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LATEST ENGLISH AND AMERICAN . news. ; (By TeLEGKAPII.—I'KESS ASSOCIATION,) ! Auckland, Just night, ! The Zealand in lUI.S. nrrivcd at Auckland j lnat night. The latest date from Europe is up to , Januarv 14lli. SUMMARY. i SALT SYNDICATE, ! Tho Sheffield Indopocdonl is tho • iiuthoiity for Buying that an English Syndicate proposes to secure all the salt works on the American Contiuent, CROFTERS ON VERGE OP STARVATION. The croftor population of tho Island of Lowes, Scotland, is suffering for a lack of food. Tho potatoes and other crops are ' exhausted and the people aio on tho blink , of starvation. THE SHAH OF PERSIA. Tho Shah of Persia after visiting St Polorsburg in April will make a tour of the other European Stales including England. THE YELLOW AGONY. ' Moug Kow, the Chineso Agent of the ' Gandian Pacific Steamship lino at Victoria, British Columbiu, was in. Ottawa on January Bth. In reforsneo to the head tax : on Chinese immigrants, He interviewed tho Minister of Customs and roprosonted that Chinese morchants and others aro interested in the scheme for immigration of a million Chineso into tho United States, British America, and Australia, and that the prosit tax of 50dols a head is an obstacle It is feared that wheu this large movement of Chiueso is begun, tho Canadian Government will at once raise the tax to a prohibitory rate. It is thought that tho Canadian Pacific Railway Company is endeavoring to influence tho Government in favor of this schomo as it will bring millions for transportation, Mong Kow intimates that a friendly understanding with tho Chinese Government and n satisfactory issuo of this negotiation would result in an enormous trade between Canada and China, and immediately lead to measures on tho part of China against tho United States in retaliation for the Chineso Exclusion Act. OCEAN PENNY POSTAGE. John Honniker Heaton M.P., has accepted an invitation to visit tile Bnitod Stales this your, and wiil appear Tftforo Congress in advocacy of tho Oceansenny postage. • I. LORD SAOKVILLE. * \ It now turns out that the famous inurchison letter which cost Lord Saokvillo his position as British Minister at Washington, was written by an Englishman namod George Osgood by, of Pomona, California, who is a member of the St. George's Bocioty. Ho had no political,design whatever in doing so. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. James Gordon Bennett has bought, it is said, the plant of the London Globe, and that paper will bo transferred into an edition of the Now York Herald ROWING. § ' O'Connor, the oarsman, is on route for Auscralia, and will probably leave San Francisco by the Febrbary boat. THE TIMES HOAXED. The Buffalo Conrier, of January 13th, prints a doubtful story coucorniag tho London Times being ho::xed by a mechanic of that city named Blackrock. Ho wrote to the publisher Baying that he had access lo documentary evidence, which would bo of sorvico in tho Parnell investigation. They gout out a trusted ag'fint to interview their correspondent, only to find his story a fable. THEATICAL MATTERS. Letty Lynde, of the English Gaiety Company, recently from tho colonies, and now playing at tho Standard, New York, hasretirod from that combination to marry an Australian stockbroker. It leaked out in New Yoi'k on December 23rd that the Marquis of Queensberry, who had just left that city for England, has been followiug the London Gaiety Burlesqao Company around the World out of wild devotion to Marion Hood, the Prima Donna. MR GLADSTONE AND THE TEMPORAL POWJiK OF THE POPE, Mr Gladstone has recently wri'.ten a letter to the Romo correspondent of the Tablet, denying that he had at any limo ifcomineuded the restoration of the Pope's Temporal Power should bo made tho subject of international at bilraliou. . RELIGIOUS MATTER;). Thoio were lifly thousand people present wliuu the ''To Deum" was suug at St. i'otor'B Homo ou December 30, Speaking ' of religious matters the Pope's Encyclical complains that the. teudeney of the ago is 1 towards material interests, and that such a ■ tendency is strengthened by worldly pride in aU evil l'l'esß and drama, a domoialißatiuu ut ilio arts and a changed education in tho > uchoo.s. Materialistic and Atheistic leaolii tug is obscuriug the true notions of right. I Socialism, Nihilism, and Communism it I says are aldp the outcomes of this tendency • towards material things, \ THE SAMOAN QUESTION. President Cleveland sent a mass of documents beaiingon theSamoan situation ) to Congress on Docembor tho 21st. Tho ) chief feature of interest wtis the corresron ' deuce' boiwoen' Secretary Bayard aud Baron Von Sedturity of the German Government relative to tho proposition r submitlod by Secretary Bayard for a new ) i'pnu of Government for Samoa, Tho,

proposition of tho Secretary was for the appointment of three Commissioners, one by the United States, one by Great Britain and one by Germany, who should confer with King and vice regent making aboard of five to administer the Government. I\> this proposition many were urged against it, holding that it would bo impracticible to administer a Government among this class of peoplo in this manner, and especially 60, as the Samoan King and Vice-Regent are unfamiliar with any language which the representatives of the civilzed nations would use, and that it would be _ impracticible for them to operate conjointly in the administration of the Government. EXPLOSION Or? MAGAZINE. Charles Gleck, a 14 year old boy, entered a dynamite magazine at Mount Pleasant, Ohio, on December 24th, smoking a cigar. The magazine contained 210 kegs of powder and ten cases of dynamite. Gleek was blown to atoms, some men were badly hurt, and nearly every house within a mile of the secno was torn to pieces. Less than 30 yards from the magazine were 30 tons of dynamite, whioh did not explode, JACK THE RIPPER. The London police have received, aud traced to thoir origin, the letters which led them to believe that' Jack the Ripper' is living in the vicinity ot Drury Lane, and seem confident that tho clue upon which they are now working will result in the murderer's capture. THE PARNELL INQUIRY. In reference to tho Parnell inquiry the Freemans Journal (Dublin) asserts that the Times sent a man to Puebb Colorado to induce Sheridan to testify before the Parnell Commission, promising that it he proved satisfactory he would be paid LIO.OOO an hour (sic) for his testimony after the examination was concluded. Sheridan declined saying he did not desire to share the fate of James Carey. Sheridan is a resident of San Luis Valley, at a point 140 miles south west of Pueblo, on the other side of the mountains; He is recarded as a typioal Irishman. A witness named Reeves, agent at Cork for several Limerick papers, was sent to gaol on January 14th for contempt of Court in refusing to testify from notes taken of the Parnellite speeches.