ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3504, 28 June 1884, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

By Telegraph. I;/ *,,j, I Wellington, June 28. The mail steamer Australia arrived from ’Frisco at 4 a.tn. to-dsy. She left ’Frisco on June 7, and Honolulu on Jnno 14. She passed the Zealandia outward-bound on the 11th. Her passengers for New Zealand are:—Messrs Golbeck, Campbell, Atwood, Mr and Mrs Nathan, R. Wood, Mr and Mrs Whyte, Caddfington, Mundad, Frobarit, Mr. and Mrs Oliphaut. GENERAL SUMMARY. The aqnariam at Bishop’s - gate, London; was burned down on June 4. Several lions, bears, and other specimens of natural history were burnt. Bentinck, the composer, has decided to visit the United States next fall and lecture upon his half century of musical .experience. Earl Granville has transmitted o Note to Washington,Jin relation to the collection of- conspiracy funds within the jurisdiction of the United States. Mr George Hudson, M.P., bequeaths £200,000 for the education and maintenance of orphans in Sunderland, A Papal encyclical was read on Sunday, June Ist, in the Catholic churches of England, warning people against joining any secret society, under pain of excommuication. The letter aays Freemasonry at its inception was probably merely a friendly society, but, if so, it asks where is the necessity for blind'obedience to the demands of its votaries.

Addressing the clockmakers of Lon- ' don, Sir John Barnett, an eminent man In the trade, acknowledged that unless something effective was soon done to counteract American and Swiss competition, British articles would be extinct in a very few years. The business of .. making time-keepers in England was in a most desperate state of decline. Mrs Leffley, who poisoned her husband was hanged atLincoln. The circumstances attending the execution, according to a despatch from London, were shocking, the hangman, Binns, being nnnecesaarily and barbarously brutal in his treatment of the unhappy woman. Eye •witnesses state that he knocked her down in the pinioning room, and choked her till her face was livid, in order to

■top her screams. . When the news of the Scotland Yard dynamite explosion and damage were received in New York, O’Donovan Rossa « We’ve got England at last, it will not be long before she will be on her knees. Lost night’s explosion is only {he beginning of her trouble.” Patrick Joyce secretary of the Irish Revolution- , ary Brotherhood, said—“ Last night’s work ought to convince England that we •re in earnest. You need not be surprised to - hear of greater explosions before many days. Gladstone bad better mind himself.” Many people believe that the explosions were not the doings of IrishAmericans*but of Angle-Irishmen, which makes the situation the more serious for Irishmen in London. Irish affairs had been marked by an increase in the number of agrarian crimes and outrages in Ireland, within a few days preoeding. People are now beginning to trace the connection between this fact and the dynamite explosions in London. /Balance of summary is unavoidably held «*er, owing to the lateness of the hour when telegram was received.]