ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 3309, 6 May 1885, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

GENERAL SUMMARY OP NEWS. [By Telegraph.] San Francisco, April 12. It is claimed that at the next Parliamentary election a large majority of Liberals will retire m favor of Lord Hartington. Martin Tupper is reduced to poverty. Ho writes from England that after 75 years of literary work his present financial result is nil. The Council of the National Rifle Association of Britain have decided that m consequence of the very unsettled Btate of affairs m England, they are not justified m accepting the challenge of the National Rifle Association of the United States of America to an International contest m. 1885 at Creedmoore. Sara Bernhardt is rapidly declining m health. Marshall Bazaine is reported to be penniless m Madrid. The Russian Government are taking active steps to place the navy on a war footing, and a number of cruisers and torpedo-rams are being rapidly fitted out. Extraordinary honors and courtesies were shown to Prince Bismarck on his birthday. The JNeio York Financial Chronicle cays the present views on the price of wheat are extravagant. An attempt was made on April 10th to assassinate Governor Hoadley, of Ohio, by a dynamite infernal machine. Professor Miller's challenge to meet Sullivan, the American slogger, m the ring, m San Francisco, within four months, causes some excitement among sporting men m that city. Sullivan is required to send 500 dollars to the New York Clipper Office to pay Miller's expenses from Australia. Mrs Dudley's counsel applied to have a Commission sent to England to take testimony tending to show that she was insane, and not responsible for the shooting of O'Donovan Rossa. The motion was granted. O'Donovan Rossa's paper of March 31st advised the assassination of the Prince of Wales when he visits Ireland. An Anglo-Ruasian Company has been started to compete with America and Australia m furnishing England with meat. Gould's transatlantic cables and the Bennett-Mackay. Company are engaged m a war of rates. It opened with a rate of sixpence per word. The arrest of Sheehan m New Zealand, on a charge of murder of his family at Castle* townroche, has had a melancholy result, for his father-in-law has committed suicide. Major R. S. McGregor, late of the 50th Regiment, has just died at Portsmouth. He served m the New Zealand war of 1864-66. He had a medal with clasps for services m the Ashantee war of 1873. The half-breed rebellion m Saskatchewan County, Canada, led by Riel, who was the head of the former outbreak, is making head* way. An important fight took place at Crozier on March 29th, between the rebel* and mounted police and civilians forty rebels being killed. Although Riel has not, according to General Middleton, more than 500 fighting men, they are well armed, determined and mean mischief. News received at Brattleford state that a tribe (the Crees), had started out on the war path, stimulated by Riel's emissaries and fears of a general uprising were well founded, for all the Indians rapidly joined their forces with the half-breeds. Plundering forces at Brattleford are killing the selectors and burning buildings belonging to the Hudson Bay Company. The Government at Ottawa is rapidly despatching troops to the scene of the trouble. Riel is fighting to prevent the lands of Indians and half-breeds being token from them for settlement by immigrants crossing into the country. He has now over 2000 good men under him, but no field-pieces. Crack military regiments of Ottawa have gone to the scene of hostilities, and the 63rd Rifles have been ordered to hold themselves m readiness to proceed to the -Keith West. A complete battervof muzzle-loading nraepounders, with ammunition, was shipped from London m April for Canada, for use m suppressing the rebellion. The Canadian authorities are of opinion that the trouble will not lost long, but many valuable lives will be sacrificed before it is suppressed. Among the latest news from the front, it is mentioned that Colonel Irvine has telegraphed for 1500 men with supplies at once. The Tetau Sioux Indians have swarmed across the border from the United States and were making serious trouble. Several hundreds of the Six Nations Indians have been organised by the Government as scouts. Despatches from Brattleford on the 10th April says that the Indians at Log Lake had killed ten whites, among them two priests. Brattleford was surrounded by about 1000 Indians. The Indians at Saddle Lake bad raided the Government warehouse and gone to join the rebels. The prospect is now of a general Indian uprising. During the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Dublin the police had a difficulty one time m preventing a collision when the Nationalists began ahouting God save Ireland," and attempted cheers for Parnell. An attempt was made to burn the Union Jack, which had been stolen from thtt Mansion House by students, but the attacking party were driven off by a combined force of students and loyalists, headed by onehundred police with drawn revolvers. The mob took revenge by breaking the windows of the house from which the flag was flying. The police lined the railroad from Kingston to Dublin during the passage of the roya train, but there was no occasion for ejsrm,

In tlio riwesnon va* the Lord Mayor (Mr Joliu O'couuor) who, althongh a strong Nationalist, drove m official sta to " lfc ' l ™ c roviil wi-ort. He was loudly hissed by the Xitioualwts. Tho Lord-Lieutenant, who was loudly cheered as he drove through the streets, received the Prince and his party, and a Town Commission presented an address. In their passage through the streets the party was everywhere greeted • with enthusiasm, nnd the" windows and roofs were crowded with spectators. Fully 1000 students paraded tbe streets, singing loyal songs nnd carrying Union .Jacks on the ends of their walking Btioks. The city was brilliantly illuminated at night. In the evening the Prince telegraphed to the Queen at Aix-le-Bains that he had had a glorious reception. Zobhre Pasha, the conspirator and traitor, was landed at Gibraltar on March 30th. It is now asserted by a correspondent m "Vienna Political Correspondence " that Zobhro sent to Khartoum a Nubian servant, who betrayed and killed General Gordon. The motive was revenge for the hanging of his son by the General. Arab deserters assert that if vieneral Graham will offer sufficient reward the sheikhs are ready to deliver up Osman Digna as a prisoner. One hundred emigrants are booked for the Aorangi, to sail on 19th May.