ARRIVAL OF THE R.M.S.S. AUSTRALIA, WITH THE ENGLISH AND AMERICAN MAILS

Thames Advertiser, Volume XIII, Issue 3691, 27 August 1880, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE R.M.S.S. AUSTRALIA, WITH THE ENGLISH AND AMERICAN MAILS

Auckland, Thursday, The R.M.8.8. Australia arrived in harbour at 9.30 this morning. Passengers for Auokland—Mr and Mra Forester, Mr E. J, Neilson, Mrs Stephenson Smith, Messrs J. Davies, 8. and W. Firth, F. 0. Boyes, J. E. Pickles, Thurston, J. Nesbit, Mr and Mrs McLean, and fire in the steerage. For Sydney: Mr and Mrs Stephen, Miss Ethel Stephen, Mr John Brown, Mrs F. L. Orritt and family (6). Miss Jennie Boyer, Mr P. H. Eirby, Mr E. H. Nisbit, Mr Edward Oarnelly, Mr F. Betz, Mons. Kowalski and Gamut, Mr J. H, Sherrett, and 50 steerage.

GENERAL BUMMAEY.

London, August 2, Ex-Empress Eugene landed at St. Helena on July 12, and inspected the house where Napoleon the First died. She then visited the tomb in whioh the remains of the Emperor were first deposited, and afterwards embarked for England. She arrived at Plymouth on June 26, where a faint attempt to get up a Bonapartist demonstration was made.

A rowboat has been run down by a steam launoh in the Thames. A gentle* man, lady, and two children were drowned.

The steamer Hazeldean, from Bibon to Newcastle, sunk in the British Channel reoently. Five of the crew were drowned.

The weather throughout the west of England is unusually adverse to business and agriculture, and in some parts of the country even disastrous. Parts of Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, Gloucestershire, and Berkshire were sub« merged by the the overflow of the rivers and railway traffic was impeded. The crops, especially hay, were ruined, and some lives lost.

Serious damage to crops is reported from Worcestershire, Shropshire, and parts of Staffordshire, where rains have been exceptionally heavy. Lord Granville has invited M, Ohalo-mel-Lacour, French Ambassador, to negotiate a Treaty of Commerce between their respective countries.

A series of explosions in the gas main supplying Tottenham Court Road, while the workmen were repairing, caused large fissures in parts of, several streets, wreck* ing fronts of. houses and doing other great damage. Four hundred houses were injured, two persons were killed, and twenty wounded. . The weather throughout the West of England has been unusually adverse to business and agriculture, and in some parts of the country even disastrous, Parts of Leicestershire, Notinghamshire, Yorkshire,.' Gloucestershire, and Berkshire were submerged by the overflow of rivers. Railway traffic is impeded, and the crops, especially hay, are ruined. Some lives have been lost, Heavy rains on the 31st did a great deal of damage to the crops. The steamer Zanzibar, Capt Page, from New York for Glasgow, on January 11th, 1879, foundered at soa. A bottle, with a memorandum of the fact, has been picked

up. Several officers and directors of the Northern Counties of England Insurance Company were found guilty at the Manchester Assizes of fraud and conspiracy in falsifying the company's accounts. The general manager is sentenced to 18 months' hard labour, the Chairman of the Board of Directors to 12 months', and four others to six months' imprisonment each.

An explosion occurred on the morning of the 15th ultimo, in the London and South Wales Colliery Company's new block vein pit at Eisca, six miles from Newport • One hundred and twenty men were in tho pit for the night shift, and but few will escape. It is believed the explosion was caused by lightning striking the winding gear at the top of the shaft.

The motion by Mr Briggs relative to the ereotion of the Prince Imperial statue in Westminster Abbey has passed (171 to 116), after amendment, by omitting the words, " and is calculated to impair the good feeling between England and France." When.the question was about to be put, Mr Gladstone, Sir William Haroourt, the Home Seoretary, and other members of the Government, left the House. The Times hopes "tho whole controversy _is no* ended." Dean Stanley has notified the Memorial Committee of the action of the House. The Queen has offered a site in St George's Ghapol. Mr Gladstone has remitted fifteen per cent, of the semi-annual rents of his Hawarden tenants, on account of losses from exceptional reasons and reduced prices. He had previously reduced their rents in the same amount iu 1879.

Mrs Annie Wetmore, well known in London and Paris, where she was a leader in the American Colony, committed suicide at the residence of Lady Albert Pelham Clinton, in Eue Billaulfc, July 220 d, from disappointment in lore. The deceased was a very handsome woman, about thirty-five years of age. Up to a short time since she was said to have been affianced to tho Marquis of Anglesy, to whom she became engagod soon after her divorce from her husband. In June last Anglesy met and married Mrs Wedehouse, nee Miss Mennie King of Georgia' Mrs Wetmore was dreadfully depressed over hearing of the marriage. At last, in despair, she put an end to her life. A second writ has been served on Bradlaugh for voting on the Irish Distress Bill, He has instrnoted his solicitors to.tnke the neoessary steps to defend him. '"^Z

At the annual dinner given by the Cobdeu Club, in London, the Count do Lesseps said: "The Panama canal scheme is a perfect success. I have got enough French capital, and am happy to say that I havo received a letter from Hew York, saying that American oapital is coming to my support. The canal in this circumstance may be regarded as a fact accomplished. I hope, after one yoßr's preparation and six years of work at the Bame as at the construction of Suez Canal that the undertaking will be completed."

Gladstone, in his place plaoe in the House on July sth, said the Government had learned with great concern the frustration of the scheme for South African Confederation, but, as regards the case of Sir Bartle Frere, it would be necessary to await fuller despatches before coming to a decision.

The Canadian riflemen have been do feated by the Cheshire volunteers, 131 i points against 1306. , Constantino Herring, called by Halmemann the father of homeopathy, is dead; aged 81. He died in New fork.

Sergeant Marshman, of the Marines, bribed to mark the target at Wimbledon falsely, will be tried by Court-martial.

IRISH NEWS.

The weather all over Ireland, up to date, is reported most favourable, It is expected that the potatoe orop will be enormons. It promises to exceed any* thine; seen in Ireland since a- period anterior to the famine of 1847, The root and cereal drops are also luxuriant. Very encouraging reports of the improved condition of the west of Ireland are given. According to the Eegistrar-General there is nothing remarkable in the Swineford district. It is endemic. The Government has .sent a medial officer to investigate. The annual report, of the local Government Board says no case of death from starvation has occurred. A case of rifles has been seized at Wooloun, near Longhern, They were the property of peasants, but were addressed to local landlords, who knew nothing about them. Parnell, as President of the Home Bule Confederation of Great Britain, has issued a circular to all Home Bute organisations, summoning them to appoint delegates to a Convention, to beheld Bt Newcastle-on-Tyne on August 9th. There is no further need of contributions. The potato crop is ripe, Blight appears occasionally, and mostly in the fields planted with old seed in Southwestern Ireland. Thero is no apprehension of its spreading. Killarney hotel-keeperß say there are fewer tourists from America this season than thero has been for years. lEANCE. Some disturbances from the. enforcement of the anti-Jesuit decrees are still reported, in the Provinces. The most serious was at Havre, where the soldiers charged the mob. Immediate action against the Dominicans has been abandoned. The Government seems disposed to suspend the exeoution of the anti Jesait decreos against other religious orders until the legal tribunals have decided on the case of the Jesuits.

Bochefort, in his new paper,. L'lntransigeant, issued on the 14th July, declares war on Gambetta and his supporters. Eoohefort was welcomed back to Paris by 6,000 people, who escorted him to his hotel, the crowd singing the 'Marseillaise' and shouting' Vivas!'

The French Jesuits have asked permission to establish a colony at Fernando Po, The National F6te was a grand sucoess. The people, although full of patriotic excitement and exultation, were very orderly. The streets were thronged, and Gre\y and Gambetta when they appeared were greeted with cheers. The President delivered the new colours to. the regiments in the presence of 100,000 people.

A Paris correspondent, describing the ceremony at Longchamps, on the fete of the 14tb, sayß: -Of the old faces which beoame notorious or celebrated in official regions when Bonapartian and moral order were paramount, few showed themselves at the review. Marshal MoMahon was x expected, and a place was reserved for him,'but ho did not come to occupy it. Harassed by creditors, and by the reproaches of old friends, and grieved at the blow which had been inflicted on order, he has become out. of sorts, and sees life in the gloomiest of colours.' It is said he attempted last week to advance to a point.from which Hamlet recoiled, and that a sombre idea has taken possossion of him whioh is a cause of profound anxiety and affliction to his family. ' The Pope, has given audience to the Sacred Orators, who had come on a pilgrimage from all parts of the world. He advised humility in preaohing, and recommended that they should study. St. Thomas Aquina. The Court of Assizes at Milan had acquitted General Boefc of a■ charge preferred by Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, "of stealing his collar of the Golden Fleece. '•'RUSSIA.

Eeports of Chinese victories, are described in St. Petersburg as mere gossip of Eastern bazaars. 1500 Volunteers go to the Pacifio Ooast to strengthen Bussian forces in the Amoor district*

The murderer of Prince Krapotkin has disclosed the names of all the principal Nihilists in the Bussian Government, which has now been enabled to arrest the ringleaders. Orders have been issued to prepare as soon as possible four of the beßt torpedo boats belonging to the Black Sea to be sent to the Pacific Coast. Several vessels have been charterd in foreign ports for the transport service. The iron-olad Peter the Great has left Eeivo for sea, and the cruiser Europa has arrived from Cronntadt,

Mr Barkor, an American, attended by a staff of experts, is in St. Petersburg. Ho is backed by a powerful syndicate in the United States, and, it is supposed, will enter into general supply and contracts growing out of impending hostilities with China.

A oarriago containing General Sko« beloff s mother, with money and medical supplies for the hospital at Tchirpan, was waylaid by. a [Russian lieutenant named Ouzatis, who killed Iho lady and lior servant, and plundered tho vehicle Ouzatis was arrested, but shot himself shortly after. Revonge for opposition to his marrying Mdme. Skobelofl's maid is said to have bcon tho assassin's motive. Four torpedo boats for Bussia are being built in England. Should the dispute with China not lead to war the Russian fleet' may go to tho Corea, towards which the Eussians look with longing eyes. The newspapers urge its annexation. TURKEY La Turque, in an article believed to bo indireotly inspired by the Cabinet, publishes an elaborate defence of the Government with reference to the Treaty of Berlin. It says the Porte's negotiations with Greece were frustrated .by the inordinate pretensions of the. latter.. Tho delay in the Montenegrin question is owingt to circumstances over which tho, Porte has no control. The Bultan is anxious to introduce reforms, but cannot, do so owing to the unoertain condition of the country. The- article then acouses Europe of failing to execute its duties towards Turkey. It ohargeß that the Sultan has not been put in possession of the Balkans, Bulgaria has not been' forced to demolish its fortresses and Bulgarian tribute, and Servia's portion of the Ottoman debt has not been fixed. France hesitates to interfere and ooeroo the Porto.. jgThe Imperial gun factory, Constantinople, has been ordered to supply 160,000 shot and shell for field guns. The, Porte bas declined to oodo Duleigno, and asked a delay of three i months to carry out the decision of tho Turco • Montenegrin Convention. ■ The Powerß refused, and insisted on_ its: immediate exeoution. While negotiations were pending, England, anticipating tho refusal of the Porte, took the iniatiye in effecting an understanding between the Powers, and made verbal proposals. to five other Cabinets for sending to Turkish | waters, vessels from eaoh power, carrying troops for land servioe. In a conversation with Mr Gosohen at Constantinople, Obedeen Pasha, i referring to the state of affairs in Asia Minor, said," You know what difficulties you have had in Ireland, and long it has taken you to overcome them.; In Asia Minor, when each province has its district peculiarities, we have fifteen Irelands to deal with," GREECE. Greek officers absent on leare are hurrying home. King George is in Sfo Petersburg, on a visit to the Czar. It has been decided to mobilize the Greek army. A loan of £600,000 had been obtained in Paris, and another or £2,000,000 is being negotiated. amebioan~summaey. Sah Fbanoisoo, August 2. : Judge Hilton and Mrs A.T.Stewart (widow of the New York dry goods millionaire) Bre about to found the most complete college in America, endowing it with 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 dollars. It is to be located at Garden City. ■ ~; ,; ; The Spanish bull-fights at Chicago and New York proved failures. In the latter city they were suppressed by Sergh and his offioers, under the law prerenting cruelty to animals. Small-pox has made. its appearance iu San Franoisco; in a mild form, how>

ever. Hayman, and Hisoooks have engaged for the New Zealand and Australian mr« 'cuits, Billy Bweatman, a minstrel;'find wife; and have offered good terms to Joe Murphy! the Irish comedian,. ; Jay Gould has been compelled to relieve, by direct donation, settlers on' his Kansas railroad, lands; • The soil was. found to be almost- sterile, and it was impossible to raise a crop. Dr Le.Fevre, a well-kn&wn and m-' speoted. dentist in, Oakland, Cal., was recently shot and killed by Mr Edward Schooder, teller in the Bank of EondoiL and San Francisco, on a statement made to him by his wife that she had been outraged by the doctor. The general opinion seems to be that the lady laboured under an hallucination, and the dootor was innocent, ;..<■; .■■■ - . The weather in the Eastern States is unprecedently hot, thermometer in Olsi. cago and some other cities ranging from 94 to lOOdegs. Sunstrokes are frequent and fatal, and the mortality, among children, especially in New York, excessive. Yellow fever, has appeared in New Orleans. The up-river townsara beginnin gto quarantine against the city. ; . J, C. Flood, the Californian millionaire, has purchased a residence at Newport, 8.1., for his daughter, after marriage with Ulysßes S. Grant, junr. He paid $100,000. <-■•■■.-■-;:-\ ,: Edison has given up the electric light idea, and is now attempting ah eleotrio locomotive, that will be noiseless, smokeless and dustless. ' j

A mob at Lincoln, near Moxico, made three attacks, on three suooessive even, ings, on tho gaol of that pla:e,and lynched a prisoner each time. A.. deputy sheriff was' also killed for resisting the outlaws. A deputy sheriff of Horn Lake, Mississippi! was killed later by a negro, named Welms, for shooting Welm's, a criminal. • A mob hanged Welms and two accomplices, in revenge. ■ Three hundred statiou labourers. were swept off some platform cars while in motion, by an unperoeived low., hanging derrick rope. The acoident acourred on the Long Island Bailroad; the unfortunate men were horribly mangled. Captain Phelps, who went to Europe in- tho interests, of the Niparaguan canal scheme, writes to the promoters in New York, that he has been successful and the financial interests of the same are assured.

The harvest in Calefornia promises to be more bountiful this season than for any one preceding: ■ a. greater breadth, of ground has been planted than before. Chastine Cox, the negro murderer of Mrs Hall, in New York, has been hanged —the Governor refusing to interfere. Preliminary steps have been.taken in How York toward holding an Interna* tional Exhibition there in .1883,

Ex-President Grant has declined the Presidency of the American branch of the De lesseps Canal Company, salary 25,000 dollars a-year, on the ground that the enterprise would not prove a finanoial success during the lives of those now in* terested in the scheme, and he would not lend his name to an undertaking in which his friends were likely to embark aud receive no returns from, if they do not entirely lose, their investment. "There is groat enthusiasm over the De Lessep'a scheme in Panama-and the attention of the people is so much absorbed in it, that revolutions have no attraction. Many shares had bden subscribed on the Isthmus.

Placer gold mines have been discovered and are being profitably worked in JJogau County, Illinois.

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