ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2087, 19 August 1890, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

(Per mail steamer at Auckland.) Mr Chaplin. Minister of Agriculture, delivered an address at Lincoln Agricultural Show, on July 24th, in tho course of which he said that the recent rise in the price of agricultural products was due to the advance in the price of silver in consequence of tbe passage of the Silver Bill by the national legislature of the United States. ilntelligence reached Dublin on July 11th, ot a hcrible affair at Ballyneale. John Hart murdered his mother sad chopped the body into pieces. When disr covered he was found lying beside the remains eating a portion of them. Ex-King Milan, of Sorvia, thinking his divorce absolute, has contracted, it is said a marriage with a very rich young American lady, who will pay hia debts, amounting to £600,00©. Four women were arrested on board the steamship Majestic at Queenstown, from New York, on July I?tb, and on being searched their bustles were found crammed with te*, tobacco, spirits, and other contraband goods. The enormous size of these adjuncts to their dress attracted the attention of the Customs officers.

A cyclone struck the northern side of St, Paul, Minnesota, on July 13th, and the estimate of the loss of life is thirty-six. It is said tbe disastrous effacta were confined to a district only three and a half miles long, and that the worst damage was done within the limit of half a mile. Several villages and small settlements at Coleman's Lake, Little Canada Lake, Joannahass Lake, and White Bear Lake, were blown to tbe four winds of heaven, and loss of life is reported in every instance. Tho destruction of life and property whs very severe at Lake Qervais, the place first struck by the cyclone, and the scenes happening there are said to have beggared description. A small passenger steamer, the Sea King, with a barge attached conveying about 230 people from the State militia encampment at Lake city, Minn., on Sunday, July 13tb, was struck by a cyclone in the middle of Lake Feppin, and became unmanageable. The barge was cut loose, and after an hour drifted to shore with about twpnty aboard, The other 200 or more on the steamer were drowned. A Now York broker named Bernard Aronson, was assailed on Jn'y 20th by a crowd of angry Polandors, and his bank iug establishment was raided. Aronson was badly beaten before the police rescued him. The assailants charge that the banker nrsappropriated the funds entrusted to him for the purpose of bringing out their friends and relatives from Poland, Priyate advippa from Rio da Janeiro, of July }oth, say it iq generally and openly stated that Rothschilds will not pay tbe loan made just befere the fall of monarchy. They allege that there is no Government de fart only ffe fact#, and that in case of the restoration, or any other change, cockrapts P® B y be repudiated, Jiuy Barbosa,

Seoro ar? of the Treasury, is therefore in a b*d fix. The new Government has created new departments, and rained the BiUries of everybody—the public employer, array, navy, and their own, which the country could not afford, under monarchy, ranch lees now. The foreign interest has to be paid. Exchange Is very high. Fmano : ers do not know what to do. A shocking accident occured at Baden station, on the South Pacific Railway, on Sunday, July 13th whereby three women and two children were killed and many others injured. The casualty was due to too much drink. A party_ of Germans wore returning frem a picnic, and one of the waggons attempted to cross the track, wuen it collided with a locomotive. The driver w»a drunk.

A tornado passed over the northern part of the town of Gallatin, Tennessee, on June 28th, blowing a Methodist church to piecyS, killing the.preacher, who was in the pulpit at the time, and hurting twelve or fifteen of the congregation, some fatally. Encounters between Whites and Blacks are becoming more frequent in the Southern States. One occurred at Mill Pond, Lafayette County, Georgia, on the afternoon of July 10th, in which four negroes were killed and wounded. Eight Whites were shot, but it is thought only oue of them fatally, making eighteen in all killed and wounded. The trouble started between a negro who was selling wine and a white man, and it was not long before there Were 200 involved, White and Black. There are also grave fears of a race war in Pocahontas, a mining region in Western Virginia, where the operatives are for the most part colored men. On July 6th a gang of them set upon a white man in an excursion train on the Norfolk and Western Railway, and beat him nearly to death. The railroad detectives interfered, and a terrible fight ensued, in which the white men were badly done up, as well as the negroes. A riot was reported near Kersin, Barnwell County, South Carolina, on J uly 15th, where 300 negroes, armed with riles, confronted 25 white men. One negro had been killed. Assistance was sent from a neighboring town. A measure now before Congress, called the Lodge Bill or Force Bill, gives great dissatisfaction to the people of the Southern Stales, It is a new election measure, and in a word contemplates the dividing of the of the country into certain districts, and placing over each district a supervisor, who is to bs appointed by the Federal Government, and to do away with the present .*ystem of election- entirely, [t is a republican measure, and the supervisors would bo appointed by the controlling garty in Congress. The best men in the south denounce the Bill as senseless and dangerous to the peace of that section of the country, because it commits the whites to negro rule. A terrible accident occurred at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, on the night of July 11th, by which a number of people i perished. The cause of the disaster was the slipping of a chain attached to a ferry boat, which allowed the front of the bridge to sink, and precipitated a crowd of 600 or 700 men, women, and children into the water. The people were crowded there waiting for the steamer Annex which had just arrived from New York to dock. When the steamer got within 2ft of the landing a number of persons jumped on board, and at that moment the accident occurred. The outer and of the bridge wont down, and ths terror-stricken crowd slipped off. into the harbor as though they were descending a slide, piling on the top of each other, shrieking for help, and gasping for means of safety, In the melee ten or twelve persons were drowned.

A despatch from Pembroke, 86 miles above Ottawa, of July 23rd, says that two nights before soma miscreants cut the rope by which a log raft on which twelve raftsmen were asleep was moored to the bank. The men were asleep, and the raft drifted down to tbe rapids in the dark. Only two escaped, the rest being ground to death by the action of the logs or drowned. No trace of their remains nor clue to the perpetrators of tbe murderous outrage has been discovered.

BRITISH HARVEST. (Per San Francisco Mail.) A cablegram of July 17lh, reports an increase of mould and vermin in some of the English hop plantations. Estimates received in Now York show a probable shortage to a third in Germany, and of half iu the rest of the Continent, compared with last year. lathe week ending July 20th there were farther ravages by potato blight in Ireland.

Tbe Rev, Dr Lyons, of Castlehaven, in tho Diocese of Ross, Cork, writing on July 17th, said that iu all the fowa land of his parish bordering on the sea, the failure of the potato crop was complete. He added that in places further inland the state of things was not altogether so bad, but that in a continuance of dry weather it would be absolutely impossible to save any crop. He says;—“l feel quite bewildered as I apprehend the consequences that are likely to enane from this failure of the potato crop here. I see nothing less than starvation staring those unhappy farmers in the face," Distressing reports have also come from other districts of Cork, Limerick, Kerry, and Waterford. Since they were received tbe weather has been wetter than ever, and the blight has spread to a frightful extent.

A despatch from London dated July 20tb, speaks of the heaviest rainfall known in any one week since 1878* The pecuniary loss to farmers is something terrible. Between Sbeperton and Loudon there were hundreds of acres of meadows in which the cocked bay was four-fifths under water. Two bright hot days in the middle of tbe week revived hopes that after all the wheat crops might he saved in something not too far below the average crop, bat subsequent tropical rains and Arctic temperature have disappointed tbe hopes. There is likely to be the worst crop since the disaster of 1879. The stock of English wheat is now all but exhausted, and under the influence of this and the disheartening prospecis of the growing crops, prices had advanced another Is per quarto? during week. The same news pomes from the Continent, but some ate efispoaed fo disbelieve it. Russia has no durable crops. 4 disputpli dajed Paris, July 2§lh, qays'Umtfhe crops throughout fTranpe, except in the section east of the Rhone, have been destroyed by incessant rains. The losses am estimated at oyer 500,000,000 francs, Dea'eis in grain discount the scarcity the price of bread is rising.

BUttYING living men. (Per San Francisco mail.) Horrid stories are told of the recent invasion of Formosa by Chinese. When the invading army reached the country, the Formosan savages fled to the hills, »nd that ended the campaign. Jen Chew T*i returned with a few selected troops by steamer, leaving the rest to get back as they best could. Many marched overland, and some were sent in freight boats with rations for one day. They were out eight days, and some thirty or forty were starved to death, and 800 died of fever. When they landed in the harbor of Auping they presented a deplorable spectacle. The Consul sent an appeal to Chew Tai, who responded by sending grave digger*. These added to the horror of the situation. All the sick who were supposed to be dying were bustled into coffins and buried before cold. Soldiers were seen forcing the lid of a coffin down on a victim, who was piteously crying for water, but the lid was nailed fast, and the living man hurried away to burial. The more dead there were the more money came to the pockets of the survivors.

Glenwnino & Dow® will open Great Cheap Sale ©f Drapery and Clothing in Huffey’s Buildings, Geraldine, on August 20th, for 21 days only. Genuine Bargains, See handbills for particulars.—Advt. Eyrand, the murderer of Gauffe, in Paris, and lately returned there under the extra* dition laws from Savanna, in Cuba, made a full confession of the crime on July 2nd. He said that the crime was premeditated and committed for robbery. Prisoner i» reported to be in a pitiable condition. He suffers from an internal disease with which he was attacked while in gaol in Havanna, He persists in asking the Judges of Instruction to hurry on the case. Hejssye that death by the guillotiua>onli be preferable to penal servitude a* his age, and be only begs to be allowed to go out of life as soon as possible.