ARRIVAL OF THE FRISCO MAIL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 6345, 13 October 1890, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE FRISCO MAIL.

(By Telegraph.)

AUCKLAND, Oct. 11. SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Mr Arthur Arnold writes to the London Star of September 17th, denying the report circulated by the American newspapers that his brother, Sir Edwin, intends to marry a Japanese girl. The reports are, Mr Arnold saysV malicious lies, and he has his. brother’s authority to say so. His brother is about returning to London. A careless employee set fire to some naptha stored in the Farringdon Station and started a disastrous conflagration on September 15th, which did much damage and seriously impeded the traffic for hours. . The Gatling Gun Club, London, was closed up on September 11th, under an order of the Court. It was shown to bo unable to pay the weekly salaries. On September 10th, twenty mounted officers and guards dashed into the Thames to solve the problem of swimming horses across a river. Several crossed in safety, but three riders fell off and were rescued by boats. The national encampment at Bisley for rifle shooting has been marked by a disgraceful series of outrages committed by the soldiers on the country people in the vicinity. On September 14th the farmers were obliged to stand together for mutual protection, and since that time a constant feud baa been maintained. Government interference is asked for.

Despatches to the London News, . of September 11th, from Odessa, say that a veritable panic prevails among the South Russian grain exporters, owing to the unprecedented rapid rise in the value of the rouble. The whole of the Russian trade was ■demoralised. Though the harvest is good there is no doubt that the season will closer with a /general crash, Two southern exporters have already failed. The Government policy in raising the tariff is pronounced suicidal.

In an official-report made on Sept. 18th, Colonel Ford charges Sir W. G. Armstrong and Co. with the contraband manufacture of quick-firing powder for foreign governments without a license, and recommends the prosecution of the company. .

The Gironde Council-General has sent from Bordeaux a resolution to the Government demanding an early repeal of the law prohibiting the import of American pork. The united stevedores' sheds with the

freezing chambers nndjmaohinery andwSOO carcases of mutton, were burned on September 14th at Havre.

The recent burning of a big brewery in Frankfort, in which serious loss of life occurred, was the work of a discharged operative. He set fire to the building and then

opened the vats, and allowed 3000 barrels of beer to run to waste, After doing all the damage possible he committed suicide. _ The banquet given at Quebec on the night of the 16th in honour of Prince George of Wales, surpassed in splendour anything of the hind ever attmpied in the old Canadian town before. Among the guests were Admiral Watson, the Lieutenant-Governor of Algiers, the officers of themenof-war in port, the Government officers, and the Cabinet Ministers.

Bichard O’Brien, of Montreal, who is charged with publishing that Prince George of Wales had been mixed up in a street fight, appeared before Judge Desmayers, on the 6th and pleaded not guilty. He was released on bail, giving bonds in 800 dollars himself, with two sureties of 500 dollars each. He has retained the services of two of the leading criminal lawyers in Montreal, and will contest the case. O’Brien, who is a newspaper reporter says that he got his information from what ho considered a good source. The feeling against him is very strong. The Queen sent a cable out to Lord Stanley on the 17th to have full particulars forwarded regarding the prosecution. The affair was widely published in England and caused the Queen and, all the members of the Boyal family much pain and anxiety. The Queen has been personally in communication with the Prince and Governor General on the subject.; An official German notice has been published in Bagamayo, Africa, permitting everybody to traffic freely id slaves, and only prohibits their exportation by sea. Owners are also authorised to recover runaway slaves. The Arabs are overjoyed by this turn of affairs, and are openly purchasing slaves from the traders, ADDITIONAL SUMMARY.

Mr Samuel Plimsoll, ex-member of the British Parliament, aided by his brother, Mr Henry D. Plinsoll, is making a crusade, against the cruelties practised on cattle at sea. Mr D. Plimsoll.has been sent to the United States to interest Congress in the matter, and prepare reliable statistics as to the actual losses of cattle at sea ; also to secure evidence of the alleged cruelties which it has been stated have been committed. On August I3th the announcement was made that Parliament bad been petitioned to prohibit ' the transportation of live cattle across the Atlantic after Jan. Ist, 1891. “The effect of such an enactment,” says the Boston Herald'' would be a hard blow to the American export trade in live cattle, whilst it would greatly increase the shipment of dressed beef (in ships fitted with refrigerating apartments), of which tremendous quantities are now annually exported.” The story of the sufferings of the beasts on shipboard as gathered by Mr Plimsoll is horrible in its details.

Lawyer Blickman, of Omaha, is in New York pushing a claim to the entire Fast ei<Je of Broadway from Fiftieth to Fifty-third streets. He claims that he has bought the title from the real heir. He has smaller claims in Brooklyn and elsewhere. A fire broke out on Sept. 18th in a house on the Lledrioh Straase, Berlin, occupied by a wealthy merchant named Striohs and his family. Ifis two daughters, a governess and a maid, were burnt to death. Count Schleimts, who had been ruined by gambling, committed suicide at Berlin on September 19th. The fire at Salonica, by which the city was destroyed, broke out almost simultaneously in four different places, and is said to be the work of incendiaries. The Greek and Jewish quarters were devastated. The Government at Athens sent two warships to the port to protect the Greek subjects. All the consulates, the cathedral, and moat of the public buildings were destroyed, and twelve thousand houses were ruined..

When the Industrial Exhibition was opened at Toronto cn September 9th by the Earl of Aberdeen a very handsome United States flig, fluttering from one end of the”grand stand, was ordered to be removed by a militiacolonel named Gray , because it was “ the flag of the an alien people.” This was done amidst a good deal of hissing and some cheering. Manager Hill, when he heard of the occurrence, .ordered the flag to be replaced, and Grey, boiling with rage, demanded that it be torn) from the staff. Hill calmly insisted that it remain as the ensign was only a graceful compliment to the American people who visited the annual exhibition in large numbers. Hill’s better judgment prevailed. The Sunny South Company, while performing in a floating theatre, at Credo, Western Virginia, on August 23, was assailed by a portion of the audience, and unceremoniously thrown in the river. Ehe theatre was also wrecked. This action was taken to show the disgust felt at the poor performance. The Press of Hew York is advocating the holding of an independent world’s fair in that city, to be over before the similar one in Chicago begins. The chief argument in favour of it is that it will be useful in massing foreign exhibits, to be subsequently transferred to Chicago. At Spokane Falls, Washington, on Sept. 6, a premature dynamine blast in the Northern Pacific Freight Yards killed some twenty workmen.

There is no longer a surplus in the United States Treasury. The disbursements in two days up to Sept 17 exceeded the receipts by 64,000,000d01.' Ethel Curtis, aged nineteen, a pretty typewriter residing in Lexington avenue, New York, was burned to death on the night of Sept. 17. The cause was smoking cigarettes in bed.

The Maryland Law School at Baltimore has refused to admit any more coloured students, as the white members of the school have started an agitation against them, from the fact that in scholastic honours “black wins.”

Lineman Coop, who had gone up a pole in front of Park Theatre, on the night of Sept 15, to fix an electric light, received the deadly current in some way,and as the people came out of the theatre they saw him lying limp across the wires. He died soon after reaching the hospital. Henry George, the apostle of the single tax gospel, reached New York from Europe on September 6, Mr George eays his trip around the world was more successful than ho anticipated. Even in the protection strongholds of Australia, his most pronounced views on freotrade were given an impartial hearing everywhere. “ Single tax clubs,” he said, “ have sprung up all along the line after my speeches. The issue has already entered Australian politics. Sir Henry Partes, Premier of New South Wales, is a convert of ours, and an earnest .advocate of the single tax ; he used his influence to make my trip a success.” The French Canadians have taken some offence at an incident that occurred at the reception to Prince George, in Montreal, on September 10. The Mayor proceeded to read the address first in French, when the Prince cheeked him, “ In English, first, please Mr Mayor.” The Prince, in reply, , spoke in French, and also in English. Herr R, Ecapp, a son of the German gunmaker, is now in Canada testing the quality and quantity of the ore produced by the Suddery nickel and copper mines. He is in search of nickel to be used in the manufacture of a new gun metal. Yhe scheme for tunneling New York Bay, a Bill for which was introduced in Congress on Sept. 16, is a gigantic one. The cost is put at the rate of 1,260,000d013 per mile or 6,000,000,000d015. The purpose is to connect the great trunk lines terminating at Jersey City with Brooklyn. There is supposed to be a connection between this scheme and a plan.; for a European steamship line to stop at Monbank Point, and not dock at Now York City. ' Mr Child, proprietor of the Philadelphia Ledger , has telegraphed to purchase the ground on which the Shakspere memorial stands. If the offer is accepted, he will present the ground to the town of Stratford-on-Avon.

Henry Possell, a Lutheran resident in New York, finding his resolved to marry a Roman Catholic girl against his wishes, attempted to shoot him at the altar on the day of the wedding, Being .prevented, he went to the river and drowned himself.