ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3311, 12 November 1883, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

(Per a.s. Zealandia at Auckland.) [By Telegraph. J Auckland, Nov. 11. The Pacific mail steamer Zealandia, Captain Webb, arrived from San Francisco at 6 a.m. Among the passengers for Sydney are Lord and Lady Roseberry, who were received by His Worship the Mayor, and wore his guests at his suburban residence, “ The Towers,” Remuera, during the stay of the steamer. GENERAL SUMMARY. San Francisco, Oct. 22. The steamship Zealandia before leaving for Auckland and Sydney was completely overhauled, repaired, and fitted. Sir Sydney and Lady Waterlow, of London, left in the s.s. Coptic, on the 11th October, for China and J apan. The London Board of Aldermen has refused to ratify the election of Aiderman Hadley, elected by the Common Council as Lord Mayor, because he is a rich bachelor, and can provide no Lady Mayoress, and B. N. Foller, of Cornhill, was elected instead. Weston, the American pedestrian, purposes to tramp over the highways of England and Wales, 50 miles every 12 hours, for 100 consecutive days. The Admiralty have decided that colored men cannot enter the British navy without special sanction. The Queen will provide a large dowry for her grand-daughter Princess Victoria of Hesse, who is about to marry Prince Louis of Battenburg, who is impecunious She will give them rooms at Kensington, and has made the Prince captain of the yacht Victoria and Albert, a sinecure berth. Radical M.P.’s protest against the appointment as a scandalous waste of money. A despatch of the 23rd says the Princess of Wales is becoming deaf, and the best aurists are unable to suggest a remedy. Proofs of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg’s Memoirs having been submitted to the Queen, all political revelations were suppressed by her orders. This action has caused an indefinite postponement of their publication. Michael Davitt is writing a sketch in imitation of the Pilgrim’s Progress, entitled “ My Gaol Life” The Secretary of the London and River Plate Bank absconded on Oct. 3rd. He has defrauded the Bank of £IO,OOO, which he invested in stock gambling. The Bank paid its dividends as usual. A reward of £SOO is offered in Penzance for the recovery alive of Willie Dickenson, a boy stolen from his home in Wisnconsin, United States, in Nov. 1881, and taken to Cornwall. Since the death of Marwood, the hangman, hundreds of his likenesses have boon sold by photographers, and twenty-one ropes and nine sets of straps were obtained of his wife and sent to London for sale. Harwood’s successor declared he became hangman because he liked the notoriety attached to the position. It is announced that John Bright will visit America next Spring and deliver addresses in all the great cities of the Union.

The society for promoting State aided emigration is canvassing the East end of London to see how many persons are go to north-western Canada. A few English gentlemen contributed £SOOO to pay the expenses for a six months’ mission of Moody and Sankoy at Islington. Oscar Wilde’s lecture at Manchester,

was a dead failure. Most of the audience walked out. Tennyson’s contract with Keegan, Paul and Co., for £4OOO yearly for the right to publish his works, has been transferred to McMillan. Joseph Donohu, a Californian millionaire, had thirteen trunks seized at New York on bis arrival from Europe. The trunks contained dutiable articles to the value e£ 7000dol, among them being a number of priests’ vestments. Mr Stanley, the explorer, has sent a letter to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, in which he urges that Great Britain should proclaim a protectorate over the Congo Country.

The Duke of Connaught having requested the Bombay authorities to forego his public reception, 50,000 rupees, intended to defray expenses were returned to the public treasury. Chinese are being smuggled to the Pacific States and Territories in such large numbers from Victoria, 8.C., that the restrictive law has become virtually a dead letter. The Chinese themselves look on Victoria merely as an open gateway to the United States. Jno. L. Sullivan accepted, on Sept. Idtb, Jim Mace’s challenge to meet him in the fisticuff arena for 10,000dols a side. The pugilists propose to use gloves, bat in case Sullivan should manifest a desire to fight him with bare knuckles, Mace will train down to 172 pounds. Irving Bishop, the mind reader, at an exhibition in Dublin on (Jet. 15, failed four times to give the number of a bank note. A dangerous attack of congestion of the brain followed. The Duke of Teck has returned to Florence, where he hopes to find cheap quarters. Matthew Arnold arrived at New York from London on Oct. 21. He brings three lectures with him, “ Social Politics,” “Literature,”and “ Execution.” The “ Life, Letters and Literary Works of Lord Lytton,” by his son, Earl Lytton, will shortly appear. Blackwood is about to publish Anthony Trollope’s autobiography. It will, according to report, put the novelist in a new light. An attempt was made to assassinate Consul-General Booker at Hew York on September 16. The assailant is a man named Jas Ferney, and it was said he came from Canada for the purpose of killing Booker. In the examfnation after arrest it was shown he was afflicted with malancholia and severe nervous depression. He was sent to an asylum. The Cabinet has adopted the proposal of Admiral Peyson, Minister of Marine to the Colonies, to create a superior council for the colonies, to consist of thirty-six members. Is is stated that Admiral Peyson intends to give the Catholic Mission an important part in the system of colonial extension, as he considers the Catholic missionaries may render essential service.

The animosity of the French toward the Germans grows deeper. Some papers advise the removal of all employees in Paris who are of German nationality, and hostile demonstrations were made during the week ending Oct. 7th against establishments where German workmen were known to bo employed. Charland, proprietor of a large printing house, discharged all his Germans, and a number employed in the State tobacco factory were forced to leave. An explosion occurred at the Tramcliffe Colliery, Yorkshire, on October 18. Five men rushed to the bottom of the shaft and were rescued, but in an injured condition. Men remained in the pit numbering 20, and were lost. Business failures in the United States and Canada for the week ended Oct. 18, numbered 243. Chicago sent to the Parnell Fund Committee on the 4th £1523. The fund will close at the end of November. It is expected, with donations from Australia to reach a total of £40,000, Pere Hyacinth arrived at New York on October 7th.

Ambrose Chocqueetee, treasurer and confidential clerk to Father Fabrique of the Church of Notre Dame, Montreal, decamped on the stb of October with £IO,OOO of church money. He bad been dealing in stock, Chocqueetee was overhauled at Worcester Massachusetts.

Lieutenant Leech, of H.B.M. ship Swiftsure, met with a terrible accident at Victoria, British Columbia, on October 2nd, by being thrown from a horse and trampled on. His face was literally smashed out of shape, and he died next day.

j. H. Tynan (“No. 1”) was at an hotel in Rochester, N.Y., on Oct. 8. Hanlan made the following vigorous proposition on September 26th—“ lam ready to bet 6000dols. I can row three miles faster than any man alive. I will make another proposition. I will undertake the task of rowing six races in one week, that is I will match myself against six picked oarsmen of the world to row six races of one mile each, the stakes to be lOOOdols, each,”

Prince Victor Napoleon has applied for service in the Swedish army. Late despatches say 100 Anamite convicts, who were erecting a lighthouse in Cochin China, mutinied and murdered the French officers, seized arms and ammnnition, and escaped in boats.

The Mayor ofMarseilles has accepted the Pharo residence as a gift from the Empress Eugenie to that city. A despatch from Hong Kong, dated October 18, says China is actively preparing to close the port of Canton, and forts on the Canton river are being provisionised. The London “ Standard” says there is strong apprehension that if Spain does not obtain satisfaction for the insult to Alfonso, Germany will interpose and exact it. It is also asserted that Germany will require an apology as well as Spain. Edwin Robbins, superintendent of the Electric Company at Dryton, Ohio, was killed by an electric shock on October 13th while fixing a lamp that had been broken from the cable. Benjamin Schard, his assistant, testified, “I carried the lamp in from the street and pulled it up the pole. Robbins told mo to cut it out. This I was doing as requested, when the lamp slipped, and Robbins grabbed hold of one of the wires. I hoard him cry out and saw him fall. Jumping from tho ladder, I took hold of him and said, ‘ What is the matter?' He replied, “I am burned to death.’ ”

“Le Pays,” of October 2, declares the Ministry alone responsible for the failure of King Alfonso’s visit. The cause of the trouble in the French Cabinet is, in fact, that a person named Wilson, President Grevy’s son-in-law, resides with his family at the Elysee, and by his intrigues is seeking to undermine the Cabinet. It is asserted that he formed an agitation against Alfonso and supplied his journal, “ La Petite Francaise,” with inspired public news matter before it was published in the official journals. The Public Press demand that he leave the Elysee Palace, and the “ National ” adds that if bis presence there be necessary, it could without chagrin see Henry Beiseon, President of the Chamber of Deputies, become President in Grevy’s place. Prime Minister Ferry has intimated to the President that Wilson must go-

Nihilistic proclamations arc increasing in Warsaw, and a great many suspects have been arrested, among them several authors and students. Postmaster - General Fawcett announced on Oct 8, that it was not intended by the British Government after August, 1884, to renew the present contract for the conveyance of mails between Great Britain and the United States. Instead of making long contracts, the department will monthly select the most efficient vessels for the transmission of mails.

The English coast was visited by a fierce gale lasting for several days. On the 15th October two of, H.M.S. training ships, were driven into collision and went ashore in dangerous positions. The new steamer Euripides, from New Orleans also went ashore at Higleman. High Tides and severe gales prevailed till October 18th, and many marine casualities are reported. The Severn tunnel was again flooded. The Queen intends to invest the Marquis of Lome with the Order of the Garter immediately on his arrival in England. The investiture will take place at Balmoral The length of the entire system of Mackay and Bennett’s cable will be 5600 miles. They will be laid by the steamer Faraday nest summer, and a duplicate line from ’lreland to Nova Scotia will be continued from Nova Scotia by special to the Cape, having a branch line from Ireland to France. Montreal had a great financial scare on October 13th, when it was known an extensive wholesale firm of the Bank of Montreal was in trouble. The leading banks resolved to see the house through, as its collapse would be a national calamity in disturbing confidence. The Exchange Bank stopped specie payments on October 9th.

MrWhitbred, M.P., was shot in the head on the 28th by mistake of his son. The daughter of the Lord Mayor of London has been married to Mr M. Aitken. The wedding took place in St. Paul’s, the third time since 1758. Marquis Tseng, the Chinese Ambassador, visiting Folkeston on October 12th, was presented with an address by the residents.

Hynes, a ballad singer, was arrested in Limerick on October 8, and imprisoned for one month, for singing the praises of O’Donnell, the slayer of Carey, and calling on all Irishmen to act toward informers in the same way,

Five thousand persons assembled at the National League meeting at Tipperary on September 30th, including a dozen priests. Kerry, Main and Leary, members of Parliament, made speeches, JGeorge Augustas Sala, commenting on the tremendous bill of the Russian Government, 150,000 roubles, for entertaining the Press at the coronation festivities says neither English nor American jour halists allowed the Government to pay their expenses, but the Continental correspondents sponged disgracefully, living shamelessly at free quarters, with carriages and horses thrown in, and as much money as they could get, and they then asked for more.

Jundel, leader of the new political party in Montreal, has sued “ Le Monde,” “Le Temps,” and “Le Bragard,” for libel on bis moral character, the total damages claimed being 75,000d015, or 25,000d015, from each. A Canadian forger and swindler, named J. 0. Dewey, alias A. F. Harper, wanted for forgeries to the extent of £IOO,OO, committed in Montreal and Chicago, was caught by the San Francisco police on board the China steamship Coptic, when the vessel was near the Heads, on her voyage to Hong Kong. On Oct. 11, a great sale of orchids took place in London, one plant bringing £230. The Rothschild orchid, now in bloom at Perrier’s is valued at £450,

Numerous hunting field accidents have occurred. Lord Londsdale was thrown on the 21st at a five-barred gate, and bis life is despaired of.

An Irish National League meeting was held at Cholersville, County Cork, on Sunday, the I4th, 18,000 persons were present. The parish priest refused to allow those under his immediate charge to attend.

Haines, who witnessed the murder of Lord Montmorres at Ballinrobe in 1880, has turned informer; On October 17th a large stone] was hurled through the window of the rail* way carriage in which Sir Stafford Northcote was sitting while being conveyed by the Duke of Abercrombie’s train to Baron’s Court. The assault was made between Dungannon and Omagh. Lady Crichton received a dangerous wound in the back from the missile. In the trial of a suit for libel brought by Police Inspector French, of Dublin, against the “ New Ireland” for the statement tnat he had absconded with money belonging to the secret service fund, the newspaper promises startling disclosures. Sir Stafford Northcote, replying to an address on Oct. 9, said, “We are fighting a great battle for the maintenance of the Union. The tendency of the present Government is toward separation. Loyalists must unite in the prevention of what would destroy the country’s interests.” An Orange procession while returning from a meeting at Belfast, after listening to Sir Stafford Northcoate was attacked by a Catholic mob. A desperate fight ensued, many persons being wounded. On the same night the Orangemen smashed the windows of the convent and two newspaper officers. A lady sitting near a convent window was injured and died the following day.

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