ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2005, 8 February 1890, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

m. ~ , .Auckland, Feb. 5. Ine Alameda, with the San Francisco mail, arrived at 7 o'clock this morning. GENERAL BUMMARY J Mrs .Tas. Browne-Potter, the agrees, has J sailed from London to Australia to fill an engagement with Williamson, Gamer and Musgrove. ' A petroleum ship caught fire at Sunderland on January 8, aad was burned with three other vessels. Sir Charles Ruseell has been retained to watch the proceedings in the Cleveland scandal case on behalf G f Prince Albert Victor. The. Rev F. Bung, u lO Q aeeri ' B chaplain and chaplaia lo the House of Commons, levanted on January 2 owine to turf debts. & Amy Sherwic, made a successful debut at Berlin on January 4. The health of the Cz\r of Russia is reported to be critical. He is supposed to be suffering from the effacta of poisoned food. The Boston Merchants' Association adopted on January 7 resolutions favoring the free admission of wool Bloody riots hare taken place i n the Southern States between the whites and blacks. Matters in Brazil have become settled I t^ er ° I Wa f P revioua! y more fighting and bloodshed than reported. It is stated that Gilbert 'and Sullivan have quarrelled about the "Gondolier" Company that went to America aud have dissolved partnership. It i 8 reported Sir v : Field, of Chicago to tak* Gilbert's p | ace . The friends of MrsMaybrick are making renewed efforts for her release. They claim nawly discovered evidence. Mr Thomas Cook, senior member of the well-known excursion firm, dUd at ihoroycroft on January 8. The Queen sent Prince Henry of Battenbnrg Bbroad for reasons which are saiu to be of a domestic nature, but subsequently forgave and recalled him lhe German Jovornment have decided lln JIM"- ormam f nt > aQd the Spandau gun factories are kept going night and fremier Tirard sent a circular letter to chambers of commerce throughout France asking those bodies if they would support a bill giving women engaged in any trade a right to vote for judges at the commercial tribunals. Miss Sterling entered a cage of lions at Heziers on January 7, supposing that the animals were hypnotiaad and harmless. would have been torn to pieces. As it was, she was badly lacerated. Sha made a second attempt a iew 4ay 3 afterwards, a mSted. n3 ° £herloWerlimbßhadtobe Evidence was discovered recently connecting Olga Gouts Charenic, a young and ~- Wart fU \ glrl ' WUh a Nihilistic pTot afc Warsaw to assassinate the Czar. The chief of police attempted to arrest her on tnen blew out her own brains.

of his death. The Imperial Guard was confined to the barracks, and all the functionaries on active duty were ordered to remain at their posts. Thirty-two Russian officers were arrested for conspiracy against the Czar. Th. 6 story that the Czar was poisoned by Nihilists is revived. It is now reported that his doctors have observed in him symptoms of cutaneous poisoning after rearing his German uniforms. La grippe, as the Russian influenza is called, haß become a veritable scourge in America, as well as in Europe. Four thousand deaths had occurred iu Paris during the week ended Deoember 28, a large proportion of them being due to this disease. There were 200 deaths from the same cause during the Barne period at Dantzic. An autopsy on a subject at Versailles showed the state of the lungs to be exactly simi'ar to that in cows which have died from rinderpest. The epidemic is reported to be on the increase in Russia. In America the disease is spreading in every direction, being particularly severe in Canada, where pneumonia seems to follow an attack of la grippe. Deaths occurred from it in Boston, Chicago, Few York, Philadelphia, Troy, and other places. In some cases there are fever and headache, with severe gastric pains, which quinine and antiphyrine fail to cure; in such cases the disease develops into typhoid, generally with fatal results. A London cablegram states that 22 men implicated in the Cleveland street (West End) scandal have fled from England, an 3. that by the time the Scotland Yard detectives have finished their investigations not one of the Cleveland habitues will be left in England. The total number of fugitives is put down at 60. In the divorce suit brought by Captain O'Shea against the Irish leader no damages are claimed. The petitioner alleges that acts of adultery were committed between April 1886 and the date of the petition. Mr Parnell in a communication to the Freeman's Journal, says that since 1880 he has resided at Captain O'Shea's house, and was frequently there when the latter was absent, while he waa cognisant of his being there. He further declares that Houston, secretary of the Patriotic League, instigated O'Shea to bring this suit in order to diminish the damages which he (Parnell) might obtain from The Times. Houston replied that he had no knowledge of the suit until the announcement of .it appeared in the papers. The sum of 100,000dol have been paid by Cornelius Vanderbilt for Turner's pioture " Tha Grand Canal of Venice." A wordy war at the Pelican Club, London, on January 8, resulted in a free fight, during which Mitchell, the pugilist, beat Lord Mandeville severely. A murderer named Higgenbotbam, who killed a Mormon, was hanged at Madrid on January 7. When the body fell the noose opened an old wound in the neck, where he had stabbed himself with suicidal intent when arrested. The blood spurted out daluging the hangman's assistant. Tho brigantine Cz*rewitz was cut down and sunk in the Irish sea by the White Star liner Brittanic on the night of January 3. The captain of the Czarewitz was lost. .Robert Browning's funeral services took place at Westminster Abbey on December 3. The body waa placed in a polished plain coffin, on which was a small brass plate braring the dates of his birth and death. Wreaths from Lord Tennyson and Miss Browning were placed on the coffin. Henry Irving, Bancroft, Sir John Millais, Alma Tadema, and Sir Theodore Martin alao sent wreaths. Thomas Quinn, M.P., declares the Irish

party haa direct proof that the O'Shea

caße originated with the London Times **"&.>r the purpose of discrediting Mr Parnell. The west bound Union Pacific fast mail train was wrecked at Sydney, Nebraska, on January 9. Out of seven cars fire were burned, togather with nearly 50 bags of postal matter. The loss to the railway company was about 39,000d015., but compared to the damage to persons whose letters were in transit thia is nothing. The fire was communicated by an overturned stove in a forward mail car. Fortunately the steamship Gallic was detained on her Western Atlantic trip, otherwise the English mail for Australia, which was on board, would have baen transferred to this traio, and all lost in the wreck and burning. Paris despatches of December 30 quote private letteiß from St. Petersburg to tlie effect that the receat so-called " relapse " of the Czar was not a return of the ip■luenzi but a much more serious matter. While io apparently good health he was seized with pains in the stomach af'er leaving the tahle. His attendants becama alarmed and summoned a physician who administered renaedies for poison. The court story is that the poison was found mixed with the food which the Czu had eaten, The Nihilists confitrn the report, and boast that the poison was administered by one of their number. The Czir's condition was considered critical for some time, but powerful antidotea and skilful treatment saved his life.

r Early on the morning of January 1 a fire broke out in the Forest Gate Pauper . School for boys and girls in London while they were still asleep, and in a short time 26 in the npper storey were suffocated. Fifty-eight were sufely taken from the buildings. There were 600 persons altogether in the iDstitulioo. The female department, where there were 250 girls, was not touched. Tho boys had retired the previous evening in good spirits, having been promised a fete it New Year, and the building was decorated throughout for the occasion. Of the 26 boys who lost their lives only two were burned to death. The hero of the time was a boy who acted as monitor in the fatal ward. Through bis efforts many boys were literally driven from the building, and be ceased the work of rescue only wben driven back by the flames. Karl Formes, the well-knowo and popular basso, died in San Fraacisco on December 15 of pneumonia, Tho great singer was born at Malheim-on-therllbine in 1810. Henry George, author o? "Progress and Poverty," ofler a lecturing tour in tho West, will sail from San Francisco for Australia on February 8. He intends to his peculiar views throughout colonies. • Wardner, a thriving town of 1500 inhabitants in Idaho, and a moat important place io the Great Canon D'Alene mining district, was completely destroyed by fire on January 3. It ia reported that the Pekin authorities are about to issne a silver coinage.

Dom Pedro was much affected at the death of hia wife. When he arrived at the bedside he kne'.t and kissed her forehead ; he did Dot ppeak for 20 minutoß, and then he said, "1 have experienced the worst trial God could inflict. Her faithful and uffectionale companionship has sustained me for 46 yearn. (Kid's will be done." Noticing his wife's eyes still oj-e-i be lost command of himself and exclaimed, "la it possible tlifit i dear kind will never again brighten when thr-y me?" Haviner cloned her eye ids, lie roverently kissed them, and then asked lo bo h'ft ilone with h's dead wife. He so remained for a long time. When he became cdm he «nked the uttendnn's to keep all quiet nn'il the Lisbon fete wag ended.

Governor Goorlal', of New Hampshire, issued the fol'owing exirnordinary proclamation on the various and heinous crimes within the past few weeks directly traceable to the use of intoxicating liquors, in the fales of which the criminal laws have been flagrantly violated. Now, therefore, I warn al 1 . persona engaged in tha illegal and deadly traffic to desist therefrom immediately, and 1 call upon the AttorneyGenersl, soldiers, and sheriffs of counties, the mayors of citie&, and select men, and all other officers throughout the State, and upon all good citizens of every prrty to unite in one supreme effort to close up and suppress every liquor saloon of ony description within our border?. Let no guilty man escape. I cannot refrain from urging all churches, temperance organisations, and all parsons who desire tha best good of the commonwealth to redouble their efforts to promote, personal temperance among our people."

The famous church at Aix La Ohapelle, which contained the tomb r»f Charlemagne, was destroyed by fire on January 2. The London Despatch of January 4th says another sensation about the West End scandal will soon buret Twenty-two men implicated, nobles and others, have fled from England, and it is said that by the time the Scotland Yard detectives have finished none of the Cleyeland street habitues will be left in England. The police know all about the case and haye the names and identity of offenders. All the captured boys were made to confess new names and others gave descriptions enabling police to shadow parties to their residences. Others were only suspected and to these men letters were written giving them so many hours to i leave the country. Of twenty-five suspects - recently warned twenty-two fled showing the remarkable accuraoy of the boys' information. The total number of fugitives is Bixly. Solicitor Newton and the clerk in his employ named Taylor and an interpreter named Doctor Grallo were charged with conspiring to defeat justice in this case. They were before the Bow street Police Court on January 6th. A messenger boy testified that he had resided in the Cleveland street house. He had received letters from Lord Arthur Somerset, but could not produce them, as they were destroyed. He admitted he had stolen articles from the Olub, where he had been waiter, and was not imprisoned because Lord Somerset became a surety for him. He further testified that Taylor had tried to induce him to go to America. Krnest Parke, editor, sued for libel by the Earl of Euston in connection with this cass, offered the prosecuting attorney on the 7th letters from Hammond, who is now in America. These include ono addressed to Hammond's wife upbraiding a man named Peck, who had a list of names and addresses of his (Hammond's) friends. When Peck was arrested this list was found in his pocketbook. It comprised a liet of names of noblemeD, and included that of Lord Euston The Public Prosecutor h» accepted the letter, which it ia expected -will lead fca exposure and prosecution of several persons already prominently before the public. AMERICAN SUMMARY. The Riversida Mills, Georgia, were burned on the night of January 10, and 40 men were buried by the falling mills. A movement is on foot in New York to build a continuous railroad system, beginning at the southernmost point in Mexico that ia reached by rail from the United States, through to Centra! America and the Isthmus, and runnißg well into South America. ! The Grimnal mansion at Fall river, Mass., was barned on December 19, together with the famous collection of Arctic relics and curios it contained. They had been gathered together by ¥r Grimnel's father, and consisted of mementoes and trophiss of the Arctic expedition of Dr Kane, while on his search for Joha Franklin. There was also a famous painting, " The Finding of Sir John Franklin." The collection was valued intrinsically at Go,ooodole. The scale of wages insisted on by Hie Pennsylvania coal miners was signed on December 30, It is their ultimatum, and if not agreed to by the operators on May 1, that day will see a strike of 100,000 men, the largest coal striko in the hictory of America. On December 28 the Cathojic Church of the Sacred Heart, the Siaters' School, and priest's house ad-joining, and seven other dwolliDg houses, at a place called Plaiae, Pa., were wrecked by a big cave-in on the earth's surface, ©wing to undermining by a colliery. In soma parts the earth had gone down 12ft. The loss to property \ was 100,000 dollars, and many persons were injured. Bloody riots look place in Jessup, Augusta, and Macon, Georgia, on Christmas Day. Several white mou as well as negroes were killed. The trouble in Jessup was due to a black desperado named Brewer, who came into town to celebrate the day. Nine men were killed and aB many more badly wounded. The military were called out, both at Jessup and Macon, where the riot was terrible in fierceness and duration. It had all the appearance of a pitched battle. 1 A mob of several hundred men ruided | the gaol and Barwel) courthouse, South Carolina, on December 28th, overpowered the gaoler, and took out eight negroes charged with murder and shot thern to death. A colored citizens mass meeting I was held in Columbia, South Carolina, on i January Ito take action in regard to the lynching of their fellows. Resolutions ' were adopted urging colored man not to hold indignation meetings nor agitate in i favor of retaliation, but advised them'to ) seek residences in other sections of the r State and elsewhere, * A party of 60 persons met to sup at the t rpsidence of a friend in Brown's Vale Minn., on January 8. Aranng the meals - served were sausages, and 45 of the guests t who partook were seized with vomiting, 5 and fell upon one ancfcber on the floor. > One victim died the following morning', and 20 others are so low that recovery is s not expected. The sausage meat was J tricbinosed.

A plague of diphtheria and black tongue was raging iu the mountain districts of Western Virginia on January 7. Tho county had erected a lemporury hospital and m-iny physicians and nurses wore attending. A terrible full occurred io tho Lano mine <n Angp-lo Camp, Calaveras County, California, on Sunday, December 23, hurj ii.g and crushing t.o death 16 miuets, The mine is s>iid to have been improperly timbered, and the r.i<*n were told to beware, but neg'eclei lo hped the w .ruing.

An artesian well, completed at Wonn. aocket recently, broke loose on January 11, at half-past 7 a.m., and will fliod the town. A soiiu column of water as big as a man's body is thrown 16ft high from the top of the etund pipo. The engine-house rapidly filled with quicksand, and the lower parte of the town were soon under water. No power c*n control the well. At present more water comes from it than runs in the neighboring river, A great roaring is heard for miles. A terrible cyclone swept over tho Southern States on January 12. la Ihe tillage of Clinton (Kentucky) 11 persons wera instantly killed and 53 wounded. Sixty houses were denaelidhed. A letter reoeived from Captain Howland, of the whaling barque Canton, at New Bedford, Massachusets, January 13 (dated at era December 5, and postmarked Capetown), gives an account of the loss of the |English barque British Monarch, 1262 tone, of Liverpool, from Hamburg to Sydney, loaded with general cargo. Captain Howland says : —" I am on my way to Capetown with part of the crew of the British Monarch. On November 20th the orew discovered the Bhip was on fire, and tried to get at 10 tous of dynamite which was located near the fire, intending to throw the stuff overboard, and then start the ship for the Cape of Good Hope. The fire reached the dynamite, which exploded with terrible force, demolishing the vessel, The second mate's boat became separated from the rest, and nothing waß seen of it afterwards. Two boats, eontainine Captain William Mar. rew, the first officer, David Welsh, and other§, were pieked up. The vessel was owned by Henry Terence and Sons, of Liverpool.