ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2870, 19 September 1895, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Auckland, Sept. 11. Arrived—Mariposa, Hay ward, from San Francisco. She left on August 22nd. Passengers in saloou for New ZealandMiss Newstead, Messrs Ellison, Thos. J. Ellison, Postlethwaite, Erry, Burcham, Mills, Esclou, Cook, Hire, Brown, Hillwell, and Whitely. Among the Sydney passengers is Mr Henry Varley, the evangelist. She brings news that the supposed cholera at Honolulu arose from the islanders eating poisonous fish and a horae, causing blood disease. Five natives died. As 500 Chinamen had landed a few days previously this led to the canard that the disease was Asiatic cholera.

GENERAL SUMMARY. English papers and correspondents are commenting on the extraordinary personal friendship that sprung up between Lord Lonsdale and the Kaiser William during the latter's recent visit to England. The Emperor made a visit to the English moors and lakes, as the guest of Lord Lonsdale, and was treated by his host with a lavish and luxurious hospitality. Five of the miners who were imprisoned by the flooding of the Aughenhargery colliery at Saltcoats, have been rescued alive. Mr Frederick Engels,head of the International Social movement, died in London on August 7th. Sir Henry Irving will sail for America on Saturday, August 31st, by the steamship New York. He goes in style. The steamship Southwark, of the American line, has been specially chartered for other members of the company, aud the scenery, properties, and various paraphernalia, which amount to about 6000 tons. He will open in Montreal (Canada) on September 10th. Profossor Andre, wh so paper on the balloon route for reaching the North Pole, was by far the most interesting feature of the recent international Geographical Congress, in a conversation with a London reportor, says:—" Let me tell you that I have tried the steering apparatus over field and mountain and it works to perfection." The Anglican Bishop of Exeter, in a pastoral letter of August 3rd, urges a special thanksgiving and prayer for the defeat of the party which threatened the Established Church. Two American millionaires have come forward to aid and protect the woman Stanley, a New Yorker, who was arrested at Liverpool on August 10th onboard the steamship Etruria charged with having stolen jewellery from a Miss Gibbons, and the jewellery was found on her person wheu arrested. The prisoner is said to be a person of some consequence. The International Cooperative Congress n in session at the hall of the Society of Arts, London, wheu it discussed cooperative production. The Rev. Octor Clorimer, of Boston, made a speech in which he held that wheu the secret of the co-operation of all classes was discovered th • world would enter on a period of universal posperity, peace, and happiness. Philanthropy was overdone, and justice as far advanced iu England, Belgium, and France, but give it time and cooperation would take a deeper root in the United States than ever it did in the old world. Lady Frances Rose Gunning, widow of Sir Henry Gunning, was charged in a Londou Court on July 25th with the forgery of a bill of exchange, using the name of her father, William Henry Spencer. She was brought up on remand on August 9th, in Bow street, and committed for trial. l'hose who have followed the sad story of Emma Hall, who died in Detroit last winter from the effects of a criminal operation, may be interested iu knowing that the family of her betrayer, the Rev. J. Bell, who deserted him wheu he fled from London, have been compelled to leave their home at Blackheath, and, at public expense, seek refuge with their relatives. Meantime Bell has completely disappeared. Considerable comment has been caused in certain quarters by the announcement that William John Brown, who for years was the Highland attendant of the Queen, had been appointed the Queen's personal attendant. Brown inherits to a certain degree the somewhat British manner of his distinguished uncle. A receiving order in tho bankruptcy case was issued agaiust Oscar Wilde's property on July 25th, by the Marquis of Queensbury, claimant for £077 costs in the debtor's unsuccessful action for libel.

Robert Coombs, 13 years of age, one of tho sous of chief steward Coombs, of tho National Line Steamship France, was arrested ou July Bth, charged with murdering his mother by stabbing her while asleep at their residence, Plaistow, a suburb of London. He was arraigned on the 25th at the West Ham Police Court. The only reason offered was that Mrs Coombs whipped one of her younger sons.

The officers of a Russian warship, which was in Behring Sea for tho protection of seals, are charged with putting 5000 skins on the English market in the February sales. Suspicion waa aroused by the fact that some of the skins had a bullet ho'.o iu them.

Tho Prince and Princess of Wales and the Puko of York formally opened tho iirw graving dock at Southampton on August 3rd, said to be iho largest dry dock in tho world, and able to accommodate tho largest ship afloat. Lord Wodehouso, eldest son of the Earl of Kimberley, who led tho mob that attacked Uidor Haggard, the novelist, and p ,rty, whilo ho was on an election tour, was fined for tho ofl'euco. He has since boon struck off tho Commission of the Peace.

'in July the 151st the Duke of Argylo was married t) Miss Ina Erskino McNeil, fotmorly Lady of tho Bed Chamber to tha Quuon, and a cousin of Sir John McNeil, who married tho Duko's sister. Th-j wedding was a quiet ono, owing to the recent death of Sir Colin Campbell, lih second son. Tho Uuko of Argylo is 72 years <>E age, and his bride 20. F. Caldwell, ox M.L'., complicated with Jabez I.alfour in tho IJuilding Socioties fraud in London, waa found dead in the

garden of his residence at Bournemouth, on July 29th. Johu Daley, ex-member of the House of Commons for Oork, while alighting from a train at Sydenham, on August 20th, fell between the platform and the carriage aud received injuries that led to the amputation of the left foot. The London Standard (Conservative) of August 21st says there is a movement among the Bad cals to change the leadership of the party. It is believed that having a peer for a leader militates agaiust success. The Standard understands that the Earl of Bosebery will not retire unlesß deposed by a vote of the party. A man named A. C. Matt, of Plymouth, Mich., claims that ho has invented perpetual motion, after a study of several years. His machine not only runs itself, but develops power to some extent. It is believed to be a practical solution of the problem, although its utility is another matter. Lord Sholto Douglas, son of the Marquis of Queensberry, who married a variety actress named Moodey in San Francisco, will soon procoed to Australia with his wife by the advice of his father, to avoid the incessant comment of the Californian press. Lady Sholto Douglas's pedigree has been investigated, and she is pronounced decent enough to enter the Queensberry circle. What is called the practice of Christian "science," to cure disease, is becoming a fad in the United States, and with disastrous results. The last case is that of Mrs James J. Hair, who died in Chicago on August 6 from peritonitis. Tho scientists, who were relying on the faith cure, refused to call in medical aid until it was too late. The grain harvest is about completed in California, and the output is pronoun-ed the poorest for years. James Gordon, a grandson of the famous general " Chinese" Gordon, died on a pallet of straw in the rear of a liquor store, Los Angelos, where he had been employed as a saloon porter. Drink did it. It is reported that George Crowley, Cornelius Stroy, and Johu Ryan, iron and steel workers, Pittsburg, P.A., have discovered the lost art of welding copper to iron aud steel. The Carnegie Company have offered the men a fixed price for the secret, and hope to be able to cover with copper all the armour plates for the big American battleships.