ARRIVAL OF THE FRISCO MAIL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 5017, 27 May 1889, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE FRISCO MAIL.

(By Telegraph.) (Per R.M.3. Alameda, at Auckland). AUCKLAND, May 26. The B.M.S. Alameda arrived at 7 a.m. from San Francisco with English and American mails. The vessel brings dates as follows London, April 19th, San Francisco, May 5 th: — GENERAL SUMMARY • (Dales from Europe to May 4tb.) General Boulanger is said to bo almost unnoticed in London whore he expected to become the lion of the season. Mr Joseph Chamberlain is resigning his membership of the Liberal Society. He said he was no longer in harmony with its principles.

It is stated that the recent visit of Count Bismarck to England, oslensibly on a-political mission, was really for the purpose of marrying a relative of Lord Londonderry. It, however, resulted in a complete failure, and the engagement is off. The London Telegraph, of April 17th, proposes a national recognition of the explorer Stanley’s services, on his return from Africa. Professor Harrison, an Englishman, was committed to Londonderry gaol and tried on Tuesday, April 23rd, on a charge of assisting besieged tenants at Gweedore. While being conveyed to gaol he was heartily cheered by the populace. The sergeant who was in charge of the police ordered his men to beat the devil out of them, and Fathers Gilder, Boyle, Oonjbeare, O’Brien, and O’Shea, as well as a reporter of the London Daily News , were roughly handled. Women were trampled upon by the crowd, and in some instances clubbed by the police. The Unionist Conference at Birmingham on April 25th, adopted resolutions affirming that the land question is at the root of Irish discontent, and urged Government to introduce a measure to enable the tenants to become owners of the land.

In bis speech at Bristol on Aprill3th;.Lord Salisbury made a bitter attack upon Homo Rule. He ridiculed the agitation, and said that Cornwall had as much right to Home Rule as Ireland. The nationality arguments, he said, were claptrap which would sacrifice the best interests of industry and commerce to mere empty sentiment.

On May 2nd the Tipperary Court affirmed the sentences of Messrs O’Connor, Condon, and Manning, all members of Parliament, for offences under the Crimes Act. They were conveyed to Clonmel gaol the same afternoon. A crowd met the prisoners at the station and cheered. The prisoners refused to enter the prison van, and a desperate struggle ensued between the guards and the prisoners, in which the people took part. The police, finally, to avoid bloodshed, allowed them to walk to gaol, with the exception of Manning, whose foot was severely wounded, and no went in a carriage. In his address at the banquet of the College of Physicians, Dublin, on the 17th April, the Marquis of Londonderry, in announcing his resignation of the office of Lord Lieutenant, denied that this step was due to any thing that Mr Balfour had said. He accepted office, as he stated, for two years, and agreed to retain it for a third year at the request of Government.

Hsury Rochefort's son committed suicide at Bona, in Algieria, on April 28th. At the Paris Exhibition every department is backward. That of the United States Is especially so. The British exhibit is nearest completion. Five thousand men are working on it day and night, but it will be impossible to have it ready on the official opening. The Eiffel tower will not be ready till June. The Empress Elizabeth of Austria, now at Wiesbergen, is subject to the same mental malady that afflicted her cousin, King Louis of Bavaria. When the Empress beard of the death of Prince Rudolph she imagined that she was her son’s murderer. At present the acute stage of disease has passed, leaving a notable softening of the brain. It was telegraphed on April 23rd that the Emperor had paid the late Crown Prince’s debts, which amounted to 2,500,000 dollars. A wealthy Scotchman residing in HongKong has offered to subscribe £IO,OOO to a fund to indemnify the London Times in its present trouble. What is known as the Australian Election Law has been adopted by both Houses of the State of Missouri legislature. The contract for building powerful coast defence ironclads ha| been awarded by the naval authorities at Washington to San Francisco. An English syndicate has subscribed the money necessary to complete the tunnel under the Hudson River. New York. Contrary to Edwin Booth’s physician’s predictions, and to general expectations, whoa he was recently stricken with paralysis, ho re-' appeared on April 15th at Cleveland Operahouse, and played lago to Mr Barrett’s Othello.

One of the most extraordinary sights ever seen in a frontier country was presented in the heart of the Indian territory for a week or more before April 23, on which day a large area of land, known as Okalhoma, formerly hold as a military reservation, but lately turned over to the Interior Department, was proclaimed by the President open to settlement by American citizens. Thousands upon thousands of intending settlers had gathered waiting for the signal to advance, and were only held back from anticipating the date fixed by the President, by the pre* sence of a large body of troops. When the order to advance was given,this army of home* seekers flowed over the promised laud like u rush of waterjwhen the floodgates are opened. There were some fights and loss of life as a consequence among the selectors, but all things considered the settlement under the circumstances was effected without much trouble.