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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2864, 30 May 1882, Page 2

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[Bt Telegraph.] Auckland, April 29. The City of Sydney arrived from San Francisco at 9 o’clock this evening, and leaves for Sydney at 2 o’clock to-morrow morning. She brings 8 cabin and 6 steerage passengers for Auckland, and 64 tons of freight. For Sydney 16 cabin and 21 steerage passengers. AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Francisco, May 8. President Arthur signed the amended Chinese Anti-Immigration Bill to-day. The time is limited to 12 years. The town of Raine, Wisconsin, was partially destroyed by fire on May 5. The loss reached 350,000 dollars. Some eighty editors from Texas are on a visit to San Francisco. They are personally investigating the Chinese question, and the effect of Coolie immigration on the Pacific Coast. During the 72 hours ending on May 8, nearly 3000 Chinese arrived in California.

Scovillc, late counsel for Guiteau, lias confessed that lie believes bis wife (the sister of the assassin) to be insane. Designing men have prevailed on her to deliver public lectures regarding her brother’s case. Her husband has protested in vain, and his wife now seeks a divorce from him.

The Electric Light Co. of Massachusetts has collapsed. It owes $1,500,000 and has no assets. There are charges of fraud in the management, and the matter will bo brought before the Courts.

The question of Canadian independence was debated in the Dominion Parliament on the 21st ult. Sir John McDonald, the Premier, contended for the present system of government, because, as he said, “if we make treaties wo would not have the power to enforce them, whereas now the treaties we are interested in are enforced by the power of England.” Ho believed the resolutions pending were bad, and really meant the independence of Canada and her separation from the Mother Country. It is now charged that East Indian sugar is brought to tho United States via the Sand wioh Islands, and the duty of three cents a pound thus avoided. An investigation is in progress. The Belgium Consul in New York lias sent out an attachment against Leon Burtard, believing him to be in the United States. He is accused of robbing an archbishop in Belgium of bonds, money, and jewels amounting to over 1,200,0005. Themost serious outbreak ever known in Arizono has taken place among the Apache Indians. They are robbing and murdering in all directions. Over fifty white persons have been butchered in a few days, and the United States troops are so few as to be powerless against the savages.

The Mayor of Long Island, City of New York, has been arrested for the robbery of 114,000 dollars of tho municipal funds.

A horrible case of trinchinosis lias occurred at Clyde, Kansas, where a whole family have died from eating the flesh of a hog killed a short time before the development of the trichinae in the raw pork could be observed with the naked eye. _ _ - The steamer Ceylon, originally from England on a trip around the world, arrived at San Francisco on April 26, tho trip taking about 10 months. The charge for each passenger is 2500 dols. and they are at liberty to leave the vessel at any port if they wish to return home, the expense being paid. There were 36 tourists on board, 13 disembarked at this port and returned to England, via New York. An attempt has been made on the lives of William H. Vanderbilt and Cyrus W. Field by sending explosive packages addressed through the mails. Fortunately the one addressed to Vanderbilt was exploded by a jolt of the mail cart, and when the half-burned mail bag was examined the package was discovered intact and plunged into water to guard against consequences. The explosion took place at the corner of the Brewery and third Avenues, New York. It is claimed by the promoters of the Atlantic and Pacific Inter Ocean Railway Company that the trip by tin route from New York to San Francisco can be made in five days. EUROPEAN SUMMARY. London, May 8. Detailed particulars of the murder in Phoenix Park on the evening of May 6th are to hand. Earl Spencer had remained at Dublin Castle engaged in the transaction of official business until six o’clock in the evening, when a coach drove up to his residence. After dinner the Secretary and Mr Thomas Henry Burke went for a walk in the Park, and when about half a milo from the city gate and a quarter of a mile from the lodge a cab drove up.from which jumped four men, who immediately attacked Lord F. Cavendish and Mr Burko, stabbing them both several times in the throat and breast. The victims struggled hard for life, and in the struggle they became separated, their bodies being found some ten paces apart. The tragedy occurred about seven minutes after seven o’clock in the evening and in broad daylight. Two gentlemen named Macguiro and Artind who were on bicycles, had shortly before passed Mr Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish when on their way along the main road through the Park, and on their return journey they found the Chief Secretary dying in the centre of of the carriage way and Mr Burke prostrate upon the pathway. Both gentlemen were lying in pools of blood’ The police at the park gate station were informed of what they had seen, and they at once proceeded to the scene of the murder and conveyed the bodies to the hospital. On examination it was found that Mr Burke had ’received several stabs near the region of the heart and his throat was cut almost completely across. His clothes were absolutely saturated with blood, and the hemorrhage must have been tremendous. His clothes’were also torn. His gloves’ had been torn in many places, and his hands bore marks suggestive of a fierce-encounterwith his assailants. Lord Fred erick did not wear gloves. He had been stabbed in several places about the chest. One wound was through the right lung, and penetrated deeply. At the time of the dreadful occurrence, the Park, as might bo expected on a lovely evening, was crowded in many places with people. It is a remarkable fact, and one suggesting that llio onslaught must have been short, terrible and decisive, that persons sitting and walking within a few hundred yards of where the bodies wore found hoard nothing of tho affair. It is supposed that Mr Burke was first assailed anil stabbed through the heart, that Lord F, Cavendish then attempted to defend him, but ho too was 1

stabbed by the assassins, and that they repeatedly plunged their knives into the breasts of their victims, and having cut their throats, got on a car and drove rapidly from the park by the Chapel Gate. When the bodies were first found Lord F. Cavendish’s lips wore moving, os if he were trying to speak, but ho showed no further signs of conscious ness. It is needless to add that the news rapidly spread, and created the wildest excitement and consternation in the city. Lord Spencer and the Viceregal party were just going down to dinner at the Lodge when the news was sent to them. Some of the members of their household were at an opera at the Gaiety Theatre, and were sent for. When the cause of their departure was known the excitement became intense. A proposal was made to stop the performance, which was ultimately cut short. There is a strong guard of military at the Vice regal Lodge. Dublin, May 7.

Orders have been issued for all boats from Ireland to be searched for the assassins.

The murder must have been quite visible from the windows of the Viceregal Lodge and it is said that Earl Spencer himself saw the scuffle from his bedroom window, but without knowing who were concerned in it. Earl Spencer to whom the news was first broken by Colonel Caulfield, was terribly shocked at the fate of Lord F. Cavendish and Mr Burke, Engineer Melville, of the Jeannette, reports to the American Government that D« Long and his boat’s crew were starved to death and frozen, and that he had found all their papers, books, charts, &c. Ono of those believed to have perished with De Long was Jerome 0. Collins, the “New York Herald’s ” correspondent. Reynolds, alias Rev Mr Lematine, one of the parties arrested in connection with the Hatton Garden Post Office robbery, is a native of Chicago. Extra precautions have been taken at Woolwich, in consequence of a letter disclosing the intention to blow up the barracks.

There were 3892 persons evicted in Ireland during thejfirst quarter of 1882. Mr Smyth, M.P. for Tipperary, violently denounced tho Land League in the Commons on the 22nd, in answer to a vote Of censure passed on him by the priests of Tipperary for not supporting the organisation. He declared that until “ this conspiracy is demolished root and branch, Ireland will have no peace.” GENERAL SUMMARY. San Fbancisco, May 8. , The now cable connecting Emdea with the Anglo-American cable system at Valencia, enabling messages to g be transmitted direct between Germany and America, was opened on the 21st by an interchange of courtesies between Emperor William and the President of tho United States. In the House of Commons on April 28 Mr Labouchre complained of the existence of slavery in Hong Kong, on the Gold Coast, and in the Malay States of North Borneo. He said the slave market at Hong Kong supplied women to California, Australia and China. The Under Secretary denied that British officials sanctioned slavery. Captain Rondaire’s proposition to make a great inland sea to the south of Algeria and Tunis by flooding the desert is attracting attention and has been discussed by the French Council of Ministers. It would cost about 150,000,0008 to carry out tho scheme and eight years time at the most. The “ Nineteenth Century” foe May published nearly 500 fresh ' signatures to the protest against the Channel tunnel, including the names of many most distinguished peers and military and naval officers. The president of the Board of Trade announced* on the Ist May that the Government had concluded to stop the work and await the action of Parliament,

The movement among the Russians and Polish Jews continues. The Assembly of Polish Jews has pronounced in favor of emigration to Palestine. Several hundred families have applied for assistance to proceed thither, and as tho Russian foreign corn trade was almost entirely in Jewish hands, the utmost confusion prevails in that industry. Earthquake shocks have been felt in the Canton of Valais, Switzerland, and tremenduous snow storms have occurred in the Alps.

Thousands of hands are out of employment at the Middlesborough iron works on account of a strike. Gabriel Ravel Khoun of world wide fame as a pantomiraist, died at Toulon, France, on May 1, 72 years old. The Indian army bas been reduced to 30 regiments of Cavalry and 113 regiments of Infant^'. The Asiatic plague baa broken out in Persia.

Dr Lamson was executed on the 28th ult,, at 9 o’clock. He had a well interview with some of his friends. After a final interview with his wife he virtually admitted his guilt, and attributed his crime to mental derangement. He subsequently wrote a definite confession that he poisoned Percy John, but he denied he was concerned in the death of Herbert John. At the scaffold he was so unwell that he had to be supported by the chaplain «nd Attwood, the executioner. His death was instantaneous.

The Nihilist assassin who shot General StretnikotE plundered his apartment and regained the pocket list of the revolutionists in the General’s possession, also the complete plans he had of the Nihilistic methods of procedure and their projects. The loss of these papers is a severe blow to the authorities.

Under the cover of illuminating the Kremlin at Moscow with the electric light, a plot to blow up the wholepalace during the coronation festivities of the Czar has been discovered.