ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1441, 15 December 1885, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

The s.s. Alameda arrived at Auckland from San Francisco at 1.30. p.m. Saturday with the English mail, 60 passengers and 1200 tons cargo, The Alameda has undergone extensive alterations and improvements to fit her for the voyage. The s.s. Penguin, for the Sou'll with the Southern San Francisco mail, left Onehunga at 6 o’clock on Sunday evening.

general SUMMARY. (Dates from Europe to Nov. 22nd.) The British steamer Ibernon, from Boston (Nov. 10th) for Liverpool, was totally wrecked on the 21st in Damam s Bay, on the south-« estern coast of IreTho Rev. N. W. Morrill, of St Albans, the Ritualist, who was recently reported to have gone to Rome, appears to be living in retirement on an income from £30,000 left him three years *»go by Miss Marx, one of his parishioners. Her surviving relations propose to contest the bequest on the ground of undue influence, Ao extensive fire occurred in Portland street, Manchester on November 21st, and destroyed property valued at £IOO,OOO. ' , f . . The special staff of lash constables organised in London early in the dynamite “ scare ” have been ordered hack to Ireland, as their services are no longer required. A despatch from London of -Nov. says a terrible cyclone swept over the Phillippine Islands the day before. It is reported tnat 8000 buildings, including numerous churches and seboolhouses, were destroyed or damaged, and 22 persons killed. The London Exchange telegraph Company received a telegraphic despatch from Paris on November 2lst, stating that the French Government had resolved to terminate the Madagascar expedition. It further mentioned that in nil probability the French troops would also soon be withdrawn from Tonquin. A despatch to the ximes dated Calcutta, Nov. 12th, says that 600 people had been drowned and 150 submerged in a cyclone which traversed 1241 square miles. The moors of Hedabad and Sudder districts were devastated. Yiscount Raleigh died on Nov. 14th. . Hardwood’s cotton mills at Bolton have been burned. The loss is £IO,OOO. Lady Larnpsom procured a divorce on Nov. i9th from her husband Sir George Curtis Larnpsom, hart., on the ground of infidelity. The suit was brought in the Comt of Probate and Divorce. Free fights have occurred at a political meeting "held by the Conservatives at Burton, on Nov. 14th, in which Mr Charles Allsop, M.P., who presided, was beaten almost out of recognition, London papers of the 18th November ment on the elopement of a beautiful heiress yet in her teens, a Ward in Chancery, and under the guardianship of the Hon. Gathorne Hardy, with the latter’s steward, a young man named Anderson. The lady’s name was Ridgeway. Anderson, in order to evade the severe penalty of the law against abducting or eloping with a ward in Chancery, caused Miss Ridgeway to bind herself to him as a domestic servant.

The case Adams v. Lord Chief Justice Coleridge came up on November 10th, in the Court of Queen’s Bench, but Sir Henry James begged the Court to allow an adjournment on the plea of an understanding haying been arrived at outside the Court. Learned counsel understood Ad«ns was to receive a large sum for damages and costs. The suit was brought by Adams on account of libellous letters written by the Hon. Bernard Coleridge, but inspired by the Chief Justice himself.

The depression which existed for some time in the ship building trade on the Clyde is increasing in severity. There are so many men out of employment that the relief committee find great difficulty even in supplying food for the distressed people. 47 stowaways were discovered on the 10th in the hold of a vessel bound to America.

Owing to recent civilian attacks, a large party of the King’s Royal Rifles broke out of Limerick barracks on the night of November 10th, and made an indiscrimim.te attack upon people residing in the viemity. Several were badly stabbed, and the disturbance was with difficulty quelled, and the soldiers conveyed back to barracks by the police. While Michael Nugent was proceeding to Ballyinngh on the 10th to record bis vote adverse to the Nationalist party, he was dragged from the car and beaten nearly to death. Roger O’Brien, a prominent Leaguer was shot at Atblone the same day on account of agrarian troubles, ‘

Earl Carnarvon has declined to interfere with the conviction of the twelve men charged with conspiracy to raurdor an obnoxious landlord of Buranile. Eive of the convicted parties were given seven years, and the rest six and twelve months’ imprisonment. Great excitement was caused at Killarney on the Bth by the auction of a number of cattle that had been seized for the non-payment of rent. The representatives of the National League bought the animals in for £6O.

Viscount Hawarden has been appointed Lord Lieutenant of the County of Tipperary in the place of Viscount Lismore, resigned. A large mob of factory girls mobbed Mr Charles Edward Lewis, the Conservative member of Parliament for Londonderry, on the 12th. They treated him in a most shameful manner. Three hundred tenant farmers of County Cork have demanded 25 per cent of a reduction in their rents. The landlords’ offer of 15 per cent reduction was rejected. The tenants have deposited the rent money they proposed to pay in the banks.

Dean O’LoughJin fell dead on November 9th while ar, mass in the University College at Dublin. At Garrick-on-Suir, on November 14th, a mob of 2000 persons armed with pitchforks and scythes ■ xpelled the police who were trying to serve writs of eject nent. John Tyndall, the scientist, declined by letter to stand as a candidate for Renfrewshire in the Liberal interest. Ihe letter was published on November 6th, and the Conservatives distributed copies. Mr Tyndall says he belongs to no party, but if the House permits its members to speak by special knowledge when they bad anything profitable to say, ho would willingly accept an election to that clisss. He proceeds to denounce the Gladstone Cabinet, which, he says, headed by unstable rulers has caused five years of humilation abroad and confusion at home. Recalling events in the Transvaal and the Soudan, Tyndall says : the misdeeds of men, T would not willingly accompany to the judgment seat the unpurged spirits of those who are responsible for the bloodshed in the Soudan. It was a damning and a damnable business from end to end, yet the man who is responsible above all others for this waste of blood, who sent Gordon to the wilds, and there abandoned him to death, now dares talk to the people of Midlothian as if no fleck rested upon his workmanship.” A despatch of November 19th says Riel’s body was buried at Gate, in a vault underneath the Church of the Immaculate Conception of that place. On November sth as the Rev. Stewait Ross, formerly rector of the Church of Belfast, Ireland, was addressing the Plymouth Young Men’s Christian Association, Charles Jay, a Canadian Immigration Commissioner, burst into the room and shouted, “You hypocrite, you eloped with my wife,” Ross turned pale, and fled from the room. The audience suppressed their excitement for a moment, but when they realised what was the matter they became a bowing mob, and pursued the lecturer a mile, yelling all the time. At this point Ross, who was breathless, and driven to bay, turned suddenly and stabbed two of his most active pursuers. ■The others coming up at the time seized and disarmed the murderous rector. The police then put in an appearance and arrested him. He was taken before the Magistrate, and remanded a week without bail. It transpired Ross had disappeared from Belfast two years ago, leaving a wife. Mrs Jay was found in Ross’ lodgings, and, when informed of Ross’ arrest, gloried in her connection with the “ Lord’s annointed,” as she called him. She attended the Court, and sat in a brazen manner throughout the whole proceedings. . AMERICAN SUMMARY. (Dates to November 23rd.) The agent of the Zealandia claimed the right to carry the English mails to the colonies, arguing the contract had not expired. The Government of San Francisco notified the postal authorities to place the mails aboard the Alameda, This was done. The agent of the Zealandia formally protested, and threatened + o hold the New Zealand Government responsible for damages. John L. Sullivan, the pugilist, proposes to start from San Francisco for Australia in April next for a sparring tour, under the management of John E. Gar row. He wishes to meet Professor Wm. Miller, or any of the Australian jboxers, in either a glove or ring contest after his arrival. Jem Mace, the veteran pugilist, has got tired of America, and proposes to return to Australia. Rossa, the dynamiter, “demands” the position of Deputy-Collector of the Port of New York, The Collector ignores his presence, and refuses an interview. The New Orleans World’s Exposition opened on Nov, 10th with a grand civic and military ceremony. The day was observed as a holiday, Hugh M. Brooks, kno.vn as Walter Helennor Maxwell, was arraigned in the Criminal Court at St. Louis on Nov. 14, under an iudictment charging him with the killing of C. Arthur Preller. He pleaded not guilty. The Chinese Ambassador denies that the Chinese Government had granted any concession for making railroads. Senator Sharon, the Californian millionaire, is dead. He left 100,000 dollars to charities, and made a solemn affidavit on his death-bed that marital relations never existed between himself and Sarah Alathea Hill, the plaintiff in the celebrated case against him.