ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1513, 16 November 1886, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

The Alameda arrived at Auckland at 11 p.m. last Saturday night. She sailed from San Francisco on October 24,

was detained at Honolulu 24 hours, and at lutilla one hour. The passage was uneventful, and steaming time 18 days 4 hours. Among the cargo .'for Auckland are 687 boxes of onions, 204 cases of canned salmon, 28 bales of brown corn, 23 barrels of beans, BOOoases of canned fruits, and 177 oases of dried fruits, The Alameda sailed for Sydney at two o'clock on Sunday afternoon. The Rotorua for the South, with the mail, sailed at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, GENERAL SUMMARY OF NEWS, (Dates from Europe to October 23,)

The Alameda was detained) one day owing to the non-arrival of the English mails.

Osman Digna’s Soudan stronghold, front which bis followers were routed oi October sth, has been fully occupied bj the British foreea and their allies, Th( whole region round about ’has been ef factually cleared of rebels. i The report of the escape from Siberia of the famous Nihilist conspiratoi Degalaff, is confirmed by a despatch oi October 12th. He is now in Geneva Degalaff planned sod assisted in th« murder of Lieutenant-Colonel Sudeakin chief of the Russian police, and one oi his staff three years ago. Since June twenty Siberian prisoners have escaped including two cavalry officers and severa students. On the 6th October Queen Christim of Spam signed a decree, freeing th( slaves from the remainder of their terms. A cable despatch of Bth October sayi the lives of some Spanish insurgent wore saved by the blander of an Under Secretary, who misunderstood thi Premier’s whispered communication tba the death sentence of the Court Msrtia was confirmed. He gave out that thi prisoners were pardoned. At a Cabine Council subsequently the Queen signed i decree commuting the sentence of tbi condemned insurgents. The production of an historic drami called “Juarax; or, the Mexican War 1 at the Theatre Chateau Diva, Paris, oi October 6tb, caused a tremendous noise in the house. The play pourtrays in vivid colors all the phases of Maiimillian’a career in Mexico. Paul de Cassagnac has published a most violent article, de* nouncing the production as a national disgrace. The disputes between France and the Malagasies in Madagascar are, M, da Freycinet informs bis colleagues, almost settled. The French Government purpose an outlay of 28,000,000 francs for the construction of men-of-war, and of 12,000,000 francs for the construction of ports of refuge, the entire work to be completed within four years. A proposition is made to convert Paris into a port of entry capable of receiving sea-going vessels, by deepening the Seine until it will float craft drawing 20ft, This will cost something over £5,000,000. Despatches of 12th October say the war feeling is increasing in France. M. Lavodor, a military critic, writes to Figsro that General Boulanger baa prepared a well-conceived plan in conjunction with staff officers of high rank for a Continental campaign. La Mrlitaire sayi General BouUnger desires war, not for the purpose of recovering Alsace end Lorraine, nor to gistify personal ambition, but as a step towards the solution of social questions. M. Lochenal, Minister of Commerce, has ordered the police to prosecute all persons selling boxes of toys imported from Germany, and containing a map of France without Alsace. , The strictest taboo on everything German is beiig observed, At the same time s number of Sandwich-men were arrested in the streets of Paris on the Uth of Octsber for displaying placards oi which were caricatures of Prince Bismarck.

A father and three sons named Dackio, owners of the colliery of Newbold, Leicester, England, were suffocated by choke damp on 3rd October. Many colliera were subsequently rescued from other parts, of the mine. Count von Zydizn, wha had served with distinction ia the Prussian army, has been sentenced to one month’s imprisonment in Berlin for keeping a gambling-house. T|ie Count ajso served ip the Union army during tE|e Southern rebellion, M. Carl Rothschild, head of the great banking firm, died suddenly at Berlin on October If th of heart diaea«t%

Herr Heinchetter, the Bavarian Premier’s father-in-law. after witnessing the trial and sentence of an editor at Munich, on October 12th, for libelling the Premier, ran out of the Courtroom and ahot himself. He had been depressed lately by seeing numerous editors, fathers of families, imprisoned for small Press offences.

Mrs Leader, wife of a butcher doing business at Camberwell, London, after a qnarrel with her husband on October 16th, left home, taking her children with her, and went to the Thames and threw herself and five children into the water. They were all drowned with the exception of one child.

The Pall Mall Gazette of Oetober 3rd published a series of memoranda addressed to the Admiralty by Lord Beresford, Junior Naval Lord, in which he says he feels bound to put on record his protest against tbe entire unreadiness of England for war. He dwells at grout length ou lack of arrangements for defences, and personally declares there ia at headquarters absolutely no plan of operations if esse of an outbreak of hostilities. Vii “ss a man of firmness, energy and geniuo ooould be created by the nei-d England would be face to face with an irreparable calamity. Sir Chas. Warren, Chief of the London police, has matured plans for guarding public buildings against the dynamiters, which are likely to prove very effective. The bulk ef the guaids are dressed in plain clothes, and work by a special code.

Prominent scientists in Paris and London urge the establishment of eaitbquake observation stations throughout the world.

Mr Gladstone received a depnUtion ,cf Irish ladies at Hawarden en October 24th, bearing a petition for Home Rule.' "The petition bore the signatures o Sullivan’s “ Golden Legend,” producsd at Leeds on October litb, w»s pronounced to be his best musical work. The proprietor of Anderton’e Hotel, Lenden, appealed on October 21st to the Lord Mayor to discontinue the annual ■how, because it disturbs bssitess and encourages riots. The coal mine owners in Fifeshire, Scotland, refused on October 14th to give the men a 10 per cent rise in wsgss demanded. The result is that 35,G00 miners throughout Scotland, will suffer from the lockout.

The Royal Enniskillen Fusiliers, stationed at Aldershot went on a riot on the night of the 6tb October in resistance to a draft being made for service In Africa. A savage fight ensued, and the Irishmen wire only subdued after a number of soldiers and police bad been wounded. Excessively warm weather prevailed all over the continent on October Btb. Tb* Peris theatres were described as veritable furnaces, and the attendance fell off onehalf.’ In London the thermometer "*» at SO.

The betrothal of Prince Albert of Wiles ,snd Princesi Alexandria, of Aubalt, is anthoriatively denied. Parnell, his mother and sister will spend th* winter in tbe South of France, end will not return to England before tbe reopening of Parliament, Ad English tourist named Boyd mysteriously disappeared at Basle, Switzerland, on October 4th. He was an Alpine climber, and public opinion is equally divided between an accident and foul play as the cause. It is . said that the Canadian Packet Railroad Company is pushing the building on the Clyde of six new steamers to be used on the route between Victoria, British Colombia, and Aostralia, China and Japan, and the British Government will bo urged ti subsidise these lines. According to the St. James’ Gazette of October 11th enthusiastic Socialists declare that thousands of men regularly drill in London, and they boast they are ready to put 10,000 armed men into the streets. It is feared that enthusiasts and sedulous secret teaching is telling dangerously in the East End, where there is much poverty and ruffianism.

IRISH NEWS. Valuable petroleum springe were discovered on October 6th in Sligo under a house which was being repaired. At a meeting of the National League held in Dublin on the 12th, the fortnightly receipts wars stated at £20,000. Secretary Harrington said that many landlords were making great reductions in the rests, but a large number of writs of eviction continued to be served and executed.

The Dublin Mail of October 33th says that the Rev. August Stapford, of Brookminster, a Unitarian preacher, has become insane. He has been committed tt a mad house.

ieCording to despatches of the 16th General Sir Redrew Boiler’s mission has accomplished much, and the landlords generally are responding to Lord Harting ton’s appeal to deal tenderly with their tenants. There are no such sweeping evictions as were predicted. Even the United Ireland admits that there has been an extraordinary reduction o< judicial rents, and says it only remains for tenants themselves to carry out Parnell's 80'per cent reduction. Branches of the Irish National League in the Counties of Cork and Waterford have been making enquiries regarding the condition of farms in these districts, and have just reported. They say that the harvest has been bad ; that oats are selling from 3s to 5s per barrel, and that heavy loss in stock has rendered the farmers unable to pay their rent. On account of ths bad harvest the farmers demand a reduction of from 45 to 50 per cent in their rents, and where the reduction is refused, they a ill pay nothing. A number of landlords have agreed to a reduction 0f;35 per cent.

HURRICANE ON THE ENGLISH CQAST, The galea which begun on the Ifith on the English and liisb coasts, accompanied bj floods, extended far to the northwest and continued for several days. In Ulster railway traffic was impeded. The British barque Baltapont was wreaked off Shellings Island, on the south-west coast of Ireland, and all on board perished. The British ship Teviotdale was wrecked on the Caerraarthan bar with the loss of seventeen lives. A number of Channel fishing boats were stranded, and the Brighton bench was strewed with wreckage. The storm was very furious on the Irish coast.' The streets in many of the towns Were 'flooded. Cows standing in the fields were destroyed, The damage is immense. There were dm deairuotire floods In

Wales. Throughout the gale accompanied by the heaviest rains within the memory of the oldest inhabitants. Later reports received from all parts of the kingdom contain the following list of disasters British ship Mal'any was wrecked in the British Channel and 20 persons drowned. The shore was strewn with the debris of the vessel, and as the bodies washed to land they were stripped of valuables by wreckers. The Norwegian barque Frendricko, from Musquash, N. 8., bound for Swansea, was wrecked off Padstow and If livsa werw lost. Also the Albion of the same place. Four lives were lost, the other persons on board being saved by the life boat. Another large barque, seen to be in terrible distress, 16 of the crew being huddled together on deck, foundered next morning. It is believed from 12 to 20 peraons wore drowned. The gale prevented the people on shore from rendering assistance, although they distinctly heard the cries of ih • doomed men. A Norwegian barque was wrecked off Tintagel, Wales, and her entire crew, consisting of 15 persons, perished. By a further list of disasters caused by this storm it was reported that on the 18th the British steamer Areos, Captain Whitlis'y, from New York for Bordeaux, was on Point do la Ooubre, in the Northern mouth of the Gironde. The British sieamerKate, Captain Dark, from Savannah for Liverpool, arrived at Queenstown disabled. The Norwegian barque Orfen, Captain Neilson, from Mobile for Goole, was towed into Cowes badly used up. Three of the crew had died and the rest was suffering from ague. The British barque Rutland, from Quebec for Greencock, was abandoned off Ludley Islands. The mate and carpenter were drowned.

HOMICIDE BY THE CZAR. The story that the Czar killed his chamberlain, Baron de Reutern, at the Palace of Qatsna with a sabre or pistol is conflrmed by despatches of October 23rd. The impression is that the occurrence was due to ungovernable temper and an almost insane fit of passionate anger, to which the Czar is notoriously subject, rather than to merely a fear of personal attack. De Reutern is a brother of Madame de Reutern, with whom the Grand Duke Alexis contracted a secret marriage ten years or more ago. The marriage made the present Czar and the lata Czar furious, and the latter finally declared it void. Other accounts say de Reutern made an attempt to kiill the Czar, and the latter fired la self-defence.

SPORTING. Late despatches from the Eastern States of Europe say that a number of athletes are preparing to start for the “ sporting goldfield” Australia. Fighters, wrestlers, sprinters, horsemen, and cricketers will be represented. John L. Sullivan, the American champion boxer, ia threatening Australia with a visit, and Hutchins, Johnson and other fast sprinters have determined to cross ths ocean and try conclusions with Malone, A cable message represents William Beach as saying, during an amicable meeting with Edward Hanlan at the Cambridge Music Hall, London, that he bad made £IO,OOO during his brief career as a scalier, and he proposed, on his return to Australia, to devote himself to bis farm, bolding himself, however, in readiness to accommodate anyone who might undertake to wrest the championship from him on the Pairamatta. He made no formal response to Hanlon's challenge. The London Sportsman of October 16th has the following:—“Mr Deeble authorises the editor to state that William Beach has decided finally to retire to private life. The champion has beaten all the prominent scullers of his day, and, therefore, considers ho is entit'ed to rest on his laurels. His private affairs now claim a large portion of his attention."

INDIAN ITEMS. A despatch from Delhi of October 9th says that the situation, which has grown out of religious rioting between the Hindoos and Mahomedans, is extremely critical. Reinforcements have been sent to Delhi and to Meerut to help to keep order. The Mahomedans on October Bth attacked a small Hindoo temple. The Hindoos defended themselves, and a desperate fight ensued, in which the Mahomedans triumphed. The victors be* smeared the temples with blood, smashed the idols, and destroyed the outbuildings. Twenty Hindoos were badly wounded, Serious riots also prevailed all over the districts of Jeydkoor and Kattywar. The Bengal Goyernment have declined to interfere with the natives’ religious customs by initiating reforms looking toward the abolishing of infant marriages and enforced widowhood. The Government insist that the q uestion of reform in these matters must for the present be left with the Hindoos themselves.

CANADIAN NEWS, A passenger train on the Canadian Pacific Railway went through a trestle bridge 125 miles east of Winnipeg, on the morning of sth October, when five cars, including a mail car and four passenger coaefaes, were badly wrecked and afterwards destroyed completely by fire, Several persons were injured, some fatally, and valuable papers belonging to President Sutherland, of the Hudson Bay Railway Company, who was just returning from England, were among the property destroyed. This was the first accident on the Canadian road.

The Knights of Labor in Moptreal are excited because Father Dodd ? pastor of St. Patripk ! s Chprch ip that city, read on October £(rd a circular of the Council of Bishops of the frovince of Quebec, denouncing the Order, and declaring it could not be recognised by the Catholic Church.

The Quebec elections on Optober 15th resulted' in the defeat of she (government.

AMERICAN SUMMARY. Farmington, Maine, w* a alqipet destroyed by fire on October 2fird, Charleston and the southern country generally are still suffering by earthquakes. Sharp shocks occurred in Sevannah, Lynchberg, Washington, Columbia, and Wilmington, on 220 d October. No material damage was done. The prosecution of ex-Alderipen in New York for malversation while in office is causing' Consternation. ‘ One person is already in Sing Sing and others are leaving hurriedly for Canada. The great strike of Chicago qieatpackers ended on October Ifith, mutual concessions fcieiug made by men and cm* ploysrs.'

S i ne s< ruction was created in stock circles n October Bth by an announcement ihat work was ordered to be discontinued in the lower levels, Comstock, Virginia City, and also the immediate removal of all machinery. This is a vi tnal death blow to the mining stock business.

Benjamin Folsom, cousin of Mrs President Cleveland, and newspaper reporter, has been appointed American Consul In England. Eastport, in Maine, has suffered a loss of 800,000dols. by an extensive fire which occurred there on October 16th. A great many people were rendered homeless and destitute.

The new American steel cruisers are said by European experts (o be failures, from lack of speed. Tire trial of the Chicago anarchists concluded on October 9tb, whan seven of the accused were sentenced to be hanged. Three spies—Parson Engel, Singo Fischer Schwabe, and Fielder Neibe —were sen tenced to fifteen years’ imprisonment, with hard labor. Beyond growing pale, the prisoners showed no emotion during the Judge’s address, which was exceedingly impressive. A furious storm ravaged the Mexican Gulf Coast on October 12th. The tracks of the Gulf, Colorado, and Santa i)e Railway were swept away, also of Louisville and Nashvill - road, from Michigan to Pearl river. Later despatches mention tremendous damage in Louisiana. The country was overflowed by the Gulf water in every direction, and trees of seven years’ standing were torn away. The storm was the most terrible known since 1860. Owing to this storm, or more properly cyclone, the town of Sabine Pass, Texas, was totally destroyed, the waters of the Sabine River rising and overwhelming tbe place. There are known to be sixty lives lost. Not a housa is left in the (whole county, and everything living there there was drowned. Violet Cameron’s husband, Deßaneaude, is about to bring a suit against Lord Lonsdale for 50,000d0l damages in alienating his wife s affections from him. Efforts that will probably be successful are being made to settle the Boucicault* Robertson divorce suit. Defendant is willing to make provision for the support of bis wife and children. Both parties are now in New York.

Prince Louis Napoleon left San Francisco for the East ou October, 14tb, after a lengthened visit to California, where he spent much time in examining mining operations and other objects of interest. Pierre Lorillard, the famous Americas turfman, has given up the pursuit, and put his stud on sale. Twenty thousand cigar makers are out on strike at Havannah, and there is great destitution'in consequence, and highway robberies among other crimes are reported. At Ohinquinquarre, State of Cundimarca, XT,S. of Columbia, on October 10th, a thirteen-yaar-old child was taken in charge for stabbing to death three children with a rusty tablekaife. The juvenile murderer is supposed to be demented from the bite of a rabid dog.

Mr Qreenbaum, lately United States Consul at Samoa, has been formally suspended from office. The tobacco crop in Kentucky is a comparative failure owing to the prevalence of early October frosts. The packet steamer “ Lamascotte " exploded her boilers on October s,between Grand Tower Hill and Cape Goraradeau, M.D., and then burned to the watei’s edge. The list of killed and wounded is very heavy. Yellow fever, in more than usually violent form, has made its appearance at Belonia, Miss., 80 miles distant from New Orleans, across Lake Pontoairia, and also at Mississippi city. Recent official news, dated Cot. 12, from the Isthmus of Panama shows that very satisfactory progress has been made in excavating the Panama Canal. During July 66,900 cubic metres of earth were removed. Tbe excavation will be completed, it is believed, by July 1889. Per contra, Senor Santiago Sorrica, of the Peruvian navy, as “ Su/nillance det mandate* de paiment ," says unless a different sec of man take hold of the work the Panama Canal will never be completed. One man who dealt in furniture, etc., in two years made 500,000 dollars out of the Company, and that is a sample of tbe corruption existing in tbe ranks.