found, as the captain had concealed them under loose piles of salt, and Lieut. Tuttle, the American ollicer, allowed her to depart, advising the captain at the same time to leave the Sea, which he did. After the seizure of the Black Diamond a seaman from the Rush named Hawkins was placed on board and ordered to take tho vessel to Silka, in Alaska. Captain Owens, of the seized schooner, told the lieutenant in command of the American cutter he would not go to Silka. If he wanted her to go there he would have to put a larger force than one man on board. The Black Diamond sailed towards Doonlaska, thinking to find a British warship there, but there were none thereabout. He then determined to go to Victoria (British Columbia), and arrived early on the evening of the 3rd August. Hawkins, tho ' prize crew, ' W!IS ynti frtv^f.prl hy frhtt nohoont)i''a muni Tiieat satisfaction was expressed at the escape of the Black Diamond by the Dominion papers, the tone of which is warlike on account of the seizure. In the first place England is called upon to interfere diplomatically or with an armed force, but according to the N.Y. Tribune's London correspondence the dispute had not made much impression on English minds, and there is no danger of any actual trouble growing out of it. The situation of the world's breadstuff supply is more serious than was expected a fortnight ago. Russian official reports admit that the wheat crop is the worst in many years. A tornado in Hungary and Northern Roumania not only destroyed the grain still standing, but swept away many granaries. The "Austrian Minister of Agriculture officially announced some days before the storm that the crops of Galicia and Silesia were a total failure, and those . of Bohemia and Moldavia were very bad. Reports from Bombay grow worse as the season advances. The official estimates show a shortage of 15,000,000 bushels. The recent bad weather has caused much anxiety to the farmers of England, and the same climatic conditions have worked havoc with the French crops. Freights from the Baltic and Black Sea ports have advanced. A London despatch of August 17th says the failure of the most importAnt European wheat crops, and the continuance of unfavorable harvest weather in England, have led to steps for the formation of a gigantic Bread " Trust "in London. Four of the largest Metropolitan bread companies, controlling nearly 000 retail bakeries, with a yearly profit of nearly LIOO.OOO, are already in combination, and others are expected to follow. The combination will be known as the London Bread Union. It is announced that by a big reduction of administrative expenses and lessened competition, this new monopoly will be able to lower the price of bread. The price of wheat has risen in all English provincial markets.