ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL

Temuka Leader, Issue 1453, 12 January 1886, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL

AucatfAND, 9 * The s.B. Mariposa arrived at 4 o’clock. She left San Francisco tKW December 20ih, one day late. Thera\wftS very rough weather between San Si^ ranc^BCo and Honolulu, and again a before reaching Auckland. She arJHH for seven days, 15 knots, between

lulu and Samoa. H GENERAL SUMMARY OF NEwJ Mr Spurgeon, the eminent preacherl suffering from heart disease, and is pi manently broken in health.

The fund for the benefit of Jamed Stephens ex-bead centre of the Fenian' Brotherhood, now amounts to £17,000..J The Duke of Wellington the Queen at the Requiem Mass4J^H

repose of. the soul of the late King Ai

on Doc. 6th,

There is a mad dog scare in London! and policeman are provided with Ion! iron rods having slip nooses at the end! There have been 56 cases of rabies re! ported this year in the city. ■ The Irish cattle dealers assert that the! have successfully boycotted the Cor! Steamer Packet Company, which has paid! its last dividend, and its collapse is con-l eidered certain, I Advices received from the various 1 counties of Ireland state that hundreds ofi Irish landlords are In the deepest distress,l and some of the smaller landlords are onl the eve of starvation, owing to the fact! that they have not received their rent fori some time past. It is estimated that not' as much as £SOOO in rents has been paid in the agricultuml districts since JLjfc"' beginning of November, y

Id an interview at Dublin on De^ in |] er 1 16tb, Mr Harrington said tha,; jgOQ } National League branches, 3qq members, bad donated £12,003 '- 0 (jm Executive of the League during thtr) re , sent year. He said that some of then» w Nationalist members of Parliament wouWßi

receive salaries from the League. The extinction of the Liberals he thought would immensely benefit the Irish cause. Mr Harrington also said that boycotting was outside the League programme and practice, and was confined to a few branches. The Executive, he said, would stop boycotting. Michael Davitt, speaking in Dublin on the same day, said the League would open special industries if the workmen would co-operate. He announced that he would forthwith commence an agitation to abolish landlordism in toto , and to secure to the tenants the benefits farmers enjoy through the working of the Land Act. He denounced the Earl of Pembroke and the Earl of Meath for drawing large sums of money from Dublin that rightfully belonged to the people. M. Pasteur will be authorised by Government to establish a hospital in Paris for the treatment of hydrophebia patients.

The Loudon Times of December 13th confirms the statement of the finding of a Treaty between France and Burmab at Mandalay. Cholera is reported to be epidemic in' Brittany, being worse at Andiern than it was at Marseilles,

Prince Bismark was injured on the 13th by falling ofi his horse, and is confined tcv _ his residence.

His Holiness the Pope was repo; seriously iM on December 15tb. J The Propaganda shows that no November Ist in the vicarate of Cl

China, 9 missionaries, 7 native pries! 60 catechists, 270 members of religious orders, and 24,000 Christians were massacred; 200 parishes, 47 orphan asylums, and 10 convents were destroyed, a;.d 225 churches burned.

A despatch from .Rangoon dated December 16th says eleven European* who were working for the Bombay Trading Company, on hearing of the rupture between Burraah and the Indian Government, tried to reach Munni on the 20th November, They were overtaken and murdered by the Burmese troops in a steamer belonging to the King, and commanded by a palace official. It is alleged that Tynedah, the Burmese Prime Minister, was implicated in the massacre, and the inhabitants of Rangoon are therefore indignant that he should be allowed to retain his office.

Despatches from Belgrade, dated December 16th, says that the weath*r was intensely cold, and the soldiers at the front are suffering severely. A number of Servians were frozen to death while asleep. The New York Tribune’s cablegrams say that while Mr Gladstone denies -the , accuracy of the published still he has not denied that he is reaohW on conceding the principle of Home role. The conviction is universal among English of all parties that Mr Gladstone means to crown his career by carrying through Parliament an Irish scheme that will be satisfactory. Mr Parnell alleges that he acquainted Queen Victoria with the purport of his scheme, and that the Marquis of Salisbury was . certainly informed before the majority of Mr Gladstone’s colleagues knew what was brewing, nor have they yet heard; anything on the subject direct from their late chief. They seem inclined to make him understand the doubtful prudence of undertaking to reverse the policy of the Liberals and the Empire without consulting his associates in public life. The Tory and Independent Pres* agree that Mr Gladstone has raised simply the issue of union or disunion. Far more striking is the response. Two Liberal papers of high standing, and two only, suppoit it. ! “No assurances, safeguards, limitations, or guarantees of Mr Gladstone’s devising are worth a straw,” says the Times/ “ An independent Irish Parliament means sooner or later secession. That is tho line on which the battle is to be fought,” The Irish Conservatives, beaded by Mr Lewis, are forming an independents section, opposing any coalition withjHM Parnell. Mr Burt, replaces Sir Wilfred LawsooS as leader of the local optionists, The number of members of the ne'wH House of Commons who never were before elected to Parliament is 333. This has no || parallel since the first Parliament under i the Reform Bill. , t The Parnellite vote in Dublin was iijg-l raense, viz., 23,779, against 4476 cast for', the Conservatives and 3170 for the Liberals. At a meeting at the National Liberal 5 Club of Great Britain, of those Liberal ,■ members for Parliament whose majorities v had been reduced by the casting of th|3 ’ Irish vote for the Tories, and of those Liberal members who bad been defeated by the same tactic*, a resolution w«l

f adopted bj a unanimous vote pledging * each gentleman present not to employ I Irish labor in future, and gradually, but ' as speedily as possible, to discharge all i Irish now employed. The speakers who : were very sore-headed and used bitter ; words, assured the meeting that the whole machinery of the Birmingham caucus would be employed to make these presumptive measures effective. Many said that their own Irish workmen on their farms and estates and their mines and factories, who were provided with sustenance in troublous times, had agitated and voted against their masters, their bread winners, at the bidding of strangers, and referred to the Parnellite manifesto which was issued on Saturday morning preceding the borough elections, and which exhorted all Irish electors in Great Britain to vote for Tories, except in cases of a few specified Radicals. All the property of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, in Elizabeth Port, New Jersey, was attached on ‘.December 19tb, and 1000 employees discharged. Preparations for the reception of Mr John Stewart Parnall, in New York, in January, are being made on a grand scale. The Parliament fund has reached 1700 dollars. Mrs Y. Dudley, the Englishwoman who attempted to kill O’Donnovan Rosaa, and who is now in Middletown Insane Asylum, is manifesting suicidal tendencies.

The s.s. Australia which belengs to tbs old line, is advertised to leave San Francisco ou December 26th direct for Sydney. It is said that Mr Pearce, her owner, intends to continue the old line, leaving out Auckland, as opposition. The San Francisco police made a descent on December 16th on a cottage in the suburbs and captured four dynamiters with many of their destructive appliances tiiad a list of citizens checked off for death. - Colonel Challie, Chief of staff to General Gordon, delivered a lecture in New York ®n December sth, in which he insisted that the General was still alive. The lecturer said Gordon had four or five steamers, and in hii opinion be went south in one of them to Gondokoro, and would in due time be heard from. The Apaehe Indians have taken the war-path in Arizona, and are murdering settlers and killing off stock. The people of the territory are thoroughly alarmed. William fl. Vanderbilt, of New York, died suddenly of paralysis of the brain at his mansion, New York, on the night of December Bth. His total income was stated at 15,000,000 dels. The money and stock markets will not be affected by of death, which is attributed to overwork. Suspicious characters have been found hovering near his tomb, and it is believed the theft of the body is contemplated, as in the case of the millionaire Stuart. The authorities of New York are taking notice of the fact that desperate boxing matches are the rule now among the-' young aristocracy of that place. There was a set-to at the rooms of the Athletic Club, the richest in the city, on December 10 th, between Ingles worth and MacMahon, two gilded youths, the details of which are sickening. MacMahon was punished nearly to death, and the furniture, carpets, and the clothes of the spectators were sprinkled with the blood of the combatants. Slogging matches in clubs are also befog revived in Boston. A tremendous storm at Aspinwall, oa December 6th, sunk fourteen vessels, many of them with their crews. The Royal Mail and Pacific Mail Company’s docks were much injured, and the newlybuilt offices of the latter placed in a critical position. Traffic on railways was suspended for several days, the tracks being submerged. Chinamen are being systematically boycotted in every town on the Pacific Coast, and opium riots have increased so fast in the eastern cities that general alarm is felt. Thomas B. Gratz Brown, who ran as Vice-President on the Horace Greeley ticket, died in St. Louis on December 13ib. Miss Nannie De Vallance, who claimed to be the widow of an English lord, was arrested for forgery in New York oe December I3th. Six children were bitten by a rabid dog running at large in Newark, N.J., on December 4th. A peculiar feature of the case is that at his request the children have been sent to M. Pasteur, in Paris, for treatment. Weston and O’Leary began a foot journey of 2500 miles at the Metropolitan Rink, Newark, N.J., on December 7th. The rules are 12 hours a day, excluding Sundays. The walk is undertaken as a trial of endurance between the iwo men. The Grant Memorial Fund reached on November 6th, 100,000 dols. Jay Gould, the great operator, has announced his intention to retire from Wall street at the close of the year. ‘ The Stock Board propose to erect a new Exchange in another locality in New York at a cost of 5,000,000 dols. The decree establishing customhouses on the Isthmus of Panama is suspended as long as the Panama Railroad Company and! the merchants guarantee the payment- of the expenses of the national troops until the Canal Company has fulfilled its engagement with the Columbian Government. President Cleveland allowed himself to be dissuaded from attending Vice-Presi-dent Hendrick’s funeral on the ground ■ that some “crank” might assassinate him. Now the majority of the Press are jeering him for causelesss timidity. Henri Rochfort has fallen foul of M. Pasteur’s system of inoculation, which he says is either useless or dangerous. M. Pasteur replied moderately, urging that in cases of hydrophobia the subject be sent to him as soon as possible after being bitten. Evacuation Day (Nov. 20th) passed almost unnoticed. In New York two veterans of 1812 placed a flag on the battery flag-stafi, and were the only survivors to enjoy the barquet. This fact is quoted to show how rapidly and completely the community is becoming Anglicised in feeling. Investigation shows that there are now only 700 bison or buffalo on the American continent. Twenty head were slaughtered in Yellowstone Park on November 28th by a parly of English tourists, and this fact has prompted the Government to legislate for the protection of this class of •pi mill. A tremendous storm on November 24-ih and goth wrought great havoc in the Atlantic States, particularly among the shipping'

A monument erected in honor of Edward Kelly, the Irish member who was sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered in 1876, was unveiled at Mount Dope Cemetery, Boughton, on 13th November,

Instead of being decreased for the month of November, the public debt of the United States was increased for that time, the receipt* from reyanao having been small.

Charles D. Bradley, the Chicago physician, has become insane by the new anaesthetic, cocoaine, and has physically rained his wife and five children by experiments. The Salt Lake Mormons have turned the tables on the Gentiles in return for almost incessant prosecutions for polygamy. They have examined closely into the private lives of the anti-Mormons and the reauit is indictment for lewdness, adultery, and other practices contrary to law and good morals. There are some fears of an uprising in Utali on account of the rigid enforcement of the antipolygamy law. Infantry and artillery at contiguous posts were under marching | orders for Salt Lake on 10th December. The New York Herald advises that the great monument fund project be abandoned. Only 100,000 dollars have been raised in four months, when one million was expected. Society circles in Cork were agitated on December 14th over the elopement of Miss Marion Long, with her father’s groom, a prepossessing young fellow named Hodnett. The runaways were married in Dublin, where they were captured. The young lady was sent back to her father, and Hodnett to gaol for six months.

A Paris special of December 13th says De Leeseps is indignant over the American criticisms of the Panama Canal. He is especially irritated at the suggestion that the French people will soon lire »f supplying cash for the canal, and that the United Stales could then buy it cheap. He avers the Company will never sell the canal, but as a matter of fact the investors will ultimately receiva dividends which will probably equal those of Ihe Suez Canal; that the French nation will never desert the enterprise, and he will live to see the first vessel go through the canal himself.

Despatches from London of the 15th December says that grave news hat been received from the Soudan that the Arabs are advancing, and it is now clear, although strenuous efforts have been made to keep the facts out of the papers, that the situation in Egypt is serious enough to compel General Stephenson to leave hurriedly for the front. The garrison at Koshet appears to be cut off and besieged, and the little steamer Loftus, while with bet guns shelling the enemy, was hit several times. Koshet is a strongly fortified position, but it is 100 miles south of Wady Halta, with several small cataracts between. Three fresh regiments ordered to reinforce the British have advanced hurriedly to the front. Later despatches say the rebels had pillaged and burned Terb and other villages. MU GLADSTONE’S HOME BULK MEASURE. The latest despatches received on this subject from London to the New York Sun saysMr O’Connor, president of the National League of Great Britain, in an interview this morning, said Mr Gladstone will carry his scheme of Home Rule through if he can square Lord Harrington and Parnell. The British people have taken the plunge more quietly than was expected. The Irish parliamentary party are undecided what form of self-govern-ment to demand. The tendency is in favor of the colonial plan in preference to the federal plan formulated by the late Isaac Butt, Continues the correspondent; —They have been hunting for Parnell for several days, but thus far without success. It is believed he is secluded at the seaside somewhere in the South of England. Parnell is exceedingly prudent of speech, and is doing his best in the present crisis to avoid all contact with members of the Press. A special to the New York Times of 20th December declares the situation with which the week ends is curiously characteristic of both England and Gladstone. In ao other country could a project which five years ago would have been regarded as the extremity of treason bo so suddenly “ sprung ’* on the public and so seriously discussed as the matter of Irish Home Rule, Of coarse Hawarden and Windsor are at war. A story reaches me to-night on absolute authority that Mr Gladstone did ; write to the Queen stating his views about Home Rule. She was enraged; sent for Lord Salisbury, and gave him Mr Gladstone’s letter. He only said it was an indiscreet thing for Mr Gladstone to do, and he never could keep his pen from the paper. He took a copy of the letter away with him, and consulted Lord Randolph Churchill, who made a wily suggestion that the best thing to do was to divulge the fact, and the better to avert a suspicion of the Royal source of information state that Mr Gladstone had written to the Queen. This was put in the way of the Daily News, which printed it. Then a copy of the letter to the Queen was shown to the editor of the Times who has since written, ou that basis, and he is the only man outside o! the Cabinet who has seen it.

On December 19th the following despatch from Mr Gladstone was received by the Cable News Co. “ Hawarden, December 19tb. If I should at any time have any plqn or intention to announce on the question of Irish Government it wid be done publicly and on my own responsibility, not by an anonymous and irresponsible declaration. My political friends are assured that 1 remember my obligations to them and may safely understand that I am bound to none of ihe ideas respecting Home Rule for Ireland recently announced in ray name. After saying this much I hold myself excused from replying to farther enquiries, rumors, or allegations, regarding the Irish question.—Wm. E, Gadatone." The special of the New York Post at London says 1 have this morning seen s letter from Mr Gladstone, in his own handwriting, which says his duty at the present moment is to think matters over, and he repeats what he said at Midlothian that he could only approach the subject in a practical way as it lie were a responsible Minister of the Crown. He looks to the Government to take such steps in the manner as they may deem necessary in the interests of the State. He says—in a oheracteristU sentence—that what ha# bees attributed to bins by the Leaden

Press m ether peoples opinions of his opinions ; just na the colors of the rainbow are in us not in it. The only point upon which he makes a distinct correction is about the condition of the Crown veto, which he says he could never have proposed. It should be exercised only by the advice of the Irish Ministry. I oan further state positively that no negotiations either direct or indirect have passed between Gladstone and Parnell. O’Connor told me yesterday that the Irish party will accept such a scheme as is outlined. There is much interest felt to know how the news had been received in America.